From Heroin to Healing: How Honesty Liller Rebuilt Her Life From Rock Bottom to CEO

Empowerography

My guest today is Honesty Liller. Honesty Liller has been in recovery from substance use disorder since May 27, 2007, and is a Certified Peer Recovery Specialist in Virginia. She began using drugs and alcohol at age twelve and didn’t achieve lasting recovery until she was twenty-six, after struggling with heroin addiction for the final nine years of her active use. Honesty is the best-selling author of Scattered Pink and serves as the Chief Executive Officer of The McShin Foundation, a nationally accredited peer-to-peer Recovery Community Organization (RCO) that supports individuals and families impacted by substance use disorders. In 2007, McShin helped save Honesty’s life when she resided in their female recovery residence for five months. After completing the program, she began working at McShin, initially wanting only to give back, but her passion and dedication evolved into a career helping others with substance use disorders. Her focus is particularly on helping mothers in recovery, a cause that resonates deeply with her personal journey. Recently, Honesty earned certification as a SHE RECOVERS Professional and hosts a monthly support group at McShin for women and non-binary individuals. In this episode we discuss addiction, recovery, forgiveness, heroin, substance abuse, the McShin Foundation and treatment.

Website - https://www.mcshin.org

IG - https://www.instagram.com/diaryofawomaninrecovery/

https://www.instagram.com/mcshinfoundation/

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/honestyliller/

FB - https://www.facebook.com/honestyliller

https://www.facebook.com/McshinFoundation

In this episode you will learn:

1. Why forgiveness is essential to the healing journey.

2. The importance of peer support in the recovery journey and why it works.

3. The role that shame plays in addiction and how to begin to overcome that shame to start healing and self-forgiveness.

“I started using drugs when I was 12 years old. I really just started out with smoking marijuana and drinking alcohol and a lot of LSD and shrooms. I was this hippie chick.” - 00:01:58

“The shame as women, like what we have to do to get drugs or alcohol, mine wasn't really alcohol towards the end, but drugs to get money, the things, whether it was selling your body or whether it was just being with people you didn't want to, just so you can have drugs." 00:18:03

“Just because we were robbing, cheating, stealing, whatever, for our drug addiction doesn't mean we're bad human beings. ” 00:43:27

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