SP 280: Meredith Atwood - The Year of No Nonsense

The SHAIR Recovery Podcast

Omar Pinto

Self-improvement, Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8 • 561 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2020

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

With no higher power or 12-step work, Meredith Atwood white-knuckled sobriety. After substance abuse, suicide attempts, and binge eating issues, she had realization that she would be dead within a year, and made the decision to stop drinking cold turkey. Growing up in a religious cult, Meredith couldn't subscribe to the thought of surrendering. After compensating for her behavior with triathlons and Ironman competitions, she came to the point where she had to sit with herself and begin to truly heal.

As a former attorney, Meredith Atwood is a podcaster, speaker, and author of The Year of No Nonsense, and Host of "The Same 24 Hours" podcast. She's been featured in The Boston Globe, The New York Post, the Seattle Times, and recovery advocate and contributing writer for Psychology Today.

Holding onto the belief that we all have our own personal brands of "no nonsense," in this inspiring conversation, Meredith takes us through the exploration of getting out of the way of our own personal happiness.

"Many of us don't know how to process uncomfortable feelings and we want to run. Sitting with yourself is terrifying and the hardest thing I've had to do. I'm alive, I made it another day, and it's really one day at a time."

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0:00.0	Sitting with the emotions is so terrifying and to hear the voices in my head that are telling me, like, go find something to plug this hole. Go find something to make you feel well. And it was so crazy the other night I told my husband where it went. And I said, well, and it's interesting because drinking really doesn't hold it for me anymore. I don't
0:23.8	have a desire to drink. I just, I've kind of written it off, but I thought, okay, I don't drink.
0:31.5	And I'm on a food plan, so I'm not going to go eat. My daughter has some oxy from her broken arm.
0:39.4	I was never a pill popper, never a thing.
0:42.0	And I'm like, there's oxy.
0:43.8	Oh, wait, I have a pack of cigarette stashed in the back of the closet in case of emergencies.
0:47.6	I could cut.
0:48.5	I mean, I literally went from how can I hurt myself in this moment? What is there that I can do? Can I go break my
0:57.9	finger? Like what can I do to make the emotional pain stop just for a minute? And it was crazy.
1:05.1	And when I said oxy to my husband, he was like, are you kidding me? I was like, I'm not going to do it.
1:09.7	I'm not going to do the oxy. I was like, it's a kid's dose anyway, but there's four of them. And, you know, but just that addict brain, just to trail it and to see where it goes, it makes perfect sense why for years I would just jump into a pizza. I mean, it makes perfect sense. Benge eating is just
1:28.5	drinking in another form. It's the same monster. That was Meredith Atwood, and this is the
1:35.3	Share podcast. Getting sober is one thing.
1:45.8	Staying sober is another.
1:52.2	In recovery, the most important ingredient to long-term recovery is community and connection.
1:55.5	Share is not only a recovery podcast.
1:58.3	It is a global sobriety network.
2:04.1	Join me each week as we connect with people from all over the world who will share with you their inspirational journey of recovery.
2:07.1	Welcome to the Share Podcast Recovery Network.
2:17.2	Hey, everybody, and welcome to another episode of The Share Podcast.
2:21.6	And before we dive into this week's episode, I just want to remind all of our listeners
2:26.3	the fastest and easiest way to connect with me and to connect with the Share Recovery
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