For Ashley, her struggle with alcohol became too heavy to carry alone.
Sober Motivation: Sharing Sobriety Stories
Brad McLeod
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In this episode of the Sober Motivation podcast, we have Ashley who shares about her journey from growing up in a single-parent household with attachment anxiety, through her struggles with alcohol addiction from her teenage years into her adult life. Ashley shares her experiences of hiding her addiction, the trauma of losing close family members to addiction-related causes, and the various stages of her drinking habits. She details her turning point, how she reached out for help, and her eventual path to sobriety. Ashley also discusses the importance of connection in overcoming addiction and how sharing her story publicly led to the creation of supportive communities and resources for those facing similar struggles.
----------------
Ashley on IG: https://www.instagram.com/coach_ashley88/
00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome
00:10 Ashley's Childhood and Early Struggles
01:05 High School Challenges and Coping Mechanisms
06:53 College Years and Escalating Alcohol Use
12:07 Young Adulthood and Moving to Alabama
16:15 Family Tragedies and Increased Drinking
19:30 Reflecting on Alcohol Use and Seeking Support
24:25 Overcoming Shame and Stigma
27:33 The Turning Point: Halloween 2022
28:26 Embracing Sobriety: The First Steps
34:42 Support Systems and Community
37:29 Sharing the Journey: Going Public
39:20 Building a Sober Community
40:54 Reflecting on the Journey
43:32 Final Thoughts and Encouragement
Sober Motivation Community: https://sobermotivation.mn.co/
Sober Motivation Website: https://www.sobermotivation.com
Support the Podcast: https://buymeacoffee.com/sobermotivation
Contact me anytime: brad@sobermotivation.com
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to season three of the Suburmotivation podcast. |
| 0:03.3 | Join me, Brad, each week as my guests and I share incredible and powerful sobriety stories. |
| 0:08.3 | We are here to show sobriety as possible, one story at a time. |
| 0:11.9 | Let's go. |
| 0:14.0 | In this episode, we have Ashley, who shares about her journey from growing up in a single-parent |
| 0:18.5 | household with attachment anxiety through her |
| 0:21.2 | struggles with alcohol from her teenage years into her adult life. Ashley shares her experience |
| 0:26.4 | of hiding her addiction, the trauma of losing, a close family member to addiction related causes, |
| 0:32.2 | and the various stages of her drinking habits. She details her turning point, how she reached out |
| 0:37.0 | for help, and her eventual |
| 0:38.8 | path to sobriety. Ashley also discusses the importance of connection and overcoming addiction. |
| 0:44.3 | And this is Ashley's story on a sober motivation podcast. How's it going, everyone? Welcome back to |
| 0:50.3 | another episode. Brad here. I wanted to do a quick little rant and ramble before we jumped |
| 0:55.3 | right into this episode, an incredible story to come for sure. I recorded this with Ashley on my |
| 1:01.2 | birthday, so that has passed already. It is not still when this episode gets released. My birthday, |
| 1:08.4 | but I wanted to mention something because I, over the years, |
| 1:11.2 | have obviously had countless people reach out. And the most common question ever asked is |
| 1:17.5 | how do I get sober? Like, how do I do what you're doing? How do I do what these other people |
| 1:22.0 | are doing? And I think it's a great question, but it just scrapes the surface. |
| 1:31.1 | Because what happens oftentimes is you'll mention a few ideas to people. |
| 1:33.8 | And then they say, well, I've already done that. |
| 1:34.4 | It doesn't work. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Brad McLeod, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Brad McLeod and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.