Resilience and Redemption: Shane's Journey to Sobriety
Sober Motivation: Sharing Sobriety Stories
Brad McLeod
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the podcast, we have Shane, who reflects on a loving childhood that took a dark turn due to severe bullying in middle school, leading him to drink alcohol for the first time, from experimenting with alcohol and drugs in his adolescence to facing severe addiction in his adult years, including an impactful self-intervention and multiple arrests. Shane's breaking point came in 2011 when he faced serious legal consequences and ultimately found redemption through a faith-based rehabilitation program and the support of his family. Now dedicated to helping others, Shane underscores the importance of community, purpose, and addressing underlying traumas in the journey to recovery.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to season three of the Subur Motivation Podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | Join me, Brad, each week is my guests and I share incredible, inspiring, and powerful |
| 0:07.5 | sobriety stories. |
| 0:08.8 | We are here to show sobriety as possible one story at a time. |
| 0:12.6 | Let's go. |
| 0:15.5 | How's it going, everyone? |
| 0:16.6 | Welcome back to another episode. |
| 0:18.4 | If it's summer, wherever you're at, I hope you're enjoying it. |
| 0:22.3 | Because where I am, it goes quick. So, I heard this quote last week, though. I wanted to share it with all of you. |
| 0:28.8 | Ever since I heard it, it's stuck with me. Every now and then, I'll get a quote that I see or I hear scrolling through reels or whatever it is and it'll just |
| 0:39.3 | really hit home. |
| 0:40.2 | Some of the quotes I've heard before, but it just seems like wherever I'm out in my life, |
| 0:44.5 | they hit different. |
| 0:45.6 | It goes like this. |
| 0:46.8 | The magic you're looking for is in the work you're avoiding. |
| 0:50.7 | And I think that can ring so true for sobriety. |
| 0:55.1 | For this journey, I'll call free life, whatever it is for you, recovery, is that it's not always |
| 1:01.8 | enjoyable at first, right? |
| 1:03.5 | That wasn't my experience anyway. |
| 1:04.8 | I mean, here I am getting sober. |
| 1:07.6 | I relied on the substances to bring me joy or so I thought and to just help |
| 1:13.7 | me forget about everything else that was going on in my life. And then when I decided to get |
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