023: "The Motorcycle Club" Christy D. shares her 18 year history of addiction, drug abuse and alcoholism until she finds recovery!023: "The Motorcycle Club" Christy D. shares her 18 year history of addiction, drug abuse and alcoholism until she finds recovery!
The SHAIR Recovery Podcast
Christy D recounts 18 years of addiction, biker-club chaos, sex addiction and crushing grief before finding Narcotics Anonymous and six years clean. Her story focuses on trauma, loss, spiritual awakening and the practical tools that keep her sober today.
59:43•21 Jul 2015
From Motorcycle Clubs to Meetings: Christy D on Addiction, Sex, and Six Years Clean
Episode Overview
- Childhood exposure to alcoholism, violence and sexual abuse laid the groundwork for early substance use and low self-worth.
- Alcohol, pills and sex all became addictive ways to escape intense emotions, shame and later overwhelming grief.
- A series of family deaths, including her brother, father, mother and teenage nephew, pushed Christy to daily heavy drinking and suicidal thoughts.
- A 12‑step call and connection with recovering relatives led her back into meetings, a sponsor and 90 meetings in 90 days.
- Christy emphasises giving yourself a break, seeking help in any 12‑step room, and not taking yourself too seriously while staying clean one day at a time.
“"Today it's about me getting into a solution. If I'm feeling some kind of way, I know what the solution is. Get your ass to a meeting and talk about it."”
What makes a recovery story truly inspiring? Christy D’s shares tick a lot of boxes: childhood chaos, violence, biker gangs, sex addiction, and, somehow, six years clean. Hosted by Omar Pinto on The SHAIR Recovery Podcast, this conversation follows Christy through 18 years of addiction that began with huffing petrol in primary school and early alcohol use.
She talks about growing up with an alcoholic father, domestic violence, and childhood sexual abuse, and how those experiences shaped a belief that her worth depended on men’s attention and sex. From there, things escalate: teenage pregnancy and abortion, public shaming at school, heavy drinking, pills like Vicodin and Xanax, and eventually marriage into a notorious motorcycle club where she’s treated as “property” and surrounded by crime and brutal violence.
Alongside the substances, she explains how sex became her first drug and another addiction in its own right. Grief hits hard and fast: her brother dies on Mother’s Day, her father dies later that year, her mother dies soon after, and then a 16‑year‑old nephew is killed in a car crash. Each loss sends her deeper into alcohol and pills until she’s drinking a fifth of Crown Royal a day, blacking out, and sitting on the edge of suicide.
The turning point comes with a messy, half-remembered 12‑step call, a meeting she doesn’t remember, and the blunt honesty of her husband saying he can’t bury her too. From there, Christy talks about treatment, finding Narcotics Anonymous, doing 90 meetings in 90 days, learning to live alone for the first time, and slowly building a life rooted in service, sponsorship, and a very human higher power.
She also shares what it’s like to marry a fellow addict in recovery and why, as she puts it, “Give yourself a break… I didn’t get clean to be miserable.” If you’ve ever felt beyond help, could Christy’s story be the proof that you’re not?
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