Keep Coming Back Podcast

At 43 yrs. old, Jason found himself flat, homeless and busted, finally ready to surrender to the program of Alcoholics Anonymous. Today, he lives in freedom, peace and service.
Quotes
“If I’m not working a program, what happens is I get restless, I get irritable, I get discontent and the solution for me is to take a drink to take the edge off.”
“If you have one, you mine as well have 1,000."
“This program begs of me to take personal responsibility.”
Referred by: Robert P. (vol. 175)

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From 17 to 22 yrs. old, Dustin was in a revolving door of Alcoholics Anonymous – and when the window of willingness opened, he dove through and hasn’t looked back.
Quotes
“I was always aware that I was an alcoholic.”
“I describe what happened to me as having a window of willingness.”
“I believed him, when he said that he had been relieved of the obsession to drink.”
Referred by: JD (vol. 190)

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An only child from a home filled with love, Bert had no outside reason to be an alcoholic and addict. But on the inside, he felt different-than, even less-than others. After a doctor’s recommendation, Bert found himself in the rooms of recovery. Today he lives a life of almost complete serenity, despite life happening around him.
Sobriety Date: 4/27/2013
Quotes
“Alcohol is a good treatment for alcoholism in the very beginning, but that doesn’t last long.”
“When I started doing the right thing, miraculous things started to happen.”
“You don’t have to suffer, you don’t have to drink again, you can have a life better than you can ever imagine.”
Referred by: Michele R. (Vol. 172)

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Lori shares her Experience, Strength and Hope in a detailed account of her journey, which still includes pain and struggle today, but of a much different variety than what once brought her to two suicide attempts.
Considered a problem child with too much emotion, both bulimic and alcoholic from the get-go, Lori recalls her constant desire to disappear. Always feeling like a bad person, never right in God’s eyes, Lori began to truly hate herself. And with that perspective of a punishing, conditional God, God became a source of fear and anger, and lead to feelings of abandonment. After her first drunk Lori felt a sense of freedom from her anxiety, and from there, the alcoholic behavior rapidly grew and quickly added layers of suffering.
In an effort to make this pain stop, Lori found herself in treatment. She just wanted a break from life and alcohol, but despite herself and her intentions, Lori got sober. She didn’t hit the AA ground running, but instead had a slow start, making some big mistakes, but is now all the way in. People really know Lori today; Lori lets people know the real her.
Quotes
“God was repulsive to me, anything that had to do with religion freaked me out . . . I was so afraid to try to believe in a God . . . it never occurred to me that I could have a God in my life if I wasn’t perfect.”
“What I learned in sobriety is that fear was my driving force, I was afraid of everything, I didn’t know that, I just reacted to it.”
“Just because we experience pain, doesn’t mean we’re doing life wrong.”

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