Recovery, in their own words
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.
Age 31
Jill
Sober sinceIt was hell...my life was hell...I felt like I lived to get high, and I had to get high to live...
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Age 38
Sarah Jetty
Sober sinceI was black out drunk 5 nights a week in a codependent relationship. I spent the majority of my paycheck in the bars and on a nightly 12 pack. I was mentally and emotionally exhausted. I was...
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Age 43
Michael Hughes
Sober sinceGrowing up with an alcoholic father I had vowed to never drink. Seems that genetics had other things in store for me. My life was a constant haze and I remember thinking about when I could g...
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Age 35
Michael
Sober sinceDepressing. I lost a decade of my young adult years to binge drinking.
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Age 31
Thomas Winkelman
Sober sinceDemoralizing and hopeless like going through life being a fraction of who I was capable of being. 17 years living lost and broken only to be saved by Grace and freed from the self made priso...
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Age 47
Jeff
Sober sinceI had tried for 30 years to get sober and make it stick. I went to my first meeting at the age of 16. When I was younger my drinking and drugging was chaotic and resulted in frequent stays i...
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Age 35
Jennifer
Sober sinceIt was depressing and debilitating. Alcohol made me hate life and myself. It made me feel small and insignificant. It did everything I though it wouldn’t do. It increased my social anxiety a...
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Age 40
Debi
Sober sinceI was a bartender for 15 yrs doing the late night thing...going out after work every night giving the money that I had just made back to another bartender from the opposite side of the bar....
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Age 29
Tiffany
Sober sinceIn my 5 years of active addiction was so hard, lonely, and scary. Being a Crystal meth IV user i thought i was never gonna recover I was always having to look over my shoulder, scared to go...
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