Growing Up with Addiction and Abuse and Learning to Love Yourself with Journalist Ruth Reader
I'll Go First® with Jessica Minhas
English - February 17, 2020 17:00 - 44 minutes - 41.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 40 ratingsMental Health Health & Fitness purpose hope mental health mental health awareness trauma recovery addiction depression healing sexual assault chronic illness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
How do we care for ourselves while caring for others? Ruth Reader is a journalist for Fast Company and a NY Times published author. She grew up in a household of addiction and alcoholism. As soon as Ruth began her career, the unexpected happened. Her mother was dying from cancer. She takes us on her journey of caring for her abusive mother in her final days and how she learned to love herself in spite of tragedy.
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