Field Notes: Transformation with Tara Moreno

What if one of the biggest threats to recovery isn't relapse—but burnout? Today, I'm joined by Chris O'Droski, a veteran peer recovery coach, trainer, musician, and recovery advocate with more than 17 years of long-term recovery. Chris has spent nearly two decades helping others navigate addiction, mental health, crisis intervention, and the evolving world of peer recovery support. In...

Michelle Ryder is a recovery advocate, community leader, and Interim Executive Director of Recovery Alliance Project. After battling opioid addiction, surviving an overdose, losing custody of her children, and navigating a family court systemthat often saw her as a diagnosis instead of a person, Michelle fought her way back and rebuilt her life. • How a near-fatal overdose became the turning point...

Recovery isn't the end of the journey—it's the beginning. In this deeply authentic conversation, Tara Moreno and CEO of the McShin Foundation Honesty Liller discuss the evolution that happens after recovery: learning to trust yourself,finding your voice, setting boundaries, and stepping into leadership without abandoning your well-being. Honesty shares her experience as CEO of a nationally recogni...

What if addiction isn’t really about drugs… but about the nervous system searching for safety, love, and God? Today’s guest is life coach, speaker, and recovery advocate Tommy Kraus — someone I’ve known for nearly a decade — who opens up about the relationship patterns, childhood wounds, and spiritual awakening that completely changed the way he sees recovery, masculinity, and healing. In this con...

What if recovery isn’t just about getting sober… but about learning how to fully come back into your body, reclaim your energy, and trust yourself again? Today’s guest is Caitlin — a musician, movement practitioner, and woman in long-term recovery whose journey took her from heroin addiction and traditional recovery spaces into somatic healing, spirituality, nervous system regulation, and radical...

What if your life isn’t falling apart… but you’re waking up? In this episode of Field Notes: Transformation , Tara Moreno sits down with Erica Porter for a raw, honest conversation about what it really means to unravel—and rebuild—from the inside out. This isn’t surface-level healing. This is the deep work. They explore the tension between identity and truth, what happens when old versions of you...

What if the thing we fear most—death—is actually the doorway to understanding how to truly live? And what if the grief we avoid is the verything keeping us stuck in cycles we can’t break? Today’s guest is Kelly—a recovery coach, reiki practitioner, and end-of-life doula with over 12 years of sustained recovery rooted in lived experience and Buddhist principles. She’s supported dozens of people thr...

What if your darkest moment isn’t the end—but the doorway to your highest evolution? In this deeply revealing first episode of  EnergyHealing to the Rescue , I was able to down with mentor, healer, and intuitive practitioner Irene Keating to unpack one of the most misunderstood aspects of healing: the  dark night of the soul —and why it may be the very mechanism that catalyzes transformation. Toge...

The dark night of the soul isn’t a detour; it’s the doorway. Welcome to Field Notes: Transformation. I’m your host Tara Moreno. Today, I share the personal journey that led me into the work of spiritual awakening, nervous system regulation, and deep trauma healing. I reflect on the collapse that followed addiction, codependency, and unresolvedtrauma, and how those ruptures became the gateway to aw...