An All Night Place - Secular AA

Recorded on 10/17/2024

Speaker : Pat

Recorded on 10/9/2024

Speaker : James - Amarillo

Recorded on 10/2/2024

Speakers : Ash and Nika

Ash and Nika went to the International Conference of Secular AA. They share on their experience while in Orlando.

Becca’s story doesn’t arrive gently. It barrels in with small-town expectations, a need to belong, and a first drink that felt like a solution. What follows is a life that keeps accelerating, from early alcohol and drug use to toxic relationships, loss, and a slow, brutal descent into physical dependency that ends in a helicopter ride to ICU and a doctor asking for a promise: never drink again.

She survives. She rebuilds. She even gets strong.

And then… she goes back.

Because for some of us, stopping isn’t the hardest part.

Staying stopped is.

This episode walks through the full arc: alcohol, meth, trauma, relapse, survival, and the quiet, stubborn return to recovery. It’s not polished. It’s not pretty. It’s real in the way that makes you sit a little straighter and listen a little closer.

Now, 35 days sober and finding something that actually feels like hope, Becca shares what it looks like to choose a different life, one day at a time.

This is what it sounds like when someone stops digging.

Recorded on 9/25/2024

Speaker : Becca

Recorded on 9/11/2024

Speaker : Ashes

Recorded on 8/21/2024

Speaker : Ralf

Recorded on 8/14/2024

Speaker : James K

Recorded on 7/17/2024

Speaker : Dave W

Dave also shared about a year later. Might be interesting to listen out for the changes?

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7qQtpMeNPUhjWToamgn2FW?si=BVpOWxQHQzSpGviYv7gggw

Recorded on 7/4/2024

Speaker : Thomas H

From Scotch and Crotchless Panties to 5,944 Days Sober – Linnie’s Story

In this deeply honest and often funny share, Linnie takes us through a lifetime of addiction, chaos, and recovery. Growing up amid alcoholism and family turbulence, she moves from Catholic boarding school to New York burger joints, Manhattan nightlife, iron work on Hudson River bridges, and high-pressure sales—with alcohol and drugs woven through every chapter.

Linnie talks about:

• Discovering hard liquor as a teenager and falling in love with the chaos
• Working in Manhattan and blowing her cash on cocaine
• Reinventing herself as an iron worker and then a high-earning salesperson
• Moving to Florida, tending bar, managing a lingerie shop, and living for after-hours clubs
• Hitting bottom with health scares, DUIs, jail, and a marriage born out of grief
• Finding AA, getting 8 years sober, relapsing, and then coming back
• Getting pregnant at 35, raising her son in recovery, and navigating sponsors, home groups, and traditions
• Staying sober through the pandemic, wrestling with Zoom vs in-person meetings, and what long-term sobriety looks like today

With raw honesty, sharp humor, and zero sugarcoating, Linnie shows how a “garden variety drunk” can build a life in recovery—and why staying connected to other alcoholics is still the key after thousands of sober days.

Recorded on 6/26/2024

Speaker : Linnie Z