Kevin T. AA Male

Kevin T. AA Male

How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety? Kevin T shares his story with a mix of brutal honesty and cheeky humour that makes heavy topics a bit easier to sit with. He talks about growing up as “a kid in AA” in the 90s, thinking it was normal to tell classmates, “my dad’s an alcoholic,” and feeling different early on because of special needs classes, divorce, and a brother deep in addiction.

His first beer at 15 felt “so cool”, and from there, drinking became a secret mission in a house with an AA dad and an Al‑Anon mum – think NyQuil cocktails and sneaky shots bought by older friends. Kevin walks through the shift from church youth group to bar culture, blackout nights, house parties and the kind of drinking that ends with him waking up in a Beetlejuice costume next to someone he barely remembers.

One of the most sobering moments comes when he describes drinking all night with a man who was later found dead in the same room – and still, he kept drinking. Sobriety doesn’t come in a straight line for him. He shares how he first got sober young, then relapsed after six years “because I was doing Kevin’s will, not God’s will,” showing how resentment can quietly undo years of work.

His sponsor’s strict daily to‑do list – call your sponsor, go to a meeting, contact three people, do service, share – forced him out of isolation and into connection. He brings the Twelve Steps to life in his own words, talks about anxiety, grief, coming out, stand‑up comedy, and why his home group feels like family. As he puts it, “the program is kind of like a house.

You can have the most beautiful house, but you have to do the maintenance on it.” If you’re juggling sobriety, faith, identity or just feeling like an outsider, could this be the story you relate to next?