Anna David joins us on the SHAIR Podcast. Anna is the New York Times best-selling author of Party Girl and has been a regular guest on the Today Show, Fox News Hannity, and Red Eye, The CBS Morning Show, Dr. Drew, The Talk, and Inside Edition.
More recently she is now the Editor in Chief of In Recovery Magazine and has a great coaching program for writers who want to become bestselling authors, Anna David Coaching.
She was the editor-in-chief in both After Party and RehabReviews.com for three years. Her consulting company, Recover Girl, includes both a storytelling show and a podcast. Recover Girl formerly the After Party Pod, for those of you have heard of the After Party Pod, I'm sure, that focuses on de-stigmatizing addiction and developing healthier lives. She speaks on television and at colleges across the country on addiction, recovery, and relationships.
On today's episode Anna and I discuss bottoming out on Cocaine, her journey in sobriety, and becoming a wildly successful woman in recovery.
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Recommended Books:
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget Paperback – by Sarah Hepola
How to Murder Your Life: A Memoir Hardcover – by Cat Marnell
Party Girl: A Novel Paperback – by Anna David
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Cortland Pfeffer joins today us on The SHAIR Podcast. Cortland is the author of "Taking the Mask Off: Destroying the Stigmatic Barriers of Mental Health and Addiction Using a Spiritual Solution." Cortland spent years as a patient in psychiatric hospitals, treatment centers, and jails, before becoming a registered nurse and working in the same facilities. This is a story about recovery that goes inside the mental health and addiction field, revealing the problems and providing a spiritual solution.
Join us now as Cortland takes us through his battle with addiction and his inspirational journey of recovery.
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The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom – by Don Miguel Ruiz
Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm - by Thich Nhat Hanh
Amy B. joins us today on The SHAIR Podcast, and Amy got sober 10 years ago using 12-step recovery. Most recently she became a recovery coach and is participating in an internship with a long-term up to two years sober treatment living facility. She joins us today to share with us her unbelievable battle with alcohol and her inspirational journey into recovery.
Clean Date: August 4, 2006
Below are few questions Amy answered for us on the show.
Omar: What is the best suggestion you have ever received?
Amy B. : Don't give up until the miracle happens. A gentlemen on Friday nights who ... He called me Miracle Girl. Every Friday night I would go into the meeting and Jim, his name happens to be Jim like my husband. He'd be like, "Did it happen?" I'm like, "Not yet, Jim." When the miracle started happening, I'm like, "I got to start dressing better. I got to get a haircut. I'm like a walking miracle, you know." One of the things that people say to me, they call me their Miracle Girl or Funny Amy. You know how we all have handles. I'm like, "As long as I'm not Old Amy, I'm okay. You guys call me whatever you need to call me."
Once that miracle happened, the epiphany, the beer truck or leaving that booze in that house and that, just awed by gratitude of ... Gosh. That year I stopped drinking alone when my kids were little, the obsession never left. Never left, until I actually did the program and got free from the obsession, whether I was drinking or not, I was in the obsession. My husband's a normal drinker. When he's drinking, I don't wish I was. That's freedom. That's freedom.
Omar: If you could give a newcomer only one suggestion, what would that be?
Amy B. : Open your mind and try a real adventure. You can always go back to hell. Hell doesn't close the door. When I sobered up, I couldn't do one errand a day. I wasn't able to get dressed and I couldn't even take a shower most days. Now, there's not enough time in a day to get all the things done I want to do. Now, I'm truly free. I never felt like an adult before and that was one of the things that kept me drinking. Now, I'm a full-fledged adult with the same responsibilities, but also the same freedoms as an adult. That's my thing, just try it. Give it six months, give it a year. Give it whatever time limit, just try. I didn't know there was this much grace in the world. I did the same thing for 30 years, and I got the same results. I tried something different for 10, and I now I can't even imagine what's on the horizon for me.
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Josh Horton joins us today on The SHAIR Podcast, and Josh's story was featured in the Oxford Eagle online newspaper titled, Meet Joshua Horton: Ole Miss Law student overcomes odds, fights to make difference. Josh is a second-year Old Miss law student who finished magna cum laude from the Ole Miss Honors College, but prior to his achievement Josh was a train wreck, wreaking havoc everywhere he went. That sound about right, Josh?
Josh Horton: Yeah, I don't know. It might be more of a plane crash than a train wreck but yeah, it was pretty bad. A little bit's happened since then. That was a few months ago. We've had a lot of progress since then. Matter of fact, I'm from Atlanta originally which I'll get into in my story. We had a large center feature on the front page of the Atlantic Journal Constitution talking about “No Matter What” and what that means in my recovery and the story of my journey that has brought me to law school.
Omar: Do you have a Favorite Quote?
Josh Horton: Why yes I do…
"The test of success is not what you do when you're on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom" ~ George Patton
Omar: I hear you brother! So what is the best suggestion you have ever received?
Josh Horton: My sponsor made a comment to me once. I told you my father was killed when I was a young man or a baby actually. For a long time I was looking for a father figure and I was looking for somebody to show up and rescue me or take care of me. I was talking to Tim about this and I said, "I've always just wanted a guy to show up and be that father figure." He goes, "Josh, when you going to stop looking for that guy and start being that guy?" That really I think was a pivotal moment in not just my recovery but my entire life. He was right. When I started to do that, my life changed. My whole ... Everything started to kind of shift and I realized I don't have to wait on anybody else anymore. I can go do that now. I can go be what I've been looking for my entire life. I don't have to wait on somebody else to show up and do it for me.
Omar: That was another beautiful God shot right there, the miracle of sponsorship. So Josh if you could give a newcomer only one suggestion, what would that be?
Josh Horton: Surrender I think. That's the answer to most of my problems today is the ability to surrender in whatever I'm doing. It's kind of like that spiritual jujitsu. If I'm willing to surrender I can overcome just about anything. My pain usually comes from my resistance to the process and the more I try and resist the more pain and discomfort I have and the more mental anguish and turmoil as well. That's the biggest piece of mind I can get today. It's just this ability to surrender.
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The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth - by M. Scott Peck
A New Pair of Glasses 9th Print Edition - by Chuck "C"
The Sermon on the Mount: The Key to Success in Life Paperback – by Emmet Fox
Contact info for Josh:
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