Episodes

  • S3 Ep7: Down The Rabbit Hole

    S3 Ep7: Down The Rabbit Hole
    Feb 27 2022
    An individual with dysfunctional family dynamics shares their journey of growth, raising themselves and their sister with addicted, abusive parents. On a quest to be happy and not become their depression they initially find their solution in marijuana and an eating disorder, but when those things stop working they find their solution in God, AA and publishing their stories in a 4 book series to help others.
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    1 hr and 15 mins
  • S3 Ep6: Scared To Feel

    S3 Ep6: Scared To Feel
    Jan 30 2022
    An individual with early childhood trauma copes through anxiety, depression and panic disorder leaving home at 15 years old to start a new life in a big city. During this journey they fall prey to the same narcissist abuse as their parent, and develop Cannabis induced Paranoid Schizophrenia. They find their solution in therapy: developing self-awareness, expanding their supports and taking their medication. In accepting their diagnosis and embracing themselves they find a stronger more intimate relationship with their family and find a beautifully supportive relationship with a new partner.
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    1 hr and 12 mins
  • S3 Ep5: Learning How To Love Yourself Is The Key To Happiness

    S3 Ep5: Learning How To Love Yourself Is The Key To Happiness
    Dec 5 2021
    An individual shares their journey with depression, anxiety, A.D.D., insomnia, a mood disorder, and compulsive and emotional overeating issues. They share about how multiple traumas: childhood trauma, rape, a still birth and an abusive relationship impacted their well-being and increased the need to be heard. They find a solution and life of happiness with the help of therapy, medication, O.A. and CODA.
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    58 mins
  • S3 Ep4: Hiding The Real Me

    S3 Ep4: Hiding The Real Me
    Oct 31 2021
    An individual shares their struggles with coming out and internalized homophobia; numbing out with substances, sex and food. Their journey of self-discovery and self-acceptance takes them to therapy, yoga, meditation and Landmark Worldwide. They find their home in AA where they start tying together positive daily habits and making themselves financially, physically and spiritually successful. They are able to find meaning and connection by showing up for others and being of service in their daily life.
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    1 hr and 13 mins
  • S3 Ep3: Trauma Was in My DNA

    S3 Ep3: Trauma Was in My DNA
    Oct 3 2021
    An individual with severe depression, anxiety and PTSD shares their life-long struggles with self-harm, suicide attempts and an underlying addictive process. They discuss how their self-harm has manifested in both physical manners and through different outlets of disordered eating and self-suffering. Their addictive process led to fantasy and romance addiction, codependency and other obsessive behaviors. They discuss how they eventually found growth from every experience, but it started small with just learning how to get up and self-care for that day. They report struggling with identity issues throught their life until their early twenties when they changed their life with the help of therapy, multiple 12-step fellowships, and finding a purpose in guiding others on a spiritual journey.
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    1 hr and 28 mins
  • S3 Ep2: You Need to Change Yesterday

    S3 Ep2: You Need to Change Yesterday
    Sep 19 2021
    An individual who struggled with multiple addictions, anxiety disorders, obsessive and antisocial tendencies and possible oppositional defiance disorder shares their journey through a traumatic childhood and facing deportation to find recovery at the age of twenty. They share their journey of change from legal issues and being unable to complete school to becoming a physician associate in cardiac surgery with the help of AA's CBT strategies. 
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • S3 Ep1: Life is a Series of Circumstances

    S3 Ep1: Life is a Series of Circumstances
    Sep 6 2021
    Season 3 Episode 1: Reporting back from season one episode twenty-one: an individual recaps their journey through addiction and anxiety and how their life and skills continue to change as life unfolds. Explaining the difference two years have made in their recovery from pre-covid to now and how important it was for them to learn to be open-minded, adaptable and learn to create consistency throughout inconsistent times.
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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • S2 Ep25: What We Wish You Knew

    S2 Ep25: What We Wish You Knew
    May 29 2021
    An individual shares their journey through adverse childhood experiences and the drive to be perfect in order to feel seen. This journey takes them through experiences with multiple eating disorders. This individual enters recovery and begins their journey of helping others by giving themselves and others permissions to eat and be healthy. Through therapy, mentorship and advocacy work they are able to help others realize an eating disorder has nothing to do with weight, gender, age, what or how you eat and everything to do with processing emotions in a healthy way.
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    49 mins