141. Mental Health Habits: Escaping the Rx Matrix with Tara Mackey
The Life Stylist
Luke Storey
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 May 2018
⏱️ 137 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Tara Mackey has a fascinating story full of peaks and valleys, shifting between periods of abject suffering and astounding success.
Today, Tara is standing atop a shining peak: she is the CEO + Founder of The Organic Life, the CEO + Founder of Genetix Skincare, a soul singer, and the #1 best-selling author of “Cured by Nature” and “WILD Habits.”
But, as most good stories unfortunately do, it all began in a pretty dark valley.
Tara was born with drugs in her body – very literally – and into a home filled with abuse and… well, more drugs.
She didn’t fall into using hard drugs, but she was isolated and depressed and struggling to cope with her mother’s addiction. Tara’s grandparents brought her to a psychiatrist and, within 10 minutes, she had her first diagnosis and her first prescription – Lithium. The first of many.
By the time Tara was 24, she was on 14 different prescription drugs – then she reached her breaking point.
Tara successfully quit all 14 prescriptions cold turkey (which she doesn’t recommend) and started healing her chronic illnesses holistically, a move that drastically changed her life. Now Tara is turning these tragedies into her greatest gifts, converting her suffering into compassion like an emotional alchemist.
Tara replaced her addiction with WILDhabits, healing herself from the inside out – and if that works for a body going in and out of the hospital on a monthly basis due to drug complications, can you imagine what it will do for yours?
– Luke
Topics Discussed In This Episode:
- Being born a crack baby
- Detoxing
- Reading Tony Robbins as a seven-year-old
- Why addiction is a family disease, affecting everyone around you
- Codependence
- Controlling what you can control (and letting the universe take care of everything else)
- Why we usually keep repeating the same patterns until some pain forces us to make a change
- Superficial, outward honesty VS being honest with yourself
- The overmedication of children
- Pain & trauma getting misdiagnosed as mental illness
- The difference between fact and opinion
- “Shitty life disorder”
- Diagnosing problems as disorders
- Negative drug interactions that put Tara in the hospital on a monthly basis, for years
- Why Tara doesn’t recommend quitting cold turkey
- Controlling your relationship with other people
- Why interior design is so powerful
- Embracing chiropractors
- The WILD method: Willingness, Intuition, Love, & Discipline
- Using your story to make the world a better place
More about this episode.
THIS SHOW IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY:
ATHLETIC GREENS. 11 supplements in 1! As someone who’s been into superfoods, and supplementation for over 25 years, I’ve seen many a trend come and go. One of those trends is green powder blends. Having tried many of them, and left most of them behind, one I’ve decided to stick with is Athletic Greens. The attention to detail in
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The Lifestyle, Episode 141, featuring Tara Mackey. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm Luke Story, a former celebrity fashion stylist and founder of School of Style. |
| 0:32.3 | For the past 20 years, I've been relentlessly dedicated to my deepest passion, designing the ultimate lifestyle based on the most powerful principles of health and spirituality. |
| 0:38.2 | The Lifestyleist podcast is a show dedicated to sharing my discoveries |
| 0:42.2 | and the experts behind them with you. |
| 0:47.5 | All right, health fanatics, I got a new discovery for it. |
| 0:50.4 | You guys know that I'm always searching for the latest and greatest |
| 0:53.2 | when it comes to superfoods |
| 0:54.5 | and supplements and herbs, right? Well, my latest discovery is not disappointing. It's called |
| 0:59.8 | Athletic Greens. And you can go to athletic greens.com forward slash Luke to check it out for yourself. |
| 1:06.1 | So this is more than just another Greens product. There's a lot of those on the market. Some of them |
| 1:09.6 | are great. This is really a complete whole food supplement. It's got 75 ingredients in it. It's been developed over |
| 1:16.1 | 10 years by doctors, nutritionists, naturopath. One scoop is actually having like 11 supplements in |
| 1:22.2 | once. So if you're someone that doesn't want to take a bunch of pills and things like that, |
| 1:26.0 | you put a scoop of this in any smoothie, |
| 1:28.3 | water, whatever. It's got a really great flavor. It's actually delicious. It sort of has this |
| 1:32.6 | vanilla meats berry kind of flavor, but it's subtle enough that it easily mixes into just |
| 1:38.6 | about any kind of smoothie or drink you're going to mix. So it's super convenient, super potent, |
| 1:42.3 | and what's rad for you is you get |
| 1:45.1 | 20 free travel packs valued at 99 bucks with your first purchase. So here's where you go. |
| 1:49.8 | Go to athletic greens.com forward slash Luke. That's athletic greens.com forward slash |
| 1:55.3 | Luke to claim your special offer right now. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Luke Storey, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Luke Storey and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.