We Saved Each Other From Addiction | Sarah Hiscox “I Wouldn’t Be Alive Without You”

What if your ‘begin again’ moment comes after you lose everything your marriage, your children, your best friend, and almost yourself?

Sarah Hiscox is Davina’s best friend of nearly 40 years, but this is a side of their story that has never been told like this before.

In this episode of Begin Again, Sarah Hiscox joins Davina to talk about friendship, addiction, shame, motherhood, recovery, love, and the long road back to herself.

Sarah opens up about growing up with low self-worth, an alcoholic mother, and a childhood where difficult feelings were pushed down rather than spoken about. She reflects on the early experiences that shaped her relationship with shame, food, pills, and eventually heroin.
Davina and Sarah also revisit the moment their friendship changed both of their lives, from Sarah confronting Davina about her drug use, to Davina later having to draw a painful boundary when Sarah’s own addiction had taken hold. Together, they speak honestly about what it means to love someone through addiction, while also knowing you cannot save them unless they are ready to save themselves.

Sarah shares the devastating reality of losing her marriage, her children, and almost her life to heroin addiction, as well as the moment she finally found a way to begin again. She talks about getting clean, rebuilding trust with her children, finding her way back to her husband Renshaw, and learning how to become the mother she had always wanted to be.
This is also a conversation about creativity, self-belief, and finally finding your voice. Sarah discusses writing her debut novel, The Beginning and the End of Everything, and why becoming an author has been one of the most meaningful chapters of her life.

At its heart, this is a story about love in all its forms: friendship, marriage, motherhood, forgiveness, and chosen family.
Sarah Hiscox reminds us that even after shame, addiction and loss, it is possible to come home to yourself, and to the people who never stopped loving you.

This episode contains conversations about addiction, eating disorders, overdose and recovery, please watch with care.

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00:00 Intro
01:06 Sarah’s Book, Her Voice & A Lifelong Friendship
05:03 Growing Up With Low Self-Worth
07:23 Being Given Sleeping Pills at Eight Years Old
10:07 How Sarah and Davina First Met
13:19 Finding Safety in Each Other
14:09 The Moment Sarah Helped Davina Get Clean
19:39 Meeting Renshaw, Falling in Love & Introducing Him to Davina
22:55 Do Health Ad
24:06 Sarah Opens Up About Bulimia and Shame
30:33 Motherhood, Loneliness & The Void Returning
34:02 The First Time Sarah Took Heroin
39:40 Losing Her Marriage and Family to Addiction
44:33 The Painful Moment Davina Had to Step Back
47:49 Sarah’s Overdose and Reaching Rock Bottom
50:44 Taking Recovery One Minute at a Time
53:57 Rebuilding Trust, Love and Family
1:09:37 Davina Reads a Letter From Sarah’s Son Linus

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