Ep. 128 Supporting Addicts with Connection Not Control with Tarah Dowling
Recovering From Reality
Dear Media, Alexis Haines
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, I am joined by Tarah Dowling a model, daughter of an addict, former foster child, and creator of the documentary To the Moon and Back. We discuss Tarah’s journey experience during her mom’s active addiction, her time in foster care, how their relationship evolved as showcased in the documentary, and using a compassionate approach to navigating addiction.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a deer media production. |
| 0:07.5 | Hey, this is Alexis Haines and welcome to Recovering from Reality, |
| 0:11.6 | where I illuminate the messy and magical path of coming home to yourself. |
| 0:16.1 | Whether you're on the road to recovery, seeking self-care techniques for surviving the |
| 0:20.5 | capitalist machine, or just need a moment to remember that you're not alone in your loneliness, |
| 0:26.2 | we're serving up the ultimate truth. Your challenges don't define you, how you deal with them does. |
| 0:33.0 | So, are you ready to recover from reality? |
| 0:40.6 | I think that I was really blessed by being able to see the struggle, and I think a lot of the people |
| 0:45.2 | that are loving somebody with the addiction, they don't understand because they've never been |
| 0:48.8 | the addict, and they always say until you've been an addict, you'll never understand that struggle |
| 0:54.0 | of how hard it is to not use. So, I would say that was my biggest blessing was just to be able |
| 1:01.1 | to see that my mom struggled so hard and to see that, you know, if she could choose me, she would have. |
| 1:07.2 | Yeah, yeah, we want to. So bad. Yeah, we do. It's like, and that's the most painful thing. |
| 1:17.8 | That was a quick clip from this week's episode with Tara Dowling. |
| 1:21.6 | I love TikTok, you guys. Sometimes it brings me in contact with the most amazing people. |
| 1:28.3 | And I was going to say the average people, but Tara is far from average. She is one special human. |
| 1:38.0 | She had a TikTok video, go viral, and for good reason. And that's where I originally found her |
| 1:45.6 | and just knew that I had to connect with her on the podcast. And it gets emotional, y'all. |
| 1:51.3 | It gets really, really emotional. Tara's story is equal parts heartbreaking and inspiring. |
| 2:00.0 | And in this TikTok, it showed a quick compilation of years of film footage |
| 2:08.4 | that she had of her mom who struggled with mental health and addiction. And it was this beautiful |
| 2:18.4 | journey of Tara learning to love her mom just as she was. And so today, she's joining me on the |
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