The Rebel's Playground

When I first quit drinking, I thought the cravings were the hard part. Turns out, the real challenge was facing what came next: the anger and shame I had buried for years. In this episode, I get brutally honest about: The anger I still carry at myself — for the nights I drove drunk, the commitments I broke, and the people I hurt. Why anger isn’t a “negative” emotion, but a signal — and how true fr...

After the grief of letting go comes something quieter but just as challenging: loneliness . In this episode, I share what it was like to navigate the unexpected isolation that followed my decision to quit drinking—and how setting boundaries, creating space for new relationships, and learning to be with myself transformed that loneliness into something far more meaningful. We’ll explore: Why connec...

Overview Quitting isn’t the finish line—it’s the starting line. In this episode, we talk about the unexpected grief that can show up after you walk away from alcohol (or anything that once held your life together). This isn’t about regret—it’s about loss, and how it can take many forms: the life you didn’t get to live, the younger self you’ve left behind, and relationships that shift or end. What...

When I quit drinking, I thought I’d crossed the finish line. Instead, I found myself standing at the starting line of a completely different race—one I didn’t know how to run. In this first episode of Soul Recovery: What Comes After the Quit , I share what it was really like to walk out of a psychiatric center and face life without my old coping mechanisms. From shaky ground and self-doubt, to une...

Welcome to Soul Recovery: What Comes After the Quit . This isn’t a shiny self-help program or a perfectly staged before-and-after story. It’s a real, unfiltered conversation for people who’ve quit drinking—or want to—and are still trying to figure out why life feels… off. In this introductory episode, I share my personal journey, from years of binge drinking to the moment everything changed. But q...

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