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Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Episode 510: A Life in Hiding with Laura Cathcart Robbins

Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Andrea Owen

Education, How To, Self-improvement

4.8516 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Laura Cathcart Robbins returns to the podcast to share her story of addiction and recovery from prescription pills. Her forthcoming Atria/Simon & Schuster memoir, STASH, comes out next month, and I am thrilled to have her back to talk about her journey.  The episode continues our current podcast theme on recovery, which features guests who have struggled with addiction in different areas of their lives. Even if you don't identify as an addict, Laura’s journey (and memoir) is a great story. I hope you tune in! In this episode, you’ll hear: Laura recounts her addiction to prescription pills and how it impacted her life (7:20) What Laura means when she says addiction is a disease of “not enough” (7:56) The effects of hiding your addiction from loved ones (13:33) Laura’s experience with “doctor shopping” as a means to satisfy her addiction to benzos (28:02) The point of no return; what happened when the pills ran out (43:28) Some of the hard truths of recovery, including the fact that “You can’t take everyone with you.”(51:08) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Living authentically is giving me life, and it costs me.

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But I'm absolutely willing to pay that price.

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You're listening to Makes some Noise podcast episode number 510 with guest Laura Cathcart-Robbins.

0:49.9

Welcome to Make Some Noise Podcast, your guide for strategies, tools, and insight to empower yourself.

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I'm your host, Andrea Owen, global speaker, entrepreneur, life coach since 2007,

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an author of three books that have been translated into 18 languages and are available in 22

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countries. Each week, I'll bring you a guest or a lesson that will help you maximize unshakable

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confidence, master resilience, and make some noise in your life. You ready? Let's go.

1:29.6

Hey, everyone. Welcome to another episode of the show. Thank you so much for joining me.

1:33.9

As usual, I'm so grateful and glad that you're here. Lord Cathcart-Robbins is back on the show

1:38.7

for the third time. Clearly, I just adore her and think she's amazing and want you to hear her

1:44.1

stories and hear about all the

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fascinating things that she does and all of her wisdom. And she's a new book coming out. So that's

1:51.6

awesome. I read it. It's really great. And I think that you will really like it. So before we get

1:56.6

into that, I have a couple of important announcements. The first one is that I'm doing a survey for the

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podcast. So if you listen regularly, your feedback is so important to me. It is my top priority.

2:10.1

This show is for you. And I want to make sure that I'm bringing you things. And as well as not just

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topics and guests, but also the way that I'm delivering it.

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So if you head over to Andrea Owen.com slash survey, that link is also in the show notes.

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