Guest Kelly Jo: Acceptance When Life Gets Real — Recovery, Surrender, Presence, and Mortality

Doing The Work from Naples Integrated Recovery · Aug 16, 2026 · 59m

Kelly Jo and I met online during the pandemic, when recovery was a major part of both of our lives. In this conversation, she shares where alcoholism took her, what finally led to surrender, and how sobriety allowed her to uncover the person she believes had been there all along.

Years later, serious illness brought her face-to-face with a very different kind of surrender. She describes becoming sick enough to believe she might die, telling God, “You can have me,” and experiencing a profound sense of peace that changed her relationship with death, control, and the future.

We talk about…