Robb Kelly Recovery Group

Daddy, Daddy Please Stop Drinking chronicles the true-life story of my personal fight from homeless alcoholic to living a life beyond my wildest dreams.

My name is Dr. Robb Kelly and today I run a successful alcohol and addiction recovery business, but I had to travel to hell and back to make me the man I am today. I am not sure when I crossed the line from social drinking to alcoholism, I just know I did, and my life would never be the same again. I was married with children and had a great career; life could not have been better.

The only problem is that I drank too much, and when I did, I lost control. When I enjoyed my drinking I couldn’t control it, and when I controlled my drinking, I couldn’t enjoy it. Finally, alcoholism gripped me hard and like most people I sank quickly. I lost everything: my business, my home, my wife, and most importantly my two young daughters. I had a PhD from Oxford University but went from a comfortable home to homelessness and lived on the mean streets of Manchester England for a year asking for handouts to purchase liquor. While homeless, I was arrested several times, prone to blackouts that lasted for weeks, and was assaulted physically and sexually. I have had several near brushes with death, including an attempted suicide. So great was my despair of my alcoholic and addictive condition that I just wanted to die. On a cold and wet English night, I fell to my knees and begged God to help me find a way from the endless nightmare that was my existence and moments later a man carrying a bible rounded the corner and offered me a helping hand.