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Drinking Hand Sanitizer, Homeless, and the Moment Everything Changed


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 Jason Caldwell’s alcoholism didn’t begin with chaos — it began with heartbreak, loneliness, and a slow erosion of identity. After a painful breakup, alcohol became a nightly sedative, a way to avoid being awake with his thoughts. 

What started as weekend drinking escalated into daytime vodka, blackouts, job loss, estrangement from family, homelessness, and waking up in hospitals with no memory of how he got there. 

Cut off by his father and evicted from his home, Jason found himself drinking hand sanitizer, cycling through shelters, and facing the reality that he would not survive much longer. A chance intervention, radical honesty, and an unexpected path to healing led him to a therapeutic farm where purpose, structure, and belonging replaced isolation. 

This episode explores alcoholism, homelessness, grief, recovery, and how meaning — not punishment — became the foundation of lasting sobriety. 


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