Prescott traces a gallon-a-day vodka habit back to a West Hollywood childhood of divorce and absence. He describes the surrender he felt walking out of detox, and how listening to his wife and adult child, painting houses with his sponsor, and sitting in silence rebuilt his life. Eight years sober, he calls himself a grateful rescue dog, and credits meditation with teaching him to stop strangling himself. NOTE: The intro and outro songs in this episode were written and performed by Prescott.

Jesse spent thirty years rationalizing daily drinking and pot use as normal until a psychiatric hospitalization eight months into sobriety forced him to confront what he'd been running from since childhood. Now sober, he talks candidly about losing his teaching job, a humiliating Christmas morning, and rebuilding a life around honesty instead of secrecy.

Jason traces his drinking from age 13 raiding liquor cabinets with friends to a sobbing 5am breakdown that finally got him sober — and unpacks how body image, insecurity, and his father's own recovery shaped the man he became.

Heather grew up in a home where both parents were in AA and her father was abusing her — and still found her way to the rooms of recovery years later, almost a decade sober and still learning she's been wrong in the best ways.

An architect, a mother, and 15 years sober, Jillian built her recovery not just through AA and EMDR therapy, but through a simple reframe — learning to say "my brain isn't working today" instead of "I'm a mess." She traces her journey from blackout drinking and cutting to a full life in Providence.

David Z traces his drinking from collegiate blackouts and a marriage-ending spiral — through a psychiatric hospitalization he barely cared to survive — to 22 years of sobriety built on the one thing that always terrified him: letting people see him as he actually was.

Eliot traces his arc from boarding school vodka runs and nihilism-fueled benders to sobriety, yoga certification, and watching a close friend die of liver failure.

Melanie F. opens up about her journey to finding joy without chaos even when all she wanted was to disappear and isolate.