"The Tunnel and The Torch" | Episode 118 - Sophie

What this episode covers

Rock bottom doesn’t always look like collapse. Sometimes it looks like carrying on, quietly breaking underneath it.Sophie’s story begins in foster care and moves through years shaped by trauma, early exposure to alcohol, and a growing dependence that blurred survival with escape. What follows is not a straight line, but a series of hard turns through addiction, mental health struggles, and abusive relationships that left lasting scars.There are also moments that cut through the noise. Becoming a mother. Finding brief stability. Losing it again. Making the kind of decisions no parent ever wants to face, but doing so out of protection and love.Now 117 days sober, Sophie speaks with clarity about what it takes to keep going when everything in you wants to stop. Not a perfect recovery. Not a finished story. Just the steady, deliberate work of choosing something different.It’s a story about pain, but also about responsibility, resilience, and the possibility of finding light, even when you have to crawl to reach it.

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