Is that appropriate? Absolutely not. Does he know about it? Despite her problems, Mackenzie was devoted to her only son and is enormously proud of his talent. Shane is a talented singer, and a gifted songwriter , who promises to follow in his father's and his late grandfather's footsteps into the music industry.
Now 60, Mackenzie works as a drug addiction counselor at Breathe Life Healing Center helping others make the same grueling journey to sobriety that she made. Shame is an illusion. Mackenzie, who faced enormous pressure from after revealing her father's abuse, and saw herself excluded from her family circle, does not back down from her daily challenges after a life of dependency.
For Mackenzie, her revelation about her incest experience had a positive outcome. After her first book was published, she was contacted by thousands of incest survivors, who thanked her for bringing a forbidden subject to the fore.
Then, 10 years later, she slipped back into drug use after coping with pain from surgeries and hit bottom again in an embarrassing public drug bust in at Los Angeles International Airport. Instead, she found herself in jail. The shame propelled her to get clean again. Since recovering, she has discovered that her passion is helping others cope with trauma and overcome their addictions. She is also the author of a book called Hopeful Healing. Since , Phillips has worked as a substance use counselor.
Phillips will come to Colorado next month to speak about her life and her recovery at the Tattered Cover Bookstore, Colfax. The discussion and book signing on May 8 at 7 p. For more information, click here. Their recovery is just as important as someone battling diabetes or cancer.
She also has five cats. I love what I do. I live a very full life. And 98 percent of my time is spent at work, out speaking or on TV. I need some quiet time. I like it. I thrive on it. Weekends are easy going. The first time I went to treatment, I was 18, and I was fired from [the TV show] "One Day at a Time" twice for having what I would characterize as a raging substance use disorder. And back in those days, they would fire you. I was an older teen and then a young adult, and they didn't really know what to do with me.
They were just like, "Stop it. And I was like, "I don't know how! And off you go. Pull yourself together, and then come back to work in two weeks. And it took me many, many years to do the internal work. At one time in my life, from the age of 32 to 42, I was clean and sober, and then I had a rather public and disastrous relapse that ended in felony narcotics possession charges in And I went to treatment yet again, and things have been very glorious and good since I made a shift in my career, and I went back to school and became a counselor and started working in the field of drug and alcohol and trauma treatment.
HealthyWomen : Is there anything else that you want to mention, in particular to women? Mackenzie Phillips : Well, I know that women traditionally don't seek treatment. It's like a dirty little secret. And it helps her on her way through her very busy day," which is about benzodiazepines. Society has made women think that they cannot take care of themselves; they have to focus on taking care of others, and I think that is one of the barriers to women seeking treatment.
And certainly during the pandemic, we have seen alcohol skyrocket in the home, and people who never drank, mommies with their wine and that type of thing, quite a few of them have crawled into a bottle during the lockdowns.
And now that things are opening up again, they're trying to figure out how to crawl back out. HealthyWomen : There was a rise in alcoholic liver disease among young women last year. As you are working as a counselor, would you attribute the rise to the pandemic or not being able to leave the house? Mackenzie Phillips : Well, I think it's a perfect storm of conditions. Of course, the pandemic, not being able to leave the house, not knowing how to cope with this horrible new normal, and turning to what had previously been a benign way to cope, but with the stay-at-home orders and all that kind of stuff, it seems like a good idea to have a glass of wine at a.
Initially, it helped people cope with this unprecedented way of being, but it is something that can become problematic rather quickly, and the horror and the thought of this huge spike in young women with cirrhosis is, I think, directly related to the pandemic and lack of healthy coping skills. HealthyWomen : Can you speak about your own experience going through Covid as it relates to your addictions? Mackenzie Phillips : Well, I've been sober a long time, but that doesn't mean anything.
Time doesn't necessarily heal or treat alcoholism and addiction — because if it did, no one would ever relapse. So during the pandemic I had to work from home for months. And that was interesting to me because I'm a doer.
I have trouble sitting still. I need to be doing something all the time, and so I found myself in my home, which is a lovely home, it's a nice place to be trapped, but working from my living room was challenging for me. But at the same time, it certainly didn't make me want to drink or get loaded. Last Name. By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Notice and European users agree to the data transfer policy.
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