Episode Details

(Our first daytime speaker share.)

What happens when you don’t fit the mould — not in life, not in addiction, and not even in recovery?

In this deeply honest and thought-provoking episode, Kate shares her journey of always feeling like an outsider — from a difficult childhood marked by difference and exclusion, to navigating substance use as a way to connect, cope, and belong.

But this isn’t a typical recovery story.

Cait challenges traditional narratives around addiction and sobriety, questioning labels, systems, and the idea that there’s only one “right” way to recover. After struggling to connect with conventional programs, she explores alternative paths — from neuroscience to secular recovery, and even unconventional communities — ultimately helping to create a space for people like her: the “heretics.”

This episode dives into:

• The experience of living as an outsider — and the cost of trying to fit in
• Neurodivergence, identity, and the search for self-understanding
• The limits of one-size-fits-all recovery models
• Rebuilding trust in your own thinking
• Why recovery might be entering a new “renaissance”

Raw, reflective, and quietly radical, this conversation reframes recovery not as conformity — but as self-discovery.

“Recovery has been about finding myself… and figuring out what I need for my own journey.”

If you’ve ever felt like you don’t quite belong — even in spaces meant to help — this episode will resonate.