182 Turning Leaves Recovery with Tricia Parido182 Turning Leaves Recovery with Tricia Parido
You're Sober! Now What?
Tricia Parido shares her journey from early trauma and alcohol dependence to becoming a recovery lifestyle coach, focusing on life after treatment. The conversation highlights emotional intelligence, overthinking and the many forms addiction can take beyond substances.
56:38•21 Feb 2022
Choosing Your Own Recovery Life with Tricia Parido
Episode Overview
- Recovery extends beyond alcohol and drugs to include behaviours like overspending, disordered eating and people pleasing.
- Post-treatment life requires active, forward-moving support, not just meetings and weekly therapy.
- Accurately naming emotions and checking in with "right here, right now I feel…" is a core step in emotional intelligence.
- Effective self-soothing means sitting with discomfort and healing it, rather than numbing with substances or quick fixes.
- Focusing on what works well each day, instead of ruminating on stressors, helps reduce overthinking and build momentum in recovery.
“This is my life, too. It gets to look, feel, be however I want it to. I get to choose.”
What drives someone to seek a life without alcohol? In this candid conversation, recovery lifestyle coach Tricia Parido joins the show to talk about her long relationship with alcohol, trauma and healing, and why her work focuses on the "now what" stage after treatment. You’ll hear Tricia share how drinking began at 12 after her father’s death and became her go-to way to cope with deep, unspoken pain.
Later, a prescription for anxiety mixed with daily drinking led to her first full-blown physiological dependence, complete with shakes, nausea and “get well” drinks. That turning point pushed her into detox, treatment and, eventually, a new path built around evidence-based recovery tools. Tricia explains how Turning Leaves Recovery, Life and Wellness Coaching supports people who’ve left treatment and gone back to the same house, spouse, kids and bills, asking, “Now what?
What next?” She stresses that recovery is far wider than the stereotype of the “down and out addict” and includes issues like food, shopping, workaholism, people pleasing and rigid habits that hold you hostage. A big part of the chat centres on overthinking and emotional intelligence. Tricia breaks down how she helps clients move away from future-tripping and rehearsed arguments, and into simple check-ins like, “Right here, right now in this moment, I feel…”.
From there, they work on naming emotions accurately, understanding what drives them, and building genuine self-soothing skills—far beyond a bubble bath and a bit of yoga. Her motto sums up the spirit of the episode: “This is my life, too. It gets to look, feel, be however I want it to. I get to choose.” If you’re sober and stuck in overthinking, people-pleasing or old patterns, this conversation might spark some questions about what you’re ready to change next.
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