Join Crystal Morrell for a fun and insightful Sober Onions Reunion featuring three remarkable previous guests. In this special episode, Crystal is joined by:

• Martin Lockett from the episode "My Prison Life"
• Melissa Gissy Witherspoon from the episode "I'm Sober...So Now What?"
• David Clemen, host of the Recover Nuggets Podcast

During this reunion, they share updates since their last appearances on the podcast, discussing the recovery miracles they’ve experienced, the joy they’ve found in sober life, and important takeaways from their journeys. Tune in for some real-life talk as they reflect on their progress and continue to inspire others on their paths to sobriety.

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Welcome Back to Sober Onions Podcast! Crystal Morrell is back to guide you and encourage you on your sober journey. Crystal talks about finding freedom in sobriety discussing may methods of success. Whether you are in recovery or supporting a loved one, or just curious about what it means to live sober, this podcast is for you.

Crystal will dive deep into the heart of her sobriety and the sobriety journey of others. They will be talking about the challenges, the triumphs, and everything in between. You will hear from people who have walked this path and come out stronger on the other side.

Sobriety means different things to different people. For some, it means complete abstinence from alcohol and drugs. For others, it might mean learning to manage their substance use in a healthier way. No matter what sobriety looks like for you, the journey is deeply personal.

This episode has a special guest Celeste Yvonne. Celeste Yvonne is a writer, mom, and marketing professional. She is more than six years sober and a founding host of the Sober Mom Squad and advocates for mothers who struggle with addiction. Celeste’s new book is called It’s Not About the Wine: The Loaded Truth Behind Mommy Wine Culture.

We hope you enjoy this episode and remember you are not alone in this journey. If I can do it, you can do it.

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Join Crystal as she interviews Ryan Dusick the founding drummer of Maroon 5. Crystal and Ryan both grew up in the Los Angeles area. Although Ryan was becoming a famous drummer and Crystal was becoming a mother BOTH stories involve an addiction to Alcohol. They both are on a recovery journey and believe that recovering out loud can spread the awareness that Sobriety IS Possible.

About Ryan's new book:

Two decades after Songs About Jane, Maroon 5’s original drummer presents an unflinching examination of fame, anxiety, mental health, and recovery.

In the nineties, Ryan Dusick and his friends Adam Levine and Jesse Carmichael dreamed about making it big . . . and against all odds, they did. This inside story recounts Maroon 5’s founding and their road to becoming Grammy-winning megastars, told through the eyes of former drummer Ryan Dusick. He takes readers behind the scenes of the band’s meteoric rise to success—and the grueling demands that came with it—as well as his personal struggles with anxiety and addiction after his departure from the band.

For Maroon 5, fame came with a platinum debut record, jam sessions with Prince in his own living room, and encounters with celebrities such as Jessica Simpson, Justin Timberlake, John Mayer, and Bono. For Dusick, stardom came to an abrupt halt with the devastating loss of his ability to play drums due to chronic nerve damage.

Alongside Maroon 5’s story of camaraderie and pressure, Dusick interweaves his own narrative: a decade lost to liquor and anti-anxiety medication, his ferocious commitment to recovery, and his current perspective as a professional counselor. With a candor that will speak to anyone who has struggled with mental health, Harder to Breathe moves beyond celebrity to examine the nature of human heartbreak and resilience, and to buoy anyone currently facing similar challenges.

Ultimately, Harder to Breathe is a roller-coaster memoir about how making it to the top sent Dusick to the bottom—and how he let go of the past and embraced a new future, one breath at a time.

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Join Crystal as she interviews a new friend from the new town she just moved to, August VanRynsoever. The two have some WILD stories for you!

Do you ever get nervous that your Sobriety will be challenged if you move to a different town? I know I was nervous. So, I just stuck my neck out, found a meeting and introduced myself. I immediately made new friends and we can connect and support each other's sober journey. I met August at a meeting and immediately I knew we were going to be friends! She is funny, outgoing and has a miracle story. We had so much in common and I was also curious how she had been maintaining her sobriety with such a giant past. Our past is only our last direction, not our final direction.
August is so fun. She is a God fearing mother of two just like me! We even go to the same church on Sundays!

Let me tell you about August:
August is three years sober and a mother of two boys. She has overcome her addiction with Alcohol and now devotes her time with her boys, service in the recovery community and giving back to women who have been or are going through Domestic Violence victims.
She works as an Independent Photographer. You can find more information about her on her website https://www.fig-ranch.com/
You can be inspired by her story because it begins with pain, violence, abandonment and trauma. However, today her story includes strength, hope and healing.

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Join Crystal as she interviews Martin in the Part 1 of his story and life in recovery.

Watch on YouTUBE: https://youtu.be/2wdXJLkWjSk

About Martin:

Martin Lockett is a writer and speaker whose words have impacted thousands of people, even before leaving prison. He served almost 18 years for manslaughter, caused by an accident one New Year’s eve where he drank excessively and drove through a stop light, colliding with a car carrying three people. Upon learning that the two people who died that night were volunteers in the drug and alcohol recovery community, Martin chose to honor them by dedicating his life to helping others through addiction counseling and drinking and driving prevention.

Martin has made the most of his incarceration by striving to achieve an education and certifications to become a counselor. His list of educational accomplishments includes:

• Earned his high school GED
• Earned a Certificate of Human Services from Louisiana State University
• Graduated from Indiana University: Associate of Arts
• Graduated from Colorado State University-Pueblo: Bachelor of Science in Sociology with honors
• Graduated from California Coast University: Master of Science in Psychology with honors
• Became a member of the Delta Epsilon Tau International Honor Society
• Completed comprehensive substance abuse treatment program
• Interned and earned state certification as a substance abuse counselor (CADC I)

While in prison, he worked in the educational programs for inmates where he:

• Moderated DUI victim impact panels for three years that included offenders and victims and told his own story
• Recorded detailed account of the night of the crash for use at various online panels during the pandemic
• Mentored and trained inmates to become mentors for addictions recovery
• Tutored inmates through the GED curriculum
• Counseled inmates through addictions treatment

As a writer, Martin has used his time behind bars to write in various forms, all with the intention of helping others with his story and life experiences.

• Wrote and published two books: his memoir, Prison to Purpose Pipeline and My Prison Life, his collection of essays
• Published hundreds of blog posts on adjusting to prison life, maximizing opportunities behind bars, the impact of incarceration on families and communities, and current social justice issues
• Published articles in the Oregonian: Honoring my victims every day (2019);Time to pull back on mandatory minimum sentences (2020); Returning to Portland from prison with a commitment to make amends (2021); and Ex-offenders seeking a fresh start need help finding a home base (2021)

While serving his time, Martin Lockett modeled exemplary behavior throughout the entirety of his sentence by not receiving a single disciplinary report. He has focused on achieving his pledge to take up the work of his victims, which he intends to do for the rest of his life.


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Join Crystal as she interviews Melissa. Melissa emailed her about her new book I'm Sober ... Now What? .. and immediately Crystal was intrigued. I mean who doesn't ask that question when they get sober!! After they met, immediately they had questions for each other and Crystal had to interview her on the Podcast! They had so much in common and share so many similar experiences about addiction and recovery.

A little about Melissa-

After more than two decades of substance abuse, multiple failed attempts at sobriety, numerous arrests, a revolving door of treatment facilities, and a rock bottom that resulted in near death on her basement floor, Melissa has finally achieved long-term sobriety and is eager to share with the world that addicts do recover! Life after drinking is possible.
She is originally from a suburb north of Atlanta, Georgia, resides in Winston-Salem, North Carolina where she is raising her two youngest of four children with her husband, Derek. Her second chance at being a present mother leaves her in a dialectical dance of gratitude and exhaustion but she wouldn’t want it any other way.
She currently works as an administrative assistant at Holy Family Catholic Church in Clemmons North Carolina. That’s right – even after all her self will run riot and messy decision making throughout her life, thanks to drinking vodka like its water and popping pills like they were breath mints, God brought her home and keeps her in His house where she can be of service to those in need.
She is an active member in the AA community, where she spends time as a guest speaker sharing her message of hope to those that are looking for a new way of life. She is a board member of Joseph-Mary Foundation, where she raises money for education and medical supplies for families in Cameroon, Africa. Her passion for reaching across the continents to those in need fuels her vision to not only lend a hand to her neighbor but help educate others about addiction through sharing her personal story.
With almost a decade in sobriety, Melissa is following her calling to love and support those whose lives have been impacted by addiction. She believes her divine intervention was meant to not only spare her own life, but to also be used as a conduit to connect the lost and broken with a higher power whom she knows as God.

“I have been called to love those, who may not love me back, for this is unconditional love and what we have been instructed to do above all other commandments-to love one another”-Melissa Gissy Witherspoon

You can find Melissa @ Sobriety Addiction Healing Spiritual Journey - Sober-Now

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Join Crystal as she interviews Jennifer Fox from Dragonoilia!
Crystal and Jen talk about loss of family members to addiction, Sober Curious Movement, Learning how to live life sober and setting goals for yourself that change your life!

About Jennifer:

After miscarrying twice in 2015, losing her mom to lung cancer in 2016 and separating from her abusive husband in 2017 Jennifer Fox headed into 2018 knowing she needed to file for divorce, start over and create a happier life. But 2018 had something different in mind. After having a full hysterectomy in October and finalizing her divorce in November, she was sure 2019 would be better. And then she lost her baby brother Justin to a heroin overdose on December 5th, just 6 days after becoming legally divorced at 45 years old.

In 2019 Jennifer found herself in a rapid downward spiral to nowhere, drinking at least one bottle of wine a day, sometimes two, and sometimes topping that off with a "nightcap". By the fall she was quite literally drowning in grief over the loss of her brother, drinking like a raging alcoholic and had also put on 40 pounds. So she made a pact with herself. Instead of doing her annual Dry January, she was going to give up drinking for an entire year. In addition, she was going to become a runner, something she had dreamt of for many, many years, because runners embodied everything she wanted to be: dedicated, disciplined, fit and able to tackle hard things. To do this she committed to run one 5K every month until she could run the 3.1 miles without stopping to walk and feeling like she might die, her first being the Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving, 2019.

2020 started off awesome, with the 3 day personal development conference for women created by Rachel Hollis, and at least 6 months of races on the calendar. By the time the global pandemic hit she was down 20 pounds, betting better at running each week and feeling incredibly strong in her sobriety. Though most people will find this hard to believe, Jennifer firmly states that despite COVID and the million dollar loss in her business because of it, 2020 was the best year of her adult life. Why? Tune in to hear her incredible story of loss, resilience, courage and authenticity, along with where her relationship is with alcohol today.

You can find Jennifer on IG
and online https://www.dragonolia.com/

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Join Crystal as she interviews Michelle Smith! Wow what an interview! Crystal and Michelle met for the first time over zoom and the connection was immediate! They talk about Motherhood, Addiction, Treatment Centers, Therapy, Her Social Media Platform, Her Ted Talk and More! They both agreed that the main goal of anyone who is willing to be open about their recovery is to help the person who is struggling now because they both have been the person struggling.

About Michelle:

Michelle is an author, counselor, TEDx Speaker and founder of Recovery is the New Black, a digital community for moms living or exploring an alcohol-free life. As a wife and working mother of two, she fell into the "mommy juice" drinking culture. Michelle found a way out and has been in recovery from alcohol dependence since 2016. As a certified addiction counselor, she provides services to other moms who are seeking supportive alternatives to a boozy culture that tells us alcohol is an accessory to motherhood. Michelle has 20 years of experience in the field of addiction and behavioral health treatment.

You can find Michelle at www.recoveryisthenewblack.com

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