Remember Your Why
By Kristen
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Episodes: 95
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This podcast will feature guests who have battled addiction and mental health issues and discuss the struggles they have faced as well as their stories of success and recovery. My hope is to shed a light that you can recover and be happy, because there's some really beautiful things that can happen when you give yourself a chance. Whether you’re just starting out or have been on the healing journey for some time, it’s important to always remember the WHY that brought you here... to this very moment.
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I can truly get to the depths of the dreaming I used to do as a 5, 6 year old little boy.
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Jul 01, 2026 |
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Sobriety gave me a second chance at life
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Jul 23, 2025 |
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I drink and do drugs. That's who I am. It's in my bones. It's in my soul.
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May 01, 2025 |
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Turn your pain into purpose.
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Feb 20, 2025 |
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Dear future me... I don't know what's ahead of us, but I'm ready for it.
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Feb 13, 2025 |
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I got to that point where I was pretty sure this thing was gonna kill me.
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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You really owe it to yourself to give this a shot, because this can be life changing for you if you're really struggling.
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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I experience pain now but I experience joy too. I was so hopeless for so long and now my life is filled with hope.
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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We believe that life is for growth and growth, though painful, is always worth the effort.
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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I was very blessed to be in a situation to get better. You're worth it.
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Oct 03, 2024 |
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You can't get too high or too low. It's the rhythm of balance.
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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You are never too young or to old to shuffle the deck of life.
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Sobriety gave me a second chance at life
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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I can see myself in that lens because I was there, and now I'm here.
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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You're still going to get to that same destination. You just have to change that way.
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Aug 08, 2024 |
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I remember my why through my purpose.
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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Great is one of those little words that doesn't even begin to cover what I feel about my sobriety.
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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Waking up motivated instead of wanting to die is a great day.
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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It is glorious when you get to the other side.
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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I get to live life now.
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Jul 04, 2024 |
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I never imagined what all sobriety could be until I finally surrendered and gave it a chance.
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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Don't Quit On Quitting
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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I was definitely using alcohol to switch my brain off.
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Jun 13, 2024 |
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Anything we put before sobriety, we lose.
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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At the end of the day the only why is love because we have to love ourselves to stay in recovery.
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May 30, 2024 |
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Alcoholism, addiction- it just doesn't make a whole lot of sense unless you're in it.
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May 23, 2024 |
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Try to find it within you to want to get clean. Don't ever give up hope.
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May 16, 2024 |
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I'm not a bad person. I made some bad decisions, but I'm not a bad person.
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May 09, 2024 |
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Maybe there's a reason we had the past we had, so we can give back now.
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May 02, 2024 |
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Addiction is an actual illness... an actual mental illness that makes my brain works differently.
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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All we need to do is humble ourselves, put our hand out and ask "Help me, help me please. I don't know where to go."
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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You're not alone and you're certainly not unique.
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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It's not until I get to a meeting that I realize why I'm there.
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Everyday I thought, this is it for me, this is how I am... I'm a drinker. I'm just a drinker.
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Apr 04, 2024 |
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I honestly believe that nobody is beyond redemption.
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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There is literally an entirely different life ready & waiting for you... you just have to be brave enough to take that first step.
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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How did I even deal with life being impaired, because life itself is hard in general. How did I do this drunk & high?
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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At the end of the day I must take care of myself first above everything else. I have to maintain my spiritual condition. I have to stay on point.
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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Gratitude is one of the key elements in my recovery. Everyday I wake up grateful to be alive.
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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My why is because I still feel... I know physically, mentally what it feels like to be on that 5th day of a bender.
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Find somebody who has something you want & ask how they got it.
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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Sobriety is this amazing string of miracles I get to be a part of.
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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Sobriety gave me a second chance at life
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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Take it minute by minute. Take it step by step.
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Jan 27, 2024 |
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You're worth recovery. Give it a go.
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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You're looking so much at the destination you're not learning anything on the journey.
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Jan 18, 2024 |
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I want to grow up before I die.
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Jan 11, 2024 |
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Once you accept that you have a problem with alcohol, that's when the change will take place.
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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I was the victim in every circumstance, but I was also the cause of every one of my circumstances.
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Dec 28, 2023 |
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Once you start taking a chemical, whatever your poison is, everything else comes second.
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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All the willpower and all of the thought that you think you have to be able to combat this is not enough. There is a solution out there for this that is rooted in the WE.
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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You know how you got here & you know how to fix it.
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Reach out and let someone know you are struggling.
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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One of the biggest gifts I got from recovery is being able to momentarily be in the moment. Right here, right now.
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Some thoughts are like a little black hole pulling me in and I'm fighting to not get pulled in. Like a tug of war with my thoughts.
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Living with addiction is a daily reprieve... it never goes away
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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There was just nobody home anymore. I was a shell of a person.
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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I would take my worst day sober over my best day drinking.
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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I don't know who that person was... I never knew... I'm just figuring out who I am now
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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I'm a true believer that everything happens in God's time & everything happens for a reason.
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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I just try to be a little bit better today than I was the day before and not have to numb myself to the feelings that I have inside.
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Be honest enough with yourself. This is all about self-honesty, rigorous honesty.
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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I had to earn all of my feelings and emotions... because I didn't know what they were.
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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We can give it all up and have one thing or we can give up one thing and have it all.
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Keeping my sobriety on top & letting nothing come in between that is the biggest thing I have learned.
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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Heroin was the drug that finally brought me to my knees.
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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You can get sober at any point & you can get off the elevator at any floor. You don't have to go to the bottom.
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Aug 10, 2023 |
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Life reminds me everyday to 'Remember My Why' because the old me is always there
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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I kept thinking I'm drinking because I'm depressed as opposed to realizing I'm depressed because I'm drinking.
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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The thing that you thought was keeping you alive; the thing that you thought was allowing you to function, was the thing that destroyed you.
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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When things aren't going my way and I am feeling that spiritual cholesterol, I maintain the grind and know I will be alright.
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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I came to realize I was completely powerless over the disease of addiction.
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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I didn't realize I was having problems until alcohol took them away.
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Take that leap of faith and give yourself a chance.
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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My life doesn't exist today until I figured out that drinking doesn't work.
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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There's no one way to the top of the mountain; it's a journey.
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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The gifts of recovery are beyond my wildest dreams.
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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I was meant to "fail" to find the path that I was meant to take.
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May 25, 2023 |
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Drugs made me feel absolutely nothing but I also felt like Superman at the same time.
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May 18, 2023 |
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I never had a legal drink or a drug in my life.
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May 11, 2023 |
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You are never too young or to old to shuffle the deck of life.
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May 04, 2023 |
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My 'Why' is to help the struggling addict, because I've been where they are.
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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I had to perform CPR on my son 5 different times due to overdose.
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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The struggle is part of the journey. It made me who I am.
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Addiction does not discriminate. It can happen to anyone.
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Sobriety is an easier and softer way of living.
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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I have the honor and the privilege of enjoying the things that I love in sobriety.
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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My addiction and sobriety journey led me to believe in myself.
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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If my eyes were open, alcohol was touching my lips.
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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The gift of desperation became a saving grace.
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Getting clean was the best thing hands down I've ever done in my life.
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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If I want to be the husband and father I can be, I need to get up from this stool.
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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If you're open to change, the possibilities are endless.
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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Am I a good person who does bad things or a bad person who does good things?
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Sobriety gave me a second chance at life
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Feb 09, 2023 |