Penni Moussa

The Bubble Hour

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 560 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Founder of Recovery Buddha and woman in recovery, Penni Moussa is also a Clinical Psychologist, intuitive healer, writer, creative & mother of 3 young adults; the youngest of whom is on the Autism Spectrum. Having travelled a journey which includes recovery from addiction, eating disorders, depression, anxiety, trauma & grief, Penni’s lived experience informs her work as a trauma therapist within the recovery community. Website: https://www.recoverybuddha.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/RecoveryBuddha Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RecoveryBuddha * Host Jean McCarthy's website is www.jeanmccarthy.ca

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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.
0:22.9	Weakness had on me.
0:25.4	Free, free, free, free, free.
0:33.3	Hi, everyone, and welcome to the bubble hour where real people tell real stories of addiction and recovery.
0:40.7	I'm Gene McCarthy, recovery author, blogger, and podcast host. I've been chronicling my adventures in life
0:47.1	after alcohol since my first day of sobriety a decade ago on my blog Unpickled and in the books
0:53.2	that I write. You can find them on my website.
0:56.0	I tell my stories there and I hold space for your stories here. Now let me tell you something.
1:03.2	When you are in recovery and you join these online groups and you say to yourself, I don't know,
1:10.0	I think I'm really different than everyone
1:11.7	else in recovery. I'm not sure I'm like these other people. I don't know about these people
1:16.1	I'm going to meet in recovery. I have a surprise for you. You will meet amazing people. You'll make
1:22.3	fantastic new friends and from all around the world. And that is exactly the case with my guests today.
1:29.9	I met Penny Musa through the online recovery community. She's an amazing woman from Australia,
1:37.1	and she joins me today to tell her story. Hi, Penny. Hi, Jane. How are you? I'm good and I'm so happy to talk to you. It's really cool that we can
1:48.7	connect in this way from all around the world to people that would have never otherwise met. And yet,
1:55.7	because we have this amazing recovery thing in common in our lives, here we are. It's amazing. I can't believe it.
2:03.8	It's just been such a gift and a blessing to be involved with a recovery community and also to
2:11.3	have met you when we were over in LA, the She Recovers conference. It's fabulous, really special.
2:19.1	Yeah, I don't know about you, but when I started on this journey, I was very lonely
2:23.7	and I never dreamt that getting sober would mean having so many new, amazing connections
2:31.4	in my life.
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