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From armed robberies and drug dealing to long-term recovery and mentorship, Peter Wicket’s life is proof that transformation is possible. After years lost in addiction, jail time, and chaos, he found hope through Narcotics Anonymous and chose a different path.

Peter speaks openly about adoption, abandonment, ego, crime, relapse, and the moment surrender finally broke through. He shares how recovery isn’t just about abstinence — it’s about spiritual growth, accountability, and practicing principles in every area of life. Today, he’s a father, mentor, and leader in Saskatoon’s recovery community.

This conversation centers on recovery, awareness, and the courage to face the exact nature of our wrongs. Peter’s journey reminds us that no matter how deep addiction runs, a new way of life is possible when we stop fighting and start surrendering.

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Jason Caldwell’s alcoholism didn’t begin with chaos — it began with heartbreak, loneliness, and a slow erosion of identity. After a painful breakup, alcohol became a nightly sedative, a way to avoid being awake with his thoughts.

What started as weekend drinking escalated into daytime vodka, blackouts, job loss, estrangement from family, homelessness, and waking up in hospitals with no memory of how he got there.

Cut off by his father and evicted from his home, Jason found himself drinking hand sanitizer, cycling through shelters, and facing the reality that he would not survive much longer. A chance intervention, radical honesty, and an unexpected path to healing led him to a therapeutic farm where purpose, structure, and belonging replaced isolation.

This episode explores alcoholism, homelessness, grief, recovery, and how meaning — not punishment — became the foundation of lasting sobriety.

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Jason’s addiction didn’t come from chaos — it came from isolation, identity collapse, and trauma layered inside a psychologically abusive relationship. During COVID, while teaching and living alone, meth entered his life as connection and relief, then rapidly became dependency. As use escalated, Jason experienced what he describes as prolonged gang stalking, spiritual terror, and extreme paranoia — a sustained loss of safety marked by fear, intimidation, and constant hypervigilance. Trapped in trauma bonding and abuse, reality narrowed until survival meant escape. With nothing but a bag and a bus ticket, Jason fled across the country, separating from both the relationship and the drug. In the aftermath, sobriety, faith, and grounding slowly returned. This conversation explores meth addiction, narcissistic abuse, gang stalking, spiritual crisis, and what it takes to rebuild identity after psychological collapse — without sensationalism, and with honesty about the long road back to stability.

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Brent’s addiction didn’t begin with drugs — it began with alcohol, grief, and unspoken trauma. What started as confidence and relief quickly became daily drinking, violence, and survival alongside people involved in serious criminal activity. As his drinking escalated, so did the losses: the death of his mother, the loss of his marriage, homelessness, seizures, repeated assaults, and a life that slowly collapsed inward.

Everything shattered when Brent lost his brother Curtis to suicide. Consumed by grief, guilt, and alcohol, Brent spiraled into suicidal ideation, multiple attempts, detox stays, and near-fatal withdrawals. Drinking to survive became drinking to disappear. What ultimately stopped the spiral wasn’t willpower — it was surrender. Through treatment, grief work, spirituality, and finally allowing himself to feel what he’d been running from, Brent began to rebuild a life rooted in honesty and purpose.

This episode explores alcoholism, suicide loss, complicated grief, relapse, treatment, and what it means to stop running and choose life — even when the pain feels unbearable.

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Kevin’s alcoholism hid in plain sight. Raised in a culture where heavy drinking was normalized and rewarded, alcohol slowly became a necessity rather than a choice. Years of bartending and constant access accelerated the damage until his body began to fail — hallucinations, blackouts, internal bleeding, and repeated hospitalizations ending in a diagnosis no one expects: end-stage liver cirrhosis.

Now sober and living with a life-limiting illness, Kevin speaks openly about alcoholism, chronic illness, survivor’s guilt, and the reality of choosing sobriety when the damage is already done. This conversation is about accountability, faith, and what it means to keep choosing life even when healing doesn’t look the way people expect.

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Ernie Leon grew up surrounded by addiction, gang violence, and incarceration in South Phoenix. Raised by parents struggling with heroin addiction, exposed early to drugs, gangs, and loss, his life moved quickly into crime, meth addiction, and the prison system. What followed was years of violence, survival, and deep spiritual conflict.

Meth didn’t just take Ernie deeper into addiction — it shattered his sense of reality. Prolonged use brought shadow figures, paranoia, spiritual terror, and experiences he describes as demonic attacks. While homeless and using meth, Ernie experienced overwhelming fear, a sense of being watched, and what he believes was spiritual warfare amplified by addiction and trauma.

After being shot, losing his brother to gang violence, and spending years in Arizona’s most dangerous prisons, Ernie reached a breaking point. Alone in a prison cell, stripped of identity and power, he turned inward. What followed was a slow and painful transformation — sobriety, faith, accountability, and rebuilding a life rooted in service.

Now sober and working in re-entry and recovery, Ernie speaks openly about meth addiction, prison life, spiritual warfare, and what it means to step out of darkness and into responsibility. This conversation explores addiction, gang culture, incarceration, faith, and the long road back to purpose.

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If you want to witness the transformative power of Jesus Christ this Christmas season, this one is for you.

Shannon Stevens’ addiction began long before drugs entered her life. Childhood sexual abuse, the violent murder of her grandmother, and years of living in fear left her nervous system locked in survival. By 12, drugs and alcohol became a way to numb terror she couldn’t yet name.

Over the next decades, she cycled through severe addiction, panic disorder, psych wards, jail time, and 27 failed rehab attempts. In her late 30s, meth pushed everything into crisis. While deep in addiction, Shannon experienced prolonged gang stalking and the super natural — organized intimidation, surveillance, threats, home invasions, and abduction at gunpoint — creating constant fear and hypervigilance that dominated her life.

She met a skin walker, she saw shadow people.

At the height of it, she called out to Jesus, and something shifted. After years of wanting to die, Shannon suddenly wanted to live. That internal change marked the beginning of her exit — leaving Arizona, confronting trauma, rebuilding identity, and restoring a sense of safety.

Now nine years sober, she speaks openly about meth addiction, gang stalking, trauma-induced paranoia, and recovery that goes beyond abstinence — exploring how fear takes hold, and how it can be released through long-term healing.

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Ellie’s life unraveled fast — from early abuse and family chaos to substance use and a deadly overdose that left her without a heartbeat for several minutes. Revived after six hits of Narcan, she woke up with a second chance and a mission: to live.

In this raw and powerful story, Ellie shares how addiction nearly killed her and how recovery gave her a reason to keep breathing. She talks about trauma, relapse, and finding hope through NA meetings, community, and connection. From addiction and overdose to recovery and hope, Ellie’s story reminds us that no matter how far we fall, it’s never too late to rise again.

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