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Lynn Zielasko Unfiltered — Episode 7: Showing Up and Suiting Up: Transforming Lived Experience into Policy Change
In this powerful episode, hosts April and Lynn explore how the journey of recovery can transform deep shame, survival, and loss into a life of purpose, service, and systemic advocacy. April candidly shares her personal trajectory from a stable, "white-picket-fence" life to severe substance use, homelessness, and operating in constant crisis while living in a tent. Together, they dive into the raw emotional realities of early sobriety, discussing the physical toll of survival mode, the challenge of learning to feel vulnerability and joy again, and the deep healing that comes through peer…
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