Episode 509: Honesty, Healing, and Recovery with Laura McKowen

Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Andrea Owen

Education, How To, Self-improvement

4.8 • 516 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Laura McKowen returns to the show! Laura opens up about the turning point that led her to sobriety and the underlying issues she had to confront. She also shares some insights and teachings from her latest book, Push Off From Here: Nine Essential Truths to Get You Through Sobriety (and Everything Else). She is also the Founder of The Luckiest Club, an international sobriety support community. We also discuss how drinking is often just one symptom of deeper issues and the importance of honesty and vulnerability in the healing journey. Whether you or someone you know is struggling with addiction, this episode offers insight and hope for anyone seeking a life in recovery and offers a compassionate perspective for understanding and overcoming these challenges. Some of the topics we discussed include: Laura's sobriety and the turning point that made her realize she had to get sober (5:24) How alcohol can be a red flag for underlying issues (7:03) Substance addictions are only a small part of a bigger issue of addiction that is almost always rooted in trauma (21:16) Honesty as the foundation for developing healthier coping mechanisms and relationships (23:51) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.8	is always honesty this ability to start even if it's in a very small way talking about what's going
0:37.2	on with you what had been going on with you, what had
0:38.4	been going on with you, what you actually want.
0:44.0	You're listening to Makes Noise Podcast episode number 509 with guest, Laura McCowan.
1:02.7	Welcome to Make Some Noise podcast, your guide for strategies, tools, and insight to empower yourself.
1:08.5	I'm your host, Andrea Owen, global speaker, entrepreneur, life coach since 2007, an author of three books that have been translated into 18 languages
1:12.7	and are available in 22 countries. Each week, I'll bring you a guest or a lesson that will
1:18.4	help you maximize unshakable confidence, master resilience, and make some noise in your life.
1:25.4	You ready? Let's go.
1:32.1	Hey, everyone. welcome to another episode of the podcast.
1:38.3	First, I need to apologize. I want this to be a professional podcast. However, I don't know how to use the machinery equipment is the word I'm looking for. I don't know how to use the equipment
1:42.8	that I have. This is just embarrassing, but I tell you guys everything. I have this fancy, expensive podcasting
1:49.1	microphone because I am a professional. However, I don't know how to use all these buttons and
1:54.2	knobs and things. And somehow they got messed up. I think when I unplugged it and I was listening
1:59.0	back to some of my intros and even some of my
2:00.9	interviews. I'm like, why does my sound terrible? This is not okay. So I beep, boop,
2:07.2	I touched some buttons and I made some changes and I feel like it's better. So my apologies
2:11.9	if I sound like shit in your ear, I hope I don't. I have a couple of quick announcements,
2:17.1	totally switching gears.
2:19.1	One is that if you love the podcast or even if you just like it, I would be so grateful if you
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