Part I - Parents in recovery are some of the most courageous individuals around. Practical, financial, emotional, mental, and legal challenges often present themselves as major roadblocks, making the road back home to their children's hearts complicated and, often, very painful for all involved. Yet there is hope! Listen in to these episode discussions with Janice V. Johnson Dowd, LMSW, and Nadia, as they explore their journeys back home to their children's lives and hearts, as well as how other...
Jul 18, 2025•51 min•Ep. 95
In this Solo Empowered Recovery episode, Nadia reflects on the beauty of building mindfulness and its many unexpected blessings, including being present enough to witness life's most joyful paradoxes. FREE BAN SHAME TIP SHEET EMPOWER YOUR RECOVERY YOGA (FREE for Parents in Recovery) GIVE BACK FOLLOW Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jul 04, 2025•40 min•Ep. 94
One woman's recovery profoundly positively impacts all women's recovery - LUCKY LISA is absolute proof, having forged a long, arduous path to create the joyful, sober life she has today inspiring countless other women, men, and everything in between, along the way. "Lucky Lisa," as she is lovingly called today, shares her incredible story in the newest episode of the Home is Within You, Empowered Recovery Podcast, available wherever you listen to yours. Her journey to healing and freedom from th...
Jun 27, 2025•40 min•Ep. 93
In this solo episode, Nadia reflects on the blessings of parenting in recovery, sharing a story about her son's quest to "beat the world record" and the relationship between competitiveness, shame, and love, as well as lessons on parenting in recovery and chakra-based psychology. FREE BAN SHAME TIP SHEET EMPOWER YOUR RECOVERY YOGA (FREE for Parents in Recovery) GIVE BACK FOLLOW Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices...
Jun 14, 2025•34 min•Ep. 92
In this episode, Nadia gives listeners a view into empowered recovery through a combination of twelve step insight, chakra-based energy tools, and shame-banning work. You'll receive specific tips and tools she uses to sustain a sense of home within her heart, including through challenges as a mother in recovery with chronic conditions, as well as sister and daughter of an elderly mother. Listeners receive an example of how shame shows up and how to use it to empower your recovery, Instead of fal...
Jun 06, 2025•48 min•Ep. 91
Chakra Medicine is a spiritual and yogic psychology that is empowering trauma and addiction recovery. In this episode, you'll enter the intricate world of energy and consciousness as guest Priya Jain, Founder Seventh Chakra Institute of Spiritual Sciences, guides Nadia in the practical application of this ancient wisdom in her daily life as part of Priya's chakra coach certification program. You can empower your recovery by better understanding the seven primary energy centers in the body and ho...
May 23, 2025•50 min•Ep. 90
The universe wants you to play again! Yet often on our recovery journey, past narratives and trauma wounds still get in the way, keeping us stuck. The key is building awareness of how trauma manifests in the body, having a safe space within ourselves to sit with it, and building the capacity to harness its energy and direct it for our greater good. Sound impossible? It's not! R.G. Shore is proof. For nearly 3 years, Shore was incarcerated in a racially divisive and predominantly white prison in ...
May 16, 2025•58 min•Ep. 89
This episode is dedicated to all mothers in trauma and/or addiction recovery, a REMINDER that, if they have been shamed by others, that their true self remains whole, divine, and complete, and that their power resides within. Nadia encourages mothers who may be struggling to not let shame keep them in the darkness, guiding listeners through a few moments breath and mantra, acknowledging the sacredness of motherhood and evoking the adi shakti energy to empower mothers in recovery to rise up and s...
May 10, 2025•33 min•Ep. 88
In this episode, Nadia is joined by special guest Dr. LaTisha Bader, Chief Clinical Officer at the Women's Recovery Center in Colorado, a woman in divinely aligned work empowering other women to heal and return to their truest selves. The Center serves as a model of service delivery specifically for the treatment of women's mental health, substance use, and trauma. They address the whole body, mind, and spirit, as well as the entire family system, including the much needed resource of helping mo...
May 03, 2025•59 min•Ep. 87
What is the single most important thing you can do today to empower your recovery? Choose love over fear. Choose love over judgment. Choose love over shame. While pain and negative experiences are unavoidable, harming interpretations of and responses to them are not. Love generates more love and is the foundation of all things healed, magical, and yes, blissful. But empowering recovery isn't rocket science. It is one negative thought at a time, one breath at a time, one minute at a time, and yes...
Apr 26, 2025•40 min•Ep. 86
Let's EMPOWER our RECOVERY by shifting out of chaos and instead into a VIBRANT SOBER LIFESTYLE. In this episode guest SHANA EPPS offers her inspiring story as a path for anyone to get there, especially young single mother's struggling with alcoholism/addiction and/or interpersonal violence. Shana's story is one of strength, hope, and resilience - through recovery she found freedom from false shame-based beliefs that once kept her imprisoned in unhealthy relationships and alcoholism. From pain an...
Apr 11, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 85
When we align our recovery goals with heart and soul driven intentions, rather than ego or fear and shame-based choices, progress becomes a regular phenomenon and manifests right before our eyes. In this episode Nadia shares about the work and process of deepening her awareness of spirit, or a higher power; how "it" presented itself over three decades of time in divine alignment of past, present, and future experiences. She then guides us through how to begin clearing blocks to our soul and star...
Mar 28, 2025•48 min•Ep. 84
"Recovery" means a lot of different things to different people, but everyone would agree it requires dedicating time, energy, and resources into obtaining good physical, mental, and emotional health. What does that all add up to? Investing in HOLISTIC WEALTH! In this episode, Nadia speaks with the Mother of Holistic Wealth, KEISHA BLAIR, Author and Founder of the Holistic Wealth Institute. Listen to this episode if you want to have an end game, or goal, for your recovery, because holistic wealth...
Mar 14, 2025•55 min•Ep. 83
What is the source of any spark of inspiration? Where does that energy come from? And what inspires you? Because whatever inspires you can also empower you to seek and find your home within. In this episode, Nadia describes how meaningful human connection inspires her elderly mother to live and how it can so powerfully serve as a bridge to the infinite source of love, light, and warmth within our own hearts. FREE BAN SHAME TIP SHEET EMPOWER YOUR RECOVERY YOGA (FREE for Parents in Recovery) GIVE ...
Mar 07, 2025•48 min•Ep. 82
Don't let what binds you break you. The wake up call is now! Empower your recovery through this week's episode with inspiring guest Tiffany Gaston, mother, author, speaker, coach, athlete, philanthropist, and internationally published fitness model and personality who, with a gun at her head, MADE A DECISION to turn her pain into power! Years of abuse broke Tiffany's spirit in inexplicable ways very few survive. Having also struggled with body image and an eating disorder, she found refuge in he...
Feb 21, 2025•55 min•Ep. 81
Founder of Seventh Chakra Institute of Spiritual Sciences and Spiritual Counselor, Priya Jain, discusses the basics of our CHAKRA SYSTEM and the key to using it to empower our recovery: What is the chakra system? How is the human body and psychology related to it? How is Western Psychology failing us? What is spiritual psychology? and How can we use yogic medicine to address physical symptoms in recovery? "The chakras are a mirror of our internal world. When we heal them, we don’t just change ho...
Feb 14, 2025•46 min•Ep. 80
If you feel stagnant or stuck on your recovery journey, this episode is for you. In this week's episode, Nadia shines light on how to begin a path to empowered recovery - how to shift out of shame-based thinking and living, and all the anxiety and disconnection it creates within, into a calmer, grounded, fulfilling life driven by love and soul-based inspirations. Nadia reads an excerpt from her memoir with a personal touch for listeners, shares a story about her sons and song lyrics, describes h...
Feb 07, 2025•42 min•Ep. 79
In this week's episode, Nadia is joined by guest Trey Downes: Father, Husband, Seeker of Truth, and Podcast Host of “Your Superior Self.” Nadia first explores Trey's personal story, particularly why he became so passionate about exploring the nature of human existence, our relationship with the infinite, and its relationship with us, viewing all as a beautiful reminder to put the little world in our heads into perspective, including shame-based emotions that may pop up and try to separate us fro...
Jan 31, 2025•43 min•Ep. 78
In this episode, Nadia is joined by top behavioral scientist and expert Dr. Abbie Maroño, PhD, TEDx Speaker, and Author, who raises important questions about understanding and even, dare we say, embracing shame to empower our recovery. In her new book, Work in Progress, Dr. Maroño debunks the pervasive myth that shame is the antithesis of empowerment, proposing that, "if we better understand and embrace it, it can guide us to our most authentic selves." Nadia strongly believes everyone deserves ...
Jan 24, 2025•53 min•Ep. 77
Let's EMPOWER our RECOVERY by dedicating this New Year to being more "present" for ourselves and others - physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, thereby protecting our Home Within along the way. How do we transition ourselves out of an unfulfilling, hectic lifestyle fueled by the mind and "ego," into a more meaningful life fed by stillness in the present moment? How do we release ourselves of the urgency to always "be, do, and prove," and enter the frequency of love in our heart? In...
Jan 10, 2025•35 min•Ep. 76
In this HOLIDAY EPISODE, Nadia shares moments of GRATITUDE, pieces of WISDOM, and tips gained over a dozen years of recovery, solely in hopes other parents might be inspired to find their way back HOME to their children, in whatever shape or form is appropriate for their circumstances. She shares her personal struggle with un-recognized shame and how it negatively impacted her efforts to obtain re-unification with her children, as well as tools she gained over the years that enabled reunificatio...
Dec 20, 2024•40 min•Ep. 75
In this episode, we get into an inspiring alternative approach to achieving wellness, stability, and sobriety with special guest Carol Ann Ferguson, #booksoverbooze Founder and Mother in recovery who found a way out of the choking grasp of shame through avid reading of others' recovery stories. After struggling for a dozen years to maintain sobriety, Carol Ann literally went from "Bottles to Bookmarks" by releasing shame-based emotions over lengths of time exposing herself to others' written sha...
Dec 13, 2024•54 min•Ep. 74
In this week's episode, Nadia is joined by Jessica Falcon, who brings her inspiring personal journey along with essential answers to our discussion: How can we overcome being the target of another's negative feelings, such as shame, rage, and resentment, projected onto us, while staying committed to our recovery? How do we stay aligned with our truth and true selves while navigating difficult interactions with those who seek to bring us down? This is incredibly relevant in today's environment, w...
Dec 06, 2024•49 min•Ep. 73
In this episode, Nadia encourages us to generate GRATITUDE by setting aside a few moments of silence to connect with the miracle of every heartbeat. She shares about how her relationship" with SILENCE profoundly changed over years of trauma and addiction recovery. Once completely uncomfortable with silence, and all the thoughts and feelings she had to sit with, today she finds refuge and solace in its grace, guiding us to sit in it during this month of gratitude, using our breath to connect with...
Nov 22, 2024•36 min•Ep. 72
In this episode, I'm joined by Monica Mancillas, author of The Worry Balloon, inspired by the challenges she and those she loves sometimes face managing anxiety, and the tools, great and small, that have helped them walk through each of them. During these times of angst, contentiousness, and worry in our Nation, this discussion and these suggestions couldn't be more timely. Our children deserve to know that their anxiety is seen, as well as manageable, without fear of being shamed for opening up...
Nov 15, 2024•40 min•Ep. 71
EMPOWERED RECOVERY ("ER") is protecting our sobriety, trauma healing, and spiritual growth from the toxic emotion of shame, or a feeling that our trauma and/or addiction means we are flawed, defective, and unworthy of acceptance and love. In this series, WE empower recovery together by learning how to identify, remove, and shift shame-based thoughts and emotions from being harmful and separating, to being healing and connecting. Let's lower the number of addiction and mental health related emerg...
Nov 08, 2024•31 min•Ep. 70
Award Winning Author Christa Bruhn joins Nadia for a discussion about finding peace, joy, and dignity in a land two peoples call home, yet attempt to carve up between them. In her award winning memoir, Crossing Borders, The Search for Dignity in Palestine, deeply important and timely thought-provoking questions are asked. And here in this episode, Nadia dives deep into the birth and evolution of Christa's passion for peace and justice, as well as looking for answers to how we can come together i...
Nov 01, 2024•57 min•Ep. 69
When one person blames another person for something bad or unfortunate, and never, or rarely, attempts to own their part and find a solution, a "Blame Game" exists. Blame games are confusing, frustrating, painful, and emotionally exhausting experiences. No one wants to be in one, so why are they so common and seemingly drawn out? A blame game will continue "UNLESS and UNTIL BOTH individuals sit with their own discomfort first," Dr. Poulter explains, emphasizing that, by accepting responsibility ...
Oct 25, 2024•32 min•Ep. 68
STORY TIME for Parents in Recovery, intended to inspire those seeking family reunification and healing. In this episode, Nadia shares how facing our FEARS empowers an ability to notice LOVE and see CALM in chaos. She tells a story about taking her twin boys, mother, and dogs to a local dog park, the beauty of hawks flying above, as well as incredible LOVE bestowed by her young son onto her mother; how in the past, unrecognized fears would've distracted her from noticing such things, yet how toda...
Oct 18, 2024•35 min•Ep. 67
Ready to spark positive change in your life and the world around you? Start by listening in to this episode with Rick Ornelas - ultimate success coach, best selling author (12 Hours of Heaven), and founder of "I SPARK CHANGE" - a podcast and community of people wanting to make the world a better place. Rick believes We can indeed move from "fearful" to fearless, and from "hopeless" to hopeful if we connect to a love and light within our hearts, despite what we might be going through. Rick shares...
Oct 11, 2024•51 min•Ep. 66
