Nature Untold

Episode 7: Through Darkness Comes Light with Jay Trebelhorn

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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

    • Resources mentioned in this episode:

    • The Phoenix

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