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AA Recovery Interviews
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Добавлен 8 мар 2021
AA Recovery Interviews podcast explores the lives of recovered alcoholics who got sober in Alcoholics Anonymous. In each one-on-one interview, my anonymous guests share their experience, strength, and hope through a lively discussion of what it was like, what happened, and what it’s like now. AA Recovery Interviews protects the guests' anonymity by not showing faces and using first names and last initials only.
[Disclaimer: In strict adherence to A.A.’s traditions, anonymous guests and host speak for themselves only, not for Alcoholics Anonymous at large. We share only our personal experiences with A.A. recovery. We acknowledge that AA’s sole concern is the recovery and continued sobriety of those alcoholics who turn to the Fellowship for help. As members of AA, our primary purpose is to stay sober and to help other alcoholics achieve sobriety.]
[Disclaimer: In strict adherence to A.A.’s traditions, anonymous guests and host speak for themselves only, not for Alcoholics Anonymous at large. We share only our personal experiences with A.A. recovery. We acknowledge that AA’s sole concern is the recovery and continued sobriety of those alcoholics who turn to the Fellowship for help. As members of AA, our primary purpose is to stay sober and to help other alcoholics achieve sobriety.]
Randy L. – Sober Since July 1998 (Encore of Episode 39)
As an alcoholic and drug addict throughout his teenage years, Randy L. got sober before being old enough to legally drink. His difficult childhood was ruled by compulsive behavior, limited attention, and hyperactivity. Later diagnosed with ADHD, Randy was treated with meds that worked, but left him craving a calmer and steadier mental state. He soon relief in alcohol and marijuana. Though the damage occurred while he was a teenager, Randy’s rise to full-blown addiction was both rapid and severe. He exploited every opportunity to drink and use in high school and early college. Increasing isolated from his family, his behavior soon deteriorated into that of a drug-selling addict and alcohol...
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Helen M. - Sober 2 Years
Просмотров 53День назад
This 154th interview in my podcast series features Helen M., from London, England. Helen tracks her nearly three years of sobriety as more than 1000 days in AA, experienced the one-day-at-at-time. Though she grew up in a home in which neither of her parents were alcoholic, Helen suffered mistreatment at the hands of her two sisters. To cope, she found the emotion-numbing relief that alcohol pro...
Jim H. - Sober Since July 1996 (Encore of Episode 29)
Просмотров 5514 дней назад
Jim H. is one of those alcoholics whose unabated drinking created serious medical problems amidst all the other destruction of career and family. He did not drink much in high school. But in college, he was a tie-died in the wool hippie, with a penchant for marijuana, hashish, LSD, and psilocybin mushrooms. He used amphetamines to achieve academic success. But it was the alcohol that took him d...
Marci P. - Sober 3 Years
Просмотров 7921 день назад
Marci's first exposure to Alcoholics Anonymous was at age 12 when she witnessed her father receiving his one year anniversary chip. But though her father maintained his sobriety until the end of his life through AA, little was spoken of alcoholism in her home growing up. Like many AA members who were raised in or around the Program, Marci’s decisions to drink were largely unaffected by her fami...
Elliott M. - Sober 39 Years
Просмотров 104Месяц назад
Sex, drugs, and rock & roll were more than a cliché in the life of Elliott M. As a prominent rock musician and song-writer for years before alcoholism drove him into Alcoholics Anonymous, Elliott’s drinking ran parallel to his rise to stardom. Ironically, his best song-writing and performances were largely free from the influence of alcohol and drugs. But offstage, his drinking and drugging wer...
Diane S. - Sober Since December 1996 (Encore of Episode 40)
Просмотров 76Месяц назад
In a story is wrought from a difficult childhood, Diane was the youngest of four and was largely ignored by her parents, especially when her father was drinking. Until he died at 56, his alcoholism also fed a mean streak that landed hard on her family, with verbal abuse and derision often aimed at Diane. As a teenager, she found alcohol as a way to escape and her drinking followed her into four...
John D. - Sober 5 Years
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Though he first attended court-ordered AA meetings decades before his current sobriety date, John had no interest in the Program and no desire to stop drinking whatsoever. Even the week-long coma he suffered after being thrown from the car in a drunken crash did little to inhibit his drinking. John was raised in affluence by parents were "party people" who loved their alcohol and the family's s...
Jim W. - Sober Since June 1989 (Encore of Episode 31)
Просмотров 154Месяц назад
As a toddler, Jim was taken to parties where he got his first taste of marijuana and alcohol. For his 10th birthday, his adult brother got him a joint and shots of peppermint schnapps. By 13, he was a daily pot smoker and drinking whenever he could. His race to the bottom ended when he got sober at age 21. On this episode of AA Recovery Interviews, meet Jim W., an active member of AA for the pa...
Dwight M. - Sober 35 Years
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To mark the 150th interview in this podcast series, Dwight’s story is both riveting and ominous. It began with alcohol being added to his milk to keep him quiet as a toddler. Raised as an only child by a single mother in the ghettos of Harlem, he was a thief by age six and had witnessed the stabbing death of school mate at 11. A gang member by middle school, Dwight was drinking, smoking marijua...
Nicole S. - Sober 3 Years
Просмотров 1082 месяца назад
Nicole's battle with alcoholism was set against the backdrop of repressed feelings from childhood and the deep closet in which hid her own homosexuality most of her life. Growing up in London, Nicole drank without consequence much of her life until she faced a seemingly insurmountable period of grief and isolation six years before she stopped drinking. Her escalating alcohol abuse, plus two sui...
Quinten S. - Sober 2 Years
Просмотров 4022 месяца назад
Like many alcoholics, Quinten S. started drinking in his mid-adolescence amidst a chaotic home life. Alcoholism was not prevalent in his immediate family, but the vestiges from earlier generations were there nonetheless. Quinten’s alcohol use escalated quickly during his late teens, along with regular use of marijuana. In high school and later college, his use quickly turned into serious abuse ...
Soleen M. - Sober 21 Years
Просмотров 392 месяца назад
With a family of origin riddled with alcoholism, abuse, and fractured relationships, Soleen was a disenfranchised child. She started drinking at 11 and progressed rapidly into alcoholic abuse. That latent disease deprived Soleen of adult supervision and good decision-making. She married at 14 and had a baby at 16 by a man nearly twice her age. Her budding alcoholism put Soleen in trouble with t...
David B. - Sober 30 Years
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In David's childhood home, there was one basic rule about alcohol: Don’t let it interfere with your household chores. Lacking any other parental edicts, David started drinking at age 8 and was a regular alcohol user by age 11. Alcohol’s “magical” effect of intoxication helped David cope with both the dysfunction in his family, as well as the intense feelings of loneliness that were fed by the i...
Lisa F. - Sober 19 Years
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Imagine you’ve been sober for a while and move to a new country. You don’t speak the language and the nearest English-speaking AA meetings are an hour and a half away. How would that affect your sobriety and serenity in your new digs? My guest on today’s show, Lisa F., faced that uncomfortable situation when she moved from the U.S. to Sicily in 2020. Sober nearly 15 years at the time, Lisa face...
Ernie G. - Sober Since August 2005 (Encore of Episode 35)
Просмотров 593 месяца назад
Ernie's story is a fascinating excursion into a high-class lifestyle of fast cars, flashy clothes, and glittery nightclubs, all underwritten by a high paying day job and cocaine dealing on the side. As his alcohol and cocaine use turned into alcoholism and drug addiction, all accountability to career, family, and friends evaporated. His risky behavior escalated until he was arrested in a DEA st...
John F. - Sober Since August 2017 (Encore of Episode 57)
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John F. - Sober Since August 2017 (Encore of Episode 57)
Kristy M. - Sober Since March 2018 (Encore of Episode 52)
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Kristy M. - Sober Since March 2018 (Encore of Episode 52)
Marty S. - Sober Since February 2015 [Encore of Episode 53]
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Marty S. - Sober Since February 2015 [Encore of Episode 53]
Jim G. - Sober Since September 2000 (Encore Episode)
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Jim G. - Sober Since September 2000 (Encore Episode)
Ro Y. - Sober Since April 1982 (Encore of Episode 71)
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Ro Y. - Sober Since April 1982 (Encore of Episode 71)
Charlie D. - Sober Since July 1997 (Encore of Episode 37)
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Charlie D. - Sober Since July 1997 (Encore of Episode 37)
Chris G. - Sober Since May 2016 (Encore of Episode 8)
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Chris G. - Sober Since May 2016 (Encore of Episode 8)
“Ego is not my amigo” ! Brilliant, thank you Howard and Faisal !!!!!
Thank you for this… ❤
Amazing
Incredible , thank you
Guy, you are practically telling my story. I've been sober for two years now and work at a rehab center in Texas.
I just recently attended a meeting at the Independence club, which john references in this interview as one of his first meetings in the DC area decades ago. Small world!
Great deal Howard, thanks again my brother and friend!!!