YouTube interview (Mick Unplugged) featuring Lauren Sisler describing addiction and shame as widespread experiences, urging people to stop living in a "prison of shame," to own their stories, and to develop a "Shatterproof" mindset she outlines in her book. Sisler references her parents' complex experience with pain, medication, and addiction to illustrate layered causes and to encourage resilience and recovery.
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Because a lot of people have experienced addiction, whether it's individually, as themselves, or in their families, loved ones, it is a universal issue. And because, again, people don't want to talk about it, everyone has gone through something. Everyone knows the feeling of shame. I want to meet people where they're at and help to encourage them that they don't have to stay there. They don't have to stay in this prison of shame. They can come out and they could own their story. They can own their circumstances and say, you know what? I'm not going to live like this anymore. I'm going to push forward and develop that Shatterproof mindset I really talk about in my book. Shatterproof is really outlining, obviously, the story of how things really happened with my parents and understanding the depths of it, because it wasn't as simple as, oh, they're in pain, and now they're going to a pain management doctor, and now they're taking medication, and now they're addicted to it. There's so many layers to who we are and how we become who we are. I just want to encourage people on that journey and help them to build that Shatterproof mindset.