Welcome to Betrayal Trauma Recovery. This is Anne. I have Corinne Fawcett on the podcast today. She is an artist and I would like her to introduce herself because she has a very interesting story.

So welcome, Corin.

Hello, I think I relate to a lot of people, you know, difficult childhood.

I was visually and hearing impaired.

So that isolated me a lot.

That became a problem later on in a marriage where I needed to know how to communicate,

I needed to know how to communicate I needed to know how to solve issues instead of just

hiding it made the situation more difficult I needed to use what I did have, which was the artistic ability to communicate, to study addiction, to study recovery.

I wanted to have Corinne on the podcast because I don't have a lot of recovery artists that I meet every day and I looked at her art and it was so beautiful and moving.

So Corinne, let's start by asking you how did you begin your life

of learning about addiction and coping? It was kind of you know baptism by fire.

I got married I thought I had a good foundation only to find out

that my husband's family had a lot of issues that I wasn't aware of. This led to him living the way he

thought that relationships and families were supposed to be. It involved lying,

involved covering things up.

It involved unhealthy coping mechanisms

that were very hurtful and that led to a lot of trauma where I would put up

walls isolate myself even further not communicate and of course nothing would

get solved.

It's very, very dysfunctional.

It became a really bad cycle because I needed to

take responsibility for my actions

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