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It Felt Like Imprisonment: How Sterling Campbell Quit Drugs and Alcohol

A drum kit on an empty stage before a show, a glass of water on the riser beside it.

Sterling Campbell, a New York drummer who toured with David Bowie and Duran Duran, spent eight years on drugs, daily drinking and two packs of cigarettes a day. A pamphlet handed to him in a park in 1998 began his way out — and a harder lesson after it.

addiction, drinking, self-blame, shame, starting over

The Fake Bug Test: How a Mother Began to Let Go of Anger

A small-town public library at dusk, warm light in the windows, a bench outside.

A mother of three from eastern Kentucky lived by one rule: if anyone wronged her, she wronged them worse. After a family fight left her in a Texas homeless shelter, a library video led her to Falun Gong — and a prank at a gas station showed her how to begin to let go of anger.

anger, family conflict, forbearance, revenge, starting over