51 min
Growing Up in a Recovery Household with Mary F. Why Intervention Podcast
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- Mental Health
Mary F. comes from a family of alcoholics, she also comes from a neighborhood in which drinking was seen as positive and accepted. In today's episode, Christopher will interview Mary about her life, experience, and alcoholism struggle.
The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts and interviews people who have gone through recovery.
Links and Resources from this Episode https://whyintervention.com/ https://twitter.com/whyintervention https://www.facebook.com/whyintervention/?ref=br_rs
Show Notes A neighborhood with drinking history - 2:49 Mary's experience with drugs and alcohol - 3:34 Being an alcoholic - 4:21 Her family recovery history - 5:07 Starting to smoke at eleven years old - 7:28 Liking the smell and taste of alcohol - 10:17 The craving phenomena - 11:35 When her life was chaos - 13:29 At 16 years old, she was pregnant - 15:07 It was all about drinking and consuming drugs - 16:25 The best definition of addiction - 16:57 Going to recovery meetings - 18:31 Blocking out everything she was hearing - 19:02 The feeling of active addiction - 19:56 When she realized that she had to stop - 23:00 The feeling of not knowing how to stop - 24:14 The Irish Intervention - 29:35 How her uncle helped her with an intervention - 34:30 What happened when a loved one died - 41:30 The best of being in recovery - 42:10 Having feelings of embarrassment - 45:26 What happens when somebody does something unintentionally - 48:09 How her daughter started to use drugs - 48:38 Recovery begins with you - 51:30
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Mary F. comes from a family of alcoholics, she also comes from a neighborhood in which drinking was seen as positive and accepted. In today's episode, Christopher will interview Mary about her life, experience, and alcoholism struggle.
The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts and interviews people who have gone through recovery.
Links and Resources from this Episode https://whyintervention.com/ https://twitter.com/whyintervention https://www.facebook.com/whyintervention/?ref=br_rs
Show Notes A neighborhood with drinking history - 2:49 Mary's experience with drugs and alcohol - 3:34 Being an alcoholic - 4:21 Her family recovery history - 5:07 Starting to smoke at eleven years old - 7:28 Liking the smell and taste of alcohol - 10:17 The craving phenomena - 11:35 When her life was chaos - 13:29 At 16 years old, she was pregnant - 15:07 It was all about drinking and consuming drugs - 16:25 The best definition of addiction - 16:57 Going to recovery meetings - 18:31 Blocking out everything she was hearing - 19:02 The feeling of active addiction - 19:56 When she realized that she had to stop - 23:00 The feeling of not knowing how to stop - 24:14 The Irish Intervention - 29:35 How her uncle helped her with an intervention - 34:30 What happened when a loved one died - 41:30 The best of being in recovery - 42:10 Having feelings of embarrassment - 45:26 What happens when somebody does something unintentionally - 48:09 How her daughter started to use drugs - 48:38 Recovery begins with you - 51:30
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51 min