442. Tales from the Pit: Life on High, a Sobriety Update (feat. Katie Willert)

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Comedy

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

The pit is back! Well, the podcast. Honestly, it’s been a while because things have been fairly positive in the lives of Michael Swaim and Katie Willert. It’s not all roses, but the two update us (and hopefully fellow addicts out there) how things are going now that they’re sober. No real trigger warnings this time: they discuss their relationship with addiction, what they’re struggling with, and what they’re not struggling with. More or less, it’s a positive reinforcement that anyone can make a choice to be better tomorrow and we here at Small Beans highly suggest it, even if there’s setbacks once in a while. Features: Katie Willert: https://twitter.com/katiewillertart Michael Swaim: https://twitter.com/SWAIM_CORP Check our store to buy Small Beans merch! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/the-small-beans-store?ref_id=22691 Support Small Beans and access Additional Content: https://www.patreon.com/SmallBeans

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to not the bottom, probably the middle, somewhere in the shaft
0:27.5	of the pit. This is Tails from it, the aforementioned pit. I'm your pit explorer, Mr. Michael
0:35.9	Swame and I'm always blessed to be joined by someone in the pit because damn the pit
0:42.7	would be rough on your own and I think that's the whole point of Tails from the pit. Here
0:47.2	with me is my gal pal Miss Katie Willard, the divine Miss Katie Willard, I think we can say hello.
0:54.6	Oh, I like it. I like it. Hi Katie. Hi Michael, how are you this morning? Welcome back to the
1:04.7	pit. I'm good. I have strong survivors guild doing this episode. Let me explain a bit about
1:10.7	why we're doing this episode. People have been asking lately, where did Tails from the pit go,
1:18.9	and I've been responding privately via Twitter, DMs and stuff that I'm in a really good place right
1:25.4	now mentally and no one wants to hear that because I feel like Tails from the pit exists to
1:32.0	normalize these experiences so people are more free to reach out when they're undergoing crisis
1:38.7	and undergoing severe challenges and I haven't been lately, but a bunch of people responded. That's
1:46.4	small archie. We really would love to hear a check in, especially people undergoing an addiction
1:51.1	journey. They want to hear a check in about how things are going with our addictions.
1:55.8	Right. Can I just say though, is that life is not entirely pit, even if you are having bad mental
2:04.3	health, even if you are in addiction, life is not all pit. There are moments of good,
2:10.2	and then you trip and fall back into the pit again. I know for me and my journey in recovery,
2:16.9	my journey as a human, you need to know that the better parts come because then you'll fall
2:25.1	in the pit again and then you'll be bummed, but then you'll remember, hey, it's not always like
2:30.7	you know. Oh, see, there's an update then. That's substantive data. I haven't mastered that
2:37.5	because I still, I definitely have the thing where when I how undergo a good period,
2:46.9	especially of mental stability where it doesn't matter what the external circumstances are,
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