Age 27Since 04 / 24 / 2020
Lyss
From a really young age, I turned to drugs as a way to escape. I started using at 13, and for years it felt like that lifestyle was all I knew. I lost sight of who I was, and I was stuck in...
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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.
Featured story Age 63
Josh Abel
It was hard on me to watch a good friend to go through the addiction with not much help.
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Age 72Since 07 / 25 / 1988
Jay Birks
I drank and used when I didn’t want to. I sunk below my values quicker than I could lower them.
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Age 63Since 10 / 06 / 2018
Sue
My first drink I was 9, my last I was 56. I had a 20 year dry period too. I blacked out from the beginning. But the numbing of feelings and the ability to talk to males was what really kept...
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Age 45Since 03 / 01 / 2013
Kevin Forsberg
Awful and just terrible. Sickly and out of my mind. Drinking 7 nights a Week sometimes all day until was blacked out. Was losing my family and possessions cause of it.
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Age 54Since 04 / 18 / 2018
Jeff Kaser
"Living in addiction was easy—no responsibility, no accountability, just a hollow existence, like my soul had checked out. My addiction was born on November 20, 1991—my 21st birthday—the sam...
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Age 60Since 07 / 15 / 2015
Brenda Mattson
Excruciating. I did damage to every relationship I had. I would sit on the toilet every morning, for the better part of four years wondering how my life had become that. It hurt, but I could...
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Age 41Since 07 / 24 / 2019
Justin Hobson
I spent over two decades caught in the chaos of addiction. Heroin and meth stole everything from me — my family, my identity, my health, and my future. I was in and out of jail, homeless in...
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Age 34Since 11 / 27 / 2018
Jordan Beavers
Heroin didn’t show up in my life as a monster. No, that would’ve been too easy to resist.It came as a whisper. A tender voice that curled around my ear and said, “Come here, baby. Let me hel...
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Age 31Since 03 / 17 / 2022
Morgan Smith
It was pure hell. I was a slave to meth from the age of 19. I had experimented with other drugs as well and by the end of my last (and hopefully my last ever) relapse I was IV using both met...
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Age 32Since 08 / 28 / 2023
April Richards
I was an alcoholic. I was depressed. Struggling daily to just get through my day. Struggling in my marriage and friendships. Struggling in my relationship with God.
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