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Sober Summer Soundtrack: Processing Shame and Guilt with Laura McKowen

Soberful

Veronica Valli

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8628 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

How does a mother overcome shame and guilt?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Laura McKowen shares how she finally came to sobriety, how her drinking affected her daughter, what she sees as the missing piece of the puzzle when it comes to therapy and self-healing.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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She believes that WE are the lucky ones because "regular" folks will never understand the depths of pain we had to fight through and will never have the motivation we have built to see us through. We're unstoppable.

 

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the Soberful podcast. How does a mother overcome shame and guilt?

0:07.8

Laura McCowan shares how she finally came to sobriety, how her drinking affected her daughter,

0:12.6

what she sees is the missing piece of the puzzle when it comes to therapy and self-healing.

0:16.9

She believes that we are the lucky ones because regular folks will never understand the depths of pain we had to fight through and will never have the motivation we have built to see us through.

0:27.3

We're unstoppable when we're sober.

0:29.9

Let me know what you think of this interview and this episode.

0:32.5

Join me in the Soberful Facebook group.

0:37.1

I've drenner that you were twisting through seven sons of gold and the gypsy was insisting

0:45.7

that a story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a one

0:54.7

That you might be a treasure

0:57.4

I could touch but never hold

1:01.2

Hi everybody

1:04.3

Welcome back to the Soberful podcast

1:06.4

This is Veronica Valley

1:07.8

And I have a very special interview for today.

1:12.5

One of my favourite people, somebody I've known from when she was just a few months sober,

1:17.6

to being on the brink of publishing her first book.

1:20.9

So I'm really pleased to welcome Laura McCowan and we have a really, really interesting discussion.

1:27.0

Before we get started, I just want to tell you about Chip and we have a really, really interesting discussion. Before we get started,

1:28.0

just want to tell you about Chip and I have a free pop-up group that is opening on the 18th of

1:36.6

December next week, and you can join it now. We wanted to do a little pop-up group to help support

1:42.7

people through this holiday season

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