From pints with the boys to the operating table, Steven’s battle with alcohol.
Sober Motivation: Sharing Sobriety Stories
Brad McLeod
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we have Steven who shares his journey battling alcohol addiction. Steven shares how his normal childhood quickly spiraled into heavy drinking during his early police career, leading to decades of escalating dependency and withdrawal struggles. He recounts staring death in the eye after drinking took a massive toll on his health and he was unsure if he would live or die. For Steven quitting alcohol changed everything, and he has been able to make massive changes in his life. From prints with the boys to the operating table, this is Steven’s story on the sober motivation podcast.
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Steven's YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6OuaPmR7xqSDfUxkcYVkrA
Steven on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stevenalcoholfreelifestyle
00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome
00:23 Early Life and First Encounters with Alcohol
02:05 Adolescence and Escalation of Drinking
03:30 Joining the Police and Drinking Culture
04:43 Marriage, Parenthood, and Increased Drinking
06:32 First Attempts at Recovery and Relapse
12:07 Struggles with Support Systems and Self-Medication
15:29 The Vicious Cycle of Relapse
27:11 The Collapse: Losing Everything
28:16 The Stigma of Not Drinking
28:57 Struggles with Alcohol Dependency
31:37 Failed Attempts at Recovery
33:14 A Turning Point: Seeking Help
35:42 The Road to Recovery
36:20 Rebuilding Relationships
38:50 Life After Sobriety
52:42 Final Reflections and Advice
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to season four of the Super Motivation podcast. |
| 0:03.1 | Join me, Brad, each week as my guests and I share incredible and powerful sobriety stories. |
| 0:07.8 | We're here to show sobriety as possible, one story at a time. |
| 0:12.0 | Let's go. |
| 0:14.7 | In this episode of the podcast, we have Stephen, who shares his journey, battling alcohol addiction. |
| 0:20.0 | Stephen shares how his normal childhood |
| 0:21.4 | quickly spiraled into heavy drinking during his early police career, leading to decades of |
| 0:25.9 | escalating independence and withdrawal struggles. He recounts staring death right in the eye |
| 0:32.4 | after drinking took a massive toll on his health and he was unsure if he would live or die. |
| 0:37.9 | For Stephen quitting alcohol changed everything and he has been able to make massive changes |
| 0:42.2 | in his life. From pints with the boys to the operating table, this is Stephen's story on the |
| 0:48.0 | Super Motivation podcast. Welcome back to the Super Motivation podcast today. We've got Stephen |
| 0:52.8 | with us. How are you? |
| 0:54.3 | Very good. |
| 0:55.3 | You? |
| 0:56.3 | How are you? I'm well. Thank you so much for jumping on here and be wanting to share your story with all of us. No problem. It needs to be shared to help people recover, to be honest. Yeah. Because I was really at the bottom of the bottle. And five years ago, now you lost my life. and I've watched to turn around. |
| 1:10.6 | Yeah, it's a beautiful story. |
| 1:12.2 | So let's get into it. |
| 1:13.0 | What was it like for you growing up? |
| 1:14.4 | Oh. and five years ago, and I've lost my life, and I've managed to turn around. Yeah, it's a beautiful story, so let's get into it. |
| 1:13.0 | What was it like for you growing up? |
| 1:14.8 | I brought up in a small market town in the northeast of England, UK. |
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