Drew's struggle with addiction and how he transformed his life by turning to the Savior 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

🗓️ 12 February 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains sensitive content that may be triggering or offensive to some audiences. Parental discretion is advised.

"I had never really completely lost my testimony. It was always back there, I would always say I didn't want it. I didn't want my testimony, it was so inconvenient. It frustrated me so bad that I couldn't shake it! I wanted to be able to do this and that and not feel guilty or like I was doing something wrong. It just wouldn't go away! But thank goodness that it didn't, The Savior was not going to give up on me."

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	I'm so excited to have you on the podcast. I know just a little bit about your story
0:18.8	just from you know what you sent me in an email but I feel like addiction recovery stories are just some of my favorite because
0:29.0	it's like it's so incredible to see how your life can be so full of like dark and just awfulness and then how it can completely transform and be so full of light.
0:45.4	And so, you know, just, I don't know,
0:48.4	so the addiction recovery stories are just some of my favorite
0:51.0	because of that.
0:51.6	So I'm really excited to hear your story.
0:54.8	And yeah, I would love if you want to just start at the beginning.
0:58.0	Cool.
0:59.8	Thank you.
1:00.6	Yeah, I'm happy to be here.
1:01.7	It's cool for me because I've shared my story many times, you know, but it's typically in front of like an addict or alcoholic population, you know, it's very few times been for a
1:18.0	Mainly like ODS audience, you know, so when I share my story in other places I don't get to talk about the things that I'm excited about as much you know like the atonement the gospel and and so I'm excited for the opportunity to tell it in this way you know and and the true
1:41.5	power you know behind my recovery.
1:44.3	So, and I'm definitely going to talk about what happened and what went wrong and the bad stuff.
1:56.0	But I really, you know, I think I want to spend more time focusing on the solution and the good things
2:01.6	that happened afterwards.
2:04.1	Because I'm, you know, at least when I've shared my story in other venues, it seems like most of the time I'm talking about,
2:14.0	then I did this and then this happened, then this happened,
2:16.8	and then like the last two minutes you wrap up
2:18.9	and you're like, oh, but then things got better
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