Bryan Hedin shares his story of overcoming addiction and coming back to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Come Back Podcast

Ashly Stone

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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"We did this guided imagery meditation on The Savior my second day on the ranch - and man - I still get the chills and emotional whenever I talk about it. Because as much as I wanted to be mad at God and hold on to that resentment, I just started sobbing, and for me to cry - it's hard for me to get to an emotional place. But when she started that amazing imagery of The Savior, and taking my wounded heart and replacing it with His heart, that is just full of love and light - I was sobbing. And during that, I had this overwhelming feeling and what I heard with my heart was the message that 'I am still here and I have always been here, and if you meet me halfway in this thing - I got you.'"

Bryan shares his story of coming back after addiction, doubts, tough questions, and suicidal thoughts.

Come Back Team: Director, Founder & Host: Ashly Stone Producer and Senior Editor: Lauren Rose Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson Editor: Michelle Berger Art Director: Jeremy Garcia

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0:00.0	This is Ashley Stone and you're listening to the Comeback Podcast.
0:07.0	All right, Brian. I am so excited to have you on the podcast. So I mean, we kind of know each other because you know my husband and and then also you work with Renaissance Ranch and
0:30.1	Preston and Tyson are a big I don't think I actually would have had the guts to start this
0:36.2	podcast if they didn't like pretty much make me do it like they were texting me at like 9 p.m.
0:41.5	like, okay Ashley, do you have this set up?
0:44.6	Like, we're doing, like this is happening.
0:46.6	And so anyway, they were a huge like kicking the butt to do this.
0:51.1	And so, super grateful for them but anyways yeah like I would love to hear
0:56.2	a little bit about you and well I'm Brian I'm an alcoholic I'm an addict in recovery, but also, you know, like I'm a dad, you know, and a husband and so we live in caseville.
1:28.6	We have three kids, my wife Rebecca and I, who are 10, 8, and 4, Porter Logan and Ryan, two boys and a little girl and I work like you said I work at Renaissance Ranch I've been there for gosh like the better part of 12 years. Wow. Yeah it's been a
1:38.3	minute I yeah and I've kind of worked every job you can have there. I mean, I started, I started as a, like a line staff and was cooking and running like a therapeutic community and I've got into admissions and
1:57.5	and operations and and not from the executive, which means I just find people for those positions that are way better than me at them and get to do their job.
2:12.0	So I love that. I love what I do. It feels like a fake job because I just
2:19.1	can't believe that I get paid to do it. And we have a busy home. It's like right now it's like the
2:27.2	witching hour so I'm huddled in the guest room trying to be quiet.
2:34.0	But yeah, our house is busy.
2:38.0	We're playing soccer and just got home from a flag football game and, you know, ballet and soccer for her and my wife's like a really
2:48.1	hard worker. She owns, she has owned her own flower business. So she does weddings. She's kind of getting out of that, but yeah, she just did a huge wedding Thursday Friday Saturday and so our house is always like crazy and noisy and fun but
3:11.6	Well, why don't we just go ahead and jump right into your story and I'd love to hear, you know, how it started and
3:20.3	how it's going and all that.
3:24.8	Well, I grew up mostly in Sandy and Farmington.
3:29.9	So I have four siblings, definitely grew up in an LDS house full, which wasn't a negative
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