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You're Sober! Now What?
Tamar Medford and Lane Kennedy share a relaxed conversation about finding a true sense of home in recovery and how community shapes long-term sobriety. Their chat touches on in-person and online support, women’s spaces, and the bigger question of what comes after getting sober.
42:43•30 Mar 2022
Finding Your Home and Heart in Recovery
Episode Overview
- A genuine sense of home in recovery often begins when people share from the heart and respond without judgement.
- Community and fellowship – coffees, activities and real-life support – can make sobriety feel safer and less lonely.
- Online recovery offers accessibility, but may lack the informal chats and accountability that grow deeper connections.
- Spaces like Connected Calm Life give women in recovery a chance to talk openly about topics such as self-love, honesty and courage.
- Long-term recovery asks the bigger question of "you’re sober, now what?", encouraging people to keep growing and seek purpose.
“When I found recovery, I found a different type of home. People talked from the heart and listened from the heart, and I felt safe like never before.”
How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety? This episode brings together Tamar Medford and Lane Kennedy for a relaxed, honest chat about what it means to find "home" in recovery.
You’ll hear them swap stories from awkward teenage years and dysfunctional family homes, through chaotic drinking days, to the moment they first walked into recovery rooms and thought, "these are my people." Lane talks about the shift from chasing the “cool factor” in drinking circles to discovering a “heart factor” in recovery, where people spoke openly and safely from the heart.
Tamar shares how, for the first time, she felt genuinely understood when she started sharing what was going on in her head and others simply nodded instead of judging. A big part of the conversation centres on community. They contrast old-school, in-person fellowship – coffees after meetings, pool days, film nights and hiking trips – with the newer, online style of recovery where you can log in wearing a hoodie and log off the second the meeting ends.
Both women raise important questions about how connection, accountability and service might be shifting in a post-Covid recovery landscape. They also chat about the Connected Calm Life community Lane has created, a space where women in recovery can talk candidly about topics like self-love, honesty and courage. Tamar lights up describing how these gatherings feel like everyone’s curled up on comfy sofas, sharing real-life stuff – from body image to purpose – in a judgement-free environment.
Threaded through the episode is the big question behind "You're Sober! Now What?": once you’ve built a solid foundation and alcohol is no longer your first thought, what comes next? If you’re wondering where you truly belong in recovery, this conversation might nudge you to ask: where does your home in sobriety start, and how could it grow?
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