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Recovering From Reality

Ep. 105 Q+A The Social Causes of Addiction and Mental Health with Bob Forrest and Evan Haines

Recovering From Reality

Dear Media, Alexis Haines

Dear, Health & Fitness, From, Education, Naiers, Alexis, Reality, Haines, Media, Recovering

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode, I am joined by Bob Forrest and Evan Haines. Bob and Evan are co-founders of Alo House Recovery Centers, a holistic, non-12-step rehab facility. Both former addicts, Bob and Evan have extensive experience in the recovery field and are experts in the compassionate care model.

We dive into the following topics…

- Calling things into existence, manifestation, and the law of attraction

- If therapists without addiction experience have a place in drug treatment and how they can utilize empathy and evidence based practices to increase effectiveness in modern treatment

- Navigating weed addiction and getting sober without hitting a “rock-bottom”

- Setting healthy boundaries with family members

- How profoundly divorce can impact children and their mental health

- Coparenting with a spouse in active addiction and how gender differences impact this

- Evan and Bob’s upcoming book—America is Addiction

Follow Alexis (@itsalexishaines), join our Facebook group, and follow @recoveringfromreality on Instagram to stay up to date on all things RFR! You can also enroll in Alexis’ Life Reset Course at liferesetcourse.com to learn the exact, tools to recover from limiting and self- sabotaging beliefs, thoughts, emotions, feelings and behaviors and replace them with new ones that will set you up for the life you deserve and are fully capable of as you integrate the learnings and tools in your life.

Produced by Dear Media

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0:00.0

The following podcast is a DR Media Production.

0:07.5

Hey, this is Alexis Haines and welcome to Recovering from Reality,

0:11.6

where I illuminate the messy and magical path of coming home to yourself.

0:16.1

Whether you're on the road to recovery,

0:18.2

seeking self-care techniques for surviving the capitalist machine,

0:21.8

or just need a moment to remember that you're not alone in your loneliness,

0:26.2

we're serving up the ultimate truth.

0:28.8

Your challenge is don't define you, how you deal with them does.

0:33.0

So are you ready to recover from reality?

0:39.7

The eye of the storm where it's calm and you can look around and see,

0:44.3

wait, they're just all acting out generation after generation,

0:48.4

all of this pain. So whenever humans fell into history thousands of years ago

0:53.3

and doing violence to one another, it kind of has gotten so far out of hand

0:58.0

and the violence and retribution and blame really,

1:01.8

and grievance we're living in this, I read an article last night with Trump

1:06.1

and everything we're addicted to grievance.

1:08.0

He's really just doing what we all do.

1:10.8

And so to be resentful at our parents and wait for some kind of apology

1:15.1

that's never going to happen, it's useless and unnecessary and misses the point.

1:21.1

We all suffer from varying degrees of the exact same pain

1:25.5

and we need to stop it and we need to understand that those experiences

1:28.6

like you opened up saying Alexis that they deepen our own sense of compassion

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