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Welcome to Susie Larson Live.

Always so honored to get to spend this time with you.

In fact, I look forward to bringing you conversations every single day that hopefully inspire you in your faith walk, that deepen your

understanding of God's Word, and that heightens your awareness of his very real presence in your life.

My guest today says that while we in the Christian community love stories of salvation, we

often struggle with the stories of sanctification, that messy journey of becoming like Jesus.

And as a result, many who stumble in their faith are mired in shame and they remain stuck

in private and they do what they don't want to do, especially when it comes to one of society's

biggest obsessions, and that's alcohol. John Seidel. Oh, did I say it right? Cedle Cic. I see, I already forgot. He'll tell

me when we get back. He joins me today to share his journey of spiraling into disordered drinking

from Christian to alcoholic and not the other way around and about the four-step process he used to

break free. The title of his book is, and it's a gripping title, Confessions of a Christian

Alcoholic, a candid conversation on drinking, addiction, and how to break free. And this is a raw

book. He holds nothing back. He tells his story of spiraling into alcoholism and how God

met him there and some of the root causes that were buried underneath that were

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