Tiffany Jenkins | 20 Felony Charges, Pill Addiction, & Healing Through Humor

About this episode

Tiffany Jenkins shares her journey from addiction and felony charges to recovery and humor.

Tiffany Jenkins, the New York Times bestselling author and voice behind "Juggling the Jenkins," joins Recoverycast to share her raw journey from facing 20 felony charges to 13 years of sobriety. Tiffany opens up about her childhood struggles with undiagnosed OCD and how a single sip of alcohol in high school led to a decade-long spiral into alcohol, weed, and eventually a devastating opiate addiction. She reveals the harrowing details of staging a burglary in her own home to fund her habit an...

People in this episode

Host: Recovery.com

Guest: Tiffany Jenkins

Topics covered

• addiction
• sobriety
• mental health
• personal journey
• humor in recovery

Keywords

• felony charges
• pill addiction
• sobriety
• OCD
• humor
• recovery
• personal story

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Recovery.com

Books & works: Juggling the Jenkins

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