unSweetined Quotes

“Even in the worst of times, I’ve always known that nothing is permanent. No feeling is permanent and as much as you think bad feelings will kill you, they won’t.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined: A Memoir

“happiness isn’t about the events going on in your life; it’s about how you handle them. It’s about falling down and standing up straighter than you did before. It’s about realizing that nothing comes easy.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined: A Memoir

“Love is wanting something more for someone else than you do for yourself.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined: A Memoir

“Recovery is a tough road, but this time I’m committed. Some people can get it right the first time and never have to go back, and some people keep beating their heads against the wall over and over again.

I may have fallen at times, but I always get up. I know what I need to do and I’m making it happen.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined

“Deciding to be happy has been one of the hardest decisions I’ve ever had to make.

For much of my adult life, I have consciously chosen to be unhappy, to stay in miserable situations or do things that brought me only heartache. I put what I knew would make me happy and healthy aside.

Making the choice to be happy, as weird as it sounds, is much tougher.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined

“I am adopted. It’s tough to even see those words in print.

Janice and Sam, the mom and dad I often refer to, adopted me when I was 9 months old.

They are my mom and dad. They will always be my mom and dad and I will never think of them in any other way. And since they continue to stick by me regardless of all the shit I’ve put them through, there is no doubt that they feel the same way.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined

“She was pretty normal back then, before Simon Cowell entered her life.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined: A Memoir

“Even as I write this, I’m still battling for the right to share custody and attempting to peacefully end my marriage.

Through all of this, I have had a great support group. I have my parents and I have the kind of friends that I can call at any hour of the day to talk about what’s bothering me. I can go lie on their couch and cry for hours, saying nothing at all.

Accepting that I need these caring people in my life doesn’t mean I’m a weak person. I don’t have to be okay all the time.

It took me my whole life to learn that, to understand that no one is happy all the time, no one is perfect.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined

“I had no clue where my life was going to go from that point. I couldn’t imagine what was supposed to happen next.

All I knew was that I had created this precious little person and would do anything to protect her and ensure her happiness and health.

No matter what, we were in this together. I would do whatever it took to be a good mother. No matter what she might do, what crossroads she might come to in life, I would always be there for her.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined

“The first eight months were a struggle, but by the final month of my pregnancy, I felt ready.

Maybe that’s why you stay pregnant for so long. It’s exactly enough time to mentally prepare for the reality of what is happening in your life.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined

“Both of my parents could have easily pushed me away and never looked back. I guess that’s what being a parent is all about. No matter what a child does, parents are always there. I love mine so much for that.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined

“There was never a doubt in my mind that I was going to keep this baby and be the absolute best mom that I could be. From day one, nothing else was an option.

This was a sign that it was time to change my life. This was my chance to turn everything around. I knew it was time for me to move on from the partying and to grow up, to be a woman who had responsibilities and priorities.

I was going to make this happen no matter what it took. There were no other options for me. I’m a strong believer that there are no accidents and that nothing in life is a mistake. This happened for a reason, and I believe it saved my life.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined

“As much as I acted like I didn’t care about relationships: having sex just for the fun of it. I was still a girl inside and I still had feelings.

I hated myself for the way I treated people. I hated the person I had become. The guilt for treating guys badly and acting destructively took a toll on me mentally. At all times I was moments away from a breakdown, but I didn’t see a way out.

I didn’t see an end to the madness. I was spiraling out of control, but there didn’t seem to be a bottom for me to hit.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined

“It was hard to live up to the adult version of Stephanie Tanner that I set for myself. I knew I wasn’t the girl I was talking about in the interviews or the speeches.

I constantly let myself down and set myself up for failure. This time, failure was right around the corner.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined

“The thought of going back home to normal life didn’t seem so appealing. I had destroyed my real life and had no desire to go back to it. In the bubble of Passages, I lived like a queen.

Yes, I was sober, but it wasn’t the real world. How could I go from this back to that?”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined

“I look at my baby and pray, "Please God, don’t let her be affected by this". I know from my firsthand experience with drugs that I will be there for Zoie if she ever struggles with addiction.

For better or for worse, I will have a certain kind of empathy for her struggle that my parents couldn’t have had for mine. I pray with all my heart that she doesn’t have that addiction switch inside her.

I would do anything in the world to prevent her from struggling through life the way I do.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined

“I always understood that addiction is passed down genetically, and I truly believe that I was born with addiction in my blood. I certainly didn’t choose to have addiction issues.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined

“At any time I could have checked myself out, but I didn’t.

I didn’t really have that option. I was desperate to get sober, but wanting it and being willing to go to any lengths to make it happen are two totally different things.

Even if I left, where would I go? I wasn’t welcome at my parents’ house. They were fed up with me. I couldn’t go back to Shaun. I couldn’t even look him in the eye. I had no place to go.

No matter how I felt, Passages was now my home.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined

“Meth helped me escape my head and bury my anxiety. Sober, I didn’t know where I wanted to go or what to do with my life; with meth, I didn’t care.

I didn’t worry about what I wasn’t, I just thought about how I was going to get high next.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined

“When some of my friends called me crazy for getting engaged so young, Candace offered sage advice: “Don’t listen to them. If you are happy that’s all that matters. Val and I have done it for years and we’re really happy. You can be, too.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined

“I wanted to prove that I wasn’t the girl from Full House, that I could get more trashed than everybody else and be the complete opposite of what people expected from Stephanie Tanner. I was going to be the antithesis of that character. That was my goal.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined

“Though I may have been a clumsy smoker, I was a pretty slick drunk. I was still able to be the kid that got good grades and was polite and lovable around my parents and other family members.

I quickly developed dual personalities: the good girl and the bad girl that I could switch on and off depending on the situation.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined

“How could I have friends without looking like I was trying too hard? How could I keep to myself without people thinking I was a snob?

I looked around and thought my classmates had it together, that they had something I didn’t. I wanted to figure out how to be more like them.

The answer: alcohol … and drugs.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined

“No matter what I did then, it wasn’t good enough for other people. No matter how hard I campaigned for friends, it didn’t work.

If I talked to everyone in the class, people said I talked too much. If I sat in the back of the class and didn’t talk to anyone, people said I had a bad attitude. I couldn’t win.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined

“At that wedding, with the alcohol, I wasn’t a kid in high school who struggled to fit in. I wasn’t Stephanie Tanner. I wasn’t the actor who played Stephanie Tanner. I was Jodie Sweetin and I was an alcoholic.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined

“I had sipped some champagne at Full House wrap parties before, but this glass of wine was my first real drink.

I downed the whole glass. I felt a rush of energy course through my body. I instantly felt like a new person.

That first drink gave me the self-confidence I had been searching for all this time. That first drink, that was it: the key to everything I was missing in life.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined

“With my low self-esteem and confusion over who I really was, I put on a pretty dress and hauled my then 14-year-old, unemployed ass to Woodland Hills Country Club in the Valley for Candace Cameron’s wedding, a reunion of sorts with all that was once comfortable and familiar.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined

“There were rumors about me even before I got to the high school. People said I was a brat and that I thought I was better than everybody.

What they didn’t know was that I would have gladly traded places with any of them.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined

“I simply didn’t know what I wanted. One day I would want to be in a movie and the next day I would want to go to my 4th-and 5th-period classes and have Spanish homework.

I had always had the distraction of "Full House" to keep my mind busy, but with that gone, I was completely confused and at a loss for what I was going to do next, where I was going to be, and more important, who I was.”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined

“My parents were really supportive and tried to help me through it all, but I don’t think they knew what to do either.

There is no manual for parenting and certainly no instructions for dealing with your 13-year-old daughter when she’s lost her job after eight year. You can’t look that up in a book!”
― Jodie Sweetin, unSweetined