Episode 44: Mom Shame

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Laura McKowen & Holly Whitaker

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🗓️ 18 May 2016

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

One year ago today, Melissa Johnson's kids were taken from her custody. And one year ago, tomorrow, she will celebrate 365 days sober. In this gorgeous talk - equal in heartbreak and hope - she courageously (really, is there anything more brave?) shares her story about losing custody twice, her experience in AA, forever tries, the power of love and mercy, and coping with the particularly nasty flavor of shame saved for mothers. Melissa writes openly about her story on her website, My Truth Starts Here (www.mytruthstartshere.org).

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0:00.0	There is hope for us yet.
0:07.6	Starting.
0:08.6	Okay.
0:09.6	I am Laura McCallin. And I am Laura McCallin and I am Holly Whitaker.
0:17.0	And this is...
0:20.0	Did you just take a sip of your coffee?
0:23.0	Yes!
0:25.0	We're on home podcast.
0:27.0	That's so funny.
0:30.0	I like to try to speak in a sibier coffee
0:32.0	in between me saying and I'm Hollywood
0:34.9	occurred. You saying. Oh my God. Eat it. I haven't had any so everyone. It's too early for you to have coffee. It's really not. I'm just going back to bed. Yeah.
0:49.0	Yeah. Yeah, so we are introducing this week's episode, which is an interview with Melissa Johnson about, I mean we really, we haven't even
1:10.0	titled this episode yet. We, you and even like, we've thrown around some ideas but we innovator
1:16.4	because we wanted to explore even further this the subject of being a mother and being a mother who's battling addiction and she
1:26.5	came to mind I've known her for a while and she came to mind first because of
1:30.6	everyone I know she's got one of the harder stories and I mean everything is relative
1:37.3	but she's got a very very...
1:39.3	Well and she's public about it.
1:42.3	Well that's... I said number one, and I was going to say number two.
1:45.0	She's, well, she's not only public about it, she owns, she owns the shit out of it.
1:50.0	And she has what, by all accounts, accounts you know society says we should be totally
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