Ten recovery myths that keep people stuck — from someone sober again after a hard relapse. Almost everything I thought I knew about getting sober turned out to be wrong, and some of it nearly cost me my life. In this solo episode I go through ten of the biggest myths I hear online, from friends, and in the news — why each one sticks around, and what's tended to be truer in my actual experience.

I'm a year and a half sober after seven and a half years of continuous sobriety and a relapse I didn't see coming. So I've been on both sides of most of these: the version of me that believed them, and the version that lived long enough to find out they were false. This isn't clinical advice and I'm not a doctor — it's lived experience, peer to peer. Take what you like and leave the rest.

We cover:

• Whether you really have to "hit rock bottom" first (and what a bottom actually is)
• Why addiction was never about willpower for me
• The "once you're sober you're cured" trap — and why sober is the starting line, not the finish
• What relapse does and doesn't erase
• Why "do it on your own" kept me sick
• The high-functioning myth ("I'm not bad enough to need help")
• Medication in recovery — and why that's between you and your doctor
• The moderation fantasy
• The idea that recovery is boring
• Whether you have to "want it" before treatment can work

If one of these lands for you, that's the point. Write your own myths in the comments.