Age 33
Becky
Sober sinceBecky spent years trying to keep everything together while privately struggling with alcohol addiction. After recognizing that drinking was taking control of her life, she reached out to Rol...
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Sober Stories
Real people, real recovery. Honest accounts of what it was like, what happened, and what life looks like now — shared to remind anyone still struggling that they are not alone.
Featured story Age 41
Leigh
Sober sinceLife was messy before, I was always blacking out. Was easier to do that than to cope with life. My dog had died, my Mum had 3 strokes then me and the wife separated. Life was alot and it was...
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Age 50
John
Sober sinceJohn E. Banner is a former flatbed trucker who faced stage 4 pancreatic cancer in 2020 while continuing to struggle with addiction. After going from jail to sobriety, he began a new chapter...
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Age 38
Jessica Neff
Sober sinceFrom hiding her drinking and struggling with alcoholism to celebrating over a year of sobriety, Jessica Neff shares how recovery, AA, and support helped her rebuild her life and become the p...
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Age 52
Charles
Sober sinceCharles looked like he had everything under control while alcohol quietly made everything harder. Sober since February 7, 2025, he shares how recovery gave him the clarity to rebuild, one de...
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Age 64
Ralf Friedrichs
Sober sinceAfter years of struggling with alcohol, Ralf experienced a life-changing moment in 2013 that led him to sobriety. Today, he lives sober, serves others, and shares his journey of faith, recov...
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Age 27
Lyss
Sober sinceFrom a really young age, I turned to drugs as a way to escape. I started using at 13, and for years it felt like that lifestyle was all I knew. I lost sight of who I was, and I was stuck in...
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Age 72
Jay Birks
Sober sinceI drank and used when I didn’t want to. I sunk below my values quicker than I could lower them.
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Age 63
Sue
Sober sinceMy first drink I was 9, my last I was 56. I had a 20 year dry period too. I blacked out from the beginning. But the numbing of feelings and the ability to talk to males was what really kept...
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Age 45
Kevin Forsberg
Sober sinceAwful and just terrible. Sickly and out of my mind. Drinking 7 nights a Week sometimes all day until was blacked out. Was losing my family and possessions cause of it.
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Age 54
Jeff Kaser
Sober since"Living in addiction was easy—no responsibility, no accountability, just a hollow existence, like my soul had checked out. My addiction was born on November 20, 1991—my 21st birthday—the sam...
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Age 60
Brenda Mattson
Sober sinceExcruciating. I did damage to every relationship I had. I would sit on the toilet every morning, for the better part of four years wondering how my life had become that. It hurt, but I could...
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