A Sunday School Teacher Gets Arrested for a DUI, Gets Motivated and Inspired To Receive Alcohol Counseling for Her Excessive and Hazardous Drinking, and Increases Her Self Image

For the past thirty-one years Jenny has been a nurse practitioner at a community hospital. What is more, she has also been teaching Sunday school at the local Anabaptist Church. Despite the fact that she lived in a medium size countryside town where it appeared like everybody knew everyone’s business, almost nothing was known about Jenny. To be sure virtually everyone knew that she had worked many years as a licensed practical nurse and that she taught Sunday school for as long as she was a resident of their small community. Other than that, then again, it almost seemed as if Jenny didn’t exist.

You can picture the commotion that happened when it was revealed that one Sunday morning Jenny had lost consciousness because of excessive drinking. In truth, the article in the local weekly paper stated that Jenny not only passed out, but that she also received a DWI due to the fact that her blood alcohol content was significantly higher than the legal limit for intoxication. This is clearly one of the alcohol effects on the body that no Sunday school teacher wants to have broadcasted to the whole town. But this is exactly what occurred, much to the disappointment of Jenny.

Jenny Gets Quite Displeased About Her DWI

Needless to say, Jenny was quite dismayed about her arrest for drunk driving. Not only should she have known better about driving while intoxicated because of her nursing job, but she also should have conducted herself according to a more lofty benchmark because of the simple fact that she taught Sunday school.

After her DWI arrest, Jenny was tempted to move out of town so that she would not have to feel let down about her arrest and also so she wouldn’t have to go over her actions for the hundredth time to other town residents. After discussing things with her preacher, nonetheless, she decided that she would get alcohol rehabilitation at a local drug and alcohol rehab hospital. She did this for two clear-cut reasons. First, it was convenient for her to drive to a local rehabilitation facility. And second, she frankly wanted the word to get circulated among all the individuals in town that she was honestly addressing her excessive and hazardous drinking.

Jenny Goes Through Alcohol Detoxification and Gets a Thorough Physical Examination

After Jenny went through detoxification, she was completely checked by a physician at the drug and alcohol rehab center. She then underwent various lab procedures where it was established that she was not addicted to alcohol but instead was engaging in abusive drinking. In short Jenny was engaging in long term alcohol abuse.

Jenny was given the option of getting admitted as an in-patient or getting registered as an outpatient. Jenny, nonetheless, believed that she could still work as a nurse and go on with her Sunday school teaching position if she were to be registered as an out-patient and this is specifically what she did.

According to her treatment action plan, Jenny went to two rehab sessions every month, she learned quite a bit about alcohol info, she worked on her out-of-class “assignments,” and she found out how to involve herself doing things in life without having a need for alcohol.

After five weeks, Jenny felt like her unhealthy drinking was under control and so she got discharged from the rehabilitation facility under the proviso that she would return for a refresher course once every two months for the next ten months. Jenny agreed and followed through on her “pledge.”

Jenny Comes to a Decision to Stay Away From All Drinking Situations and Discovers That Her Self Image Gets Stronger

After she completed her therapy Jenny reasoned that she would be able to drink in moderation. After reflecting on things more carefully, however, she arrived at a decision that she would totally remove herself from all drinking situations.

When Jenny arrived at this determination, she learned that her self esteem became more bolstered the more she took charge of her life. And as her self-respect grew more pronounced, it seemed like she became more friendly and started going to more town activities such as local high school basketball and football games, music festivals, carnivals, Christmas tree lighting ceremonies, flower festivals, rib roasts, and strawberry festivals.

Jenny Addresses Her Excessive and Hazardous Drinking, Decides To Do Something Positive About It, and Reaffirms Her Faith

As time went by, the residents in the community expressed more fondness for Jenny because she was involving herself with them more routinely and also because she addressed her excessive and careless drinking and made up her mind to do something beneficial about it. It may have been her imagination, but it also seemed as if her Sunday school pupils demonstrated more admiration and respect for her.

Jenny is a living example of an individual who faced a hazardous predicament and who did something productive about it. She is also an individual who found out that her religious faith is not only something that is private, but that it is also something that affects the way in which a person cooperates and works with other people.