Drug induced Psychosis and Spiritual Warfare | Alex’s Recovery StoryDrug induced Psychosis and Spiritual Warfare | Alex’s Recovery Story
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Alex shares her journey from IV heroin and fentanyl use, trauma and abuse, and losing her children, to finding meaning through faith, motherhood, and community work. Her story touches on drug-induced psychosis, spiritual struggle, and the slow rebuilding of a life shaped by grief and grace.
30:48•5 Jun 2026
Drug-Induced Psychosis, Spiritual Battles and Alex’s Road to Recovery
Episode Overview
- Grief and unresolved trauma after her father’s death played a major role in Alex’s deepening drug use and sense of despair.
- Her children became the main catalyst for seeking treatment, even when she didn’t yet feel worthy of recovery herself.
- Alex links heavy drug use to spiritual vulnerability, describing it as opening “a spiritual door that only God’s supposed to open.”
- A sublocade shot provided enough clean time and clarity for her to break the cycle and begin to rebuild her life with faith at the centre.
- She founded Giving Change Inc. and began building the C4 platform to connect Christians, support charities, and encourage community-based action.
“When you, especially methamphetamines, or any drug for that matter, you open a spiritual door that only God's supposed to open.”
What remarkable journeys have people faced head-on against addiction? This conversation with Alex brings that question right into focus, blending hard-hitting honesty about IV heroin use and fentanyl with raw reflections on grief, abuse, and faith.
Raised in South Georgia by a police chief grandfather and a deeply loving father, Alex talks about how early exposure to drugs through her mum, and the shattering loss of her dad, “totally derailed me and destroy me.” From Xanax and OxyContin to heroin and meth, she describes years of numbing pain, breaking family expectations, and sinking into shame.
Her words, like “the feeling of worthlessness and the feeling of being in constant despair… it just led me down a path of constant despair,” cut straight to anyone who’s ever felt stuck in addiction. The episode doesn’t shy away from the darkest parts: abusive relationships, drug use during pregnancy, losing her children through the system, and what she calls drug-induced psychosis and spiritual warfare.
Alex shares a chilling moment where a home video appeared to show “this dark entity or dark figure making this odd, swooping, almost wave motion” leaving her car, which she believes confirmed that “there were, as the God says, dark forces at work, not of this world.” Yet there’s a strong thread of hope.
Alex explains how her children became the catalyst for treatment, how a sublocade shot gave her enough clean time to think clearly, and how growing closer to God reshaped her sense of purpose. She speaks about starting Giving Change Inc. and creating the C4 platform as ways to turn “all of that pain” into service, compassion, and community.
If you’re curious how someone climbs out of chaos through faith, honesty, and a fierce love for their kids, this story might give you a lot to sit with – and maybe a bit of strength for your own path too.
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