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 53
Sue K
Sober sinceThe worst day of my addiction was not the time I got arrested. It wasn't the second time I got arrested. It wasn't even the time my best friend and I fought about my using. The worst day of...
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Age 38
Jennifer
Sober sinceIt was unmanageable, lonely and I was just existing and not living. I gave up on God and was living life with my will and not his. I was drinking daily and popping any pills I could get my h...
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Age 55
Cathy
Sober sinceI drank for over 30 years before it seemed like a problem to me, after my daughter's death - for over 2 years I rarely saw a sober moment
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Age 50
Jack Usry
Sober sinceIt was hell I lived in darkness just gave up on everything life work I would drink until I passed out wake up somehow made it to the store at 3 am to get a drink I was in sorrow.
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Age 28
Claire
Sober sinceAlcohol turned me into a person I didn't like, reckless and stupid; increasing my depression and anxiety. It clouded all my emotions but the day after I remembered the things I'd said and do...
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Age 26
Josh
Sober sinceIt was misery! Looking back at it all, it started when I began to fall in love with my best friend. I was not out as gay to hardly anyone. I thought he was gay, but he wound up being straigh...
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Age 50
Perry
Sober sinceIt was like a rite. As soon as I could I would start drinking and drink until I passed out. Every day, and triple the amount on weekends. Not paying bills so I could buy.
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Age 39
Barb
Sober sinceI was miserable, unemployable and broken. I had lost everything and lived in my moms basement. I was a liar and a cheat and a thief. I would do anything just to drink.
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Age 38
Jewels L
Sober sinceI felt like I wanted to die but didn't want to die. People were always telling me what to do because I had no self control over my life. I knew what I wanted to achieve but never could get t...
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Age 39
Erik
Sober sinceIts still hard for me to take a look at my past, and remember the suffering I was able to handle in exchange of the imaginary relief drugs and booze gave me at the last stages.
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Age 54
Rhonda
Sober sinceMy husband passed away from lung cancer the month before I got sober. Right after his death, I was trying to do everything I could in my disease to join him. I had no hope and no will to con...
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