In this episode, we discuss:
- Growing up in Minnesota and being introduced to the outdoors at a young age
- How Jay struggled with anxiety and feeling out of place from an early age
- How he’s harnessed his introversion as a superpower
- His work at the Phoenix (a sober active community non-profit)
- What active recovery means for him
- His experience with going to treatment centers
- What triggered his relapses and the rationalizations that often happen with relapses
- His experience with sober living houses
- The difference between sober living and halfway houses
- The cyclical nature of his particular journey
- What Suboxone and Methadone can do and how they’re used
- His brush with actual death
- Creating a life around the outdoors while going through addictive episodes
- Why finding his community of supportive outdoorsy people was a turning point
- His intentional reasoning for not having any social media accounts
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