Will's Journey to the Brink: A Tale of Alcohol and Recovery
Sober Motivation: Sharing Sobriety Stories
Brad McLeod
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Will shares his powerful story of growing up in a supportive family, his early struggles with alcohol in high school, and the progressive nature of his addiction. At 14 Will had his first drink and recalled the seamless transition as alcohol was normalized all around him. Alcohol would creep into every corner of Will’s life as he went through college and started his career as a teacher. Will never thought alcohol would take his life to where it did. One day his wife mentioned he needed to go to the hospital because he was not looking good and the visit would forever change his life. He was drinking himself to death. In the episode, Will highlights the importance of perseverance, self-awareness, and the support of loved ones when getting sober. Today, Will is sober and thriving, grateful for a second chance at life. During the entire struggle, Will held on to a sliver of hope and this is Will’s story on the Sober Motivation podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to season three of the Subur Motivation podcast. |
| 0:03.4 | Join me, Brad, each week is my guests and I share incredible, inspiring, and powerful |
| 0:07.9 | sorority stories. |
| 0:09.3 | We are here to show sobriety as possible one story at a time. |
| 0:13.0 | Let's go. |
| 0:15.4 | How's it going, everyone out there? |
| 0:16.8 | Welcome back to another episode. |
| 0:19.2 | A little thought I had this week about where people are |
| 0:22.4 | in their journey is, if not now, when. If you're not going to get sober now and commit to doing |
| 0:29.6 | the work that's required to stay on this path, when are you going to choose to do it? What needs to |
| 0:36.3 | happen in your life or in our lives that we're going to get to a place that we're willing to put it all in the line to make the changes needed to be the people we want to be, the parents we want to be, the kids we want to be, the grandkids we want to be, or maybe the grandparents we want to be. |
| 0:53.5 | And the reason I think that that is a really good question to do some self-reflection on |
| 0:57.8 | is because you hear all the time. |
| 1:01.0 | Well, if that happened in my life, I would definitely sober up. |
| 1:04.5 | And then the story goes on. |
| 1:06.7 | And it's not always the case. |
| 1:08.9 | The reality here is there's going to be consequences for a lot of us along this drinking |
| 1:14.7 | journey or drug use journey. |
| 1:17.2 | But it doesn't have to be that way. |
| 1:19.6 | For so long when I struggled, I thought I was the only person who struggled with this |
| 1:24.6 | stuff that nobody else would understand. |
| 1:27.4 | And that was so far from the truth. |
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