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

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

Whether you're on the road to recovery, seeking self-care techniques for surviving the

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

we're serving up the ultimate truth. Your challenges don't define you, how you deal with them does.

So are you ready to recover from reality?

I think that we talk about alcohol and drugs, which I have not had a personal problem with,

as this addiction, right? And people don't necessarily talk about emotions in that same sense,

but they are. I was addicted to my depression. You know, my depression allowed me to drop out of

college and not take responsibility and not figure out my adult world and what I have to do.

My addiction allowed me to call out of being a gelato scooper and a hostess and

interning for C-magazine and trying to go to college. My depression and bipolar disorder at the

snap of my fingers, my entire family, friends, husband would drop what they were doing to come to my

rescue. I was unconscious of that power and that addiction while it was happening, but the same

way that people are addicted to negative thought patterns or the core beliefs that they tell themselves.

That was a quick clip from this week's episode with Scout Sobo. I really love this episode.

If you haven't heard me on her podcast, okay, says head over there and have a listen because

it was really a great one. Scout Sobo is the founder of Scout's agency, which is a PR agency that

gets women as guests on important podcasts and the co-host of the okay says podcast and also

the host of the scout podcast where she really dives into her life as a person with bipolar.

This week we are discussing how to use your emotions to guide you and balancing your mental

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