Laura Silverman of The Sobriety Collective

The Bubble Hour

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 560 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Laura was a party girl, the friend that had that had to be "babysat" by others because her antics with alcohol were dramatic and full of calamity. That ended in 2007 with a girls' trip to NYC, when police officers found her drunk, lost, crying and wearing one flip flop in Madison Square Gardens. At 24, she went into rehab and embarked on a new way of life. In the decade since, Laura has become a ray of light in the recovery world as the creator of The Sobriety Collective, a recovery hub of resources, information and creative works by and for people in recovery.

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0:00.0	I own it, I did that, not proud, but that was me, and when I face it, I take back a little dignity, not looking for excuses, I just want to be free from power.
0:23.0	Weakness had on me.
0:25.4	Free, free, free, free, free.
0:32.2	Hi, everyone, and welcome to the bubble hour where real people tell real stories of addiction and recovery.
0:43.5	My name is Gene McCarthy. I write the blog Unpickled. You'll find it at Unpickled blog.com.
0:49.4	I tell my story of quitting drinking on my own and life after alcohol for almost six years now. I started
0:57.1	the blog on day one and I've been writing about it ever since. So I tell my story there and then I
1:02.2	invite you to tell your stories here. And on the show tonight, I am pleased to welcome
1:07.9	Laura Silverman of the sobrietyective.com, a really cool website that
1:13.1	she created to bring together all kinds of people in recovery who were offering up music
1:19.5	and art and blogs and podcasts and all kinds of different resources that are all together on
1:24.5	one blog.
1:25.7	But her story goes back all the way to 2007,
1:28.3	whereas a young woman, only 24 years old, she was really struggling with alcohol and was a party
1:35.8	girl who got tired of having her friends hold her hair back while she puked, the person
1:41.2	everyone else had to babysit. And after a particularly frightening experience
1:45.1	she had on a girl's trip to New York City, she decided to make a change and change her life.
1:51.9	And I invited her here to talk about that on the bubble hour. So we had to do some editing. So we're
2:00.3	going to join our conversation in progress.
2:04.7	Please enjoy Laura Silverman.
2:08.2	Why don't we start out with you telling us a little bit about yourself?
2:13.1	Maybe tell us about your relationship with alcohol and how that led you to life of sobriety and what
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