Episode 042 - From the Stage to the Page: Mary Peeples on Sobriety, Self-Reclamation, and the Courage to Create Again

The Sober Creative Podcast · Feb 28, 2026 · 37m

530 days sober and still counting — this conversation will remind you what it means to come home to yourself.

Mary Peeples has lived many lives inside one. The theater kid from South Georgia who played Annie at the Fox. The boarding school girl who quietly lost herself trying to fit in. The 23-year-old editor-in-chief who, by her own account, torched it all by 25. And then, the one who finally walked into rehab — not as a breaking point, but as a bridge back.

What makes Mary’s story so powerful isn’t just the sobriety. It’s the honest, patient work of excavating who she actually is beneath…