@rachel
Peer Support / Lived Experience · Hull, United Kingdom
I’m Rachel. I’ve spent over 30 years battling addiction, through 25+ rehabs and detoxes, prisons and countless attempts to get clean, only to repeatedly find myself back where I started. Everything changed when I stopped asking “what’s wrong with me?” and started asking “what happened to me?” Acknowledging my childhood trauma, nervous-system regulation and breathwork transformed my recovery. Breathwork quite literally saved my life. I now help facilitate TAR Anon, supporting others recovering from toxic relationships and trauma.
Tuesday, 15 September 2026
A personal look at the strange contradiction of giving up heroin and crack cocaine but struggling to give up smoking, and what trauma, emotional regulation and addiction might have to do with it.