Interview · moment 10 of 19
Jessa's Business-Decision Sobriety Story
from The Morman and the Meth Head with Jessa Reed and Aaron Woodall · #120
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2 minGuest
Jessa describes her unglamorous, calculated realization that she could get clean from meth by essentially scamming drug dealers on a flight to Delaware rather than having a dramatic rock-bottom moment.
- 26:31Jessa's sobriety took about six months to develop, starting when she stopped shooting up and began seeing things clearly.
- 26:43She got on a plane to escape a bad relationship, moving to the East Coast to avoid going back.
- 26:54On that plane, she'd already arranged for people to mail her meth to Delaware, having researched that it wasn't available there.
- 27:07She decided not to pursue it because she figured the dealers would rip her off and never send the drugs.
- 27:25Getting clean isn't the movie moment people imagine—no gutter, no white light—just realizing there's another way to go.
- 27:48The turning point is simply recognizing you could choose a different direction, which is what's actually interesting about transformation.
- 28:00Tim reflects that many people never have massive transformations, but he, Jessa, and the guest have all undergone significant ones.