SP 259: Laura McKowen - We Are The Luckiest in Recovery
The SHAIR Recovery Podcast
Omar Pinto
4.8 • 561 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Laura McKowen couldn't control her addiction to alcohol and believed that the people who could drink normally were the lucky ones, but after leaving her 4-year-old daughter alone in a hotel room all night, Laura had to break down and get help.
To Laura, having to get sober was the end of everything. It was purgatory, but once she stopped resisting it, she realized that sobriety was the invitation to everything she ever really wanted.
Laura is the former cohost of the Home podcast with Holly Whitaker, and her memoir, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life has just released at the top of the charts. Listen to her struggle through the darkness of alcohol addiction and how she's written a new story about herself in sobriety!
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| 0:00.0 | and it had actively been, like, it's true, it will destroy you. |
| 0:05.5 | So our unused potential is not this benign thing. |
| 0:08.3 | It is like what grows in its place is a darkness and a bitterness and a depression. |
| 0:13.2 | And for me, like, yes, it helps to get sober because you stop feeling like shit. |
| 0:17.3 | And like, but the biggest thing was I am not wasting my life anymore you know I'm not |
| 0:24.2 | wasting my life and nothing feels better than that like I've got to know my true self and to me |
| 0:30.5 | that's God you know but that is the upside of sobriety. Like you get to meet yourself. |
| 0:38.0 | You know, you get to meet yourself. |
| 0:39.9 | That was Laura McCowan, and this is the Share Podcast. |
| 0:48.9 | Getting sober is one thing. |
| 0:51.2 | Staying sober is another. |
| 0:53.2 | In recovery, the most important ingredient to long-term |
| 0:56.1 | sobriety is community and connection. Share is not only a recovery podcast. It is a global |
| 1:03.4 | sobriety network. Join me each week as we connect with people from all over the world who will |
| 1:09.8 | share with you their inspirational journey of recovery. |
| 1:13.7 | Welcome to the Share Podcast Sobriety Network. |
| 1:22.1 | Hey everybody and welcome to another episode of the Share Podcast, |
| 1:27.3 | and today I am super excited to announce that we are featuring Laura McCowan on the show today. |
| 1:33.8 | She is the author of We Are the Luckiest, The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life. |
| 1:40.1 | We had so much fun discussing her book, as well as discussing her own podcast journey with the |
| 1:46.4 | incredibly successful and popular home podcast. |
| 1:50.2 | And I'm very excited to say that after this interview, I considered Laura a dear friend. |
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