Escaping AA: Halloween Special with Carrie (AA Escapee 👻)

Your best thinking got you here — now let’s get you free.

In this Halloween jam, Carrie and I riff the AA clichés we lived, how we actually left, and what life’s like now without the daily-reprieve hamster wheel.

Critical thinking, self-trust, nervous system regulation, and writing a new story — no chips required.

Carrie's Substack

Timestamps:

0:00 Escaping from AA Intro

0:19 What It Was Like (in AA)

08:36 What happened (to leave AA)

10:59 No Daily Reprieve Needed

15:36 Escaping AA

18:49 What It's Like Now

28:33 Reinventing + Reconstructing After AA

31:34 AA Escapee Awakening

34:34 Normalizing Leaving Recovery

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Let’s get f*cking free.