My Story of addiction and finding love and self acceptance in Coming Back to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Come Back Podcast

Ashly Stone

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Ashly shares her story of coming back to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after a heroin addiction, and multiple stays in rehab and jail. Greg, shares his experience being with Ashly during her journey, and also his experience of losing his dad in a drowning accident at 15 years old, and how he has anchored his testimony to that experience.

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	Hi everybody this is this is my first podcast episode one so I feel you know very
0:22.2	new to this but hopefully you can bear with me as I as I learn how to be a
0:27.0	podcaster I really you know never would have saw myself as a podcaster I noticed a common theme when I started
0:37.2	coming back to the church that there was little just miracles that would happen from
0:42.2	the Heavenly Father that were just little miracles that were
0:46.0	pushing me and guiding me in that direction and I started to listen to other people's stories with coming back to the church and what I found was many people
0:58.2	had these similar experiences where they felt like they were witnessing little miracles guiding them back to the church.
1:08.7	And so I this podcast purpose is really to highlight those stories of the experiences that people have coming back to the church and it could look like anything you know
1:20.0	We're open to any and all experiences, but I just I really wanted to put that out there. I think a lot of people today are
1:28.3	Leaving the church and they're very loud about it and
1:38.6	An anchor in my life and guided me in so many ways and he's amazing and everybody loves my dad if you're from Southern Utah you probably loves my dad. If you're from Southern Utah, you probably know my dad
1:45.2	because he's famous and he's the coolest guy ever.
1:48.5	So anything else you want to add to that introduction, dad?
1:57.0	No, I think you overstated it, way overstated that. Please know that I'm glad that you're excited to do this and I think it's I think it's very necessary.
2:06.0	So a little bit about me I like I said I'm in recovery from a heroin addiction, not only heroin, but pretty much any other substance under the sun.
2:16.0	Growing up, we were raised in the church. My parents, they were active church members.
2:25.0	I was, I had a testimony at a young age of the gospel.
2:28.0	When I was in middle school, I started to, you know, stray away from the church and I started to you know stray away from the church and I
2:34.4	started to kind of go down my own path and I was experimenting with drugs and
2:40.1	alcohol which led to me kind of falling off the deep end with that.
2:45.6	I went to a adolescent facility when I was 16.
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