How I Healed Podcast

When Tanya lost her father to a heart attack, she blamed herself. For years, she medicated her guilt and regret with meth and alcohol. While she tried many times to get clean, merely stopping these habits was not enough. Depression and anxiety set in whenever she got sober. Addiction was the surface level issue, and there was a deeper root to her sickness that would require a spiritual initiation for her to heal.

In this week’s episode of How I Healed, Tanya, who glows with vitality and exuberance in her crone years, tells the story of a recovery decades in the making. In finding her way back to her essential spirit, she was able to heal her body and soul, but also her lineage going back even further. The path began by getting back to the basics: good, nourishing food, walks in nature, coffee with her mother, and while it might sound idyllic, it was hard, and at times very lonely work.

Now a clinical therapist, women’s circle facilitator, and a beacon in her New Mexico community, her karma has ripened. She has transmuted the sickness of addiction into medicine for the most vulnerable. In this episode, she offers that medicine to us, with practical, empathetic advice for anyone on a healing journey.