Age 55
Phill Odom
Sober sinceI started drinking and using at the ripe old age of 14. Trying to fit in to belong. I did not seem to fit in anywhere or with anyone. When I was drunk or high I felt like I fit in, but the f...
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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.
Age 28
Kara
Sober sinceI started drinking and using at a very young age. It was a way of life, drinking everyday to forget about life's stresses and the bad days. Drink to forget, use to get through the day. Every...
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Age 52
Dawn
Sober sinceI was emotionally, physically and spiritually broken. I was lost and was deathly afraid of where my addiction was taking me. It was only a matter of time before I would lose everything.
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Age 37
Travis Kestell
Sober sinceWas always searching for something that wasn't there. Thought I could find happiness.
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Age 47
Imelda Muckenschnabl
Sober sinceYears of constant pain, shame, inadequacy, sketchiness, emptiness, sadness, depression..
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Age 67
Steffen Ipland
Sober sinceI started using drugs when I was about eighteen years old. At different times, when one type of drug would get me in trouble, I would switch to another. I would do anything as long as it wou...
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Age 45
Erik Borrell
Sober sinceI struggled with addiction to methamphetamine for 20 years. I was hooked from the first time I tried it. I wanted to quit many times but for some reason always ended up thinking I could use...
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Age 48
George
Sober sinceMy life was a serious of spontaneous disasters and bad choices. Denial and lots of dishonesty. Alchohol was my god
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Age 29
Jacqueline
Sober sinceI had my first drink at age 11. I never really think anything of it because drinking alcohol is so commonplace in my family. I continued down the path of alcoholism into my twenties.
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