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Recovering From Reality

Ep. 65 Q&A With Evan Haines and myself

Recovering From Reality

Dear Media, Alexis Haines

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4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week, Evan and I recorded a Q&A for the podcast and over on Instagram live! You guys sent in a bunch of good questions, and we get deep into topics like addiction treatment, our personal recovery, relationships, and more.

We share our thoughts on medication assisted treatment, or using drugs like Suboxone to reduce the chance of overdose. We also talk about harm reduction, and ways we can support those who are active addicts. Make sure to educate yourself on this topic before forming an opinion.

We also answer a question about 12 Steps and how its community aspect is so beneficial. I dive into the reasons behind why people have addiction, and how we can do the work to get to the root of our traumas. Evan shares his past drugs of choice and if either of us get triggered to use.

As far as relationship questions, we talk about how to navigate marital conflict, our favorite things about each other, and our favorite memories. We also talk about our age difference and whether it affects us. Evan also answers if my past scared him!

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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?

0:39.6

The love that I experienced as a child was conditional love. You know, I love you if you behave

0:46.4

this way. I'll love you if you blah, blah, blah, even I'll love you if you perform the sexual

0:52.2

act on me. I'll love you if you know what I mean? Like my entire life, that was my experience.

0:58.9

And when I got sober, I felt like the most unlovable piece of shit in the entire world,

1:06.4

that I was not worthy of respect or kindness or of ever experiencing real love. I didn't even

1:14.5

know that real love existed. I never really felt like that before. And so it wasn't even something

1:23.3

that we really even talked about until after we got married, where he was like, none of that

1:30.2

phases me. Like none of that bothers me at all. And I love you because of that. I love you because

1:38.7

of your past. I love you because of those experiences. And it really is just such a magical thing.

1:47.5

That was a quick clip from this week's episode with my husband Evan. This was a two-parter. Evan

1:54.0

was on the podcast not last week, but the week before. And we did a Q&A segment. And I wanted to

2:02.0

release it separately. Otherwise, it would have been well over a two-hour-long podcast, which in my

2:09.3

opinion is just a little bit too long. So I broke it up. And I'm really looking forward to this.

2:16.8

We dive deeper into our relationship. We talk about Suboxone, subutex maintenance, things in

2:23.9

that nature. So we're talking about overall healing and marriage and children and the works.

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