My name is Malin. I became addicted to alcohol during my late teens. Alcohol slowly but surely took over my life and eventually over-shadowed everything else. I became  firmly stuck in addiction and the feelings of  shame, anxiety and mostly fear had stopped me from asking for help until I was so sick that my choice came down to living or dying. Even though I was really scared, I decided to give life a chance. That was on November 1, 2010. By then I had turned 34 and I have been sober ever since.


Because I had become so extremely sick, both physically and mentally, the road to recovery has been long and challenging. However, I’m so deeply happy and grateful that I managed to make that decision in my foggy state of mind. Today, I have a fantastic life. Life is life for me as it is for everyone else. It has both sad and happy days, challenges and celebration. That being said, all days are better than the misery of reaching a certain level of addiction.


I have experienced and achieved a lot during my sober years. I have gone through my own journey of recovery with all that entails. I have had the privilege of working as a recovery coach since 2014. I have worked with group treatment at a women’s prison, at a recovery centre and also within outpatient care. besides that I have had many private clients as well.I have learned so much from all my clients. The knowledge that you gather from conversations with others who also suffer from various forms of addiction is so valuable. It is something that you cannot possibly usurp through only studies. It happens within the interpersonal meeting. However, parallel with working, I have studied various related disciplines during many of my sober years. This has resulted in my gaining extensive theoretical knowledge within the subjects of addiction, different kinds of treatment methods, mental health for mental illness, developmental psychology and conversational methodology.


A couple of years ago I dedicated that I wanted to reach out to many more people and reach out in a bigger scale. During a whole year I spent much of my time to filming two extensive online courses. One is directed to people who want help to break loose from various substance addictions and the other is directed to people who do not suffer from the illness of addiction themselves, but want to learn about the illness. I have also filmed a section addressing the subject of codependency. Everything is filmed in both English and Swedish.