A strong women

The person I look up to hit rock bottom at one point and was able to become a better person that they didn’t know even existed. Seeing them go through all the obstacles showed me how strong of a person they truly are and made me admire them. This person is my mom. My mom was a high school dropout due to having me at a young age (16). She was trying to raise a child and fight an addiction at the same time. Trying to deal with all these different obstacles can be hard on someone; especially when you feel stuck and like you have nowhere else to go, but my mom found a better path to be on. My mother’s name is Jessica, she is 5 feet 10 inches. In her youth she had dirty blonde hair that was so beautiful and long. She was really thick due to how much alcohol she was consuming and alcohol also makes you consume a lot of food. Jessica also had an accent because she’s originally from Georgia. My mom started drinking at the age of 13. It was a constant struggle for my mother, she turned to drinking because she was in a really depressed state of mind because she felt stuck and didn’t really know where she belonged. My mom also grew up in kind of a dysfunctional household with an alcoholic father. Her parents got a divorce and that’s when my mom really started drinking a lot. My mom would leave home a lot, even sometimes not come home for days at a time. She would leave me there for her younger brother to take care of. This is a rough patch my mom went through in her life before she became the person she is today. Jessica started going to AA which stands for Alcoholics Anonymous at the age of twenty two. I remember my mom taking me to a few meeting and me being scared because I really didn’t know what was going on because I was such a young age. My mom relapsed after being clean for about half a year on pain medication. She fell and hurt her neck at work and even when her neck got better she continued taking the pain pills because she thought in her mind that she was