April T. – Sober Since March 2019 (Encore Episode)

April T. – Sober Since March 2019 (Encore Episode)

From AA Recovery Interviews with Howard L. by Howard L.

April 25, 2026

About this episode

April T. shares her harrowing journey from a life of alcoholism to recovery through the AA program after a life-changing accident.

April T., experienced the kind of nightmare that recovering alcoholics refer to when we say, “There, but for the grace of God, go I”. April’s road trip of terror began while drunk during a 4-hour drive on a major interstate. Halfway into the trip, while drinking vodka from a plastic bottle, she crossed the median at over ninety miles an hour, and crashed head-on into a car of three people, ejecting the driver. Injured and barely coherent, with a blood alcohol level four times the legal limit, April over-heard the EMT’s radio that the driver was dead at the scene. With death and destruction surrounding her, April’s first thought was an alcoholic one: “How can I get out of this?” Even though she’d been in AA years earlier and had even been in treatment, her disease made her amnesiac to the right thoughts about what to do. Thus began April’s odyssey on the road of dire emotional, legal, financial, and psychological consequences of her drunken behavior. The tragic crash became the bottom from which April’s sobriety finally emerged. And it was in prison that she found a spiritual awakening by working the AA program and being of service to other alcoholic women. She set up meetings and…

People in this episode

Host: Howard L.

Guest: April T.

Topics covered

  • alcoholism
  • recovery
  • AA program
  • spiritual awakening
  • personal transformation

Keywords

  • sober
  • alcohol recovery
  • AA
  • spiritual awakening
  • personal story
  • addiction
  • rehabilitation

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