In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Rev. Veronica Silva, a New Thought minister and a nurse who has struggled with alcoholism since she was young, but who has been in recovery for 26 years.

Veronica has been on a spiritual journey since June 24th, 1996, when she got sober from alcohol and drugs. She has had a passion for spirituality as a result of attending AA meetings and finding a God of her understanding. She is SO passionate about God that she recently became a Minister in 2020 - right in the middle of the pandemic. She is a true believer in going right into the discomfort of life to free ourselves from our suffering. She is a registered nurse and works at a cardiac procedures unit and loves helping others during their times of fear and anxiety.

Here at Safe Home, one of our biggest priorities is to destigmatize addiction and mental health, so by hearing stories from people like Veronica, we are able to humanize addiction, find commonalities, and discover the way others have found their healing path.

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RESOURCES:

Veronica’s information:

• Email: [email protected] r

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

• Namasté Center for Spiritual Living: https://namastecsl.org/

Other Resources:

• Other Parents Like Me -  https://www.facebook.com/other.parents.like.me
• Heather Ross - Life Coaching for Parents of Addicted Teens: https://heatherrosscoaching.com/
• Find a Tele-Therapist: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/online-counseling

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Music written and performed by Joseph Nakao

Cover art by Joseph Nakao, photo by Beth Syverson

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TIME STAMPS:

1:40 Veronica’s childhood and early introduction to alcohol

3:16 Spinning all the plates during high school, self-medicating for anxiety

4:38 Unconscious intergenerational rage and machismo

7:30 How spirituality helped Veronica

9:50 Being a young mom in recovery and later supporting her son in recovery

13:22 Tools that helped Veronica with the initial stages of recovery

16:30 Stay-at-home drunk

17:33 Going back to school to become a nurse

19:12 Another new career as a minister

20:20 Veronica’s advice for family or friends of addicted people, setting boundaries with love

22:19 High-functioning alcoholics

24:25 Alcohol’s prevalence in our culture

25:34 Meditation as a recovery tool

27:25 Learning how to set boundaries, resentment as a boundary indicator

29:05 Each personal growth journey looks different for everyone, just take a step any direction

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