Three years ago, Vancouver Park Board Commissioner Constance Barnes drove her car into a house. It was a very public melt-down.

After her DUI, she made extreme changes to her lifestyle.

Last week, she celebrated 3 years of sobriety, AND, 3 years as a cyclist.

She got a bike for the first time after her DUI, and says riding her bike “helps me stay in tune with my mind and my body and with what I need to do.”

“Life throws you challenges. If there’s one person that can hear – it gets better. I hit that absolute rock-bottom, and I almost feel this grounded, healed, well person. It’s not a secret. So the opportunity to say, there’s help out there, reach out, make that call… There are so many people out there that are there to help you.”

She hasn’t gone back to driving a car.

Listen to an inspiring interview with her on CBC’s The Early Edition.

CBC.ca | The Early Edition | Three Year Birthday.