Addiction, Mission, and Recovery w/ Breanne Demarco
Pints With Aquinas
Matt Fradd
4.8 • 6.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2024
⏱️ 188 minutes
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Summary
Breanne grew up in the Diocese of Austin, Texas and was heavily involved in various outreach ministries until she graduated and left the country to serve as a full-time foreign missionary. After traveling to 13 countries she returned home and began to serve in ministry Stateside - giving talks at youth retreats and events all over the U.S. She spent some time in the convent discerning her vocation, and also as the Campus Minister at Texas State University. She recently got married and now has two children. She has been sober for 8 years and has helped many other addicts pursue recovery along the way. In her free time, which doesn’t exist anymore since she is a mother, she likes to ride motorcycles, shoot guns, and go to Adoration.
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| 0:00.0 | Brian. That's it. Nice to have you on the show. Yes, it's so great to be here. Yes, I interviewed you once upon a time for that |
| 0:07.7 | Covenantized podcast. That's right. We did do that. It was a while ago and I feel like we is like the tip of the iceberg like we talked a little bit but it was |
| 0:16.8 | There's so much more to the story so I'm glad to to be here to share. Yeah, and I'm honored to hear it so man how do we how do we begin? Where's one begin with your life story? I mean I guess I'll start with a little background so people kind of understand you know I grew up Catholic, but it was like, it was Catholic, but kind of like, |
| 0:37.9 | okay, we go to Mass on Sundays and all right, we give stuff up for Lent and make sure to follow the rules and that sort of thing. |
| 0:44.6 | But you know I would go on retreats and have these encounters and come to know God, but really I feel like there were already little pieces maybe missing |
| 0:55.0 | maybe in my heart where I was looking for love and maybe looking in the wrong |
| 0:58.9 | places. I mean I feel like at an early age I kind of started down that journey. |
| 1:02.6 | Where did you grow up? |
| 1:03.6 | I grew up in Texas. |
| 1:05.2 | Yeah, yeah in the Austin area and great parish, super active. |
| 1:09.8 | You know, my mom was pretty active in the parish and so I had that kind of witness but yeah I |
| 1:16.7 | don't know I mean I just remember like by 12 years old already struggling with like |
| 1:26.7 | self-harm or like one like having these just suicidal ideation kind of thoughts I mean and I was like 12 or 13 years old and so it started young it definitely yeah do you |
| 1:32.1 | look back and was was there events that took place in your life prior to that that led to that? |
| 1:36.3 | You know what's interesting is I feel like I have tried to psycho analyze, you know, |
| 1:41.8 | through years of therapy and talking to people and group recovering |
| 1:46.2 | that sort of thing, it's like it would be nice if there was this pinpoint like, aha, this is why I was the way I was and I think oftentimes in life like I want that I want that clear cut answer and there were many times I question God like why why am I the way I am |
| 2:03.7 | and I realize that I think if God answered me, |
| 2:06.3 | it still wouldn't be good enough for me. |
| 2:08.0 | Like I would still be like, okay, but why? |
| 2:09.9 | Like I would push back on his answer. |
| 2:12.1 | If God himself told me why I was the way I was. I would |
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