Generational Substance Abuse: The Truth About Recovery and Relapse with Samantha Harte
The Mark Divine Show
Mark Divine
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Samantha’s rough childhood influenced her to find ways to escape through substance abuse. Coping mechanisms turned into a severe addiction to cocaine, alcohol, and prescription pills. She began to seek help in her 20s and through holistic 12-step programs began to make lasting change and recovery. Now Samantha is a speaker, coach, and author who helps others overcome addiction and dysfunctional family dynamics. According to Samantha, the key to recovery goes beyond sobriety; it’s about transforming your life by making amends with yourself. This sets the foundation for healing other relationships and fostering personal integrity.
Samantha Blake Harte is a yoga-certified doctor of physical therapy, performing artist, and podcast host. With over twenty years in the fitness industry and fifteen years sober, Dr. Harte integrates her personal recovery journey with her professional expertise in functional biomechanics and movement pattern retraining. She hosts "The Truth about Addiction" podcast on Spotify and Apple, discussing addiction and recovery openly. Dr. Harte values vulnerability as her strength and strives to live and love wholeheartedly. She lives in Thousand Oaks, California, with her husband, Rob, and their two children, Jack and Charly.
In This Episode:
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Early Environment And Effects on Addiction: The environment you grow up in significantly predisposes you to addictive behaviors. Growing up in a chaotic home like Samantha pushed her towards finding ways to escape, often through substances. Her experiences illustrate how children can inherit or learn dysfunctional coping strategies from their surroundings.
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Recovery and Reconstructing Relationships: Samantha’s approach to recovery is holistic and comprehensive. It’s not just about overcoming substance abuse; it involves a deep reevaluation and reshaping of one's life. She advises adapting recovery steps to personally relevant issues, like relationships or self-image, to enhance the impact of recovery.
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Healing Relationships for Inner Peace: A significant part of recovery involves healing damaged relationships, beginning with oneself. Make amends with yourself as the foundational step towards healing other relationships. This includes recognizing past mistakes, forgiving oneself, and committing to personal integrity moving forward.
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Recovery Opens New Doors: Recovery is not merely about achieving sobriety; it's about holistic transformation and reclaiming one’s life from the grips of addiction. Samantha used her recovery journey to improve her personal and professional life, demonstrating that a fresh start can lead to remarkable new opportunities.
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| 0:00.0 | It just seems surprising that someone hasn't done this. |
| 0:03.4 | It seems like one of those obvious things, right? |
| 0:07.0 | That is hidden from view, but I'm like, wow. |
| 0:09.7 | I truly want to be known as the girl who 12 Step the world. |
| 0:13.1 | That is the mission that I'm on. |
| 0:14.5 | It's 2024 now, and we still don't really |
| 0:17.4 | understand fully why it has to look so despondent and why so many addicts actually lose their life before they make it. |
| 0:26.2 | It's a difficult one for a lot of people to really address, you know what I mean? |
| 0:30.8 | To come to grips with it it they have this core wound. |
| 0:34.0 | If I am not repurposing my pain by pulling other people out of a shipwreck, |
| 0:39.0 | then why did I go through it? |
| 0:41.0 | What's the point? |
| 0:47.0 | Samantha, thanks for joining me on the Mark to Mind show. How are you? |
| 0:48.0 | I'm good. It's so fun to be here in person with you. |
| 0:50.0 | Oh, no kidding. |
| 0:51.0 | I appreciate you coming down. It's so much better to do these in person. Oh no kidding I appreciate you coming down. It's so much better to do these in person. It really is. So Brooklyn I lived in Brooklyn for a year Park Slope and as we were talking before we win the life. |
| 1:02.5 | I mean, it's changed a lot, right? |
| 1:04.4 | Like Park Slope's like really upscale now, I think. |
| 1:07.6 | Back then it was nice, but not that nice. |
| 1:10.2 | And what I liked about it is it was like somewhat removed from Manhattan. |
| 1:14.5 | So I had the sense of like going home was different than when I lived on 23rd Street |
| 1:20.1 | where I kind of like just went from one building to another. |
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