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.

Jenny got sober at 57 with no withdrawal, no ultimatum, and no dramatic bottom — just a quiet miracle she credits to a higher power, and a life that finally, slowly, became her own.

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.

Eli M. talks to us about rehab, getting shot, his best friend getting murdered and his unique upbringing.

Cynthia R talks to us about her recovery from alcoholism and lung cancer.