Clean or Sober

Who is the baby?  One of our dear friends who joined myself, and another friend of ours on the podcast.  We dive mostly into the insanity of what our lives were like without the use of drugs.   We talk about what it looks like when we are trying to fill a god sized hole with instant gratification items such as relationships early in sobriety and recovery.  This is all driven by dopamine release, a...

This episode consists of a strong woman who has built herself a strong support group of women.  She talks about attending a private school up until her sophomore year, and then was abruptly thrown into the public school system. She laughs about checking off all the boxes of the shit she did not do during her more shy years in the first 30 days of public school, which consisted of smoking her first...

We talk a lot about relapse prevention, what we believe are the major causes for relapse, or better yet, over the years we have been clean and sober, what do we believe could be the leading cause.  With almost a combined 21 years clean and sober between us, we also discuss the importance of sponsorship.  What does a sponsor do?  What is a sponsors main role as it pertains to the sponsor/sponsee re...

This episode was amazing.  My guest has a very unique story of being taken, under false pretenses, to another county 6000 miles away from his mother.  To then being brought back many years later.  The struggles in early childhood, which potentially drove him on the path he chose.  He talks about going through treatment programs, sober housing, going to prison, and what peace is like today as a res...

This guest is a great friend of mine.  She talks about how difficult the choice was to adopt her child out in early recovery.  Partly due to early recovery and partly due to the very toxic father who was still actively using.  She talks about how important the support was of her family, everyone in sobriety and recovery, and not a single person told her what to do.  They pushed her to seek the ans...

This was a great trio with two excellent guests!  We cover what their relapse looked like.  More importantly, what details and series of events happened prior to the relapse.  There is some good back and forth with a combined total of 20+ years of sobriety and recovery.   The relapse was a small bump in the road, and fortunately neither of them ended up where they were the last time they decided t...

This podcast my sister decided to join me.  She shares being trafficked at an early age, what that looks like from a kids' perspective, and being a runaway.  She talks about the hopes and subsequent loss of our father at a young age, how that impacted her, and molded a lot of her decision making as she grew older. We cover a story of her running from me on the street, denying visits while in...

This episode is filled with wild things such as him creating an invention, sponsorship, getting clean as a newcomer during COVID, and hiding in the bushes at the young age of 13 after being up for 3 days assuming a star is a police helicopter.

This episode is filled with some great back and forth.  We talk about what relapse looks like.  We speak a little about how COVID has affected going to meetings.  We discuss what our first use looked like, and find a way to include the story about how I shoved a credit card in my ass cheeks.

My very first Clean or Sober Podcast episode!  I chose a great friend of mine and sponsee.  We have worked together for more than five years.  This is just a snippet of his story.  We do manage to cram into the episode his story of struggling in early use trying to raise a baby at 18.  We talk about the point of absolute hopelessness in which he didn't want to continue living.  We also talk a...