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.

Tiffany 37 7 / 3 / 2018
Age 37

Tiffany

Sober since

Exhausting playing a part of my life that wasn't really me anymore.

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Lynsie 24 7 / 29 / 2017
Age 24

Lynsie

Sober since

I've been partying since I was thirteen. It started with trying to fit in to becoming a full blown cycle of hell. I thought partying all the time was normal. I would use anything to get out...

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Theresa 62 8 / 2 / 2011
Age 62

Theresa

Sober since

Pure alcoholic Hell... 25 shooter bottles of Tequila per day for years...

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Izzy 49 8 / 22 / 2012
Age 49

Izzy

Sober since

I was disconnected from family spirituality broken..

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Stacey Hill 37 4 / 3 / 2018
Age 37

Stacey Hill

Sober since

I was going to die one of two ways, the drugs were going to kill me or I was going to kill myself.... I didn't want to live that way anymore!

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Brent L. 43 12 / 16 / 2017
Age 43

Brent L.

Sober since

It was homelessness, joblessness hell. No one to turn too cause I wasn't anyone anybody wanted to have around. My addiction was my God.

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Dustin Z. Dillow 37 10 / 12 / 2014
Age 37

Dustin Z. Dillow

Sober since

Upon living through everything I have in my life, war, broken relationships, a failed marriage, depression, homelessness, I had given myself an excuse to become something I am not. I was a b...

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