210 - Interview with Tawny Lara

Seltzer Squad - Staying Sober In The City

Kate Zander

Seltzer, Alcohol, Adventure, Anonymous, Sobriety, Girls, Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Sober, Female, Podcast, City, Society & Culture

4.9 • 778 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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I had the privilege of sitting down with my incredible friend and author, Tawny, who wrote us a much-needed book about relationships in sobriety. On this episode we discuss the evolution of our definition of sobriety, the writing process and of course DRY HUMPING, Tawny's book.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Seltzer Squad, the podcast about staying sober in the city with your host Kate Sander and Jess Valentine.
0:15.0	Hi. Hi, Squad. It's me, Kate, Solo.
0:27.7	Squad 2.0, and I'm here with Tani. Hi, Tani.
0:30.6	Hello, my love. Welcome back.
0:32.7	Thanks for having me. Always great to be here.
0:34.8	Oh, my God. What's new? Tell me everything.
0:38.9	I don't remember the last time you were on, but I feel like it was a while ago. What's been going on since? You've been busy.
0:45.6	So my partner and I moved into a three-bedroom apartment in Manhattan. Oh, my God. You're living in a
0:51.1	mansion. Essentially, a unicorn rent-stabilized three-bedroom popped up in our
0:58.3	building. In our building. It was literally the easiest move ever. Good for you. And so I have my own
1:04.1	office. I'm recording in my own. I think last time you were in your bedroom. Yeah, this is different.
1:09.6	Yeah. Exactly. So that has been
1:13.7	incredible for my mental health, for my sanity, for our relationship. He has an office. I have an
1:20.1	office. Our bedroom is just a bedroom. That's a brand new concept for me. And I've, Kate, I've created a meditation closet in my office. It is where,
1:30.4	good for you. It's, it is a space where like I meditate, I do taro. I read. Like, it's my space to
1:38.5	just chill and reconnect. And that is, that is such a gift that I gave myself. I love that. That's good. I like good news
1:47.8	coming out of the pandemic because I think it's a relatively dark time right now for many of us,
1:53.3	where we're like, what are we doing? Where are we going? What happened? Why do I feel this way?
1:59.0	Yeah. It seems to be the consensus. Yeah. Good. Yeah, that's a lot of good stuff. And, you know, my book comes out in September. How do you feel? So I am so excited. It's like, you know, it's so weird because I've worked on this. You know, I've been working on this book for literal years. And it's just so
2:20.7	crazy to see how it's, you know, it started as a memoir. And then I workshopped it for years and
2:25.4	realized I don't want to write a memoir, but I'm still interested in the conversation. So it's,
2:30.3	it's about sober sex and dating and relationships. So, you know, it was a memoir about my experience sober sex and dating.
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