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In Season 2's Season Finale, we meet Dawn. Dawn is a liaison for Women In Transition and a faithful member of CoDa. (Codependents Anonymous) She tells us her experience with looking for resources through the courts and through the mental health system and finding none. She ultimately found help online through Women In Transition and CoDa. She tells us her story of finding CoDA, what it did for her. She tells us how she ultimately found Women In Transition and became a liaison for them. She now connects people from CoDa to WIT and vice versa. Her story is not unique and we hope this episode provides hope for anyone in a domestic violence situation and needs help or support in getting out. Please check out  Women In Transition and CoDa.  Women In Transition: WIT empowers people to move forward in their lives free of domestic violence (DV) and substance abuse. hey offer free and confidential services in Philadelphia: telephone and crisis counseling, peer support groups, individual empowerment counseling, client advocacy and referrals, community education trainings, and WAVE empowerment self-defense classes.. Their services are available for people of any gender identity and sexual orientation, ages 14 and older. https://www.helpwomen.org/our-mission-herstory CoDA: Co-Dependents Anonymous is a twelve-step program for people who share a common desire to develop functional and healthy relationships. https://coda.org/ Trigger Warnings: Explicit language, Mental Illness, Drugs and Active Addiction, Sexual Trauma, Physical, Emotional, Mental, Verbal, Psychological, Sexual and Verbal Abuse as well as suicidal and homicidal ideation. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/howimetmymothersober/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/howimetmymothersober/support

Meet Chris Oppenheim! Chris a recovering addict straight of trap houses in Baltimore! He is also an incredible tattoo artist. He was given the opportunity to go to LA and get sober. He took it and ran with it! He runs a podcast called The Broken Crayon Show where he tattoos clients. The clients are mostly recovering addicts and they share their story of addiction, recovery and hope! He cultivates a space where people can feel free to share and support one another in their sobriety. He runs a shop where people are given a second chance with a job and a purpose in an environment conducive to long sobriety!. He stays so connected for his sobriety. Happy Birthday to Chris's two daughters and Happy Sober Birthday to his wife, Chris!  Instagram: @TheBrokenCrayonShow TikTok @thebrokencrayonsshow YouTube:@thebrokencrayonsshow  Facebook: @thebrokencrayonsshow Please don't forget to review and subscribe to our podcast and follow us on all socials!  Instagram Page: www.instagram.com/howimetmymothersober  TikTokPage: www.tiktok.com/@howimetmymothersober?lang=en  Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/howimetmymothersober  TRIGGER WARNING: Trigger Warnings: Explicit language, Drugs & Alcohol,  Suicidal Ideations, Mental Illness, MAT, Psychiatric Meds --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/howimetmymothersober/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/howimetmymothersober/support

In this episode, we hear Kristen's story of survival. She was married at 19 to her best friend and the love of her love. She had a happy marriage until her husband became dependent on alcohol while coping with the knowledge he had developed health problems. She stuck by him through it and tried to make things work despite enduring verbal, emotional and physical abuse. She tried to leave many times but explains why she felt she had to stay. She tells us her story of how her husband tried to murder her on three separate occasions. Finally, she did leave and a few days later, her husband sadly completed suicide. Kristen is a strong woman, a survivor and an example of what people go through when substance abuse winds through their lives and leaves devastation like a tornado. Where to find Kristen and Don: TikTokPage: www.tiktok.com/@donsjourney2022?lang=en TikTokPage: www.tiktok.com/@livingwithalcoholism?lang=en Please don't forget to review and subscribe to our podcast and follow us on all socials! Instagram Page: www.instagram.com/howimetmymothersober TikTokPage: www.tiktok.com/@howimetmymothersober?lang=en Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/howimetmymothersober TRIGGER WARNING: Suicide, Attempted homocide, Domestic abuse   --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/howimetmymothersober/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/howimetmymothersober/support

In this episode we meet Bill Jericho. If you are a fan of intervention, you might know of Bill's story already. A couple years ago, "Intervention" did a special episode in Philadelphia about the opioid epidemic. Bill was was approached in Kensington by a camera crew who asked to follow him around the city and show people what it is really like. They also gave him the opportunity to go to treatment with his girlfriend at the time. Julianne remembers watching his story and remembering that she hoped so much that he had made it. He tells his story of getting involved with intervention, being given the opportunity to go to LA for treatment. He covers how he lost his relationship in early recovery, losing his sister to addiction, losing his niece to a freak car accident, relapsing, recovering and starting a non profit with his mom. His story is one of hope! We hope you enjoy this episode and check out the "Intervention" series!   Bill Jericho:  SPARC: https://sparclifecom.wordpress.com/ Instagram: @billjericho.215 TikTok: @billjericho.215 Broken Crayon: TikTok @thebrokencrayonshow Please don't forget to review and subscribe to our podcast and follow us on all socials! Instagram Page: www.instagram.com/howimetmymothersober TikTokPage: www.tiktok.com/@howimetmymothersober?lang=en Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/howimetmymothersober --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/howimetmymothersober/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/howimetmymothersober/support

Meet Mike Fiore! He tells us that after detoxing from a years long drug habit, he lost his mother. She was the person he felt closest to and the person that he loved the most. In turn lost the person who cared and loved him the most. He no longer had a safety net, or a mom to fall back on for help. Mike decided addiction had already taken so much from him that, it would not also take his mothers death from him. He decided get sober, stay sober and since then has spent every second building a life of sobriety connecting and helping others stay sober! He created Inspire2Inspire, is a partner in the Sober App and even collaborated on a recovery based clothing line, where the funds go towards helping others get sober. Listen to his story and hear the motivation in his voice. If you take one thing away from this episode, take away that there is always HOPE! CHECK OUT: Mike Fiore: https://www.instagram.com/mikefiore118/ Inspire2Inspire: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTdnNAYxD/ Sober App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.po1n27xul1xr.p3l6x32ygapp Stay Stopped: https://www.instagram.com/stay.stopped/ Please don't forget to review and subscribe to our podcast and follow us on all socials! Instagram Page: www.instagram.com/howimetmymothersober TikTokPage: www.tiktok.com/@howimetmymothersober?lang=en Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/howimetmymothersober --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/howimetmymothersober/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/howimetmymothersober/support

Julianne shares her experience of being in the hospital for internal bleeding, blood transfusions, endoscopies and more. She shares about the journey of noticing patterns in her body and being aware of what is going on in her body because during active addiction you're not very aware of these things while in active addiction. Donna shares her struggles with the perception of her mother and how she viewed her as a young woman. She talks about her severe codependency and how our mother's day plans were sidelined by COVID and her codependent behavior. Gratitude is a big part of this episode. The girls talk about the ways in which they find gratitude in their daily life. Of course, discussion about disordered eating is always mentioned when you get these two together. They talk about losing excitement about sobriety and realizing they need to amp up their programs again. They talk about going to meetings and what that means for each of them. They talk about community and how you have to "stay connected, to be protected" and all of those AA and NA platitudes that are SO true! Donna talks about being triggered by alcohol even though it's not even her drug of choice and so much more! Please don't forget to review and subscribe to our podcast and follow us on all socials! Instagram Page: www.instagram.com/howimetmymothersober TikTokPage: www.tiktok.com/@howimetmymothersober?lang=en Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/howimetmymothersober Trigger Warnings: Drug Abuse, Drug Talk, Overdose, Lying, Explicit Language, Drugging, Active Addiction, Disordered Eating, Purging, Binging, Mental Illness,  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/howimetmymothersober/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/howimetmymothersober/support

Tune in this episode to hear what it was like for Julianne and Donna to visit Julianne's old home group. They talk about the meeting, what the liked, what they didnt like and what they took away from it. They discuss a little bit about the Julianne's sponsor's thoughts and even a little bit about Johnny Depp admitting he is opiate free on the stand this week. Julianne talks about being triggered watching television shows depicting IV drug use and even how the show Euphoria does the total opposite and reminds her of why she never wants to use again. This episode is a full one!  Please don't forget to review and subscribe to our podcast and follow us on all socials! Instagram Page: www.instagram.com/howimetmymothersober TikTokPage: www.tiktok.com/@howimetmymothersober?lang=en Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/howimetmymothersober Trigger Warnings: Drug Abuse, Drug Talk, Romanticizing Drug Use, Discussing Scenes Depicting Drug Use, Lying, Chronic Relapsing, Shooting Up, Explicit Language, Drugging, Active Addiction, Withdrawal, Pills & Selling Drugs --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/howimetmymothersober/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/howimetmymothersober/support

Meet Terri! Terri is Julianne's first and only sponsor that she maintained when she was in and out of the rooms of Alcoholic's Anonymous. Terri, Julianne and Donna talk about what she was like when she first entered the rooms as she chronically relapsed and when she finally came back. They talk about how Julianne had such a god complex and how she was Terri's biggest challenge in all of her years of sponsorship. They discuss Terri's experience strength and hope and what the rooms of AA have done for her and her life. Julianne also agrees to go back to her old stomping grounds of Auctus and hit a meeting with Donna and Terri. Stay tuned for the follow up episode of what that was like in the coming weeks!  Please don't forget to review and subscribe to our podcast and follow us on all socials!   Instagram Page: www.instagram.com/howimetmymothersober   TikTokPage: www.tiktok.com/@howimetmymothersober?lang=en    Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/howimetmymothersober   Trigger Warnings: Drug Abuse, Custody Battles, Abusive Relationships, Sex Work, Depression, Anxiety, Relapse, Florida Shuffle --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/howimetmymothersober/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/howimetmymothersober/support

Meet Kirsten! Kirsten is another one of Julianne's Rehab Bestie! Julianne met Kirsten in Retreat Rehab facility and immediately clicked! They stayed in touch after getting sober and have followed one another's journey's from afar. Kirsten joins us today and is incredibly honest, vulnerable and generous with her time and her story. Kirsten is the perfect example of how addiction can grab ahold of anyone. It doesn't matter what your socioeconomic background is, no matter what neighborhood you come from, no matter who your parents are, or what your career path is. Kirsten shares very personal stories and does not hold back. She talks about motherhood, the Florida shuffle, custody battles, abusive relationships and more. We can all learn something from her self reflection and her honesty. Please don't forget to review and subscribe to our podcast and follow us on all socials!  Instagram Page: www.instagram.com/howimetmymothersober  TikTokPage: www.tiktok.com/@howimetmymothersober?lang=en   Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/howimetmymothersober  Trigger Warnings: Drug Abuse, Custody Battles, Abusive Relationships, Sex Work, Depression, Anxiety, Relapse, Florida Shuffle  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/howimetmymothersober/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/howimetmymothersober/support

Listen this week as Julianne meets and speaks with Justin a fellow Retreat alumni. Meeting other sober people who went through the same treatment facility is a special thing. You both know the general vibe of a place, you both know how the groups are broken down, what counselors teach what classes and who you were likely assigned to and how it aligned with your story and experience. Justin shares with us how he experimented in high school, became a addicted to crack but straightened out before joining the armed forces and volunteering for a deployment in a war zone. He shares deeply personal experiences with us and tells us how it was, what it's like now and what his future plans are. They are exciting and we cannot wait to see where Justin's sober journey takes him! Please don't forget to review and subscribe to our podcast and follow us on all socials! Instagram Page: www.instagram.com/howimetmymothersober TikTokPage: www.tiktok.com/@howimetmymothersober?lang=en Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/howimetmymothersober Trigger Warnings: Drug Abuse, Drug Use, PTSD, War Zones, Infidelity --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/howimetmymothersober/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/howimetmymothersober/support

Join Donna & Julianne in a discussion with the Cupps family about their beloved son and brother, Michael. Susan and Daniel talk about their experience loving Michael a young man who struggled with substance abuse and ultimately passed away of a heroin overdose. Daniel talks about how he and his brother started using drugs with their perspective friend groups and while Daniel stopped, Michael did not. Susan talks about Michael was like as a child and what it was like for her to watch her son struggle. Dave, Michael's father, a recovering addict as well, joins us shortly in to the conversation and shares what Michael was like the day he last spoke to him. We get in to how Daniel, Susan and Dave coped with their loss and how they continue to live life but remember Michael and share the ways they like to remember him. Please don't forget to review and subscribe to our podcast and follow us on all socials! Instagram Page: www.instagram.com/howimetmymothersober TikTokPage: www.tiktok.com/@howimetmymothersober?lang=en  Facebook Group: www.facebook.com/howimetmymothersober Trigger Warnings: Drug Abuse, Borderline Personality Disorder, Depression, Anxiety, Loss --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/howimetmymothersober/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/howimetmymothersober/support

Listen this week as we talk to Kelly Miller @theaddictionnutritionist ! This conversation was so interesting and informative! How can amino acids help us on our journey to long term sobriety? Listen to find out! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/howimetmymothersober/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/howimetmymothersober/support