#322 Healing, Humor, and What It Really Takes to Rebuild Your Life with Tiffany Jenkins

The Gabby Reece Show

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4.8 • 954 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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In this raw and honest episode, Tiffany Jenkins opens up about her journey from addiction to recovery and the complicated realities of motherhood. She reflects on how her childhood shaped her mental health, the painful lows of substance abuse, and the hard-won lessons of healing. With humor and heart, Tiffany shares the importance of asking for help, rebuilding trust, and learning to love yourself again. It’s a conversation about resilience, redemption, and the beauty of embracing life’s messiest moments.

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0:00.0	life in addiction is going to end in one of three ways, jails, institutions or death.
0:06.0	I wanted it this time. I went to a six-month residential treatment program. I begged the judge
0:10.8	to let me in. I had seen girls get released from the jail and get re-arrested. And I would say,
0:16.9	like, you had the opportunity to feel the grass and listen to music and eat delicious food and you're back here.
0:23.3	And I knew that the only way I could ensure not to come back was if I fixed my brain.
0:28.1	Whoa.
0:29.1	Hold down, I have to let that sink in for a second because I feel like you probably just changed my life.
0:35.6	How do you survive with that kind of addiction for that long?
0:40.2	If you feel unlovable, it's really easy to say, what's the point?
0:43.9	Whoa, like if this person can have faith in me, when I don't even have faith in myself,
0:47.7	maybe my life is worth something.
0:51.2	Hi, everyone.
0:52.4	So today's episode is a little bit different, and it's deeply powerful. My guest is Tiffany Jenkins. She's a speaker, author, mom, and one of the most raw, real and hilariously self-aware people that I've ever talked to. You may know her from things like juggling the Jenkins or her podcast, take it or leave it. But what you might not know
1:12.5	is the full scope of what she's overcome, decades of addiction, a stint in jail, and some of the
1:17.9	darkest moments that are imaginable. And somehow she's taken all of that and turned it into a platform
1:23.1	to help others feel seen, understood, and less alone.
1:31.9	In this conversation, Tiffany gets real about addiction, mental health, motherhood, and the messiness of healing.
1:34.1	We talk about what it means to rebuild a life, how to show up for yourself when no one else is,
1:39.2	and why the people who feel the most deeply often carry the heaviest loads.
1:44.8	So whether you're personally navigating something hard like addiction or you love someone who is,
1:49.9	this episode is packed with wisdom, humor, and hope.
1:54.4	Welcome to the Gabby Rees Show.
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