Ep. 138 - Addiction: Barb’s Personal Story to Recovery
Barb Knows Best
Michelle Maros & Barb Schmidt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2024
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode, Barb shares her deeply personal and ongoing 40-year journey with bulimia—an addiction that she has battled for much of her life. She candidly discusses how she has found freedom, healing, and self-love through her recovery process. By opening up about her experience, we hope to provide a space for those struggling with addiction to feel seen and empowered to take steps toward healing.
Quotes mentioned in this episode:
- "The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." - Marcel Proust.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's episode of Barb knows best, the podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | I woke up one morning and checked myself into treatment into a six-week treatment stay. |
| 0:09.0 | The voice in my head said, you're going to die. |
| 0:11.0 | I was 28 years old and I listened. Hello everyone, hi friends. Welcome back to Barb knowsows Best, the podcast. It is me Michelle sitting here yet |
| 0:36.4 | again with my mom Barb and we're back to talk about life's most interesting and important |
| 0:42.4 | topics and today is a big one. |
| 0:45.0 | Hello mom. |
| 0:47.0 | Hi Michelle. |
| 0:48.0 | How is it going being you today? |
| 0:50.0 | It's going really well and we do have a big one today. |
| 0:53.0 | I feel like I say that every week, but you do. |
| 0:55.0 | This is a super duper big one. |
| 0:58.0 | I guess if any of you ever thought it was a bit that she says that every time, |
| 1:02.0 | it's really not because she does get so into each episode that it is the biggest |
| 1:08.6 | topic we could ever talk about when we're talking about it. Well, I think... |
| 1:13.0 | It's for you. |
| 1:14.0 | I think... |
| 1:15.0 | I say that in a nice way. |
| 1:16.0 | Well, that's what I love about our work here is in our podcast is that you always say we're here to talk |
| 1:21.7 | about life's most important and interesting topics and so today is a super duper big topic. |
| 1:29.0 | Yeah, for lots of reasons. |
| 1:32.0 | So this episode will be releasing on October 8th, so if you're |
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