Christi Wedel

Shadows to Serenity

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Shadows to Serenity is not your polished sugarcoated recovery podcast. Hosted by Christi Wedel, it is raw, unfiltered truth about addiction, trauma, faith, and what it really takes to rise from the wreckage. You will hear fiery, fearless conversations with people who refuse to play small, voices that prove sobriety is not boring it is bold. If you have ever wondered whether freedom can be both gritty and joyful, serious and hilarious, sacred and scarred, this is where you will find out. Shadows to Serenity will shake you, heal you, and remind you why no story is too far gone to rise.

Author

Christi Wedel

Episodes

The One Who Saw Me: My Soul Sister 12.09.2025 1:20:03

In this episode of Shadows to Serenity, I am joined by Elizabeth, the woman who became my first safe place in sobriety. She walked with me through withdrawals, relapses, and wreckage, never turning away when the truth got hard. Our conversation is more than a story, it is a reckoning with shame, grace, and the fierce love it takes to believe in someone before they can believe in themselves. Elizab...

From Trauma to Truth: One Woman’s Fight Back 12.09.2025 45:39

In this episode of Shadows to Serenity, I sit down with my sister, Tracy—the one who stood in the fire with me long before I ever found recovery. Our conversation is raw, unfiltered, and rooted in the bond we forged through chaos, trauma, and survival. Tracy shares what it was like to carry a burden no child should have to carry, and how love, loyalty, and grit kept us alive when everything else w...

From Rock Bottom to Role Model: Life Inside the Walls of Recovery 12.09.2025 1:00:14

In this episode of Shadows to Serenity, I sit down with Blake, a man who knows the depths of addiction and the fight it takes to come back from it. His story is one of bottoming out in ways that most would not survive, and yet he rose with grit, grace, and relentless faith. Today, Blake pours out raw truth about the cost of living in the shadows and the power of surrender that brought him into the...