Melissa: The Girl Who Would Never Say No

Last Day

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

For Melissa Urban, the wellness icon behind Whole30, setting boundaries is the name of the game. But she wasn’t always like this. To cope with buried trauma from her teen years, she began using drugs to escape. And at quick-sand speed, it became a full-blown addiction that she had to feed at every turn. Melissa recounts the slivers of opportunity that helped her find her way to recovery. By creating healthy boundaries, Melissa went from self-loathing to self-loving and built a wellness empire focused on helping others set boundaries of their own.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Julia Louis-Dreyfus and guess what?
0:03.6	I've got a podcast.
0:05.0	It's called Wiser than Me and each week I get schooled on life by women who are older
0:10.9	and yes, Wiser than Me.
0:13.1	Older women are this country's biggest untapped natural resource and I want to hear from
0:17.7	them.
0:18.7	I want to know what they've learned by living 70 or 80 or 85 years.
0:23.2	Jane Fonda, Darling Love, Isabella Ande and many more.
0:27.8	Subscribe and get wise.
0:29.9	Wiser than Me.
0:30.9	Listen wherever you get your podcasts.
0:59.9	And then the subscribe button.
1:10.8	I had gone to an AA meeting and I got my one-year chip and what feels like a week or two later.
1:16.4	I'm at this party with people I don't know.
1:18.6	There is a white single sink with like just a cheapy little mirror over it and I am looking
1:25.2	like lifting my head up from the sink, looking at myself in the mirror, feeling something
1:30.1	drip down the back of my throat and I don't even know what it was.
1:33.9	But all I know is I got a little from the bathroom and the next thing I know I'm high.
1:52.9	This is last day, a show about the moments that changed us.
1:56.2	I'm your host Stephanie Woodles-Wax.
1:59.9	Today, a story about boundaries and the lasting impact when someone you love and trust crosses
2:06.6	them.
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