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Sanity Optional is a podcast about the parts of mental health we usually keep to ourselves.
It’s for the moments when your life looks fine on the outside but feels messy underneath. When you’re tired of being told to “do the work.” When you secretly wonder if you’re the only one struggling with something that feels too taboo to say out loud.
Hosted by therapist and founder of Rowan Healing, Alexis Ely, this show was created for people who feel like they’re in the other club. The ones who don’t fit the timeline. The ones who have been to the edge of their own mind and made it back.
Alexis shares her story, from early trauma and suicidal depression to the perfectionism and addiction that followed, and ultimately the kind of peace she once believed was impossible. She brings clinical experience and lived experience into the same room, without turning healing into a performance or a checklist.
This isn’t about becoming a better version of yourself. It’s about feeling at home in your own mind.
Welcome to the rabbit hole.
Sanity is optional.
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The History of Mental Health: How We Got Here and Why It Matters | Sanity Optional | Episode 13
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May 27, 2026 |
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Hypnosis, Hope, and Importance of Kindness | Sanity Optional | Episode 12
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May 20, 2026 |
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ChatGPT vs. Therapist: Stop Asking the Computer and Start Asking Each Other | Sanity Optional | Episode 11
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May 13, 2026 |
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The Sex Episode: Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Body | Sanity Optional | Episode 10
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May 06, 2026 |
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The Dating Episode: The More You Heal the Better It Gets | Sanity Optional | Episode 9
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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The Women's Episode: As I Am, I Am Enough | Sanity Optional | Episode 8
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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Riding the Wave: What to Do When the Low Hits | Sanity Optional | Episode 7
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Apr 15, 2026 |
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The Men's Episode: Fear, Sex, and the Lies You Were Taught | Sanity Optional | Episode 6
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Apr 08, 2026 |
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Worst Case Scenarios: What Anxiety Is Really Trying to Tell You | Sanity Optional | Episode 5
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Breakups, Blueprints, and Balls. The Stories We Tell Ourselves about Relationships | Sanity Optional - Episode 4
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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Why You Date Who You Date | Sanity Optional - Episode 3
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn: The Hidden Faces of Depression | Sanity Optional - Episode 2
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Mar 11, 2026 |
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Welcome to the Rabbit Hole | Sanity Optional - Episode 1
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Mar 04, 2026 |