SHAIR 120: "Daddy's Medicine" with Brinn Black, Country Singer and Adult Child of an Alcoholic.
The SHAIR Recovery Podcast
Omar Pinto
4.8 • 561 Ratings
🗓️ 30 May 2017
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Brinn Black joins us today on The SHAIR Podcast.
Brinn's new single "Daddy's Medicine" is a powerful ballad that tells the all-too-real tale of living with a father who struggles with alcoholism.
Since she was a child, her dad has really struggled with alcohol addiction and it's torn the family apart. A few years ago, he decided he was going to go to a rehab facility in Nashville, which ended up bringing them a lot closer together.
On today's show Brinn talks about the steps she took in her own recovery to develop the coping skills she needed to deal with her Father's Alcoholism, here are few highlights from our interview.
Omar: What is the best suggestion you have ever received?
Brinn: To let myself be loved. I needed that, to hear that permission. A friend of mine just kind of shook one time and was like, "Just let yourself be loved. Why are you fighting it from everybody?" That same friend, we always joke, we're like, "Sometimes you just have to make life work for you."
Omar: That is awesome. I love it. "Just let yourself be loved."
Brinn: "Just let yourself be loved." She just looked right into my soul and was, like, "I don't understand you, why you love so hard, you love big, but you fight this from everybody around you. Like, wake up," you know?
Omar: Finally, if you could give our listeners only one suggestion, what would it be?
Brinn: Just to give themselves some grace, because I think if we give ourselves grace then we can extend it to others more. But it's hard to give to yourself.
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| 0:00.0 | Now I can look at my own situations or my friend's situations and see how God is just like molding them. |
| 0:07.8 | And it's just, it gives me so much joy. |
| 0:10.7 | And I'm not saying don't go through the darkness because we have to go through it in order to really process things and move forward and grow. |
| 0:18.4 | But it's just allow, it's brought, the recovery has just brought this whole, like, |
| 0:22.4 | lens of faith to my life, which has been so cool. |
| 0:27.3 | That was country singer Bryn Black, and this is the Share Podcast. |
| 0:32.7 | It's time for the Share Recovery podcast, where we bring you amazing life-changing success stories from |
| 0:38.7 | addicts and alcoholics all over the world who share their inspiring journey in recovery. And now, |
| 0:44.0 | here's your host, Oh. Hey guys, and welcome to another episode of the Share podcast. This is O. |
| 0:53.1 | And today we're going to start things off a little bit differently. And the reason why I want to do things a little differently today is because the focus of today's interview is on Bryn Black and her song, Daddy's Medicine, that we could start off the episode by playing the song. And that way for those of you that haven't heard the song, |
| 1:15.1 | can get an idea of what this episode is going to be all about. Now, she's going to explain the interview today why she wrote the song and how her dad's alcoholism has affected her life |
| 1:20.6 | and her family's life for many years. But the best part of today's interview is just the fact |
| 1:25.5 | that today we're going to go into a topic that gets brought |
| 1:29.2 | up a lot. I get asked about this topic all the time. And it's from the side of the family member |
| 1:34.8 | that is suffering through or battling through their own recovery when it comes to a family |
| 1:43.6 | member's addiction. So Bryn is not an alcoholic. She's not an |
| 1:47.0 | addict. She's the daughter of an alcoholic. And this is her story, her story of how she |
| 1:52.6 | copes and how she deals and her personal transformation through recovery. So first let's |
| 1:58.4 | play Bryn's song, Daddy's Medicine, before we dive into the interview. |
| 2:42.0 | When you're five you don't know there's a stranger in your home it's quiet but it's dangerous but a child's heart can tell the meaning of a yell |
| 2:46.0 | and when it goes too far |
| 2:50.0 | that lines are crossed, |
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