Episode Two: Survival vs. Healing In this episode of Help the People, host Shannon Riley unpacks the difference between survival and healing two words we often confuse. Survival is making it through the storm, but healing is learning to breathe after the storm. Drawing from his own story of beginning to drink at fourteen and battling addiction for nearly four decades, Shannon shares how survival once became his only language. But survival alone wasn’t enough it numbed the pain without ever mending it.
Through honest storytelling, he reflects on the losses, broken ladders, and God’s interventions that led him to sobriety. This episode challenges us to ask: Are we just surviving, or are we truly healing? It’s a call to move beyond resilience as a finish line and step into the deeper work of recovery, presence, and joy.
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