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About God Doesn't Relapse: Sex, Drugs, and the Life That Almost Killed Me

More than 48 million Americans are battling substance use disorder—and more than half of those who find their way to recovery will relapse. The numbers are staggering, but statistics alone can’t capture the devastation. God Doesn’t Relapse: Sex, Drugs, and the Life That Almost Killed Me does. In this gripping and unflinchingly honest memoir, Matt Grace takes listeners inside the chaos, compulsion, and collapse that defined his spiral into addiction. He lays bare the layered dependencies that stole his dignity, the recklessness that shattered the lives around him, and the spiritual reckoning that ultimately saved him. Grace never softens the truth. He never hides behind excuses. What he offers instead is raw reality—and the profound transformation that followed. You may flinch at the destructive, manipulative person he became, but you will just as fiercely root for the man he is now: more than twenty years sober, grounded in humility, and committed to serving others. Grace’s story is not just personal—it’s urgently relevant. As prescription drug abuse surges, as fentanyl turns every relapse into a potential death sentence, and as families across the country grapple with loss, disappearance, and exploitation, this memoir exposes the deep fractures in the lives of addicts and the often-inadequate approaches within the addiction treatment industry. This book is ultimately about hope. If recovery begins with personal responsibility, lasting transformation is a shared, spiritual, and communal journey. Listen to it. Share it. Talk about it. God Doesn’t Relapse may save the life of someone you love—or your own.