SP 279: Amberly Lago - True Grit and Grace
The SHAIR Recovery Podcast
Omar Pinto
4.8 • 561 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
At 38, Amberly Lago was a personal trainer, avid runner, and sponsored by Nike.
However, she never expected her life to turn upside down. Hit by an SUV, she underwent 34 surgeries to save her leg from amputation. Diagnosed with an incurable disease dubbed the "suicide disease" she lost her business, self-confidence, and dealing with chronic-pain in her leg quickly spiraled her into addiction.
Too scared to live, too scared to die, and a flicker of determination left, Amberly asked herself if she was going to sit back and play the victim or choose to be resilient and face unresolved trauma, past sexual abuse, and push forward to heal from chronic pain.
Today, Amberly Lago is a health and wellness coach, TEDx speaker, and a leading expert in the field of resilience and transformation. She is the best-selling author of "True Grit and Grace" and empowers people around the world by sharing how she turned a tragedy into triumph.
Through her book, coaching methods, and workshops she has curated unique tools to teach others how to tap into their superpower of resilience and persevere through any of life's challenges. She offers hope and solutions for anyone living in chronic pain to live life to the fullest. Amberly has most recently been featured on NBC's The Today Show, The Doctors, Hallmark, and contributed to magazines such as Shape, Fit Pregnancy, Health, and Disability Magazine.
Even if circumstances have narrowed life possibilities, Amberly's story shows you can get through with grit and grace.
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| 0:00.0 | I think no matter what your circumstances are, no matter even if your circumstances have narrowed your possibilities, that you can get through anything with grit and grace. |
| 0:15.0 | That was Amberley Lago, and this is the Share podcast. |
| 0:24.6 | Music And this is the Share podcast. Getting sober is one thing. |
| 0:27.1 | Staying sober is another. |
| 0:29.0 | In recovery, the most important ingredient to long-term recovery is community and connection. |
| 0:35.6 | Share is not only a recovery podcast. |
| 0:38.8 | It is a global sobriety network. |
| 0:41.6 | Join me each week as we connect with people from all over the world |
| 0:45.4 | who will share with you their inspirational journey of recovery. |
| 0:49.4 | Welcome to the Share Podcast Recovery Network. |
| 1:04.8 | Hey, everybody, and welcome to another episode of the Share podcast, and today we have Amberley Lago joining us on the show, and Amberley had a horrific motorcycle accident that for most people would have left her with an |
| 1:15.4 | amputated leg and she chose to fight. She chose to keep that leg go through tremendous amount of |
| 1:22.4 | surgeries and in the course of this began the roller coaster ride of pain management and became addicted to prescription drugs. |
| 1:32.5 | She is a strong, incredibly powerful woman who has overcome so many odds. |
| 1:38.4 | And I'm grateful to have her on the show. |
| 1:40.2 | So without further ado, let's jump into Amberley's episode. |
| 1:43.4 | But first, a quick message from our sponsors. |
| 1:46.4 | Hey, everybody, and welcome to another episode of the Share Podcast. |
| 1:50.7 | And before we dive into this week's episode, I just want to remind all of our listeners, |
| 1:55.7 | the fastest and easiest way to connect with me and to connect with the share recovery community. So there's two |
| 2:02.0 | websites that you can check out. The first one is the sharepodcast.com. Remember to spell share |
| 2:09.3 | S-H-A-I-R. And on the share podcast is all the podcast episodes, how to join the share recovery |
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