Starting off my podcast with a depressing and sensitive topic. My addiction was mainly to weed but I still struggled a lot with it and definitely have an addictive personality. I genuinely love being sober now but it took me many years to feel this way. I'll still touch on this topic in later episodes but this was basically just my summary of what I went through. Ages 19-25 we're messy. I really did have a good life growing up but anyone can be subject to addiction. I always struggled with anxiety as a kid and later depression in high school and college too. Traumatic experiences, unhappiness, discontentment all lead me to seek out substances as an escape. I'm in a much better place now but still have things to work on... that damn nicotine and other things I still struggle with. I still get depressed some days, but I'm getting back to my true, happy self, one day at a time. I share my honest journey with addiction and explain how I am seriously happy to be sober now. I talk about the early, lighthearted days of first using weed and other substances and how it quickly spiraled into a daily cycle that took over my life. Note: Contains open discussions about substance use but I in no way am glorifying anything, I definitely made it clear how negatively my use affected me and that the cycle of addiction is such an abysmal pattern to experience. Thank you for letting me share.