Jan 13, 2020
Kim grew up in a “beautiful suburb” as an only child of a “severe” alcoholic father. She says he was drunk daily. She remembers as a child telling her father that their lives would be okay if he didn’t keep drinking. But in her early teens, she began drinking herself. Kim would steal booze from her friend’s...
Jan 12, 2020
Raymond is an alcoholic and an addict. Growing up in with an alcoholic mother in Brooklyn, he now knows it was booze which killed his mom. As a child, he would sneak drinks but his true drinking began at age 14 when sneaking out with friends. His drinking persisted from that moment on. His drinking took over his life to...
Jan 11, 2020
Tommy was raised in New York’s Staten Island. He was eleven years old when his father gave him his first drink, declaring Tommy to “be a man, now.” But his regular drinking started age 13 with friends. His mother beat him when he came home drunk. Tommy’s drinking continued though his teenage years, dropping...
Jan 3, 2020
Brian comes from a culture where drinking and other bad behavior tends to be congratulated. He was a child when he convinced an alcoholic adult to buy him booze by paying him for it. Brian can remember getting drunk that night with a buddy, staggering around the neighborhood, and then blacking out and coming too in...
Dec 21, 2019
Priest, Retreat Master, Author, Actor, Playwright and Sinner! Father Roger tells us his intriguing story of addiction and recovery. Roger says, “By the age of 3 years old I needed to go on the wagon. If they had Kiddie AA I would have qualified!” Roger’s first real moment of clarity, after years of abusing...