Just those nights where you started off feeling so great and then you want to keep the party going

so you get more drugs and then everyone else kind of goes to bed because even though they like

to party, they're not obsessed by it. And then you sit up and you're just doing these lines on

your own and you can't get your head straight but you don't want your head straight and then the sit up and you're just doing these lines on your own and you can't get your head

straight but you don't want your head straight and then the moment that you see that the coke is

running low you freak out because you're like no if I don't keep going I'm going to have to

think about this I'm going to have to acknowledge what I've done and what I've set myself up for.

Well going to have to acknowledge what I've done and what I've set myself up for. Welcome, everybody. This is Simon Gilbo with Inspired. It's great to be back with you for

another dose of just positivity. And we have bombarded with so much bad news, aren't we? It's

so much depressing stuff going on the world. And if you're new to inspire, it's all about

meeting friends of mine from different walks of life and hearing how they've

journeyed through some of the sort of sucker punches that life has thrown them and how they've

overcome and how faith has played a key role in that. And I have no doubt that you're going

to be encouraged, stirred and inspired this week. God's got a fantastic guest whose name is Lauren Windle. Welcome, Lauren.

Thank you so much. What an introduction. I'm very pleased to be here. I'm excited.

It's great to have you. So, Lauren, you're a journalist. I think you're known mostly for,

well, my context, I know you'd be for talking about

overcoming addiction and cocaine addiction, alcohol addiction, our paths cross. I think we lost

at Creation First last summer where you were giving a talk. I think before, after me, we were both

talking there. And yes, oh, listen, it's interesting, isn't it, when people say, who am I or when

you do an intro, if you were asked to say, who am I?

What would you answer?

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