How I Quit Drinking After Alcohol Took Over My Life | 29 Years Sober
Sober Motivation: Sharing Sobriety Stories
Brad McLeod
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Sober Motivation Podcast, Jane shares her powerful alcohol addiction recovery story and how she finally quit drinking after alcohol slowly took over her life.
What started as drinking in high school escalated into blackouts, hiding alcohol, drinking in the morning, and living with the chaos of alcoholism. Jane talks about the shame, insecurity, and hopelessness that came with alcohol addiction, including one terrifying night when she rear-ended a car while drunk and fled the scene.
After years of struggling with alcoholism and addiction, hospital visits, and hitting rock bottom, Jane realized she couldn’t stop drinking on her own. She made the decision to seek help, enter treatment, and begin her sobriety journey.
Jane has now been sober since February 2nd, 1997. In this conversation she shares how sobriety, recovery, support groups, and taking life one day at a time helped her rebuild her life after alcohol addiction.
If you’re struggling with alcohol, trying to quit drinking, or searching for sobriety, this episode is a powerful recovery story that shows lasting change is possible.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to season five of the Subur Motivation Podcast. |
| 0:03.2 | Join me, Brad, each week as my guests and I share incredible and powerful sobriety stories. |
| 0:08.0 | We are here to show sobriety as possible one story at a time. |
| 0:12.7 | Let's go. |
| 0:14.9 | In a company car, and one night I got drunk, and I re-r-rounded a car and I took off. |
| 0:23.1 | I had hit and run. |
| 0:24.0 | When I drove to a parking lot, freaked out. |
| 0:26.3 | I lived with my sister and I'd be drinking in the morning. |
| 0:29.1 | She's like, why are you drinking? |
| 0:31.5 | Jane was drinking in the morning hiding bottles and she never felt like she was good enough. |
| 0:36.7 | But her story doesn't end there. |
| 0:38.6 | Today, she is nearly three decades sober. |
| 0:41.5 | And this is Jane's story on the Sober Motivation podcast. |
| 0:45.4 | Before we jump into this episode, I noticed that roughly 80% of you are not following or |
| 0:50.3 | subscribe to the show. |
| 0:51.9 | So to help out a creator like me putting together these incredible sobriety stories, |
| 0:57.3 | wherever you listen, be sure to subscribe or follow Sober Motivation. |
| 1:01.9 | Now let's get to this episode. |
| 1:03.5 | Welcome back to another episode of the Sober Motivation podcast. |
| 1:06.5 | Today we've got Jane with us. |
| 1:08.1 | Jane, how are you? |
| 1:09.2 | I'm good. |
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