Jeff A. - Sober 29 Years

Raised in a middle-class family, with its share of alcoholism among its descendants, Jeff’s drinking took off in his late teens and early 20’s, in a self-made world of isolation from others. His sense of purposelessness and lack of direction fed feelings of low self-esteem. He found himself drinking alone and more than ever. His alcoholism soon teamed up with work addiction in a field that has little respect for such addictions, and would ultimately drain every hour he was willing to work. As things got worse, Jeff’s first marriage was falling apart. A final ultimatum from his wife a...