How an App Helped Adriana Finally Quit Drinking
Join our Patreon: https://patreon.com/SoberlySpeaking Adriana’s life has been shaped by alcohol since before she was born. Growing up with an alcoholic father who abused her mother, she always knew...
24 Aug 202531min
Jeremy Donovan Grew Up With the Wrong Identity
Join our Patreon: https://patreon.com/SoberlySpeaking Jeremy Donovan spent his whole life believing he was Māori. Orphaned young, he was whāngai’d (fostered) into a Māori family. But a court appear...
17 Aug 202547min
The Trans Model Addicted to Ice
Join our Patreon: https://patreon.com/SoberlySpeaking Marni’s earliest memory is knowing she wasn’t in the right body. Born male and adopted from Ethiopia, she spent her childhood feeling like a st...
10 Aug 20251h 3min
Davey Lloyd: Straight off a Bender to The Bachelorette
Join our Patreon: https://patreon.com/SoberlySpeaking What happens when a party boy struggling with addiction goes on reality TV?Davey Lloyd was on Season One of The Bachelorette with Sam Frost — a...
3 Aug 202541min
Forced to Inhale Glen 20 Spray While Pregnant: Tracey-Lee
Join our Patreon: https://patreon.com/SoberlySpeaking Tracey-Lee was only four years old when a male family member abused her. Throughout her childhood, the trauma was compounded by denial: She was...
27 Juli 202555min
Shelley Was Brutally Attacked by a Stranger (Part 1)
Join our Patreon: https://patreon.com/SoberlySpeaking I don’t say this lightly, but this is one of those stories that stays with you for days, maybe even weeks.We begin with Shelley as a child, wit...
23 Juli 202528min
Breaking the Cycle of Alcoholic Fathers: Zac Swanton
Join our Patreon: https://patreon.com/SoberlySpeaking All Zac ever wanted was to be his dad’s best friend.As a kid, he longed for the kind of closeness he saw between his friends and their own fath...
20 Juli 202541min
Intergenerational Abuse: Manda’s Story
Join our Patreon: https://patreon.com/SoberlySpeaking Child sexual abuse has been touched on in a few of my past episodes, but in Manda’s story, it stretches across generations.For Manda, she was s...
9 Juli 202527min
