https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/rebellion-against-the-straight-edge--3666884enSociety & CultureCopyright SOBER REBELhttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/ffc13996b0250378d34deaf9150d0c10.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/podcast/rebellion-against-the-straight-edge--3666884Wed, 07 Apr 2021 15:46:18 +0000SOBER REBELSOBER REBELneekthesneek0423@gmail.comA northern California millennial who has spent the last 15 years of my life battling addiction and self-destructive behavior. In "Rebellion Against The Straight Edge" an Audiobiography, I take you through my life growing up here in Sacramento starting...yesepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/my-childhood-the-set-up--18804745https://api.spreaker.com/episode/18804745Tue, 13 Aug 2019 01:13:42 +0000SOBER REBELChildhood background and events that undoubtedly would come to play a role in creating my addiction.1171addiction childhood sobrietyyesfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/introduction-rebellion-against-the-straight-edge-an-audiobiography--18789612
Born in April of 1992, much of my earliest memories were being raised by my single mother in a pretty small close-knit family (Grandma, Aunt, and Cousin) in Rancho Cordova. As time went on my mother would meet and marry the man who I would come to know as my Dad. At about age 12 we would end up moving to a newly constructed suburb in Elk Grove where I would spend my adolescence until coming out around age 21 discovering and coming to terms with my sexuality. At the same time (about the age 15) I would also begin experimenting with mind alternating chemicals that would lay the very permanent cement ring around this bottomless well I would come to know as addiction. I have had experience with an extremely wide range of chemicals both illicit and pharmacuetical. I have dealt, I have grown, drank, smoked, ate, chewed, swallowed, snorted, dropped, popped, shot, bumped, twisted... I have stole, lied, cheated, manipulated, gambled I have loved and have been loved, I have burnt, I have been burned, I have been bullied and I have been connected, experimented, I have worked extensively in a pharmacuetical setting, I have lived on my own, lived with parents, grandma, dealers, I have been homeless, arrested, jailed, hit and ran, I have sold drugs on craigslist. I have also known recovery. I have been to AA, NA, and other self help meetings. I have been to rehab inpatient and outpatient. I have gotten sober on my own by running and exercising, through methadone, I have dealt to my counselor at the methadone clinic. I have alienated myself from childhood friends. I have been shunned and outcasted by my family. I have burned connects, I have found true love and learned that some addictions are stronger than even the strongest of love with someone who I thought I would never even have the chance to be with. Present day, I find myself very much alone wrestling very much still with addiction. If there was ever a time in my life I wanted so desperately to get sober and stay clean it is now. I have so much to live for and really, nothing more to lose. I have cut out negative influences, go to meetings, I have a sponsor, have conscious contact with a power greater than myself, I work the steps. I know it's not going to get easier for awhile, this well I dug extremely deep. It is my greatest and most sincerest hope that my story can help even just one person even if that one person is me.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/18789612Sun, 11 Aug 2019 04:55:34 +0000SOBER REBELA northern California millennial who has spent the last 15 years of my life battling addiction and self-destructive behavior. In "Rebellion Against The Straight Edge" an Audiobiography, I take you through my life growing up here in Sacramento starting...
Born in April of 1992, much of my earliest memories were being raised by my single mother in a pretty small close-knit family (Grandma, Aunt, and Cousin) in Rancho Cordova. As time went on my mother would meet and marry the man who I would come to know as my Dad. At about age 12 we would end up moving to a newly constructed suburb in Elk Grove where I would spend my adolescence until coming out around age 21 discovering and coming to terms with my sexuality. At the same time (about the age 15) I would also begin experimenting with mind alternating chemicals that would lay the very permanent cement ring around this bottomless well I would come to know as addiction. I have had experience with an extremely wide range of chemicals both illicit and pharmacuetical. I have dealt, I have grown, drank, smoked, ate, chewed, swallowed, snorted, dropped, popped, shot, bumped, twisted... I have stole, lied, cheated, manipulated, gambled I have loved and have been loved, I have burnt, I have been burned, I have been bullied and I have been connected, experimented, I have worked extensively in a pharmacuetical setting, I have lived on my own, lived with parents, grandma, dealers, I have been homeless, arrested, jailed, hit and ran, I have sold drugs on craigslist. I have also known recovery. I have been to AA, NA, and other self help meetings. I have been to rehab inpatient and outpatient. I have gotten sober on my own by running and exercising, through methadone, I have dealt to my counselor at the methadone clinic. I have alienated myself from childhood friends. I have been shunned and outcasted by my family. I have burned connects, I have found true love and learned that some addictions are stronger than even the strongest of love with someone who I thought I would never even have the chance to be with. Present day, I find myself very much alone wrestling very much still with addiction. If there was ever a time in my life I wanted so desperately to get sober and stay clean it is now. I have so much to live for and really, nothing more to lose. I have cut out negative influences, go to meetings, I have a sponsor, have conscious contact with a power greater than myself, I work the steps. I know it's not going to get easier for awhile, this well I dug extremely deep. It is my greatest and most sincerest hope that my story can help even just one person even if that one person is me.]]>731yesfull