Conservative podcaster and long-time Trump supporter Jack Posobiec announced twenty years of sobriety in a vulnerable segment on his recent Real America’s Voice podcast. Admitting he didn’t want to talk about it and detract from other news, he was prompted by close associates and tied it in to share a similar vision of health espoused by the late, great Charlie Kirk.
Just forty years old, Posobiec announced on his September 30th podcast that the day marked two full decades from abstaining from even a “single drop” of alcohol. Posobiec said he wasn’t judging anyone who chose a different lifestyle, but also wanted to focus on how his life had improved and tied it to his outspoken faith in Jesus Christ.
“Not here to judge anybody, not about it. It’s to all the people who are thinking they are interested in it. You can do it too. I’m living proof, because I have not had a sip of alcohol in 20 years of my life, and on September 30, 2005 I don’t know that I would have believed you if you told me, but with God, all things are possible,” Posobiec said.
He also connected his achievement to the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk, who likewise eschewed drinking. “Do not try to numb the grief of Charlie’s death by overindulging in alcohol. You’re not going to make the pain go away. You’re going to think you’re just numbing the effects. It’s going to go deeper and it’s going to get worse. That road is a bottomless pit, and that is not what Charlie wanted. Charlie knew there was more to life than what’s found in a bottle,” he added.
He continued to share the outlook held by both himself and Kirk. “And I’m not telling you what to do, but I am telling you that I think Charlie made the right call. I think you feel better. I think you live better. You be a better businessman, a better father, a better husband, a better wife, a better mother. You don’t need it. And tell you right now you don’t need it. You might think you do, but it’s a crutch, and we were not meant to live on crutches. We were meant to stand on our own two feet, and that’s what Charlie Kirk was all about. And even when he didn’t know how short and few his days were numbered, he was still living that way over and over.”
For those most interested in learning how to quit an addiction, Posobiec shared his own journey. He mentioned that his goal was never twenty years; in fact, his goal was much more short-term oriented. He was trying to not drink for one day, then for not another day. “People say, how do you do it for 20 years? I say I didn’t think I would do it for 20 years. Would do it for 20 years. I even think about doing it for one year.”
“I said I’m not going to drink today,” Posobiec said of his mindset, continuing, “and then the next day I said, I’m not going to drink today, and instead, I’m going to go to the gym, I’m going to pray, I’m going to do something else, just whatever it is, I’m going to do something else, and I’m going to use that to fill whatever, you know, whatever it was that I was trying to cover up or get into.”
You can watch Posobiec open up below:
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