146: Addiction, Recovery, and Redemption ft. Victoria Ray
The Catholic Feminist
Claire Swinarski
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2020
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Talk about turning your mess into your message. Today's guest, Victoria Ray, is a speaker, a podcaster, a student, and a Certified Addiction Empowerment Specialist. She's also in recovery and a big ole fan of Jesus. Victoria is here on the show today to talk about whether she believes her addiction was part of God's "plan" for her life, how she found truth in her faith during the darkest days of her life, and why she decided to devote her life to serving others with addictions. She also offers helpful tips for people whose friends and family members are currently caught in the clutches of addiction and talks about what she wishes more Catholics understood about the nature of recovery. Victoria is young, well-spoken, and faithful: busting every single "addict" stereotype you may have been carrying around. She serves as an amazing example for just what our good, good God is capable of. I hope you find meaning in our chat today!
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Catholic feminist episode 146. Today we're talking all about drug addiction and recovery. |
| 0:08.0 | Today's episode is brought to you by every sacred Sunday. It's not too late to grab one of their beautiful mass |
| 0:14.2 | journals at every sacred Sunday.com today's episode is also brought to you by |
| 0:19.3 | audible for a free audio book head to audible trial.com slash Catholic. |
| 0:26.4 | Welcome to the Catholic feminist a podcast for strong women who want to be informed |
| 0:31.2 | inspired and intentional. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm your host, Claire, and I don't know how to work it. I wanted to say that I'm so |
| 0:55.5 | sorry for last week's episode's technical difficulties. They should be all |
| 1:00.3 | ironed out so you may have to delete the episode and re-download it but |
| 1:04.7 | thank you so much to everyone who told me that it had some difficulties and I hope |
| 1:09.2 | that I fixed them properly this time around. Anyway I am really excited about today's episode. We are |
| 1:15.6 | talking to Victoria Ray of the Recovery Girl podcast and she is here to share with us her |
| 1:21.8 | story of drug addiction and recovery, |
| 1:24.8 | why she decided to become a certified empowerment specialist and how she now |
| 1:30.0 | helps other people walk through addictions. |
| 1:33.2 | We haven't talked about this episode too too much on the show yet, |
| 1:36.7 | and I'm just really happy to have Victoria on sharing her |
| 1:40.3 | her beautiful, vulnerable story. |
| 1:42.4 | So without further ado, let's jump on in. |
| 1:45.6 | Victoria, welcome to the show. |
| 1:48.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:49.2 | Tell us a little bit about you and what your life |
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