#45 Mary Tilson: Owner of Sun & Moon Sober Living, Recovery Coach, Retreat Leader, Podcast Host

Mary Tilson is a Certified Professional Recovery Coach (IAPRC) with a Master’s Degree in the Psychology & Neuroscience of Mental Health.She draws on a holistic background, which includes Somatic Experiencing, a body-based approach to healing trauma and stress-related disorders and over a decade of experience as a Yoga & Mindfulness Teacher.Having experienced drug and alcohol addiction firsthand, her approach to coaching is rooted in compassion and understanding. She’s been sober for 13 years and is passionate about helping others build fulfilling lives substance-free.Mary got sober at the age of twenty-three after attending treatment at Hazelden. She then moved to Southeast Asia where she lived at a meditation center and practiced yoga and ultimately landed back in Colorado where she attended college. She’s a spiritual nomad who leads retreats for sober women around the world and hosts the Sun and Moon Sober Living Podcast.In this episode, Mary shares her experience, strength and hope as a woman in recovery, working through perfectionism and anxiety, living a life in early sobriety when she thought life was going to be boring to living a life beyond her wildest imagination, climbing mountains in Nepal. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kelleykitley.substack.com