Rynda Laurel's Story Of Recovery And Spreading Awareness On The Biochemical Aspect Of Addiction (Ep. 4)

In this episode, you’ll hear Rynda Laurel who has 26 years in recovery, share her story of addiction and depression and how she surrendered and went to treatment and 12-step meetings to get clean.

She then figured out how to use natural therapies to get off antidepressants and is now healthy in body, mind, and spirit.

Rynda’s Story…

Here’s a little background on Rynda’s story and what you’ll hear about in this episode, which was taken from her About Us page on her website.

Rynda has worked in the music career since her teens and nowadays has over 26 years of continuous sobriety and recovery from drug addiction and almost 3 years of full remission from clinical depression.

In the constant search to feel better over the years, Rynda has read a copious amounts of books and sat through a gazillion online courses, consulted with multiple doctors and therapists and health practitioners and sponsors and nutrition coaches and the list goes on and on….and finally by using specific supplements and understanding how her diet was affecting her moods and modifying it, she was able to recover from her own mood and depression issues.

Rynda continues to do all the things that kept her sober (community and spiritual connection) and mindful (yoga, meditation, and breath-work) but with the addition of detailed functional medicine lab work, a fine-tuned nutrition plan and mood balancing supplements, everything finally changed.

Because this change was so profound and she wanted to share this new found freedom with others, Rynda decided to launch a supplement company called VRYeveryday so that she could pass on what she learned and create products that help others to achieve a new level emotional well being.

Here is a list of topics discussed in this episode:

What life was like working in the music business and using alcohol and drugs
How addiction began to surface and how heroin addiction led to the world looking and feeling “grey”
Hitting an emotional bottom and calling a treatment program number advertised in a New York subway
Surrendering and going to detox and inpatient treatment
Slipping up then getting right back into recovery
Building a strong foundation of recovery through 12-step meetings, sober friends, healthy relationships, and much more
Getting on antidepressants for depression
Spending years and years researching natural treatment modalities for getting off antidepressants and healing depression holistically
Coming up with a plan to get off antidepressants and successfully achieving this goal
Healing the brain and body and getting healthy in body, mind, and spirit
Founding VRYeveryday, a company that creates high-end neuro-vitality supplements (pictured below) – And Rynda was nice enough to provide a 10% off discount, which you can get by entering the coupon code elevationrecovery when purchasing products from VRYeveryday.com.