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From Addiction to Mountains: Recovering addict 2025 | The Climb Out | Moving Mountains.

A recovering addict that hikes mountains and hill over Wales to raise awareness for people who suffer with their mental health and addiction.

👃**Addiction to Mountains** 👉**The journey of a recovering addict**👈

Moving Mountains. My story by Wayne Andrews

This episode shares the honest and unfiltered story of Wayne Andrews, a recovering cocaine addict who has turned his life around and now spends his time hiking mountains across Wales to raise awareness for addiction and mental health.

Wayne talks openly about how recreational drug use from his teens spiralled into a serious cocaine addiction, fuelled by trauma, grief and unprocessed emotions after losing two of his best friends to suicide and other family bereavements. He reflects on the denial, the chaos, the money spent, and the way his behaviour affected the people closest to him, even when they were trying to help.

The turning point came after a three-day bender, alone in his bedroom, staring at a canvas of himself and his nephew and realising he might not wake up one day if he carried on. From there, Wayne reached out to his family, asked for help, entered therapy and sat in a room full of strangers to say the words: “I’m Wayne, and I’m a cocaine addict.”

What felt like the end of his life became the start of a completely new one.

Today, Wayne is:

● Clean from cocaine and in active recovery
● Hiking hills and mountains all over Wales and Europe
● Running a hiking group for people in addiction and with mental health challenges
● Raising money for the self-funded recovery and therapy groups that helped him

He speaks about:
● Growing up in a close-knit village and experimenting with cigarettes, cannabis, LSD and ecstasy
● How cocaine started “socially” and slowly took over his life
● Finding his friend after he took his own life and the impact that moment had
● Writing a note in 2019 to his family in case he didn’t wake up
● The difference between being in “a dark place” and being in a bad mindset
● The moment he decided to “sort his life out” and take responsibility
● What really happens inside therapy and recovery groups
● Why hiking and the mountains became his way of healing and finding peace
● Climbing more than 560 peaks in Wales and walking 300 miles from South to North
● Building a new character and protecting his peace at all costs
● Being tested in recovery, including finding a bag of cocaine on a toilet floor
● Regret, self-forgiveness and making peace with the past
● Why relapse does not make you a failure and why recovery is lifelong
● His message to anyone currently struggling with addiction or feeling like giving up

Wayne’s message to anyone struggling

Wayne is very clear:
● You are not weak for asking for help.
● Admitting you have a problem is one of the bravest things you will ever do.
● Recovery is a lifelong journey, and relapse does not mean you have failed.
● If you feel like you cannot go on, try to hold on for one more day.

He believes that if you can beat drug addiction, you can achieve almost anything, and that your true strength is shown in how you rise after you fall.
Important note / support

This video contains discussion of drug addiction, suicidal thoughts and suicide.

If you are struggling, please reach out to someone you trust or contact a professional support service in your country. If you are in immediate danger, please contact the emergency services.

In the UK, you can contact:

● Samaritans: Call 116 123 (free, 24/7) or visit their website for chat and email support
● NHS 111 for urgent mental health support and advice

You do not have to go through this alone.

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