Alcoholism

A raw, honest, and unfiltered look at what it really takes to break alcohol’s grip. This audiobook isn’t theory — it’s lived experience. Laughing at My Alcohol Addiction follows one person’s journey from drinking out of habit, culture, and social pressure to finally choosing clarity, confidence, and a sober life.

Emotional Sobriety in Action is not just a book about quitting alcohol. It is a practical guide to maturing emotionally, spiritually, and relationally through the lived principles of the Twelve Steps. Written from the perspective of a former Marine with more than three decades of sobriety, this audiobook moves beyond theory and into application. It explores what the Steps actually look like in real life. Not in meetings. Not on paper. But in marriages, leadership, conflict, fear, pride, and the quiet moments when no one is watching.

This compassionate 365-day sobriety guide is designed to help you navigate your first year alcohol-free, whether you’re on Day 1, Day 91, or starting over again. Through one honest, gentle passage each day, it offers encouragement, mindset shifts, and practical reflections that support real healing without shame, pressure, or perfection. Rather than focusing on “giving something up,” this guide reframes sobriety as gaining your life back, rebuilding confidence, calming anxiety, breaking the shame cycle, and creating emotional resilience one small intention at a time.

There is a silence that lives in homes shaped by addiction. It is not peaceful—it is watchful. For more than twenty-two years, Lisa Benton lived inside that silence. On the outside, her family looked whole. On the inside, life became a constant recalibration—reading moods, managing energy, and surviving what was never spoken. So she became the stabilizer. The one who held everything together. Until everything fell apart.

This audiobook started out as a joke. As I wrote it though, over the space of a year and a half, I realized a couple of things. First, I still have issues to work out. Second, a zillion other people are working on the same things. With that in mind, I've put together a collection of anecdotes and advice based on hard-won lessons about alcohol, triggers for over-drinking, building better habits, and success in life.