Episode 043 - You Can't Pour From an Empty Cup. Becoming You Starts With Filling It.

The Sober Creative Podcast · Mar 6, 2026 · 36m

Florence Acosta spent nearly 30 years giving everything she had to everyone around her.

As a nurse. As a CRNA holding patients’ lives in her hands. As an executive director managing surgical teams, patient safety, and the invisible weight of being the person everyone else leaned on. As a daughter-in-law who watched her former father-in-law disappear into addiction while his family quietly stopped asking. As a wife who kept saying what she needed — and kept being met with silence.

She gave and gave and gave. And she never once stopped to ask what was left in her own cup.

Then, at 50, a stroke…