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Lara Love Hardin

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2024-02-28
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  1. “I spent close to a year. Incarcerated I then had another couple months to get my youngest son back. And I never had my older boys back in the same way. In that day to day Do homework, make dinner”

    2024-02-28 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah & Lara Love Hardin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Someone had said, I know that you're addicted. I know that your life is out of control and there's hope and will help you and somehow took away all the fear of what that would mean. The irony is at the time. I didn't think I could go 30 days away from my children. I thought, how could I possibly spend thirty days?”

    2024-02-28 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah & Lara Love Hardin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “I don't think there was anything anyone could have said to me unless someone could have told me the future, maybe. It would, you know, I wanted to stop. I had, I was desperate to stop and I couldn't. I knew the way I was living was wrong. I knew the choices I was making were going against my values. But you feel like you're in survival mode, that you will die if you stop. So I think I was afraid of judgment, so I don't know. I was never approached from a place of Love and acceptance around it. I don't know if that would have helped.”

    2024-02-28 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah & Lara Love Hardin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “So I stopped the opiates and I had six years. And I remarried, and my second husband. And that's really what led me down. Year where everything fell apart.”

    2024-02-28 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah & Lara Love Hardin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “The way opiates work in my brain, it made me, I thought, smarter and funnier and more connected. Highly functioning, and nobody knew.”

    2024-02-28 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah & Lara Love Hardin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “It was so like 300 How is that possible your tolerance builds? I don't, you know, I don't know how it's possible. You got from one takes two and it just builds and builds and builds. And I tried to quit a million times. I quit them a million times because I knew this is not what I wanted to do, but I always started again and told myself I didn't have a problem because I could quit over and over again.”

    2024-02-28 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah & Lara Love Hardin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “It was the beginning. I graduated when I was 24 and I had three boys in four and a half years. And I was in a marriage that wasn't great. And my dreams of this sort of happily ever family that I wanted to create for myself was were falling apart. And I was depressed and I had prescribed opiates. This is before the opiate crisis was a crisis and they were handed out nonstop. Took a pill when I had no pain, and it gave me joy. It made me feel like everything was going to be okay.”

    2024-02-28 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah & Lara Love Hardin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “I had that fear. I mean, it's something I'm still working on. And it was just, I didn't feel seen and I felt. Really, like everybody else in the world was normal and different, and there was something wrong with me. I think. When you grew up sort of alone or neglected, you internalize that and make it about you”

    2024-02-28 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah & Lara Love Hardin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “I was escaping, if I had to put it in one word, I would say loneliness, silence. I grew up in a family that didn't have a language for emotion. There was a lot of chaos and violence and addiction and alcoholism and nobody talked about anything. And I was terrified.”

    2024-02-28 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah & Lara Love Hardin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “It feels like freedom. It feels... So good not to keep secrets, not to be hiding. And it feels vulnerable and scary I was really excited for the book to come out, but about three weeks before I had sort of this crisis, before it was publishing, and I thought, what have I done? Like all of my secrets, my interior world, my messiest version of myself is out there. Yeah, I had a lot of fear”

    2024-02-28 · Oprah's Super Soul · Oprah & Lara Love Hardin · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source