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Stephanie Hazard

Stephanie Hazard

Certified recovery coach (CPRS, CCIEDC, RCP), author of "Making Sobriety Stick," and founder of A Path Toward Recovery, based in New Canaan, Connecticut.

Sep 22, 2026

4:44
So I would love to dive more into what you said about the difference between coping mechanisms and coping skills.
4:53
Sure, sure.
4:55
So for me, coping mechanisms certainly were.
4:58
And the eating disorder came first before alcohol use disorder.
5:04
So the eating disorder for me developed really after I went on my first diet when I was 11 years old.
5:11
That was sort of the, oh my gosh, the, if you will, quick link into disordered eating disorder.
5:19
And so I think really truly that, you know, that whole and trying to settle my nervous system and understanding that I engineered a very elaborate coping mechanism for And so, but it could be anything for anybody.

14 MINS LATER

19:13
And
11:30
amazing.
11:30
Yeah.
11:31
She had strategically hidden Cutty Sark, what's it called? Cutty Sark scotch bottles in the living closet.
11:38
Okay.
11:38
And my grandfather used it.
11:40
My grandmother actually used to spike.
11:42
She would pour vodka into my grandfather's orange juice.

33 MINS LATER

44:17
Yeah.

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