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10% Happier with Dan Harris

Elizabeth Vargas, ABC News Anchor

10% Happier with Dan Harris

10% Media, LLC

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.612.9K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2016

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Elizabeth Vargas has been known throughout her 30-year career for her strong reporting around the world, her tough interviews and her steadiness during breaking news coverage. But now for the first time, Vargas reveals that she has also long struggled with alcoholism and anxiety. In her interview with Dan Harris and in her new book, "Between Breaths: A Memoir of Panic and Addiction," Vargas shares that she suffered repeated relapses and says meditation and reaching out to others has helped save her.

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0:00.0

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0:29.8

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0:36.0

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0:39.7

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0:56.5

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1:02.6

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1:08.8

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1:17.6

From ABC, this is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris.

1:24.5

So this is a surreal episode for me. You're about to listen to an interview with one of my

1:30.3

colleagues, a woman with whom I've worked for many, many years and who had a lot of drama

1:36.4

and our life that a lot of us did not know about until recently. Her name is Elizabeth

1:43.4

Vargas. She's the anchor of 2020 and she's got a new book called Between Breaths, a memoir

1:49.8

of panic and addiction. It is as you're about to hear. It tells the story of a really

1:56.0

harrowing personal struggle on her part. And also, of course, given that this is a 10% happier

2:03.3

podcast, it involves toward the back end of the story. Some meditation, which is really

2:10.8

turned out to be really useful for Elizabeth. So here we go. I'll give you Elizabeth.

2:15.3

Thanks for coming on. My pleasure.

2:18.0

You have quite a story to tell. But unlike most of your interviews, I'm going to start

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