TSFU UPDATES: Ash Relapsed and AA Sucks, Mental Health Stuff and Shanin Blake Shenanigans

Hi friends! This episode is a hodgepodge of updates around our mental health, Ash's recent lapse in sobriety and why she's glad she's not in AA, and what's happening on TSFU in the coming weeks. We've got a special interview and Patrons are getting a brand-spanking new episode of Ash Learns the Bible!Ash also kicks off the show telling Fallon about a problematic singer that she recently discovered on the interwebs. Let us know if you're interested in more content like that, Ash is into it and wondering if y'all are on the same train. Please reach out and let us know! And as promised, we've provided some mental health and addiction resources below.Mental health and addiction resources:https://www.samhsa.gov/find-help/national-helplinehttps://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/find-helphttps://dialecticalbehaviortherapy.com/I've personally found DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) to be very helpful for my mental health and sobriety. It's about learning and utilizing skills including mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation and distress tolerance.https://thesatanictemple.com/pages/sober-factionI don't have personal experience with this group but its come highly recommendedhttps://smartrecovery.org/I don't have personal experience with this group but its come highly recommendedhttps://alcohol.org/alcoholics-anonymous/alternatives-to-the-aa-approach/I have not tried or verified all of the groups on this pagehttps://www.oarhealth.com/resources/alternatives-to-aa-the-many-paths-to-sobriety-or-semi-sobrietyI have not tried or verified all of the treatment suggestions on this page, but it's a lot of useful information✨If you wanna get your TSFU episodes ad free and on Tuesdays instead of Fridays, check out our Patreon! You get access to over 200 episodes that aren't on the regular feed, and you'd like them all ad free, join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month! There is actually now a new FREE version that you can try with no commitment!