From Drinks to Opiates: Abbey Fickley’s Journey
Sober Motivation: Sharing Sobriety Stories
Brad McLeod
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we feature Abbey Fickley, who had a relatively regular childhood as the youngest in her family. Abbey started by consuming alcohol, and initially, it wasn't too out of control. However, the consumption of alcohol eventually took a back seat to her addiction to opiates. She also became a mother at the age of 20, struggling with the concept of not being able to achieve sobriety for the sake of her own child.
After facing numerous consequences, Abbey was caught writing bad checks from her father's chequebook. This action would prove to be a catalyst, completely altering the course of her life. Tune in to this episode to hear how Abbey was able to gradually turn everything around, one day at a time.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 3 of the Subur Motivation Podcast. Join me, Brad, each week as my guests and I share |
| 0:06.1 | incredible, inspiring, and powerful sobriety stories. We are here to show sobriety as possible |
| 0:11.3 | one story at a time. Let's go. In this episode, we have Abby Fickley, who had a relatively |
| 0:19.3 | regular childhood as the youngest in her family. |
| 0:22.3 | Abby started consuming alcohol, and initially it wasn't too out of control. |
| 0:26.4 | However, the consumption of alcohol eventually took a backseat to her addiction to opiates. |
| 0:32.5 | She also became a mother at the age of 20, struggling with the concept of not being able to achieve sobriety |
| 0:38.3 | for the sake of her own child. After facing numerous consequences, Abby was caught writing bad |
| 0:44.6 | checks from her father's checkbook. This action would prove to be a catalyst, completely altering |
| 0:51.3 | the course of her life. Tune into this episode to hear how Abby was able to gradually turn everything around one day at a time on the Sober Motivation podcast. |
| 1:03.3 | Hey, hey, everyone, how the heck is it going? |
| 1:05.2 | It's Brad here. |
| 1:06.3 | Look, this is an incredible episode. |
| 1:08.4 | You're really going to enjoy it. |
| 1:09.7 | Abby shares a real, raw, and vulnerable story about her struggles with addiction and what it's like for her in sobriety. |
| 1:17.6 | And she's just incredible. |
| 1:19.1 | Before we get into the show, though, I just want to mention Sober Buddy. |
| 1:22.3 | Look, the community over there is incredible. |
| 1:25.4 | The punchline, the tagline for Sober Buddy is that we came as strangers and we left as friends |
| 1:30.0 | because people are connecting with each other over there, lifting each other up when they need |
| 1:36.7 | support. |
| 1:37.4 | And it's just incredible. |
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