In this powerful new episode of Finding Your Pink, I sit down with a former colleague of mine, broadcaster and DJ Nikki Hayes for an honest conversation about addiction, identity, motherhood, and starting again.
Behind the public persona was a woman quietly struggling — with anxiety, low self-worth, addiction, the breakdown of her marriage, and ultimately losing custody of her daughter. Nikki shares what it’s really like to rebuild a life after rock bottom, one sober day at a time.
But this is not a story about alcohol. It’s a story about losing yourself — and finding your way back.
About rebuilding trust slowly. About learning to live with regret without being defined by it.
And about discovering that real acceptance comes from within.
Now over two years sober, Nikki speaks with courage and honesty about the hardest parts of recovery, the long road to forgiveness, and why becoming a mother her daughter can be proud of is her definition of pink.
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