Taste of Recovery

The INTERSECTIONS Exchange team is joined by Breezy Nowlan, the founder and CEO of Taste Recovery, a nationwide sober living directory platform. Nowlan shares her personal experience in recovery, rehabilitation and sober living and describes how this experience inspired her to create a free and easily accessible network of high-quality sober living facilities. At 23:00, Nowlan and Andrew O’Grady discuss the importance of treating addiction and trauma simultaneously instead of separately.

Topics Discussed

• Breezy Nowlan’s journey through recovery and into the recovery field
• Difficulties with corrupt sober living facilities
• Outline and mission of Taste Recovery
• Intersections of addiction and PTSD
• Importance of treating addiction and trauma together
• Alcoholism as a disease instead of a character flaw

Resources

• Taste Recovery
• Breezy Nowlan LinkedIn
• Do I have to stop drinking forever?
• I’ve started drinking and using at work
• If I drink a lot, does that make me an alcoholic?

Key Quote(s)

• “When I finally got sober, I think that’s when people were definitely like ‘oh wow, you’re really different, I didn’t realize how miserable you were before and how much of a light has come back on since getting sober.’” – Breezy Nowlan
• “We’ve got to get to a place where we’re really focusing on the whole person and dealing with all of it [addiction and trauma together], not just one or the other.” – Andrew O’Grady