Rock Bottom With Ryan
Rock Bottom With Ryan
Podcast Description
After 18 years of drinking, countless blackouts, arrests, and hospital stays, I finally hit my bottom—and started to climb.
This podcast is about what it really looks like to get sober. No sugarcoating. No step-by-step manual. Just honest conversations about addiction, recovery, relapse, and everything in between.
If you’ve struggled, if someone you love is struggling, or if you just want to understand the chaos behind the bottle—this is for you.
Follow me to get the drop when episode 1 goes live. Let’s talk about what happens after rock bottom.
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Content Themes
The podcast delves into topics surrounding addiction, recovery, and mental health, with specific episodes exploring themes like personal struggles with addiction, the impact of relationships on recovery, and the reality of relapse. For example, season premiere episode discusses what it means to experience life after hitting rock bottom, while another episode features a guest recounting their journey from military service to achieving clarity in sobriety.
After 18 years of drinking, countless blackouts, arrests, and hospital stays, I finally hit my bottom—and started to climb. This podcast is about what it really looks like to get sober. No sugarcoating. No step-by-step manual. Just honest conversations about addiction, recovery, relapse, and everything in between. If you’ve struggled, if someone you love is struggling, or if you just want to understand the chaos behind the bottle—this is for you. Let’s talk about what happens after rock bottom.
Holly’s Rock Bottom: Alcohol Withdrawal Hallucinations, Ruining a Wedding, and One Year Sober | Rock Bottom with RyanIn this episode of Rock Bottom with Ryan, Ryan interviews Holly from a small town in Worcestershire, England, who is approaching one year sober with a sobriety date of July 30, 2025. Holly describes starting alcohol at 14, underage street drinking and clubbing, and quickly gravitating to hard liquor, later adding occasional party drugs. Her drinking escalated into daily “hair of the dog,” secrecy, and consuming up to three bottles of wine a night, including severe withdrawals with visual and auditory hallucinations after quitting cold turkey, leading to hospitalization. She shares how alcohol damaged relationships, included relapses, and culminated in getting drunk as maid of honor at her sister’s wedding. Holly explains what finally shifted, how sobriety improved her mental health and confidence, how her friendships changed, and why she started sharing her journey on Instagram as Holly’s Sober Diaries.00:00 Street Drinking Chaos01:05 Show Intro and Sponsor02:09 Meet Holly One Year Sober03:42 Childhood and First Drinks06:29 Hard Liquor and Underage Clubs10:17 Party Culture and Drugs Enter12:42 Hair of the Dog Spiral14:48 Box Wine and Withdrawal17:26 Hallucinations and Hospitalization19:43 Family Finds Out and Moderation Trap21:54 Moderation Fails22:15 Alcohol and Relationships24:09 Wedding Rock Bottom28:01 Last Relapse Switch29:21 Fears of Sobriety31:22 First 90 Days Glow33:09 Friendships Rebuilt35:23 Sober Nights Out38:10 Confidence and Healing39:40 Dark Thoughts to Hope40:44 Sharing Sober Diaries42:25 Fun Without Alcohol43:29 Advice for Not Bad Enough45:22 Who Holly Became46:36 Recovery Tools and Farewell
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