In this episode, I sit down with the insanely brave, Alex Highsmith. She is a writer, producer and company member of Don, Pat & Tom, a multimedia company.  Inspired by her own sobriety journey, she is also the founder of Sober Sallys, a support group created during the pandemic for sober women experiencing extreme isolation.

Alex was an actor in college, and because she was easily finding success, she had a lot of time on her hands to drink and socialize. Right out of school, she was cast in a national tour, and once again, Alex found herself protected. When the bubble burst and she was shot out into the world, Alex drank to mask her terror. Her drinking lead to Adderall, then cocaine and then meth.

Alex is part of a 12 Step Program and she takes us through what rock bottom looked like in her world. She talks about the challenges of staying sober and how little pieces of light in her life are her lifeline.

In this new phase of her life, Alex is able to support others, she has a loving partner and an adorably cute pup. She has a steady job she enjoys. She can look her mother in the face and she can sleep at night because she does not have to keep track of all of the lies needed to keep straight.

Alex is brave, she is real, she is honest. She isn't afraid to talk about the messy and the ugly. I know her words will assure many of us out there that we have been seen and we have been heard.

Some highlights in this Episode from Alex:

“I was drinking. And then I started to get into hard drugs. I went from Adderall to cocaine to meth. And I come from a nice family. I’m from Utah, I’ve got everything going for me. And that kind of darkness found me. So, I only say that because I never anticipated who I would become.”

“There’s the Big Bang. And then there’s the quiet sort of implosion. Because rock bottom in my program is seen as that every rock bottom has a trapdoor. And that’s to scare you. That’s to let you know that you can always go further than you imagined.”

“It’s about the very small stuff now, like my theatre company. I'm a really reliable part of my theatre company. That is crazy to me. People had to drag me to rehearsals because I was wasted. It was such an opportunity and I just missed it. So, now the light has changed. But there was always a light for the day, I just needed to look for it.”

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