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Episode 13: "Relapse" Part 2

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Laura McKowen & Holly Whitaker

Society & Culture

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2015

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In the second "relapse" ep, we talk about what it looks like when we fall off the path in sobriety, and not by drinking/using, but by losing our way otherwise. Depression, anxiety, confusion, pain, and other things that come up to knock us off the beam. What does it feel like? How do we get back?

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0:00.0

There is hope for us yet.

0:09.0

I am Laura MacCowlen, and I am Holly Whitaker and this is home

0:15.8

podcast. Well I'm with you to you.

0:20.0

So we're looking at each other right now and we're in our pajamas on bed in

0:28.6

Washington DC on Sunday October 4th.

0:35.0

Yep.

0:36.0

We're at the Unite to Face Addiction Conference and March, March, yeah,

0:42.1

rally.

0:43.0

And so this is the first podcast we've ever recorded together.

0:49.0

Yeah, and it's awkward.

0:51.0

Very awkward.

0:52.0

Very awkward. Very awkward. Yeah, so we're sharing a mic today so if the zone quality is off, forgive that.

1:00.0

But yeah, it's kind of cool.

1:02.0

We're so, it's it's kind of cool. We're so it's so easy to talk when somebody's not sitting next to me

1:07.6

But yeah, so we're basically last night we went and we met a bunch of different people that we know from the blogosphere and from the addiction world which was just amazing we had like I was I mean I was I was I was I was not excited about it just because things like that tend to like overwhelm and freak me out

1:26.2

when you have to meet a lot of people and I also really hate small talk and and it wasn't like that.

1:31.6

No it was awesome I mean we met probably 20 people that that we that I have known only through in the past year over

1:41.6

Instagram or Twitter or from my blog or Holly's blog or Facebook or whatever and it was

1:47.5

so fabulous to put these faces to names and names to faces and to I don't know me people and hug them and

1:58.0

like they all became very real so it was a total honor and so exciting and fun and

2:05.8

And then we soul cycled with one of them this morning

2:08.8

with Nancy Carr from Last Call.

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