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Recovered-ish

Amanda E. White

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A podcast that talks about all types of recovery...from alcohol, to trauma and everything in between. My name is Amanda E. White, LPC and I'm a licensed therapist and in recovery from an addiction, eating disorder and more. As a therapist on social media (@TherapyforWomen), I see a lot of unhealthy hot takes, so join me in the land of nuance where we will break it all down using research and plenty of my personal stories and experience.
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The Unconventional Gal: Forging Your Own Path is a podcast hosted by Cherokee aka Cherry Dollface: vintage hair & makeup guru, award winning author, and esthetician extraordinaire. The focus is on how she and some of her badass female friends have carved their own non-traditional path in life, and how you can too. No topic is off limits! She covers all issues related to unconventional lifestyles-- personal style, relationships, kids, careers, hobbies, education, and everything in between. He ...
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Amanda is back and we are opening Pandoras Box of topics again... this week we are talking about fetishes. We talk about the most outlandish fetishes we have heard of from horse copulation to granny porn. We also talk about both of our experiences with fetishes... I spill the deets on Cherry Dollfeet and also my sexless sugar daddy. This is a juicy…
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Today I am finally talking about divorce! I have gotten so many questions about divorce over the years so I am talking about my experience, sharing some of your stories, and also finally answering those questions. BE SURE TO FOLLOW MY SOCIALS TO ADD YOUR TWO CENTS! http://www.instagram.com/thecherrydollface http://www.facebook.com/thecherrydollface…
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Amanda is back and we are opening Pandoras Box of topics again... this week we are talking about spirituality! We cover both of our childhood experiences with religion, home made ouija boards, and how much I hate the smell of sage. We also talk about cults and make some fart jokes. Don't miss it! BE SURE TO FOLLOW MY SOCIALS TO ADD YOUR TWO CENTS! …
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Hi friends, this is going to be the final episode of Recovered-ish. Unfortunately, life is pulling me in a lot of directions right now and the podcast is just not getting the reach it needs in order for me to monetize it and pay for the help I need in order to make it sustainable. There are also some other things going on in my life behind the scen…
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Suzanne Wayre of "The Sober Mom Life" podcast is here and we discuss all things motherhood and sobriety. Suzanne shares about her challenges with postpartum anxiety and OCD and the pressure to enjoy every moment. We discuss mommy wine culture and how alcohol makes it harder to be a parent. We also discuss our different experiences with motherhood, …
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Trigger warning: birth trauma & suicidal thoughts. Today my friend and fellow therapist, Natalie Siegel discuss the intersection of motherhood and diet culture. We explore the pressures and expectations placed on pregnant women and new mothers, as well as the impact of social media and wellness culture. We highlight the importance of listening to o…
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Is social media making us anti social? Jake Ernst, a therapist specializing in working with teens and adolescents, joins me on the podcast today to discuss the impact of social media and disinformation on young people. He highlights the shift from play-based childhoods to phone-based childhoods and the reorientation of norms influenced by internet …
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Are you trying to improve your relationship with food and body image but confused about all the conflicting information about it online? You aren’t alone. This week, my friend and Registered Dietician, Sam Previte is on the podcast to discuss the challenges of navigating social media and misinformation surrounding intuitive eating. We have a very n…
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I chat with licensed therapist Amber Bezinger, LPC to chat about anxiety, social media and the internet. We chat about the impact of social media on children, the importance of open conversations with kids, breaking gender stereotypes, and the power of the internet. Amber shares about her own experience as a mom and how that impacts how she views t…
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Are you doing or thinking about doing a dry or damp January?! This episode is for you! I talk all about the difference between dry and damp January, how to actually do it and the mindset and approach to Dry January that I recommend. I emphasize the importance of being mindful and curious about one's drinking habits. I share a bit about my own story…
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We are GOING there today with a hotly requested topic! Why is everyone a toxic narcissist these days? Are there really that many of them? What's the difference between lying and gaslighting? Are these terms being overused? Today I have a narcissist expert, Britt Frank, LSCSW on it unpack all of it! Strap in because it is a very nuanced episode! We …
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Hi friends, it's been a while since I have done a life update so here we go! I talk all about my new business journey with electrolysis, finishing my memoir, what's currently entertaining me and my husband peer pressuring into cutting bangs. I also talk about my current health struggles and why a swallow test turns your poop white. You don't want t…
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Have you ever struggled with having a different sex drive in a relationship? In this episode sex therapist, Lauren Fogel Mersy, a sex therapist, joins me to chat all about this and her new book on this topic! We discuss what sex therapy is, the pressure of sexual expectations and the stigma surrounding discussions about sex, and the importance of q…
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If you struggle with self-sabotage and want to learn how to lean into pleasure and recover from perfectionism, this convo is for you! Katherine Schafler and I discuss, how to stop punishing oneself, the difficulty of feeling joy, pleasure and selfishness, the culture's treatment of women's pleasure, selfishness and attending to oneself, the illusio…
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If you struggle with shame and are trying not to pass it on to your children, this is the episode for you! This week I chat with therapist, Maggie Nick LCSW about her experience as a "good girl" the shame that came with that and how this led her on a quest to reparent herself and teach other parents how to break the cycle with their children. In th…
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Taylor Swift is TIME Magazine's person of the year and I (obviously) have a lot of thoughts! I discuss the lessons I think we can learn from Taylor in her impressive career and how I (and she) thinks she is having a breakthrough moment in being able to realize what is important and not worry about what others think of her. This is a pretty vulnerab…
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Are you an introvert dealing with overwhelm during the holidays? Well, I am back for part 2 of the holiday survival guide! In this episode I answer all your questions! Specifically, I get into three listener questions: 1. How to deal with people asking you invasive questions during the holidays (especially in her case around being single). 2. How t…
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Now that we are officially in the holiday season, I figured I would give you all my best holiday tips! In this jam-packed episode, I discuss holiday loneliness (how it is more common that you realize and what to do about), how to decide if you should go to an event or gathering or skip it, how to cope if you do decide to go, ways to change the topi…
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Feeling grief over Matthew Perry's death? Me too! Many of you wrote in and asked me about this. So, today I chat all about why we (especially Millennials) love FRIENDS so much (hint, it is kind of one of the last shows that captured 90s nostalgia even well into 2004 when it ended), why we bond with movie, TV, book and other characters, the psycholo…
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The new Britney Spears memoir is out and I invite back fellow therapist Sam Dalton to breakdown our thoughts. We discuss the intergenerational trauma that we observe as therapists and how it extends a few generations in this case and how that impacts individuals later. We discuss how the media picked Britney apart and often called her stupid or cra…
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Amanda is back and we are opening Pandoras Box of topics again... this week we are talking about bad first dates! We talk about sweaty hands, slug kisses, unwanted advances, first dates we didn't know were dates and some guy that was on Laguna Beach who chugged wine. BE SURE TO FOLLOW MY SOCIALS TO ADD YOUR TWO CENTS!http://www.instagram.com/theche…
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Can't stop listening to 1989 Taylor's Version? Me either! I chat all about the mental health aspects of this new album, specifically the bonus tracks with fellow therapist and Swiftie, Sam Dalton, LCSW. Sam and I discuss our general thoughts about 1989 and why we think it is such a powerful album, our reactions to the song Slut!, and why Say Don't …
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You have you ever felt grief over things besides death? I chat with the legendary Nora McInerny this week all about grief and how we can live and cope with it in our lives. Nora shares about her experience with grief, how her husband died of cancer and how that ultimately led to creating a career out of talking about difficult things most of us wou…
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This week I have Amanda back and we are talking all about ghosts, in honor of the spooky season. We talk about our own beliefs, the history of ghosts, fashionable ghost hunters and we read your own, super creepy ghost stories. BE SURE TO FOLLOW MY SOCIALS TO ADD YOUR TWO CENTS! http://www.instagram.com/thecherrydollface http://www.facebook.com/thec…
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WTF does processing your emotions actually mean? Today I am breaking it all down. I start by explaining how emotions were formed as part of our evolutionary process, what meta emotions are, how judging your emotions prevents you from processing them and what the new research about emotions tells us. I then walk you through step by step EXACTLY how …
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Had a weird experience with religion, spirituality or a church? I interview my therapist and friend, Dani Brooks on her experience being in a church, enduring religious trauma and spiritual abuse. Dani shares what religious trauma and spiritual abuse is, signs and symptoms of it and dives into her own experience. We discuss issues with fundamentali…
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This week I am excited to have my friend Carly of Final Girls Horrorcast on to talk all about horror movies and horror in general as a lifestyle, just in time for the spooky season! We talk about the worst horror movies ever made, our guilty pleasures, and the best horror from each decade. Plus Carly answers your juicy questions! This one turned in…
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Do you feel like there is a gap between how old you think you are and your actual age? There's research why this is and I am breaking it all down in this episode. This week, I talk about a recent article in the cut entitled "The Pandemic Skip" by Katy Schneider. I share how I personally relates to the article which discusses how young adults in the…
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For this special crossover episode of Recovered-ish I have friends and fellow sober podcasters Casey McGuire, Gillian Tietz and Suzanne Warye on the podcast! We discuss our own journeys getting sober, tips if you are questioning your drinking or looking to stop, what advice we would give people just starting out and so much more! To learn more abou…
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This week I am excited to have my friend Carly of Final Girls Horrorcast on to talk all about horror movies and horror in general as a lifestyle, just in time for the spooky season! We talk about our first memories of horror movies, her favorite movie screenings and also what scares us the most. This one turned into such a long episode, I am breaki…
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Obsessed with Olivia's new album too? Same! More than just the music, this week I talk about how this album is a powerful outlet for women to deal with their anger. I discuss how Olivia managed to escape the Disney bad girl reputation and how she is giving herself and as a result, all of us, permission to feel our feelings, including anger, rage, e…
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I chat with author and novelist Jamie Varon about how we can break free from our obsession with being the "best" and how we can start enjoy living our lives. I have been friends with Jamie for a while now and absolutely loved her book, Radically Content. So when her book went on to be a smash hit and essentially all her dreams came true, I needed t…
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This week I am chatting all about girls nights! I talk about how I brought my girls together, how I meet new girls, and how I started hosting. I cover movie nights, theme nights, and swap nights. Plus I talk about talking to strangers, having a diaper party, totaled cars, and a whole potluck of only potatoes. I end the podcast with your questions a…
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I chat all about Taylor Swift this week! I start by doing a breakdown of my experience and thoughts about the eras tour, going into the lessons from it (how we can embrace our cringe, give up "looking cool", reclaiming girlhood and not waiting to do thinks you love. I then go into thoughts about why I think Taylor Swift's music has such staying pow…
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Content warning- Suicidal thoughts, self-harm, discussions of violent and/or disturbing thoughts. I chat with OCD specialist and licensed therapist Alegra Kastens. Alegra shares about her own experience with OCD, what happened and how she got into recovery and now specializes in helping clients with OCD and intrusive thoughts. We discuss what an in…
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This week I am trying a new segment called Pandora's box of Topics and I have enlisted the help of my dear friend Amanda to take on some co hosting duties. We pick a topic randomly and just talk about it unscripted !The topic we picked at random this week is Music. We talk about early music memories as well as our favorite and most hated bands. We …
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Amanda chats with skincare coach Olena Beley to dive into the psychology of skincare and how our obsession with having perfect skin is wrecking our mental health. Olena debunks the skin care myths that we see on social media! We go into why we are all so obsessed with skincare, why the trend of showing your "empties" isn't good for us, what social …
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I discuss all or nothing thinking, what it looks like, why we tend to struggle with it and how it is a cognitive distortion that can keep us stuck. I share how I have struggled with it in the past and my tips for how you can add more nuance to your life. I also discuss how social media and the internet has been making us more polarized in recent ye…
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This week is all about being a lady! And what the heck does that even mean, anyway? I talk about the history of being a lady and the evolution of what it means today. Correction: I refer to the Gilded Age as the Golden Age... whoops! I also talk about my personal experiences going from a super girly child to a punk rock nuisance and back to a well …
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I chat with friendship expert Danielle Jackson to answer all your burning questions about female friendship as an adult. Danielle and I discuss "therapy speak" in friendships and Danielle gives language and suggestions for what to use instead. We talk about why it's difficult to make friends as an adult, pros and cons of a "friend group", unhealthy…
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I discuss the Barbie movie and my thoughts about what the Barbie movie themes, specifically how patriarchy impacts our mental health, how girls often are forced to grow up and give up dolls and their feminine interests in order to be taken seriously and fit in, how fangirls are demeaned and why I am hoping between Barbie and The Eras Tour we are re…
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This week we are taking a break from the heavy topics, and I am taking the time machine back to the early 90s! I talk all about my experience in middle school. Between being bullied, stealing, making and losing friends, and tap, dancing down the hallways… There’s a little something for everybody to relate to. I also read your own stories and take y…
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In response to the recent Barbie hype and movie coming out, Amanda breaks down the cultural icon that is Barbie and all the mess and nuance of how she has potentially impacted the mental health and body image of women and young girls. This episode has no spoilers as it is mostly based on Barbie as a doll and icon and what she represents rather than…
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Amanda welcomes Emily Lynn Paulson to her podcast and we discuss how being in an MLM (multi-level marketing) company impacted her mental health and how she left. We discuss how it impacted her drinking behavior and how she ended up getting sober. She shares how she worked through the shame that came up for her after she realized how her behavior wa…
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This week we talk about what to do with your life! I talk about the pros and cons related to going to college vs trade school, or doing no secondary education at all! I also talk about my own experiences with both college and trade school... and about being a snobby jerk in the 90s. I also have a juicy confession this week all about a bad kisser. B…
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Amanda discsusses the Jonah Hill texts that went viral this past weekend and how it demonstrates a broader issue with people not understanding what boundaries are and weaponizing therapy language. She gets into how we lack nuance and default to all or nothing thinking and how this hurts our close relationships. She breaks down what boundaries are a…
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Amanda answers your questions and shares more insights! Topics include, what to do if you are truly 50/50, the grief of your choice (whether you have children or don't), what does it really mean to be selfish, how to decide between one and 2 children, how to deal with anxiety if you want kids and much more! Resources Mentioned: "The Baby Decision: …
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This week I talk all about imposter syndrome: the condition of feeling anxious and not experiencing success internally, despite being high-performing in external, objective ways. I got over the 5 types according to Dr Valerie Young and I talk about my own experiences with imposter syndrome. I answer your questions and also share your own experience…
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Amanda shares about how she decided if she wanted to have children and talks about how we need to recover from the idea that society tells women they must. She shares the fears, thoughts and concerns that she weighed when making the decision. She discusses how social media played a role for her and how the phrase "just you wait until you have kids"…
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Welcome to the first episode! Amanda shares how she got to where she is today by sharing her long and windy story of recovery from an addiction and eating disorder. *TW* There are discussions of suicidal thoughts, alcohol, drug use and eating disorder behaviors. She discusses a bit about why she is starting this podcast and what you can expect week…
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