This week on Sober Champs, Pete and Aiden chat with Kelly, who's closing in on five years sober since November 2020. Growing up near Seattle, Kelly doesn't hold back about her first drinking experience – a party where she ended up blacked out.From there, things escalated quickly – drinking between high school classes, finding the "burnout" crowd, and eventually smoking heroin in a park bathroom at 17. Kelly talks about how she didn't even know withdrawal was a thing until a friend explained her "flu symptoms" meant she was dopesick.As her addiction deepened, Kelly lost friends, made using her life, and eventually faced her parents' intervention that landed her in California treatment. Kelly speaks honestly about her failed attempts at moderation, believing she could still drink since her "real problem" was heroin. These days, she's all about helping others, meditating (though she admits it's not easy to quiet her mind), and building actual friendships instead of relationships based on getting high.