Age 40
Elizabeth
Sober sinceWords cannot describe what my addiction to alcohol was like. It put me into the category of "It won't happen to me".
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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 44
Juli Ghazi
Sober sinceWhat stands out the most to me about my journey is how much I normalized my drinking. With each phase, each decade, each monumental occasion, I never allowed the consequences to dominate my...
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Age 35
Brooke
Sober sinceMy addiction to drugs and alcohol stole my life. I was a prisoner in my own world. For about 10 years I was in and out of jail with one prison trip. I lost everything. Lost my family and fri...
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Age 51
Michelle B.
Sober sinceI came from an abusive, angry, alcoholic family where I lived in fear constantly. I became an abusive, angry, alcoholic and drug addict trying to instill fear in everyone I met. I failed at...
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Age 59
Valerie H.
Sober sinceI was drinking a quart and a half of 150 proof and it was not working anymore. I also had an eating disorder. I binged and purged. I would purge till I bled and then switch to alcohol. Black...
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Age 40
Nathan Thomas
Sober sinceAt the time there was a perception that nothing was wrong, nothing could go wrong, and this is what life was supposed to be like.
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Age 26
Courtney
Sober sinceWhen I was getting high it was like living in a dream. A dream that I thought was perfect until about a year into being an addict and losing my grandfather who was like my dad to realize tha...
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Age 22
Jake
Sober sinceWhen I started drinking it was always to cover up my feelings of pain or fear. I drank or used over everything, I grew up going to meetings with my dad. I thought self knowledge of what an a...
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Age 37
Lynne
Sober sinceAt first I thought it was fun, then it was fun with consequences, and then it just became a downward dark spiral of just consequences.
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Kelly
Sober sinceIt was awful to wake up day after day, week after week. My addiction was getting worse, so was everything else in my life especially my health. The blackouts started at 19. Four alcohol-rela...
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Age 42
Kara Roggow
Sober sinceI was always a shy kid, I was bullied a lot. I used to cut myself because I didn't know how to deal with it. I had memories of my pediatrician abusing me during check-ups. I started drinking...
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