Nadia Davis - Finding the Home Within after Addiction

Nadia Davis is the recipient of multiple state and national public

service awards and has been a public figure in California for over

two decades. As a young high-profile lawyer, Nadia served on the

school board and represented the wrongfully convicted. She then led

local and state efforts to improve collaboration of services for

victims of interpersonal violence and was elected as county

supervisor. She is the former long-time spouse of Bill Lockyer,

California’s former Attorney General and Treasurer, with whom she

now happily co-parents. Her experience with PTSD and addiction in

the trenches of a highly publicized abusive relationship led Davis

through the challenges of public shaming, injustice, arrests,

mandated treatment, and a total lack of privacy for personal issues.

Her memoir, Home is Within You, details her courageous journey to

wholeness and health in a powerful homage to finding one's truth

and worth. Nadia captures heritage, justice, and personal recovery

into a tour de force utilizing prose, poetry, and letters to her sons. It

is also a defense of privacy and motherhood, as well as a call to action against shaming of women and ineffective, often damaging policies toward struggling families. Davis suggests more compassionate methods of treatment and restorative justice enabling those in recovery from trauma and addiction to ultimately find their personal truth and strength within.