The Power of Presence
Through recovery, healing and personal growth, Tina Moore has discovered the profound impact of living with intention and is sharing that experience with others.
There was a time when Tina Moore had nowhere to call home.
Moore grew up in a dysfunctional home as the child of an alcoholic. She later spent nearly two decades in addiction herself, a path that led her to the lowest point of her life, including homelessness. Today, she is more than nine years sober, the founder of Tina Moore LLC, the creator of a guided meditation app and an author writing her memoir.
“I grew up learning how to survive, and for a long time that was all I knew how to do. Sobriety gave me my life back. Once I got sober, I had to meet the woman underneath all of it. I started to see how much of my life had been shaped by fear and by patterns I didn’t even know were there,” Moore says.
Sober since Aug. 15, 2017, Moore found a guiding question in the deeper healing that followed: “What is true for me?”
“We live in a world that pushes us to conform. Asking what is true for me allows us to reclaim our agency and honor that each of us walks our own path. For me, recovery extends far beyond substances. It includes people-pleasing, perfectionism, overachieving and all the ways we disconnect from ourselves. There is so much freedom in discovering who we are beneath all of that,” she says.
Moore holds a degree in psychology, previously worked as a substance abuse counselor and is a trauma-trained somatic practitioner. Her study of mindfulness, meditation, breathwork, yoga and nervous system awareness has shaped how she lives and led to her most ambitious project, Anchor Into Presence, a guided meditation app available on iOS and Android.
When asked what inspired the app, Moore recalled a women’s networking event in California in 2025, where the conversation turned to how she stayed sober while continuing to grow. Her answer was her morning ritual: yoga, meditation, reading, journaling and reflection before the day begins.
“As I was describing it, I realized how much those mornings had changed my life. I wanted to give others a way to begin that same commitment to themselves, even if they only had five minutes,” Moore says.
Moore created the app with no prior experience in app development. “There were moments I wondered whether I could bring it to life. What I’ve learned is that we can move forward before we have every answer,” she says.
Moore was intentional in designing Anchor Into Presence to be simple, accessible and sustainable, a practice that fits into real life and invites people back each day, whether they are new to meditation or experienced. Each session offers a five-minute ritual of grounding, guided meditation, insight and integration, and every meditation is written and recorded in Moore’s own voice, drawn from her lived experience.
For a woman who once spent her days in survival mode, the steadiness of that morning practice carries real weight.
“When we begin the day grounded and present, we meet life with more clarity. We become more aware of our thoughts and emotions, and that awareness gives us room to respond rather than react. It can change how we move through our relationships, our challenges and our everyday moments,” she said.
“Every time we show up for ourselves, we strengthen our relationship with ourselves. Five minutes may seem small, but when you honor that commitment every single day, you begin to trust yourself. You understand what you need. You start living from what is true for you,” Moore said.
Living from that truth is also at the heart of her memoir, Unbottled Life, which she is writing. The book explores addiction, recovery and the ongoing process of rediscovering herself.
Her advice for anyone afraid to make a big change comes from that same honesty.
“We can hold two truths at once. We can feel afraid and still choose to move forward. We can acknowledge the pain of our past and feel tremendous gratitude for the life we have today. We can celebrate how far we’ve come and still keep growing,” she says.
The woman who once had nowhere to call home now spends her days creating spaces where others can find their footing.
And when asked what she ultimately hopes people will remember about her, her answer came without hesitation.
“More than anything, I want people to feel seen. I want them to know their experiences matter, their stories have value and that wherever they are in their journey, they are worthy of love, compassion and understanding.”
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