Remember Your Why

Carl is a TV personality, starring on Bravo's hit show "Summer House," as well as a director, producer, actor and entrepreneur.  Faced with childhood traumas as well as adult trauma, Carl had buried a lot in his life, only to have to face his anxiety and depression, as well as fear, to get to the growth and opportunities sobriety gave him.  Losing his brother to a drug overdose was...

Marisa started experimenting with substances at age 7. She battled anxiety, an eating disorder, multiple health issues and a difficult living situation. She chose to isolate within her addiction and was able to slide under the radar from her loved ones for many years . At 29, she got clean for the first time.  In her final relapse before getting sober, she ended up in a crack den using crack and h...

Jessica is a successful singer/songwriter, musician and humanitarian whose debut album 'Lone Rider' charted at the top during its release, and continues to chart all around the world.  Her single "You Save Me" is a song that centers around mental health and it shows how music is such a powerful force in peoples lives and that it can truly save us.  Jessica discusses how music h...

Paul is both a veteran as well as a felon. He started using and abusing alcohol and drugs at an early age. It went from pot to pills to heroin.  His disease progressed, as it does, and after receiving a DWAI he had a wake up call and decided to go into the Air Force to try to get back on track. Things got better but he quickly fell back into his old crowd and old behaviors. Heroin got a hold on hi...

Brian bottomed out at the age of 20 having never had a legal drink or drug in his life.  He drank alcohol because alcohol worked. It helped him ease into situations, made things happier and he felt invincible. It was his medicine. 

Lisa was a binge drinker who, after years and years of addiction , got to the point where she wanted to die. She laid down in the middle of a street hoping that would be the end. That is where her disease took her. To the darkest parts of her mind.  Listen to her story and how she overcame her crippling past and has been living a life in recovery for 30 years. 

Geri's son Greg struggled with drug addiction for half his life. At 15, he began smoking marijuana, but that turned quickly to heroin and becoming hooked on fentanyl. He overdosed multiple times and thankfully survived, but it was never enough to scare him from picking back up again. Institutions, jails, rehabs... Greg was at them all, and they all worked at the time, but every time he got ou...

John turned to alcohol and drugs at a young age. His addiction quickly progressed from beer and pot, to oxy's, cocaine, crack and heroin. It got to the point where he needed it all to function. One night of partying changed everything for him.  Now he is living his best life, traveling and sharing his strength and recovery wherever he goes. He is another example that recovery is possible and...

For Danielle, her biggest trigger was physical pain. She became addicted to pills for years and developed such a high tolerance that she needed more and more until it got to be too much. Her marriage was falling apart, she was losing her job, wasn't speaking to her family, and had a young son to think of.  She looked at herself one day in the mirror and told herself that she could go buy hero...

For Garry, beer progressed quickly to hard liquor, and he started to isolate, hide bottles, and drink around the clock. His thoughts became absolutely dominated by drinking. That, along with the fear of losing his wife, was when he knew he could not continue on like he was and made the conscious decision to stop and get sober.  One of the most memorable things Garry said in his interview was this:...

For Melissa, alcohol became the way of life for her. With it she escaped all emotions and it became the solution for everything happening in her life. She drank a liter of vodka everyday, her body shut down and she suffered seizures. She ended up being hospitalized, intubated with restraints on. That was her rock bottom.  Now, over five years sober, a registered nurse and married with a baby, she...

Brian is a retired paramedic and firefighter who struggles with both addiction and mental health. He believes it is important for those of us taking care of ourselves get our stories out there to show that recovery is possible.  After totaling 12 cars due to drinking, passing out drunk while watching his daughter,  dealing with untreated mental health, and self-sabotaging his life, he realized som...

For Logan, alcohol and drugs "fixed" everything that he thought was wrong with him.  He was on a never ending hamster wheel that eventually led to him living out of his car, selling his belongings, and turning to heroin, which was something he thought he'd never do. Music ended up being what ultimately saved his life.  Now he gives back and talks at high schools to teenagers to let...

Andrea believed she was just the components of what she made up. She felt she was an incomplete person, and that God made her and forgot to finish.  After a lifetime of drinking around the clock she was faced with an intervention by her family and friends, which ultimately saved her life.  

Self medicating with alcohol and drugs was the vicious cycle Mike could not get out of. It took being arrested and being homeless for him to wake up and realize that this would be his life if he did not change.  Relapse was a part of his story, but he never gave up. He started to take suggestions and became teachable.  One day at a time. 

Jennah was faced with extreme bullying when she was younger, felt alienated and wished she could be anybody but herself. Once she was introduced to drugs and alcohol, it was like she found the cure to all of her pain, worries, insecurities and self loathing. As time passed, the substances got harder and stronger and lines were crossed. Living in pure guilt and shame of her past she would just use...

Brian is a father and a husband that had to get out of his own way and learn to let go of the burdens. When faced with his insecurities and the thought of losing his whole world, he learned how to prioritize his life and realized that everything was much more important than running away from it and drinking it away. 

A retired British Army veteran, musician & psychotherapist discusses being diagnosed with a rare genetic condition and how he took to music as a form of therapy.  After being diagnosed, Liam's mental health was greatly affected, and he got caught up in complete & total self-deprecation, made worse by drinking. Listen to his story here.

Due to her addiction and mental health issues Emily almost lost her life; almost left  her three beautiful children behind; almost lost everything. Seven and a half years later, sober and living an amazing life, she is a power of example that we do recover. We can get better.  

It took me over 20 years to get sober. The mountain I had to climb was monumental & it turns out, I was the mountain. I was my own worst enemy.  Definitely the hardest battle I have ever faced, but also the most rewarding because sobriety is beautiful. It's an everyday battle when suffering from addiction, but we're all worth a chance at a second chance at life.