EP113: From Addiction to Sobriety with Alexis Haines
Let's Talk About It With Taylor Nolan
Wave Podcast Network
3.4 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2020
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
"The drugs aren't the problem, you are" is a phrase Alexis Haines lives by, as she outlines her journey with addiction, trauma, and abuse and how it led to her eventual recovery. Taylor and Alexis deep dive into Alexis's past trauma and recovery journey, and how she's used her past to fuel her future as a sober advocate and healer. With her new lifestyle, Alexis keeps very busy balancing herself, her marriage, parenting, work (which she does a lot of - recovery advocate, podcast producer, author, and doula!), and she shares with us how she got from a place of numbing reality to creating her desired reality and thriving in it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Let's Talk About It. This is your host Taylor and today I'm coming |
| 0:09.4 | to you from LA once again. I'm here at the W. Hollywood and I'm really excited to |
| 0:15.1 | report with this guest not only because she has an amazing story and I'm really excited |
| 0:20.3 | to get into it but also because we just chatted for like 20, 30 minutes and I'm like I love |
| 0:27.5 | when this happens when I follow people and then I meet them in real life and I'm like no |
| 0:30.7 | actually I thought I would fuck with you but I really fuck with you. So welcome Alexis |
| 0:36.0 | to the show. Thank you so much for being here. Thanks for having me. Yeah I'm really excited. |
| 0:41.1 | You also have a podcast yourself. Can you tell our listeners a little bit about it? Yeah. |
| 0:46.4 | So, recovering from reality was kind of built out of a desire or a need that I saw in the world |
| 0:54.3 | to talk about mental health and addiction and I have a background in reality TV too and when I got |
| 1:00.4 | sober I decided I was never ever going to return to the media space. I was like it's a cruel, cruel |
| 1:05.0 | world and I'm not interested in being a part of it but I couldn't stand by and I think really |
| 1:12.8 | for me and this is not to get crazy political but well also you did just have a story with Bernie |
| 1:19.2 | and Pete and I was like yay I'm so glad like when people actually post about politics because a lot |
| 1:24.4 | of people don't. I tell you a lot. Yeah so really during the last election cycle when Hillary was |
| 1:31.9 | running I began to wake up so I'm 28 years old and so the first time I ever voted was for Barack Obama |
| 1:39.8 | and I've only known like you know here it was this kind of like hero president of mine who legalized |
| 1:45.9 | gay marriage and he started talking about our planet and the fact that it was dying and like all |
| 1:51.6 | of these really important issues to me and while he was still very much so ascentrist like I saw |
| 1:58.4 | our country moving forward and then when Donald Trump became the nominee it was like my bubble pop |
| 2:04.9 | like 100% emotionally as someone who's just an empath in general like I feel the weight of the world |
| 2:13.0 | on me on a regular basis like what's happening in the Middle East and what's happening at our |
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