How AA Saved Her: Finding Purpose After Addiction with Ashley Pakulski

Breakfast of Choices

Today on Breakfast of Choices, I share a conversation I had with Ashley Pakulski. Ashley is an Online Mompreneur Coach who guides ambitious mompreneurs to confidently achieve next-level success in both business and life.
She is also a Best Selling Author. On this episode, Ashley opened up about her journey with childhood trauma, addiction struggles, and recovery. She got real about how trauma impacted her self-worth and led her to turn to drugs and alcohol as a teen.
As a single mom, she relied on alcohol to cope but realized it was negatively impacting her life and relationship with her daughter. Ashley tried different recovery methods like AA and counseling. While AA has really helped her through working the steps and connecting with others, she also emphasizes inner mindset work like meditation, prayer and reframing negative thoughts. It was touching to hear her share about losing her close friend to an overdose after they drifted apart in their adult lives. Her friend's death served as Ashley's ultimate rock bottom moment to commit to recovery for herself and her daughter.
We discussed how childhood trauma underlies so many addiction issues and the importance of self-love and positive self-talk. I hope listeners find encouragement from Ashley's story of healing and take away tools for their own journey to recovery.
Connect with Ashley:
https://www.instagram.com/theashleypakulski/

From Rock Bottom to Rock Solid.
We all have them...every single day, we wake up, we have the chance to make new choices.
We have the power to make our own daily, "Breakfast of Choices"
Resources and ways to connect:

Facebook: Jo Summers
Instagram: @Summersjol
Facebook Support: Chance For Change Women’s circle
National suicide prevention and crisis, hotline number 988
National domestic violence hotline:
800–799–7233
National hotline for substance abuse, and addiction:
844–289–0879
National mental health hotline:
866–903–3787
National child health and child abuse hotline:
800–422–4454
CoDa.org
12. Step recovery program for codependency.

Capítulos

1. How AA Saved Her: Finding Purpose After Addiction with Ashley Pakulski (00:00:00)

2. Transformative Stories of Overcoming Adversity (00:00:07)

3. Navigating Addiction and Mental Health (00:10:47)

4. Inner Work and Self-Love in Recovery (00:20:47)

5. Unleashing Self-Love and Resilience (00:28:24)

6. Pharmaceutical Industry, Rock Bottom, and Resilience (00:37:34)

7. Finding Hope Through Transformational Stories (00:42:41)