I Put Vodka in a Starbucks Cup & Drank It at the Mall at 15 — My Friends Didn’t Even Know I Was Drinking

I Put Vodka in a Starbucks Cup & Drank It at the Mall at 15 — My Friends Didn’t Even Know I Was Drinking

Episode 42 | Lexi — 1,000 Days Sober: The Canadian Wellness Coach Who Got Sober Alone, in Her Room, With No Help — On Exactly Day 1,000

Lexi grew up in Ontario adopted by older, strict parents who she loved but never quite felt connected to. Her first drink at 15 felt like medicine — instant relief from everything she was carrying. Within weeks she was sneaking a mickey of vodka into sleepovers while her friends watched movies, drinking secretly from a Starbucks cup at the mall. By 16 she’d moved out of home and was drinking vanilla extract and Listerine when she couldn’t get alcohol. Cocaine and hallucinogenics followed. The whole time she kept it functional enough — graduating, training as a massage therapist and energy healer, helping other people through their deepest trauma while quietly abandoning herself.

COVID cracked the rules she’d always imposed on herself. By 2022, after her mentor died, she stopped pretending — pouring a drink straight after her morning workout, carrying it to work in a travel cup, needing alcohol to answer the phone, open the post, walk into a shop. Then she drove home drunk from a work event, crashed the car, and her friend — watching from the car behind — told her to sort it out or she was done. Her partner said the same. Lexi chose tomorrow.

She didn’t go to AA. She didn’t go to therapy. She didn’t listen to podcasts or read quit-lit. She locked herself in her room for two months, went offline, and journaled her way through everything she’d been hiding since she was 16. Meditation, visualisation, radical self-honesty — she did everything the fellowship would have suggested, entirely alone.

Now exactly 1,000 days sober — it was her milestone on the day they recorded — Lexi works as a sober coach with a five-pillar programme and a free consult for anyone ready to start.

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