EP 159: Naked Life Story: Taryn
This Naked Mind Podcast
Annie Grace
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Ready to meet someone super cool? Annie Grace chats it up with Taryn Strong – one of the founders of She Recovers – an organization aimed at connecting, supporting, and empowering women. Taryn takes us back to her first drink at 12 years old and walks us through her hard-partying past of alcohol and cocaine. Find out how Taryn took her recovery experience and used it to help others through a variety of resources, including yoga, women’s retreats, and coaching.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Annie Grace and you're listening to this naked mind podcast where without judgment, |
| 0:16.0 | pain or rules, we explore the role of alcohol in our lives and culture. |
| 0:20.2 | I'm Annie Grace and welcome to this naked mind podcast. I am super excited today. I have with me |
| 0:33.9 | Terrin Strong and I met Terrin actually through her mother, Don Nicol and their incredible organization. |
| 0:39.8 | She recovers and like just have been seriously in awe of you and love your |
| 0:45.2 | present, your Instagram feed, all the stuff you put into the world and I'm really excited to have |
| 0:49.0 | you. Welcome. Oh yeah, thank you so much to be here. It's such an honor and I have to admit I'm |
| 0:55.1 | nervous because you've been such an inspiration and so instrumental in my recovery that it's |
| 1:03.5 | just surreal to be here right now. So thank you. Oh that's so awesome. So yeah let's talk about it. |
| 1:09.1 | I love you to just bring me sort of back to the beginning in your story and just really hear |
| 1:14.0 | where it all began for you. Absolutely. So where it all began if you already mentioned the wonderful |
| 1:20.9 | mama Don. So my mom is Don Nicol, founder of She Recovers and she I guess a lot of you who know |
| 1:29.1 | her will know now that she's a woman who's in long-term recovery. She entered recovery when I |
| 1:34.1 | was four and my sister was eight and her path of recovery at that time was and still is a 12-step |
| 1:42.1 | program. So I always share because it's true and I feel so lucky that this is my experience that |
| 1:48.7 | some of my earliest memories are 12-step meetings. Sitting in those rooms, very smokey rooms back then |
| 1:57.6 | and listening to people not knowing what they were talking about but just being four years old |
| 2:03.1 | and sitting there and knowing that I was sitting in a room of really cool people, people who were |
| 2:09.5 | the real deal. That always stuck with me and then growing up we would always attend 12-step camp |
| 2:15.5 | outs and my parents were very very involved in that community. That's so cool. I remember that I've |
| 2:22.2 | heard it. I forget who say it might have been Glen and Doyle who said to you first to watch |
| 2:26.5 | and your first 12-step meeting and she's like oh my gosh it's a place where people are telling the |
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