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Podcast: Not in a Huff with Jackson Huff
Episode: #167: Mary Beth O’Connor: “Junkie to Judge: One Woman's Triumph Over Trauma and Addiction”
Description: From junkie to judge is quite the phrase and my guest this week Mary Beth O'Connor has certainly lived quite the life. We start with being left at a nunnery as an infant, being pick back up 6 months later by a preoccupied mother, to then deal with an abusive stepfather throughout her childhood. Like to many troubled teens Mary Beth turned to drugs and alcohol to lessen the burden of home. This addiction was one that she fell deeper and deeper into throughout her teens and twenties where at 32 she decided it was time to get sober. After that...