Story Allison 20260807

Story Allison 20260807

Get ready to be moved by real-life accounts of recovery as Allison shares a raw, funny, and deeply human story from the Bouldin Group’s speaker meeting. Speaking openly as “an alcoholic” who has “worked at being this sober for over six years now,” Allison walks through a life steeped in alcohol from birth: a great-grandfather who founded Jim Beam, a garage loft stacked with bottles, and teenage years spent bartending family parties and stashing cases of wine for friends.

You’ll hear how early drinking felt like “a lot of fun and having, like, zero regrets” and how that slowly morphed into daily booze, drugs, and serious consequences. The episode tracks her moves from San Diego to New York, a surreal stint working amid FBI investigations and Michael Cohen, and then a chaotic period travelling the US in a trailer, collecting legal problems and near-misses with the law.

There’s dark humour in her description of “Jmo, fireballs, mushrooms, and coke” in New York, but nothing is glamorised. What really anchors this session is how recovery and spirituality gradually take root. Allison calls AA “a spiritual kindergarten of sorts that has permanently changed the way I think.” She explains relapses, chips, and how she literally lined them up “like a puzzle” to see how many times she’d gone back out.

She talks about transitioning, losing her family’s approval, and finding a new kind of family in the fellowship. Her turning point comes with the death of her beloved dog Lenny: “If I go out and I drink… I am going to drink myself to death.” From there, daily Third Step prayers, diligent step work, songs she’s written about the steps, and a sponsor who understands autism and ADHD become her lifelines.

If you’re curious how someone keeps getting back up after repeated setbacks, this story might be the gentle shove toward hope you didn’t know you needed.