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In this episode of My Sober Addiction, we are joined by guest, Joy Downey. Joy has nearly 20 years of sobriety and now helps addicts in active addiction to get into treatment. Her story is harrowing, from smuggling drugs out of Mexico to run ins with the police and the prospect of serious penitentiary time. She tells how losing it all, including your kids, is sometimes still not enough to finally get sober. Joy’s addiction took her to some very dark places but, ultimately, after losing her kids, she decided enough is enough, I want my kids back! She now has an amazing relationship with her family and has found herself babysitting her grandchildren. This is something people still suffering in active addiction think will never be possible even if they do recover and live a sober lifestyle.

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In this episode of My Sober Addiction, our good friend, Clive Wilson from the Breaking My Addictions podcast, returns for another great conversation. We cover it all, too! Things we addicts in recovery remember dealing with during our time in active addiction and things we are dealing with now that we are sober. Life doesn’t get easy just because we kicked addiction and are now living sober. We have so much we have to do to get life back on track. Facing our demons and sometimes having to do the hard things that no one wants to do, though, will cause us to grow as souls as well as instill in us a sense of accomplishment. Also, there are those still in active addiction who look to people who are in recovery and living a sober lifestyle and find inspiration. As I’ve said many time, you are the shining examples that those still struggling with addiction need to see to be inspired.

The outro song is one of Clive’s titled “United State of Awakening” that can be found on Spotify

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or by following the link below. You already know that I think that title alone is brilliant. The song is great, too, though, so I had to share it with you here. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLQuD7PoVN-/?igsh=YW43c2xzejFyOG5z

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In this episode of My Sober Addiction, we are going for a little ride. During a relapse, I had a really bad overdose and found myself face to face with nothing, and everything at the same time. One of the many things addiction taught me was that all the religious programming I had received did not match up to what I experienced. I had been living sober for 16 days and the withdrawal symptoms were brutal. I came into some money and, as most addicts do, I talked myself into buying some heroin. Of course, it wasn’t really a relapse, right? I still intended to ride it out, kick my drug addiction and get sober once and for all…after this once. Once is all it takes! I overdosed and found myself in what I later learned to describe as the Quantum Field, where God creates from.

At that point in my addiction, I knew how to get sober but had no clue how to actually stay sober. That’s where treatment and rehab come into the equation. Even after that profound spiritual experience, I still didn’t find a life in sobriety, but it did plant a seed in me that then sprouted after I did. This is the story and what I learned.

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