EP 79 | Tasha's Story: Trust Fall To FreedomEP 79 | Tasha's Story: Trust Fall To Freedom
She Surrenders - The Podcast
Sherry Hoppen talks with Tasha Williams about her journey from childhood trauma and opioid addiction to faith-based recovery and leadership at Blue Monarch. Tasha shares how a desperate prayer, a rehab call and repeated “trust falls” with God reshaped her life, her mindset and her family’s future.
48:30•24 May 2026
Trust Falls, Pain Pills and Faith: Tasha Williams’ Road to Freedom
Episode Overview
- Childhood trauma and domestic violence can shape identity early, but those inner vows to never be hurt again can be unlearned in recovery.
- Prescription pain medication may feel like an answer to emotional and physical pain, especially when backed by a doctor, yet can quietly grow into addiction.
- Crying out honestly to God at the end of yourself can open unexpected doors, like Tasha’s call from Blue Monarch the morning after her desperate prayer.
- Faith-based community, structure and cognitive change work helped Tasha move from nine medications and disability to working, leading and living medication-free.
- Repeated “trust falls” with God—saying yes even when scared—built a new mindset, a new role serving other women, and a new path for her children.
“I had to take a huge trust fall… and get to a place where the Lord tastes so good that you don’t have an appetite for those things no more.”
How do people find strength in their journey to sobriety? This conversation between host Sherry Hoppen and guest Tasha (Natasha) Williams gives a raw, faith-centred look at that question through one woman’s story of trauma, opioids and a very costly kind of courage. Tasha traces her struggles back to childhood domestic violence, including a ninth birthday spent calling 911 as her mum crawled into her room, blood running down her face.
She shares how that night led to an inner vow to never be hurt again and a tough-girl persona that grew into selling crack as a teenager. Even then, she says, there was always “this flicker in my heart that I knew that I shouldn’t be living the way that I was living.” A head-on collision at 24 shattered her body and opened the door to prescription opioids.
A morphine drip didn’t just ease 24 broken bones; it seemed to quiet years of buried hurt. With a doctor saying she’d never work again and would always need pain meds, and a father who also misused them, addiction wrapped itself in legitimacy. “This could possibly be the answer to everything,” she remembers thinking.
The heart of the episode is what happens next: Tasha’s desperate prayer when she couldn’t see a way out, the unexpected call from Blue Monarch, and what she calls taking a “trust fall” with God—leaving home with her children, one bag each and no money. From working in the granola kitchen, to coming off all medication and disability, to becoming Director of Residential Life, her story shows how repeated trust falls built a new life and mindset.
Women of faith, families affected by opioids, and anyone feeling stuck in shame or self-will will hear honest talk about control, surrender, and what it’s like when “the Lord tastes so good that you don’t have an appetite for those things no more.” It might just nudge you to ask: what would a trust fall look like for you today?
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