Addiction, Language and Education

Thanks For Asking

Feelings & Co.

Society & Culture, Personal Journals, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 13.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

How do we talk about addiction in more productive ways? How do we hold empathy and boundaries together? What does it mean to "recover"? Nora has no idea, so Dr. Nzinga Harrison is here to educate, comfort and reassure all of us. Support our independent production (and get bonus content galore!) by joining TTFA Premium. We now offer tiers as low as $4.99 / month. Sign up. Our email subscribers get first dibs on ticket sales, new merch, show announcements and more. Join our mailing list here. Nora also writes sad & funny books! You can buy them here. Did you know we’re on TikTok? Yep, it’s true. Follow Nora. You can catch up with TTFA on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook using @ttfapodcast. Nora's Instagram is @noraborealis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Nora McNerney and it's going to be okay.
0:04.7	Which is hard for me to say let alone believe because I am depressed.
0:10.0	But on the advice of my therapist, I am searching for one okay thing about every day and bringing
0:15.5	it to you.
0:16.9	It's going to be okay is a new daily podcast filled with okay things from me, my friends,
0:22.4	and from you.
0:23.4	Find it's going to be okay wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.9	Terrible thanks for asking is an independent production.
0:34.3	We don't have the backing of a big company or network and we like it that way.
0:39.8	Since 2016 we've been bringing you the real stories of people who have lived through their
0:44.1	terrible thing and come out on the other side.
0:47.5	We'd love to keep this going.
0:50.0	Consider supporting our independent show by joining TTFA Premium with a monthly or yearly
0:55.0	gift.
0:56.0	You'll get bonus episodes, ad free listening, and our eternal gratitude.
1:01.7	Find out more at ttfa.org slash premium.
1:09.8	I'm Nora McNerney and this is Terrible Thanks for asking.
1:13.9	Since we've started this show we've had a lot of stories that included aspects of addiction.
1:18.4	The experience of losing a loved one to it, the efforts of getting sober, the aftermath
1:23.0	of what it does to a life and to a family and to a body.
1:28.0	They're always really difficult to make because it's a difficult thing to experience.
1:32.2	It's the kind of topic where judgment is very easy and but the is harder as a listener,
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