Aaron opens up about his struggles with addiction stemming from his parents' divorce and how he used the atonement to heal.
Come Back Podcast
Ashly Stone
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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"I was able to bring suppressed memories to the surface, deal with it as an adult, go back and forgive my mom and forgive myself. That was when real healing began. If you are holding a grudge against someone -- no matter how bad it was -- number one you have to forgive them, or else you will get eaten up. You aren't hurting anyone but yourself if you're not forgiving someone. Number two pray, and God will guide you on how to do that. That is where healing came, it was still a process and work but then I was able to deal with committing to someone and not running. I no longer had the desire to use women anymore because I had dealt with that."
Come Back Team:
Director, Founder & Host: Ashly Stone
Producer and Senior Editor: Lauren Rose
Outreach Manager: Jenna Carlson
Editor: Michelle Berger
Art Director: Jeremy Garcia
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| 0:00.0 | This is Ashley Stone and you're listening to the Comeback Podcast. Aaron, I am so excited to have you on the podcast. When you emailed me, I read your story and I was kind of like, what you went went through I think so many people could relate to and I think it will help so many people so I'm really excited to just have you share your story with everybody. |
| 0:33.8 | Well, thanks. It's an honor to be here and I appreciate the, like I told you in the email, I've been listening to you. |
| 0:39.8 | So my cousin, who's from your hometown, email me or texted me probably about two months ago and |
| 0:45.2 | I've been listening to these stories and the more I listened more I just felt that |
| 0:49.6 | nudge like hey I think need to get this out there. There might be someone that could benefit so |
| 0:53.7 | Well let's go ahead and jump in I like to get like kind of a little intro of you know are you |
| 0:59.9 | married have kids like where do you live like just so people have some context for you and |
| 1:05.4 | maybe like what you do for work or I don't know whatever you want to share just to |
| 1:09.1 | give us some context and then we can jump into your story. Yeah, for sure. |
| 1:13.0 | So I've been in Colorado for two years, |
| 1:15.0 | just south of Denver in the Castle Rock area, |
| 1:18.0 | if you're familiar with that. |
| 1:19.0 | We lived in Washington in the Seattle area for 18 years |
| 1:22.0 | where I've met my wife, and that's all part of this story. We have four kids. Our oldest is she's going to be 15 on December 31st, three girls and one boy. |
| 1:35.0 | So our son is 12, and then we've got 10 and 8 year old daughters as well. |
| 1:39.4 | For work I've been doing business development, sales, my whole career. So that's what I do. |
| 1:44.9 | Cool. Well, let's go ahead and jump into your story. I grew up in Idaho, if you're familiar with Burley, |
| 1:51.6 | Idaho. Do you know where that is? |
| 1:53.2 | I think I actually do know where that is. |
| 1:55.6 | Is it not too far from Utah? |
| 1:58.2 | Yeah, it's pretty close to the border. |
| 2:00.4 | Okay, yeah, I have about 40 minutes. |
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