Addiction doesn’t always look like addiction. Sometimes it looks like normal life. A job. A smile. Routine. And underneath it, chaos. In this episode, Kayla shares her story of addiction, overdose, prison, and the long road into recovery. What began with pills eventually spiraled into heroin, arrests, broken relationships, and years of torment. But through Grace House, everything changed. Now she helps lead women through the same recovery process that saved her life. We talk about: • how addiction creeps in • why recovery requires community • the role of trauma and mental health • how faith changes recovery • what Grace House is doing for women in Georgia If you know someone battling addiction—or if you are yourself—this conversation matters. Grace House: gracehousebrunswick.org Subscribe for more nonprofit stories and conversations that matter. #AddictionRecovery #Sobriety #NonprofitStories #faithandrecovery Podcast Notes In this episode: How addiction often starts slowly and deceptively Why pills and alcohol are often the gateway into deeper substance abuse The hidden role trauma and mental health play in addiction Kayla’s seven-year battle with substance abuse The overdose that still wasn’t rock bottom Prison, isolation, and the breaking point How Grace House became the bridge to recovery Why community matters in healing The role faith played in Kayla’s transformation How Grace House helps women rebuild their lives practically—not just spiritually Why sobriety is more than abstinence
Addiction rarely begins where it ends.
For Kayla, it started with pills. Something manageable. Something explainable. Something easy to justify.
But addiction has a way of changing shape.
What started as control became chaos. Pills turned into heroin. The years that followed became what she calls seven years of absolute torment—arrests, overdoses, prison, broken trust, and a life unraveling faster than she could stop it.
But prison became the interruption.
Grace House became the turning point.
And recovery became the rebuilding.
In this conversation, Kayla shares the brutal reality of addiction, the role trauma and mental health play beneath it, why recovery cannot happen in isolation, and how Grace House is helping women rebuild not just sobriety—but structure, stability, and purpose.
This is not just a story about addiction.
It is a story about what happens when grace meets rock bottom.