My Recovery Story

For over 40 years, I have loved five different family members and partners struggling with alcoholism and addiction.

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Like many women who eventually find recovery, I spent decades trying to make sense of confusing relationship patterns, emotional chaos, people pleasing, resentment, anxiety, and the exhausting cycle of trying to hold everything together while quietly losing myself in the process. I know what it feels like to navigate rehab with loved ones, make wellness checks out of fear, investigate patterns that made me feel like I was losing my mind, and spend years trying to convince someone I loved to get help.

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In 2020, I reached a point where I was emotionally exhausted. More than anything, I wanted peace. I wanted to feel emotionally steady, grounded, and free inside my closest relationships.

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Over the years, I searched everywhere for answers through counseling, self-help books, podcasts, retreats, group work, spiritual study, and personal growth. I was deeply committed to healing, yet I still found myself repeating painful patterns I could not fully understand.

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After my divorce in 2004, I spent twelve years raising my children as a single mother while working full time as a college professor. In 2013, I remarried and blended our nearly adult families together. For a season, life felt hopeful and full. We built careers, traveled with our children, stayed active in our community, and created meaningful friendships.

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But beneath the surface, unresolved family system patterns, addiction, emotional avoidance, over-functioning, and years of survival-based coping were quietly shaping our relationships in ways we did not yet understand.

In 2021, everything began to change.

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Through a twelve-step recovery process and a deeper understanding of addiction and family systems, I experienced a profound spiritual and emotional transformation. For the first time in my life, the confusion started to make sense. The pieces of everything I had studied for years finally came together in a practical and life-changing way.

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Most importantly, I began experiencing a level of peace, clarity, and emotional freedom I had never known before.

As I changed, my relationships changed. My marriage, my relationships with my adult children, my parents, and even my relationship with myself began to shift in meaningful ways.

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That transformation is what led me to create Laura on Recovery.

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As a master’s level educator with twenty-four years of teaching experience, combined with specialized training in mental health and recovery coaching, I now help women who feel overwhelmed, anxious, confused, and emotionally exhausted in relationships impacted by addiction, codependency, and family system dysfunction.

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My work combines lived experience, recovery principles, emotional regulation tools, family systems understanding, spiritual grounding, and practical guidance for real life.

This work is deeply personal to me. I continue walking this path myself, and it is a privilege to guide others through their own process of healing, emotional sobriety, boundaries, clarity, and freedom.

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I believe meaningful change is possible. When we begin healing ourselves, the impact reaches every part of life, our relationships, our nervous system, our spiritual life, and our sense of peace.

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You are worthy of that kind of transformation.