Faith In Your Recovery Podcast

Darcy Kae is the author of Heavenly Outcast – I Am Darcy Kae, a powerful true story of surviving childhood trauma, homelessness, sex trafficking, and addiction, and finding freedom in Jesus Christ.

Darcy grew up surrounded by heroin addiction and alcoholism, in a family torn between two worlds: one uncle was a career bank robber and heroin addict, and two others were Minneapolis police officers. By the time she was 14, in 1975, she was homeless on the streets of Minneapolis, starving and hopeless, after several suicide attempts and very few resources for kids like her.

A man wh...

Without God, I Can Do Nothing.

Ken Mountzouros shares his powerful journey from childhood trauma and alcoholism to incarceration, redemption, and freedom through Jesus Christ.

For years, alcohol was Ken's escape from pain, isolation, and feelings of not belonging. His addiction led to destructive choices and prison. But behind prison walls, Ken discovered something greater than freedom from a physical cell: a relationship with Jesus Christ.

Ken's choices put him in prison, but Jesus gave him the freedom to truly live.

Today, Ken uses his testimony to help others struggling with...

She survived binge drinking, denial, and devastating loss — and now she’s helping others break free. Colleen Clifford is a commercial fisherwoman, health coach, and mental health advocate who speaks openly about the realities of binge drinking, grief, shame, resilience, and the hidden survival patterns that keep people stuck. Through her writing and speaking, she challenges audiences with one powerful question: “How is it working for you?” Her turning point came after her late husband’s alcohol‑related suicide and her own final dangerous drinking episode. That moment sparked a vow to change — and to help others do the same. Today, C...

Addiction and abuse don't discriminate—and no amount of education, professional success, or life experience makes anyone immune to life's hardest battles. In this episode, we're joined by Lindsey Dollar, the new Women's Director at The Christian Center's The Well. Lindsey is an early-career psychologist with more than 10 years of experience as a trauma-informed therapist. Born and raised in Anderson, Indiana, Lindsey moved to Michigan to pursue her doctorate before returning to Indiana last year with her two children to rebuild stability after leaving an abusive relationship. Although Lindsey has never personally struggled with addiction, growing up in an al...

Mental health was something I tried to outrun for years. I could admit to depression and hide self‑harm, but one word felt impossible to say out loud: suicide. Even thinking it felt like choking on the truth I didn’t want to face. For 25 years, I convinced myself my thoughts were “normal,” even as silence and avoidance kept me emotionally stuck. Everything changed the moment I finally said the word. Speaking it out loud meant I couldn’t pretend anymore — and reaching out for help became the first step toward healing. Addiction later became another part of my story, and f...

We are blessed to be allowed to bring our podcast into the Jay County Jail to interview those who have experience with addiction and recovery. Join us as we e=hear Brian's experience.

Join us for Ep24 of Jailhouse Recovery as we interview Andy about his experience with addiction and recovery. We were blessed with another opportunity to interview inmates at the Jay County Sheriff's Office.

Join us for Ep23 of Jailhouse Recovery as we interview Leah about her experience with addiction and recovery. We were blessed with another opportunity to interview inmates at the Jay County Sheriff's Office.

Join us for Ep22 of Jailhouse Recovery as we interview Colbi about his experience with addiction and recovery. We were blessed with another opportunity to interview inmates at the Jay County Sheriff's Office.

Join us for Ep21 of Jailhouse Recovery as we interview Zach about his experience with addiction and recovery. We were blessed with the opportunity to interview inmates at the Jay County Sheriff's Office.

Join us for Ep20 of Jailhouse Recovery as we interview Fabian about his experience with addiction and recovery. We were blessed with the opportunity to interview inmates at the Jay County Sheriff's Office.

Join Faith In Your Recovery Podcast as we interview inmates from the Jay County Jail about their experience with addiction and recovery!

Join Faith In Your Recovery Podcast as we interview inmates from the Jay County Jail about their experience with addiction and recovery!

My experience with addiction began in a place I never imagined would take me where it did. After being prescribed opioid pain medication, I developed a dependence that eventually progressed to heroin. At the time, I was working in healthcare and attending nursing school — just six months away from graduating — but addiction slowly took everything I had worked so hard to build. I was arrested and ultimately served four years with the Indiana Department of Correction.

During incarceration, I entered a program called Purposeful Incarceration and began the difficult, honest work of rebuilding my life from the insi...

Addiction took me places I never imagined I’d go — but it also became the foundation for the purpose I live today. My recovery wasn’t just about putting down a substance. It was about rebuilding my identity, learning to forgive myself, and discovering that the same failures that nearly destroyed me would one day become my greatest testimony.

Today, I serve as a Family Nurse Practitioner specializing in addiction medicine, caring for individuals and families fighting the same battles I once fought. Every patient reminds me that recovery isn’t reserved for a select few. It’s possible...

This episode of Faith in Your Recovery features Scott Penticuf, a man candidly sharing his decades-long battle with alcoholism, the losses he endured, and the hope he’s found through faith and support at the Christian Center. Scott’s story begins with a difficult childhood in a broken family, where alcohol entered his life at age 10 and became a destructive force. Over the years, his addiction caused tangible losses, including fractured family relationships, multiple homes, and time spent incarcerated. Despite repeated setbacks, Scott’s commitment to sobriety intensified after his most recent release from prison, and his faith in God an...

In today’s episode, I share my journey through trauma, addiction, obesity, and ultimately redemption through Jesus. If you or someone you love is battling addiction, this story will give you hope, strength, and a reminder that God still restores what feels broken. I was raised by ministers, but my life took a turn I never expected. In 1994, I was stabbed 13 times, and the trauma left me battling severe PTSD. For years, I drank to escape the pain, and my life spiraled until I reached nearly 400 pounds.

But God wasn’t finished with me. Becoming a dad chan...

I survived fourteen overdoses, a fentanyl addiction, and the darkest years of my life — and now I’m turning my pain into purpose. I grew up with addiction in my home, but I never imagined substance use disorder would become part of my own story. After years of untreated mental health struggles and the trauma of my 17 year old daughter nearly being murdered, I fell into a nearly six year fentanyl addiction. I used intravenously, overdosed around fourteen times, and was Narcaned more times than I can count. Eventually, the anger and exhaustion hit me so hard that I fina...

I should’ve died an addict… but Jesus met me in a jail cell and gave me a life I never thought I’d have. For more than 30 years, addiction owned every part of my life. Meth, heroin, and fentanyl dragged me into places I never thought I’d go — homelessness, jail cells, overdoses, and a level of loneliness that convinced me I was beyond saving. Every promise I made to quit was broken. I truly believed I would die an addict.

Everything changed on March 11, 2021, inside a holding cell at the Rankin County Jail. In my darkest mo...

I never thought my story was worth telling. My addiction didn’t start with anything dramatic — just dabbling, partying, trying to fit in, trying to escape feelings I didn’t understand. I thought I was alone; I was different. The only one like me. I had plenty of chances to walk away, but I kept numbing myself and building an identity in the drug world. Before I knew it, I was addicted — trapped in an underground life that pulled me further from reality. What I thought I wanted became the very thing destroying me.

I grew up bullied...

I didn’t turn to addiction because I was weak — I turned to it because I was hurting and didn’t know how else to survive.

My addiction wasn’t just about substances. It was about trying to escape pain I never had the tools to understand. What started as a way to numb childhood trauma, instability, and emotional chaos slowly became survival mode. The relief didn’t last. Addiction took my peace, my relationships, my identity, and my ability to imagine a future. I lost trust in myself and lived in cycles of shame, regret, and isolation...

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He went from fighting addiction in the courtroom to fighting for redemption in the church. Brett Knight is a criminal defense attorney turned recovery pastor who has seen addiction destroy lives from both sides of the system — and he’s made it his mission to help people find accountability, healing, and real second chances. As the Amazon #1 New Release author of From the Gavel to Grace, Brett brings a raw, unfiltered look at the collision of faith, recovery, and the criminal justice system.

For years, he’s walked with individuals and families through the chaos...

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He went from fighting addiction in the courtroom to fighting for redemption in the church. Brett Knight is a criminal defense attorney turned recovery pastor who has seen addiction destroy lives from both sides of the system — and he’s made it his mission to help people find accountability, healing, and real second chances. As the Amazon #1 New Release author of From the Gavel to Grace, Brett brings a raw, unfiltered look at the collision of faith, recovery, and the criminal justice system.

For years, he’s walked with individuals and families through the chaos...

From gang life, addiction, and 18 years in and out of prison, Brian LeCroy’s world was ruled by violence, drugs, and the identity he built inside the gang. After facing a possible 40‑year sentence, he broke down in solitary confinement—crying out to God for the first time in his life. In his darkest moment, he felt the weight of his choices, the pain he caused his family, and the hopelessness of a life he believed was beyond repair. But God met him there. Through constant prayer, a miraculous legal turnaround, and a supernatural shift in his heart, Brian began...

From gang life, addiction, and 18 years in and out of prison, Brian LeCroy’s world was ruled by violence, drugs, and the identity he built inside the gang. After facing a possible 40‑year sentence, he broke down in solitary confinement—crying out to God for the first time in his life. In his darkest moment, he felt the weight of his choices, the pain he caused his family, and the hopelessness of a life he believed was beyond repair. But God met him there. Through constant prayer, a miraculous legal turnaround, and a supernatural shift in his heart, Brian began...

I had everything on the outside—and was dying on the inside.

For nearly seven years, I hid behind the illusion of a “white picket fence” life while my alcoholism and prescription drug abuse spiraled out of control. Even with a thriving career in finance, I was blind to the destruction building beneath the surface. My world eventually collapsed. I lost the trust of my family, my friends, and my fiancée. I battled a gambling addiction, faced an arrest, and reached a point where I no longer wanted to live.

In September 2024, completely broken, I enter...

For 12 years, I lived in addiction—IV heroin, crack, meth, fentanyl, prostitution, homelessness, and six overdoses in one year. I lost custody of my daughter, used during both pregnancies, and was surrounded by family members who used drugs with me. Synthetic marijuana nearly killed me, I was hospitalized multiple times, and a car accident and two‑week drug binge left me hopeless, anxious, and suicidal. But even when I was running from God, He never stopped pursuing me. Through overdoses, hospital rooms, and near‑death moments, His mercy kept pulling me back. Everything changed when Jesus opened my eyes to ete...

Paul Parson began drinking at 6 years old, experimenting with alcohol while his mother battled addiction and grief. By 8, he was drinking anything he could find. By 12–13, he was using marijuana, cocaine, pills, and more, drifting into gang life, homelessness, and deep emotional collapse.

Addiction fueled his depression, rage, loneliness, and suicidal thoughts, pushing him toward a breaking point. But at 19, everything changed when he encountered Jesus—and the cycle that defined his childhood was shattered.

This is Part 2 of our two‑part conversation with Paul and his wife, Coral—two powerful journeys of addiction, trauma, redempti...

Coral Parson grew up in a family deeply involved in drug trafficking, addiction, violence, and incarceration—a world she believed was normal. Surrounded by overdoses, gang conflict, and constant chaos, she witnessed firsthand how addiction destroys not just the person using, but the entire family system.

Though Coral never battled addiction herself, she lived through its confusion, heartbreak, and generational impact. Her story is one of choosing a different path, breaking cycles, and finding stability through faith and intentional healing.

This is Part 1 of our two‑part conversation with Coral and her husband, Paul—two storie...

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I had everything a young man could want… until one drink flipped my entire life upside down. Before addiction took over my life, I was a successful young man in the music business, and by 22 I was managing a world champion fighter. But around that same age, I crossed an invisible line into alcoholism—and everything changed.

Within months, I went from drinking alcoholically to trying cocaine, eventually shooting cocaine, smoking crack, and drinking nonstop. In 1989, I was diagnosed with HIV—initially misdiagnosed as AIDS. By 1990, I was living in and out of the subway...

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I had everything a young man could want… until one drink flipped my entire life upside down. Before addiction took over my life, I was a successful young man in the music business, and by 22 I was managing a world champion fighter. But around that same age, I crossed an invisible line into alcoholism—and everything changed.

Within months, I went from drinking alcoholically to trying cocaine, eventually shooting cocaine, smoking crack, and drinking nonstop. In 1989, I was diagnosed with HIV—initially misdiagnosed as AIDS. By 1990, I was living in and out of the subway...

I survived trafficking, heroin addiction, prison, and loss that should have destroyed me — but somehow, I’m still here.

My name is Alexandra Hyden, and my life is proof that God can pull someone out of the darkest places imaginable. I’ve lived through addiction, human trafficking, incarceration, grief, and years of separation from my children. I’ve run barefoot for my life. I’ve buried people I loved while locked behind bars. I’ve carried trauma that nearly swallowed me whole.

But I’ve also witnessed miracles. After seven years in prison and almost fourteen years...

What happens when God steps into a life shattered by 25 years of meth addiction? In this powerful episode of Faith In Your Recovery, Thomas Anderson shares the raw, emotional journey from decades of addiction to a moment of divine intervention that changed everything. His story is one of destruction, surrender, and the unmistakable power of God to rebuild what addiction tried to erase.

Thomas is joined by Marlana, a woman whose faith, guidance, and presence played a vital role in his recovery. Together, they open up about the spiritual principles, community support, and God‑centered practices that he...

After 45 years addicted, God stepped in and saved my life. Tony Gibson spent nearly five decades trapped in addiction—starting at just 12 years old. Alcohol led to weed, then meth, and eventually a life marked by prison time, guilt, and running from God. After losing his father and losing himself, Tony believed he was beyond saving. Everything changed the day he was arrested after dropping meth in a gas station. Tony says that moment was God stepping in to rescue him.

While in jail, Tony attended:

A Better Life – Brianna’s Hope (ABLBH)

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Larry Musselman shares his journey from addiction to recovery, emphasizing the role of faith and support systems like Celebrate Recovery. He discusses his struggles with substance abuse, the importance of surrendering to God, and his transformation while incarcerated. Today, he works to help others through the IRACS program, promoting recovery and hope.

My journey into addiction began as an attempt to cope with stress, pressure, and emotions I didn’t know how to handle. What started as escape slowly became dependency, leading me into substance abuse, destructive thinking, and deep isolation. On the outside, I looked like a successful teacher and coach. On the inside, I was falling apart.

In 2019, I entered treatment, and that decision became the turning point. Sobriety became more than staying clean—it required accountability, humility, discipline, and a renewed relationship with God. Recovery forced me to confront pride, fear, and my need for control. Fait...

His next step would determine death or rehab. For 27 years, this former US Marine and MMA fighter fought bi-polar disorder, alcohol/drug addiction, and several suicide attempts. His cry for a sign of someone who cared brought a spirit chill moment that led him to discover his purpose and passion in life. Tim is now a highly sought after inspirational speaker sharing a word of hope for those battling mental health issues or addiction.

He survived what should have killed him… and now he’s teaching others how to reclaim their lives. In this powerful episode, we sit down with Matt Grace — author of God Doesn’t Relapse, national speaker, and transformational recovery expert with over 20 years of sobriety. With a Bachelor’s in Addiction Studies, a focus in Integrative Healing, and more than 10,000 hours mentoring individuals and families, Matt has become a trusted guide for people from every walk of life.

From Manhattan boardrooms and Palm Beach estates to church basements, recovery homes, and prison programs in Michigan, Matt’s mission is t...

In this inspiring episode of Faith In Your Recovery, two men who once sat on opposite sides of addiction, incarceration, and hopelessness sit down to share how God used a simple haircut to change everything.

Landon experienced addiction through his brothers’ actions and consequences. He believes ministry isn’t limited to preaching—it’s lived out through action. With deep faith and a pair of clippers, Landon shares God’s love in a way people can feel.

Levi’s story mirrors many who grow up surrounded by addiction. His childhood home was filled with drugs and alcohol...

She died twice, survived a suicide attempt, and still God wasn’t done writing her story. Laura’s journey is a powerful testimony of addiction, survival, and God’s redemption. Growing up with a mentally ill mother and taking her first drink at 9 years old, her life spiraled into alcohol, meth, and painkillers. By her twenties, addiction had consumed everything.

At 28, after relapsing at 22 months sober, she attempted to end her life by shooting herself in the chest. Miraculously, she survived—and experienced a spiritual awakening in the psych ward. But the battle continued: four DUIs, a near 10‑...