Ep. 97 Dating and Sobriety with Lindsey Metselaar
Recovering From Reality
Dear Media, Alexis Haines
4.8 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2020
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode, I am joined by Lindsey Metselaar. Lindsey is a native New Yorker, CEO of Lindsey's Lunchbox and host of the popular dating podcast, We Met At Acme After many dating experiences, Lindsey felt it was imperative to create this podcast and shed a light on this touchy subject. Since creating We Met At Acme, Lindsey has learned more about dating than she had ever hoped. On WMAA, she talks with experts, friends, celebrities, and people of all walks of life to learn about what their dating experience has been.
We dive into the following topics…
- Lindsey’s experience with weed addiction and her path to sobriety
- The impact of the 12 step program and recovery community on Lindsey and Alexis’ wellbeing
- Navigating romantic relationships and sobriety
- Lindsey’s perspective on dating during quarantine
- The culture of motherhood and alcohol
- Lindsey’s best tips for men and women navigating the dating world
Mentioned in this week's episode...
- Getting to “I Do” by Dr. Pat Allen
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a DR 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, |
| 0:18.2 | seeking self-care techniques for surviving the capitalist machine, |
| 0:21.8 | 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. |
| 0:28.8 | 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 | A lot of people give up early because they're like, |
| 0:41.9 | this is just not for me, but it's so much so about finding that meeting and |
| 0:46.0 | finding the people that you can relate to. |
| 0:49.1 | Yeah, exactly. And I, like, you know, |
| 0:52.7 | it's kind of like the only space in the world where you can be with all types of people |
| 0:56.7 | from all walks of life and have something in common. |
| 0:59.7 | So it's almost like, especially in quarantine when people are like drinking more |
| 1:03.3 | and smoking more and just like getting more fucked up and trying to escape more, |
| 1:08.6 | to have this place where you can go that basically is like therapy is such a, |
| 1:15.6 | like a blessing. Like, I feel bad for people who don't get to go to meetings almost. |
| 1:20.4 | And this week's episode, I am met with fellow deer media alum Lindsay from We Met at Acme. |
| 1:30.9 | Lindsay is a native New Yorker CEO of Lindsay's lunch box and host of the popular |
| 1:37.8 | dating podcast we met at Acme where she dives into all of the tapu subjects that you want to know |
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