Alcohol and Cocaine brought Sarah to a place of self-hatred, would sobriety change things?
Sober Motivation: Sharing Sobriety Stories
Brad McLeod
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we have Dr. Sarah Michaud who shares her deeply personal and transformative journey through addiction and codependency. Sarah opens up about her childhood marked by alcoholism, her struggles with substance abuse, and the life-altering moments that led her to seek help. She discusses the hardships of growing up in a chaotic environment, the role of denial in addiction, and the sobering reality of hitting rock bottom. Through her story, Sarah illuminates the often painful but ultimately rewarding path to recovery, emphasizing the importance of self-awareness, setting boundaries, and the life-changing benefits of sobriety. This is Sarah’s story on the sober motivation podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to Season 4 of the Sober Motivation Podcast. |
| 0:03.1 | Join me, Brad, each week as my guests and I share incredible and powerful sobriety stories. |
| 0:07.9 | We're here to show sorority as possible, one story at a time. |
| 0:12.0 | Let's go. |
| 0:14.8 | In this episode, we have Sarah, who shares her deeply personal and transformative journey |
| 0:18.9 | through addiction and codependency. |
| 0:20.9 | Sarah opens up about her childhood marked by alcoholism, her own struggles with substance abuse, |
| 0:26.0 | and the life-altering moments that led her to seek help. |
| 0:29.3 | She discusses the hardships of growing up in a chaotic environment, the role of denial and addiction, |
| 0:34.5 | and the sobering reality of hitting rock bottom. |
| 0:37.0 | Through her story, Sarah |
| 0:38.1 | illuminates the often painful but ultimately rewarding path to recovery, emphasizing the importance |
| 0:43.2 | of self-awareness, setting boundaries, and the life-changing benefits of sobriety. And this is Sarah's |
| 0:48.0 | story on the sober motivation podcast. How's it going, everyone? Brad here, welcome back. I want to share |
| 0:53.3 | a few things with you about the |
| 0:54.5 | submotivation community before we jump into this episode. If you're in a spot where you're |
| 0:59.7 | struggling to really string some days together, or maybe you're even further along in your journey |
| 1:03.9 | and you're feeling a little bit alone and you're feeling like there's got to be more to this |
| 1:07.7 | whole sobriety thing, I encourage you to check out the |
| 1:11.0 | sober motivation community. It's like I often say on the podcast, it's not completely just |
| 1:17.0 | getting sober. It's like now that you've gotten sober, how do you stay sober? I believe that |
| 1:22.1 | really is a big part of what we struggle with is that how to get continuous sobriety, weeks, months, years, |
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