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“I Spent Years Trying to Belong … Then Alcohol Became My Escape”
For her 40th birthday her family handed her a fake birth certificate as a joke. Years later her son reached into the pancake mix and pulled out a vodka bottle.
Feeling vs. Fleeing: Reclaiming a Childhood Lost to Addiction | Jenna G.
Her mom called on April 1 to say she had drunk the night before, then said April Fools. Jenna stayed calm, and saw how far Al-Anon had rewired her reactions.
Are You Tired of Your Own Story? | Richard & John
Thirteen of them ran together; nine died and four got sober. Richard turned back twice walking to his first meeting. John was homeless at 15, by choice.
How Does Grief Become a Gateway to Sobriety? | Teresa S.
No DUI, no arrest, no one staging an intervention. Teresa S. drank for thirty years, lost a marriage and then her mornings, and got sober at 48 anyway.
The Impact of Following a Recovery Routine | Christine D ( Part 2 ).
She woke from a blackout having deleted her family from her phone. Days later her mother and sisters were in her living room with a stranger named Bob.
From Hidden Addiction to Recovery | How One Woman Rebuilt Her Life After Alcoholism
She hired a sober companion for her daughter’s wedding and joked that she cost less than her shoes. Years on, her doctors took her off the transplant list.
What is Narcissistic Abuse? | How to Reclaim Your Life
Her mother carried every grudge to her deathbed. A coach on radical acceptance, why she will never coach a narcissist, and pain that begins as buried anger.
TRAPPED in TOXIC LOVE | From DESPERATION to LIBERATION, Breaking FREE from ADDICTION.
She waited up and called the bars. Then Al-Anon told her to go to bed at eleven and let her husband be a grown man. How she rebuilt a marriage from her side.
LOST in ADDICTION & LOVE | How HITTING BOTTOM Began A JOURNEY to REDEMPTION and HEALING
After a blackout crash and 57 stitches she decided to stop driving, not drinking. What worked was an adviser who smelled it on her and handed her a pamphlet.
Highs to Lows | A Journey of ADDICTION and REDEMPTION
He woke covered in blood with his chin cut to the bone. That night his son said call me when you’re sober, and left. Alan S. dialed a stranger instead.
‘Discovery Journey’ | FEELING DIFFERENT, ADHD, REHAB, HOMELESS Shelter, & PEOPLE PLEASING
At 158 pounds he caught his reflection in a shop window and didn’t recognize the man. Thirty-five years clean, he calls year one discovery, not recovery.
CRAZY DRUG BINGES, ASSAULT CHARGES, & REBUILDING MY LIFE | OVERCOMING Addiction and Finding SOBRIETY
She pawned her mother’s diamond ring for under a hundred dollars. Months later her mother handed her twelve dollars, put her on a plane and stayed on the phone.
DUI, RELAPSE, and CANCER | A Father’s Journey from DESPAIR to RECOVERY and REDEMPTION
The power was off because he had the money but not the wits to pay the bill. Ryan was burning a dresser for heat the morning he finally decided to ask for help.