At 29, Sam was on his knees, physically, mentally and spiritually shattered. He hated himself and wanted to die. This coupled with a life of chronic alcoholism of which his journey began at a young age, was a tragedy in waiting.

His name is Samuel, and by the grace of some elusive entity he managed to crawl out of the abyss and got sober in 2013. The past eleven and a half years or so have been filled with joy, passion, love, adventure, presence, heartache, heartbreak and all the messy stuff in between, but he has managed this without having to use the once ever present crutch - alcohol.

Listen to Sam's story here...

You can find Sam at:

https://www.instagram.com/life_after_destruction

And at his father's art pages:

https://www.instagram.com/the_hand_of_ray_lowry

https://raylowry.com

My Instagram is:

https://www.instagram.com/recovery_jimmy

And you can find all my other links at:

https://linktr.ee/jimmythistle

Buy me a coffee…

https://buymeacoffee.com/afterhourswithjimmyt

At 29, Sam was on his knees, physically, mentally and spiritually shattered. He hated himself and wanted to die. This coupled with a life of chronic alcoholism of which his journey began at a young age, was a tragedy in waiting.

His name is Samuel, and by the grace of some elusive entity he managed to crawl out of the abyss and got sober in 2013. The past eleven and a half years or so have been filled with joy, passion, love, adventure, presence, heartache, heartbreak and all the messy stuff in between, but he has managed this without having to use the once ever present crutch - alcohol.

Listen to Sam's story here...

You can find Sam at:

https://www.instagram.com/life_after_destruction

And at his father's art pages:

https://www.instagram.com/the_hand_of_ray_lowry

https://raylowry.com

My Instagram is:

https://www.instagram.com/recovery_jimmy

And you can find all my other links at:

https://linktr.ee/jimmythistle

Buy me a coffee…

https://buymeacoffee.com/afterhourswithjimmyt

Gary was in a rut with his drinking, at the end it was all consuming and despite having a good job, being well traveled and having met the love of his life. It was all falling away, he would drink daily and not care about anything else, losing friends and his love he finally decided to change things and started walking, walking back to sobriety…

Listen to Gary’s story here…

You can find Gary at:

https://www.instagram.com/sobernsound

Gary's Linktree:

https://linktr.ee/sobernsound

My Instagram is:

https://www.instagram.com/recovery_jimmy

And you can find all my other links at:

https://linktr.ee/jimmythistle

Buy me a coffee…

https://buymeacoffee.com/afterhourswithjimmyt