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Patricia Heatonis celebrating a major milestone in her life: three years of sobriety from alcohol.
The actress, 63, hopped on Instagram Saturday to share the special news with her nearly 200,000 followers in a video captioned, in part, “A lot to celebrate this month.”
“Hello, friends! I’m just finishing up my, what, 3½-mile walk around the reservoir. And it’s July, when we celebrate our nation’s freedom. Also, [I’m] celebrating three years of freedom from alcohol for me. So I just want to share that with you,“Heaton said in the clipwith a contagious smile.
The formerCarol’s Second Actstar then offered a helping hand to anyone in a similar position.
“Message me if you are thinking about doing that and if you are doing that now and you need some encouragement or anything at all,” she added before ending the video.
In February 2020, Heaton told PEOPLE she had embarked on what she deemed her “second act” while promoting her bookYour Second Act: Inspiring Stories of Reinvention.
Heaton — who is an ambassador forWorld Vision— credits her devotion to God for helping change her life. The former star ofThe Middlebelieves doing so has allowed her to maintain an open mind about adding new chapters to her life story.
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“I’ve gone up and down many different paths; looking back, I see how the seed for my second act was clearly planted in my first act,” Heaton told PEOPLE.
After CBS canceledCarol’s Second Actin May 2020, Heaton had to reset. But she did not look at it in an entirely negative light.
“There are these little funerals you have to have for certain dreams, because that’s how you make way for new things,“she told PEOPLE last July.
Instead of looking at it as a midlife crisis, however, Heaton viewed it as a moment of reinvention, which she believes is achievable “at any age and at any time” in life.
“Just get out there and embrace your life!” Heaton said.
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source: people.com
