Dryland: One Woman's Swim to Sobriety (Authored by Nancy Stearns Bercaw)

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/291585 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Dryland: One Woman's Swim to Sobriety Author: Nancy Stearns Bercaw Narrator: Donna Postel Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes Release date: April 18, 2017 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: For swimming champion Nancy Stearns Bercaw, the pool was a natural habitat. But on land, she could never shake the feeling of being a fish out of water. Starting at age two, Nancy devoted her life to swimming, even qualifying for the 1988 Olympic Trials in the fifty-meter freestyle event. But nearly two decades later, when she hung up her cap and goggles, she was confronted with a different kind of challenge: learning who she was out of the lanes. In this honest, intimate memoir, Nancy reflects on her years wandering the globe, where tragic events and a lost sense of self escalate her dependence on booze. Thirty-three years after her first sip of alcohol, the swimmer comes to a stunning realization while living with her husband and son in Abu Dhabi—she’s drowning in the desert. Nancy looks to the Bedouin people for the strength to conquer one final opponent: alcohol addiction.