Life Recovered

Garrett and Tamara sit down and discuss their life after Recovery

Recorded May 8, 2025

Its been four years since Tamara and Garrett first did Ayahuascha in Peru and Costa Rica.

We discuss our latest opinions on the complex topic of Psychedelics in Recovery(specifically recovery from our drug of choice-alcohol), the legality of psychedelic use in the US, and where we are four years after this transformative experience in both our lives.

Recomended reading: How to Change your Mind---Michael Pollan

Netflix Series: How to change your mind

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In a mostly lighthearted episode Tamara and Garrett catch up on what has been going on in their lives since we spoke to you last. We discuss our in person meet up, our Thanksgiving gratefulness with families and our health. We discuss what it means to be fully present, and riff on not being "lost in thought".

We want to extend a very warm Merry Christmas to all of our family and friends.

Garrett has over five years and Tamara has over three years of sobriety under their belts. But they are by no means sages or recovery gurus, they are just a couple of friends on opposite sides of the country

Garrett and Tamara give updates on their lives and reflect on what has happened in the past year and a half, and how they are still remaining sober.

Garrett shares an insight over why he drank that he was not previously aware of and goes over his experience with the 12 steps

Tamara shares how she is able to be fully present with her daughters and talks about how she is doing all the things that she never thought she would do if you asked her 5-10 years ago

They both agree that quiet peaceful domestic life is awesome.

They round it out with a few tips and tricks (sobriety hacks?)

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The long awaited rebrand and relaunch is here with the Garrett Riley Podcast. And who better to kick it off with then Scott LeRette the author of the book "The Unbreakable Boy"

And its Available now on Amazon

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Tamara and Garrett celebrate a milestone.

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PS. Garrett forgot to run the audio through his microphone again so what you are hearing is picked up through the computer audio

After the small talk and banter ebbs Tamara and Garrett really get serious. Well serious with some funny stuff thrown in too. Here is the ego stuff Julia Christina talks about

The ego is there to protect us from shame and vulnerability but it actually prevents us from authenticity

Four Ps to know if your acting out of ego

1. Am I trying to prove something-that I have value
2. Am I trying to protect something-fear of vulnerability or hurt
3. What can I perfect-trying to protect that I am not a perfect human being
4. Who can I please-getting other people to think I certain way about me so I can feel good about myself

Four Cs of authenticity

1. What can I create
2. What can I contribute
3. How can I connect
4. What can I cultivate

Saturday night live skits Garrett Mentions:

The Will Ferrell disfunctional family dinner

Maine Justice w Jason Sudekis

House showing YouTube channel Garrett likes

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In this episode Tamara and Garrett are joined by Bree of the "The Self Healers Podcast" and the website

www.fullyhumanhealing.com

This is a standout episode and one you don't want to miss!!

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In this episode Tamara recounts the time she won a contest and got to go to the White House and meet George W Bush.

We talk about other things too, and you just get to eavesdrop on a normal conversation ....also Garrett forgot to switch the mic input to USB mic so his sound isn't its normal richness.

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We talk about what we did for Christmas and Garrett's trip to Idaho and Scott recording him while skiing backwards can be found here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jtanhi6IyI

Garrett forgets he already talked about the Waking Up App, and Tamara doesn't remind him that he already talked about it in a previous podcast, so Garrett goes over it again.

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