Ep. 137 Turning our adversities into our advantages with Doug Bopst

Recovering From Reality

Dear Media, Alexis Haines

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🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In this week's episode I am joined by my friend, and fellow podcast host Doug Bopst. I celebrated my 11 years in recovery on March 8th and I thought that doing an episode on recovery was only fitting. This episode will leave you feeling inspired even if you don't deal with substance issues as Doug's story is about so much more than addiction. We talk about the importance of human connection, how childhood trauma effects out psychy's, and answer the age old question, "is weed really a "gateway" drug?"

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a deer 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, seeking self-care techniques for surviving the
0:20.5	capitalist machine, 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. Your challenges don't define you, how you deal with them does.
0:33.0	So are you ready to recover from reality?
0:39.7	I think that there's this interesting conversation that happens in the recovery community when
0:46.9	it comes to choice theory. Right, right. And so my question to you was, did you really miss
0:54.3	manage your pain or did you do the best you could with the tools and the skill set that you had
0:59.9	growing up in a dysfunctional family? Yeah, there's a lot of truth to what you said,
1:04.8	and you're right, there is this notion in the recovery community that everything is a choice.
1:11.2	And while I think, yes, we do make certain choices, that's just what we do as human beings.
1:15.7	Like some of it is you're only making certain choices based on the level of consciousness that
1:20.5	you're in in that moment, right? And as I look back, I can surely say that yes, like now I can say,
1:26.9	okay, like maybe I would have done certain things better knowing what I know now, but back then,
1:31.0	yeah, I think I handled it the best way that I could. And things just started to stack up for me,
1:37.1	even like more and more as I got older, and I started to initially turn to food.
1:44.3	And I- That is so many of our first addictions myself included. Sugar.
1:48.7	That was a quick clip from this week's episode with my friend Doug Bose, who is the host of the
1:57.0	adversity advantage podcast, which I actually guessed it on. It's such a good episode just a few
2:03.2	weeks ago. So if you want to check that out, I highly suggest it. This week we are talking about
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