Marissa's story is proof that recovery isn't a single moment—it's a lifetime of choosing to keep climbing.

After years of addiction, living on the streets of San Francisco, countless attempts to get sober, and believing she still needed "one more weekend" before she was ready, Marissa finally reached the point every addict hopes to find: complete surrender.

What followed wasn't just sobriety. It was years of growth, healing, setbacks, resilience, and discovering that recovery continues long after the drugs and alcohol are gone.

In one of the most thoughtful conversations on Sicker Than Others, Marissa reflects on what it's like to look back after decades in recovery. She talks openly about trauma, relationships, grief, spirituality, parenting, community, and why recovery eventually becomes less about staying sober and more about learning how to truly live.

Her description of recovery as climbing a mountain is one you'll remember long after the episode ends. The climb never stops, but over time the steep peaks become wide plateaus, the falls become shorter, and life becomes something worth protecting.

This isn't just a story about getting sober.

It's a story about what happens when you keep showing up, one day at a time.

Produced by Jesse Solomon.

Resources

Beit T’Shuvah – Recovery, community, and treatment
https://www.beittshuvah.org

Support Beit T’Shuvah
https://beittshuvah.org/support/donate/

Alcoholics Anonymous
https://www.aa.org

Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA)
https://slaafws.org/newcomers/

Credits

Host: Seb Webber
Executive Producer: Jesse Solomon
Intro Theme: Jesse Solomon

Recorded live at Beit T’Shuvah
8831 Venice Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90034

Production inquiries:
seb@magick-arts.com

Nomi’s story begins thousands of miles away from recovery rooms and treatment centers.

Born in India to a Jewish mother and a Hindu guru father, his childhood was marked by contradiction, chaos, abuse, and a constant feeling of not belonging anywhere. Growing up surrounded by religion only pushed him further away from God. By the time he was a kid, he was already searching for ways to escape himself.

And eventually, he found drugs.

What makes Nomi’s story so haunting isn’t just the addiction — it’s how self-aware he was while it was happening. Intelligent, introspective, and deeply restless, Nomi spent years trapped inside a web of lies, isolation, anger, and self-destruction, always trying to outrun something inside himself he couldn’t explain.

Then came the overdose.

In one of the most chilling moments ever shared on Sicker Than Others, Nomi describes dying after a fentanyl overdose — watching himself from outside his body, drowning beneath icy water while paramedics fought to bring him back to life. It’s raw, terrifying, and impossible to forget.

But this episode isn’t just about death.

It’s about what happens after someone survives it.

In this deeply honest conversation, Seb and Nomi unpack addiction, identity, spirituality, self-hatred, intelligence, trauma, and the strange gift of getting a second chance after you were never supposed to wake up.

This is a story about someone who spent his whole life trying to escape himself…
and what happened when he finally stopped running.

Produced by Jesse Solomon.

Resources

Beit T’Shuvah – Recovery, community, and treatment
https://www.beittshuvah.org

Support Beit T’Shuvah
https://beittshuvah.org/support/donate/

Alcoholics Anonymous
https://www.aa.org

Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA)
https://slaafws.org/newcomers/

Credits

Host: Seb Webber
Executive Producer: Jesse Solomon
Intro Theme: Jesse Solomon

Recorded live at Beit T’Shuvah
8831 Venice Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90034

Production inquiries:
seb@magick-arts.com

Will’s story isn’t the version of alcoholism most people expect.

He didn’t fit the stereotype. High-achieving, intelligent, outwardly functional, and capable of building a successful life, Will looked like someone who had it together. But underneath the ambition, the work ethic, and the performance was something much darker.

Growing up on the East Coast in an achievement-driven family, Will learned early that success mattered. But alongside family trauma, instability, and a relentless internal pressure to perform, alcohol slowly became more than just an escape, it became a system for survival.

What makes Will’s story so compelling is the one thing he couldn’t let go of.

He was willing to change relationships. Geography. Routines. Entire chapters of his life. But work? Work was sacred. Work was identity. Work was also one of the biggest triggers keeping him trapped in relapse.

In this episode of Sicker Than Others, Will sits down with Seb for a deeply honest conversation about ambition, alcoholism, family dysfunction, long-term treatment, loneliness, and the dangerous lies high-functioning addicts tell themselves.

This isn’t a story about someone losing everything overnight.

It’s about someone who looked like they were winning… while quietly falling apart.

Produced by Jesse Solomon.

Resources

Beit T’Shuvah – Recovery, community, and treatment
https://www.beittshuvah.org

Support Beit T’Shuvah
https://beittshuvah.org/support/donate/

Alcoholics Anonymous
https://www.aa.org

Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA)
https://slaafws.org/newcomers/

Credits

Host: Seb Webber
Executive Producer: Jesse Solomon
Intro Theme: Jesse Solomon

Recorded live at Beit T’Shuvah
8831 Venice Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90034

Production inquiries:
seb@magick-arts.com