Ep. 26 Call In Show With Bob Forrest
Recovering From Reality
Dear Media, Alexis Haines
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
This episode is a bit different because we are doing a call-in show with my friend Bob Forrest! If you haven’t heard my previous episode with Bob, the co-founder of Alo House Recovery Center, be sure to check that out next.
So, we gave out a number and had you guys phone in with all your questions regarding sobriety, addiction, codependency, recovery, and my supposed debt to Orlando Bloom. It gets real on this episode, so I hope you enjoy! I look forward to more connection with you guys in the future. It is really great to connect and interact beyond Instagram comments and DMs.
Some stand-out questions were:
- Our opinion on needle exchange systems and clean injection sites
- How to recover from being a “weekend warrior”
- Enabling and its destructive outcomes
- Finding mental health care and support in difficult financial circumstances
- Overcoming insecurity and anxiety
And that just scratches the surface. We get deep into each topic, and Bob offered some stellar advice. Many questions were about being a loved one to an addict. My heart truly goes out to those in this situation. I see your pain, and I believe acknowledging your own pain is really important to the healing process. You can’t bring negative energy and shame to your loved one, and you definitely can’t force them to recover. But you can heal yourself first.
We are all on this earth to process something on a spiritual level. Sometimes, addiction and healing are part of this process. Don’t let negative feelings and energy have power over you. Reach out and get help, no matter the scale. Just start with the next indicative action, and take baby steps from there.
Hearing my listeners’ stories is why I do this work. All I do is for the collective. And the message I share is that you can recover, despite the trauma and pain. Trust me, you can do this thing.
If I can make a living amends, pay off my court fees 8 years later, and thank Orlando Bloom for kind of saving my life, then you can recover too! You’ll just have to listen to the episode to understand!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Alexis Haynes and this is my podcast for covering from reality. |
| 0:15.6 | Today we are doing a Colin episode. |
| 0:22.0 | I'm so excited to start doing this with you guys. |
| 0:24.5 | I really, really believe in connection and I feel like this is an amazing way to connect |
| 0:29.1 | with you guys because often you send me questions and then I send back answers or post |
| 0:34.0 | answers on my Instagram stories and then that's it. |
| 0:36.9 | But I love to have deeper conversations with people and I really believe that you get |
| 0:40.7 | so much more out of hearing people rather than just reading something that they put through |
| 0:46.6 | in text. |
| 0:48.0 | So today Bob Forest is coming on the podcast to answer your guys' questions. |
| 0:54.2 | I'm so excited to have Bob on and as you know, he is an incredible voice in recovery. |
| 1:04.6 | He's also the co-founder of Aloe, our drug rehab and he is just overall an amazing guy |
| 1:11.5 | and a previous guest. |
| 1:12.9 | You can go check out his episode which launched, I think it just a couple of months ago. |
| 1:20.4 | Here we go with this incredible Colin podcast episode. |
| 1:24.6 | Thanks for listening. |
| 1:25.6 | You're on with me, Alexis and Bob. |
| 1:29.2 | What's your name? |
| 1:30.2 | I'm Simone. |
| 1:31.2 | Hi Simone, nice to meet you. |
| 1:32.8 | What's your question? |
| 1:33.8 | So I was just wondering what your take and opinions are on the whole needle exchange system |
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