Stewart B. Brooklyn, NY. May 26, 1994  Drug of Choice Alcohol, Crack Cocaine, Cocaine, Acid, Peyote  Short bio sober coach with extensive experience providing care and support to those suffering from addiction. Using direct and effective communication methods; clients and their families are taught how to lead successful, sober lives. Clients are shown how their lives can be led through the steps of sobriety. Stewart believes that each person deserves a unique and individualized program. As a sober coach, Stewart understands that the relationship developed is one that requires compassion, patience, and confidentiality. Through the implementation of his programs and services, Mr. Brebnor continually demonstrates his effectiveness through the continued success of his clients. Social media links and website links Spiritualchef.net MattTalbotretreats.org Enduser.freeshell.org

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Cole Cooper  Brooklyn/Philadelphia  11/9/13 Alcohol/cocaine/inhalants/ whatever was offered    Raised in southern Vermont, daily drinker by 17, couch surfer/homeless for 11 years, been to jail, got sober at 31, have a sponsor and sponsor 3. 

Doing It Sober Podcast Episode 9

Jeremy Floyd, Minneapolis, MN, Sobriety date: January 17th, 2018 Drug of Choice was: Alcohol, Marijuana, Cocaine,  Short Bio:  My name is Jeremy Floyd born and raised on the south side of Chicago. Grew up around drugs and alcohol, gangs, rats, roaches, physical, verbal, mental and sexual abuse.  There was no stability in my house growing up, there was always someone yelling or fighting. All by the age of 13, I witnessed my mom get abused, watched my dad go to jail, rehab and visited him in jail. I watched my parents go through a messy divorce. I was molested from the age of 8 - 10.  When I was 13 I watched my twin brother died the day after Christmas. I smoke my first joint at 14 and for the first time, I could remember to that point it made all the pain go away. The first time I ever got drunk was at 17. I moved to Minnesota on June 12, 2009, to find a new environment but my old mindset followed me to Minnesota, and  January 17, 2018, I was finally sick and tired of being sick and tired. So I checked myself in the Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge program. One of the best decisions I've ever made while being in rehab I believe I stumbled across my purpose. Which is to help others out of the same darkness that I made it out of and to use my story as a weapon of love, grace and redemption and inspiration to inspire others to overcome just as I have and still doing.  Which led to me walking from Minneapolis, MN to Santa Monica California to bring awareness to people who struggle with addictions, suicide prevention, and homelessness. Along the way, I stopped at different rehab facilities and youth homes to tell my story with the hopes of others overcoming. In short, I love people, I love making people laugh, I love to listen (though I'm not good at it all the time I'm working on it) I love being creative whether that's writing stories or jokes. I love to love. I'm a big kid at heart that loves to learn and laugh. Oh, I also love to cook and I love dogs especially ones with floppy ears.  Website: https://www.walkunchained.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jeremy.floyd.3551 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/walkunchained/

Doing It Sober Podcast Episode 8

My name is Amanda Washington, and I am 35 years old from Atlanta, Georgia!! I currently live in Southern California with partial custody of my 13-year-old son Ethan. I am currently going through a divorce after almost 15 years. My husband is an abusive alcoholic and his entire family drinks!!  I have been drinking since I was 13 years old and never really gave it a second thought cause I made good grades, went to school, participated in activities, and kept a job at a small hometown pharmacy. On the outside, I was the perfect teenager!! My mom even allowed us to have a “night capper” as we called it at around 17 or 18 years old. My brother and I were allowed cause we didn’t cause a problem. It was the South, and we were angels compared to the teenagers around the neighborhood!!   To make a long story short, I was already an avid drinker before marrying my husband, however, his military status sent the drinking out of control!! We were constantly trying to impress people with the amount of alcohol we could consume, never knowing that it would soon become a Terrible addiction in which I would need to fight for my life to break away from!!   Eventually, my husband was kicked out of the marines, and we moved to California where all his family lives. Naturally, I took up more and more drinking because it was the thing to do!! Drinks It started at 5 pm and my in-laws always had a margarita waiting for me. They contributed day in and out until I became out of control. I would fight with everyone, blackout, and fall all over the place.   After many years of drinking, it started taking a toll on me and physically my body could not go without alcohol. The family eventually came together with an intervention for me. They sent me to some non-medical detox centers in Garden Grove Ca. After a couple of days Of detox, I started having delirium tremors and was admitted into the hospital for alcohol withdrawals. That was the worst I had ever felt in my life coupled with knowing if I drank again I risked losing my family.   They insisted on me going to an AA meeting right away after returning home. I did go to one, however, it left me feeling lost and depressed. I have not had a drink of alcohol since I was sent to detox on April 3rd, 2013. I credit Instagram and perfect strangers, as well as my own hard work and determination as contributing factors in my ongoing sobriety. My son, Ethan is the main reason I got sober!! I did not want him to see me drunk day after day as he was growing up. Thank goodness my son was too young to remember all the bad times from drinking. 

Doing It Sober Podcast Episode 7

My name is Jeremey Powell. My sobriety date is 6/3/13. My drug of choice was opiates but I ran the gamut on taking whatever. I am a 34-year-old who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. I’m a building engineer who since getting sober has gotten married, had a daughter, got a great job Just bought my second house and I’m in the process of starting my own business. For fun, I’ve done some recovery stand up shows and love telling jokes and making people laugh. I’ve found that NA and AA crowds are the best for comedy. They’re not easily offended and you can push the humor pretty far. Now that I’m a dad and a busy guy I don’t have as much time to stand up so with John we started dopesickmemes. It’s a lot of fun and it’s a form of humor that can reach a lot of people in recovery and I can do between jobs or before bed. I love to make light of super serious situations. I know people die every day from this disease so instead of being sad about it we make light and make laughs. I make most of the memes and then he manages the page. It’s a perfect match.

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 MartinJon Garcia - Chicago - Dec 14 2000    Drug of Choice Alcohol    Short bio   MartinJon Garcia, The Recovery Mentor, is an artist and former addict. His addictions started with drugs and alcohol, but while searching for sobriety, no surprise, he attached himself to a myriad of other vices. In the years since MartinJon has utilized his creativity to help exorcise his need for external vices. As a mentor, he helps unveil clarity in the lives of those he works with through portraiture and awareness. This is a method of refocusing experiences to release blocks, illness and internal wounds. He helps individuals, creating breakthroughs and life-changing results, for many who were previously stuck in both their views and lives. Having recovered from so many vices, and then more recent diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis, MartinJon is committed to empowering individuals to take the reins of their lives and enjoy the ride.     Social media links and website links  https://www.martinjon.com/  https://www.martinjon.net/   https://www.instagram.com/martinjon/   https://twitter.com/martinjon   https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/recover-yourself/id1465440178  

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John, Northern California, 5-22-2015 Oxy, if I had to choose one. Oxy, weed, and coke if I had to choose three. I grew up in northern California in a middle-class home. Parents are heavy drinkers. Though the household was chaotic, my physical needs were met. I discovered coke and pills during the senior year of high school and fell in love. I took pills every day from that point on by getting scripts from loose doctors using a series of injuries. I got married out of college and I was able to keep both my addiction and a regular life going until I was 31. That's when I couldn't handle it anymore. The lies, the debt, the depression, all of it finally crushed me while in southern California on a new job and I ended up in the ER on a three-day hold. Up until that point, I had tried everything to stop including AA, methadone treatment, just drinking, etc but I couldn't stay stopped and I didn't want to live or end it.  This time I was done. I enrolled in an IOP for a year where I discovered AA and then NA. And life is good now. I'm a professional scientist at a large organization. I have real friends and my family trusts me again. I got divorced and stayed clean. I'm self-sufficient and my needs are met. Positive things are happening. Gallows recovery humor keeps me from getting too damn serious. My brother in law and I recently started a recovery meme page a few months ago on a resentment, @dope.sick.memes .It's growing quickly and that keeps me busy in my recreational time. It's a lot of fun and I've met a bunch of people.

Doing It Sober Podcast Episode 4

Name: Heather Schaefer Sobriety date: Oct 4, 2012 Drug of choice: opioid painkillers and alcohol   Brief bio: I was a stay at home mom of 3 married for 22 years when I came into recovery. I was a caricature of a soccer mom and I was wildly unhappy. I had been prescribed painkillers for a back injury and instantly became hooked. I started abusing my pain meds from the very first prescription. When I went in for a refill the pharmacist told me it was too early and I literally thought he meant “too early in the day” and he said “No, too early to fill. This is a 30 day supply and it has only been 9 days.” I did all of the typical addict stuff right from the beginning; ordering online, frequent flying at the ER, going to multiple doctors and so on. I went to jail for calling in my own prescription. I eventually had to start buying them on the street and at $5 a pill it became a huge financial problem as I was taking as many as 20 at a time. I pawned jewelry, including my wedding ring, and eventually started stealing from anyone I could. All the while I was also drinking up to 3 bottles of wine a night. I didn’t know how to get into treatment so one Wednesday morning I dropped my kids off at school and went to the ER and told them I wanted to kill myself. This got me 5150’d which led to hospitalization and then directly into inpatient treatment. Going to the ER that day was the single most important decision I had ever made. After completing treatment I moved into a sober living environment. I had absolutely mangled my marriage during my addiction and going home wasn’t an option. I had never supported myself before. My first job in sobriety was working at a gas station. My husband had worked for Porsche and I had been well taken care of so getting a job was difficult because I didn’t have any real resume or skills to speak of. I eventually got a job managing the house I lived in and then I became a district manager for the company and at one point was managing 15 sober living houses. I threw myself into my recovery. I took commitments, got a sponsor, went to meetings, worked the steps and my life started to get exponentially better. When I finally moved out of sober living my youngest child moved in with my boyfriend (also in recovery) and me. I created a stable home life and developed a strong work ethic but I also found something I hadn’t had since I was a child... a sense of adventure and fun. I have only had one sobriety date and my hope is to keep it that way. I do the same things now that I did in the beginning. I went into treatment when I was 40 years old and I am getting a second life.

Doing It Sober Episode 3

Jaime T.  Sobriety Date: 1/1/2017 Drug of Choice:  Alcohol Started a New Year's cleanse back in 2017, that eliminated certain foods along with alcohol. I need to hit the reset button after a season of indulgences (really, an entire year). Somewhere around day 75-80, something clicked. The urge to want to drink had faded, and my life had become one I only thought possible in a daydream: eating healthier, working out regularly, more money in the bank, beautiful sleep, goals achieved, stronger body, clearer mind, connection to something bigger than me (and actually listening this time)....and so, when I would normally reward myself for achieving the allotted amount of time for a cleanse with a solid glass of red wine (or 3, or 4, or more), I decided I felt too good to pick up a drink on day 91. And have since made that my marker every day moving forward: I feel too good today to pick up a drink. Here we are, almost 3 years sober, to the day! IG: @hypegirlhealing Website: www.hypegirlhealing.com  

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My name is Serindy Sparks and i live in Coeur d'Alene Idaho. I'm 28 and my sobriety date is 12/16/2015.  I have been completely clean from alcohol 4 Years December 16th. Alcohol has always been predominantly my drug of choice however I am an addict. I have experience in NA as well. I'm very passionate about my sobriety. I had to learn that the 12 steps of Alcoholics Anonymous works for all my addictions today. I'm very open about pretty much everything. When God did for me what I couldn't do for myself he left me with a great responsibility. It is my responsibility to pass it on. To help other people. To ensure other people that it does get better and it is worth it. Sharing my experience strength and hope with others has been one of the most important parts of my sobriety. When I saw the light go off and somebody else made everything worth it.  Find Serindy on  Facebook Serindy Sparks Instagram Serindyy

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