This week, we sit down with Emily — whose journey shows that sometimes the turning point isn't a dramatic bottom, but simply reaching a place where you can’t run from yourself anymore. Emily came to California from Virginia wrecked by heroin addiction and years of toxic relationships. With nowhere left to turn, she took a desperate flight west with her ex-husband — and by sheer grace, crossed paths with Gene, a man from AA who would become her sponsor, mentor, and anchor. Gene welcomed her in...
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This week, we sit down with Emily — whose journey shows that sometimes the turning point isn't a dramatic bottom, but simply reaching a place where you can’t run from yourself anymore. Emily came to California from Virginia wrecked by heroin addiction and years of toxic relationships. With nowhere left to turn, she took a desperate flight west with her ex-husband — and by sheer grace, crossed paths with Gene, a man from AA who would become her sponsor, mentor, and anchor. Gene welcomed her in...
Episode 40: Jenna — Honesty, Jail Time, and Building a Life in Recovery
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Episode 40: Jenna — Honesty, Jail Time, and Building a Life in Recovery
Jenna has 11 years sober, and her story starts with a last drunk she’ll never forget: Four Lokos, weight-loss pills, sleep meds, and a desperate attempt to convince herself that everything she’d heard in AA meetings was wrong. But one morning she woke up, picked up the phone, and got honest about everything she was doing. At just 43 days sober she landed in the hospital with pancreatitis, where doctors told her if she hadn’t stopped drinking when she did, she could have died. Her dad—an Al-An...
Sober Disclosure
This week, we sit down with Emily — whose journey shows that sometimes the turning point isn't a dramatic bottom, but simply reaching a place where you can’t run from yourself anymore. Emily came to California from Virginia wrecked by heroin addiction and years of toxic relationships. With nowhere left to turn, she took a desperate flight west with her ex-husband — and by sheer grace, crossed paths with Gene, a man from AA who would become her sponsor, mentor, and anchor. Gene welcomed her in...
