Addiction, Mission, and Recovery (Breanne Demarco) | Ep. 466
Pints With Aquinas
Matt Fradd
4.8 • 6.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 May 2024
⏱️ 188 minutes
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Summary
Breanne grew up in the Diocese of Austin, Texas and was heavily involved in various outreach ministries until she graduated and left the country to serve as a full-time foreign missionary. After traveling to 13 countries she returned home and began to serve in ministry Stateside - giving talks at youth retreats and events all over the U.S. She spent some time in the convent discerning her vocation, and also as the Campus Minister at Texas State University. She recently got married and now has two children. She has been sober for 8 years and has helped many other addicts pursue recovery along the way. In her free time, which doesn’t exist anymore since she is a mother, she likes to ride motorcycles, shoot guns, and go to Adoration.
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| 0:00.0 | Brian. That's it. Nice to have you on the show. Yes. It's so great to be here. Yes. I interviewed you |
| 0:05.8 | once upon a time for that covenantized podcast. That's right. We did do that. It was a while ago. |
| 0:11.8 | And I feel like it was like the tip of the iceberg. Like we talked a little bit, but it was, |
| 0:17.1 | there's so much more to the story. So I'm glad to be here to share. Yeah, and I'm honored to hear it. |
| 0:21.6 | So, man, how do we, how do we begin? |
| 0:23.6 | Where's one begin with your life story? |
| 0:25.6 | I mean, I guess I'll start with a little background, so people kind of understand, you know, I grew up Catholic. |
| 0:32.6 | But it was like, it was Catholic, but kind of like, okay, we go to Mass on Sundays and all right, we give stuff up for Lent and make sure to follow the rules and that sort of thing. |
| 0:44.5 | But, you know, I would go on retreats and have these encounters and come to know God. |
| 0:49.8 | But really, I feel like there were already little pieces maybe missing maybe in my heart where I was looking for love and maybe looking in the wrong places. I mean, I feel like at an early age, I kind of started down that journey. |
| 1:02.8 | Where did you grow up? |
| 1:04.0 | I grew up in Texas. Yeah, yeah, in the Austin area. And great parish, super active. You know, my mom was pretty active in the parish. |
| 1:12.6 | And so I had that kind of witness. |
| 1:14.6 | But yeah, I don't know. |
| 1:16.6 | I mean, I just remember like by 12 years old already struggling with like self harm or like one, like having these just suicidal ideation kind of thoughts. |
| 1:25.6 | I mean, and I was like 12 or 13 years old. And so it started |
| 1:29.3 | young. It definitely, yeah. Do you look back and was there events that took place in your life |
| 1:34.8 | prior to that that led to that? You know, what's interesting is I feel like I have tried to |
| 1:39.9 | psychoanalyze, you know, through years of therapy and talking to people and group recovery |
| 1:46.1 | and that sort of thing. It's like it would be nice if there was this pinpoint like, aha, |
| 1:51.2 | this is why I was the way I was. And I think oftentimes in life, like, I want that. I want |
| 1:56.8 | that clear-cut answer. And there were many times I question God, like, why, why am I the way |
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