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One parent wants them out of the house. The other buys them a condo and a car. Attorney Mark Astor asks both the same question: how does that solve the problem? @AstorSimovitch

Attorney Mark Astor: some families fear recovery more than the chaos. Chaos is what they know. His rule for every case is simple. Your loved one does the work, you do the family work. You've been traumatized too. @AstorSimovitch

Nine years in recovery. Full of information, full of every reason not to. And when it kicked off in my brain again it felt like someone holding my head underwater. I was not the one running the show. Great conversation with @AstorSimovitch

Court ordered into treatment. Kept her phone for 24 hours over her lawyer's objection. Called an Uber that night, got on a plane, landed in Mexico. Attorney Mark Astor sent his own investigators to bring her back. @AstorSimovitch

One Last Hit #15 w/ Dave S | Dead on Arrival at 15, Clean 17 Years, Then He Blew It All Up

One Last Hit EP. 14 with Barb Nangle | Boundaries, Co-dependence and Growth

Cancun is run top to bottom by people you don't want knowing your name. They knew mine. One morning I woke up barely alive in a pool of my own blood.

Two years. From over a million a year to showering out of a bucket in Mexico City. The people who owned that bucket were happier than I'd ever been.

She put a picture of her baby girl on the wall and asked what that child had to do to deserve love. Nothing. The only difference between me and that child was an idea.

One Last Hit #13 w/ Colleen C | Binge Drinking, Her Husband's Suicide and Drunk Driving Scared Her Into Sobriety

One Last Hit #12 w/ Dawn M | Meth, 8 Years Homeless and a Desperate Prayer Turned Her Into a Sober Author

“What does this baby have to do to deserve love? Nothing.”
That question from a therapist cracked me open. Talked relapse + recovery on Happiness On Tap w/ Leann Herron
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The Real Root of Addiction: Healing Trauma w/ Barb Varcl-Smith | One Last Hit Ep. 11

One Last Hit Episode 10 | The Anti-12 Step Movement | Moving Through Hard Things In Sobriety | Old Ideas

I was supposed to go to rehab. At the airport, I switched our tickets to Cancun.
That began two years on the run in Mexico. I told the full story on The Healing Odyssey.
Listen:
#OneLastHit #RecoveryStory

One Last Hit EP. 9 W/ Marc B. | Homelss and Addicted to Crack and Heroin in Chicago