Ep. 48 Drugs Aren’t the Answer, Honey!
Recovering From Reality
Dear Media, Alexis Haines
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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In this week's episodes I am sitting down With Amy Dresner who is the author of a memoir called, “My Fair Junkie”. Amy and I dive into topics ranging from what it was like to write a book to the ongoing debate around choice and addiction.
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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, where I illuminate the |
| 0:12.8 | messy and magical path of coming home to yourself. Whether you're on the road to recovery, |
| 0:18.2 | seeking self-care techniques for surviving the capitalist machine, or just need a moment to |
| 0:23.2 | remember that you're not alone in your loneliness. We're serving up the ultimate truth. Your challenges |
| 0:29.9 | don't define you, how you deal with them does. So are you ready to recover from reality? |
| 0:38.8 | Seeing my behavior sober without the lens of denial and having that time away from it, |
| 0:47.3 | I was horrified and I didn't actually even really recognize the person I was writing about, |
| 0:54.2 | and that was weird. There were things I didn't want to write about that I knew I had to write about, |
| 0:58.8 | and as a writer, that stuff really, I can't put that on the page. That's the shit you need to put |
| 1:03.8 | on the page. It's not about looking good. Everyone's like, why didn't I really like you in the |
| 1:07.3 | beginning of the book? I'm like, hi, I was merely ill and fucking a drug addict. If I was an angel, |
| 1:13.2 | I would have never gotten sober. I was very honest about what a dick I was. You know what I mean? |
| 1:19.4 | And I think if you're trying to look good in an addiction memoir, you're just not being |
| 1:23.3 | fucking honest enough. That was a quick clip from this week's episode. Amy Dresner is a journalist, |
| 1:32.4 | author, and former comedian as well as a recovering addicts alcoholic. She's been a columnist for |
| 1:38.2 | the Addiction Recovery magazine, The Fixed.com since 2012, and has freelanceed for Addiction.com |
| 1:45.1 | psychology today and many other publications. Her first book, My Fair Junkie, a memoir of getting |
| 1:51.4 | dirty and staying clean was published by Hischette in 2017. To rave reviews from critics and readers |
| 1:58.0 | alike, Elle Magazine compared Dresner's darkly comic memoir to Carrie Fisher's postcards from |
| 2:03.5 | the edge and Mary Carr's lit, calling Dresner's book One for the Ages. Dresner has appeared on |
| 2:10.3 | television shows like The Doctors and on numerous radio shows and podcasts including Dr. Drew |
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