3-21 No Kiddin' Gambling Addiction Recovery Podcast

Share Your Thoughts! Text Bobbie here! 392 - Recovery Doesn't Come Overnight Recovery doesn't progress to the speed that we would like, it is often a slow process. We're making progress but sometimes it wasn't as fast as we want it to be. It's a slow process with many starts and stops. We just have to continue work on our recovery. We will get there, in time. -------------...

Share Your Thoughts! Text Bobbie here! 391 - How Much Do I have to Appreciate? (ft. Jodi Harty) Get your tissues ready! This episode will surely bring you into tears as we hear a heartbreaking story from Jodi Harty. Jodi is a health and life coach and a former massage therapist. She helps people who are stress, overwhelm, healing after trauma, or a life-changing diagnosis. You may reach her throug...

Share Your Thoughts! Text Bobbie here! 390 - Faith in Our Loses Sometimes out of our greatest pain, our greatest joy is born. Our higher power has plans for us and we can never really know.  He will never give us sorrow that we can't bear. We have another interview to be released tomorrow! Stay tuned guys! I hope all is well with you all! ------------------------------------------------ Did y...

Share Your Thoughts! Text Bobbie here! 389 - Our Life Every day while in Recovery We all have our dark days, one of those moments was the beginning of our recovery.  Choosing life every day in our recovery creates light even in our darkest days. We cannot be happy all the time, but we can be happy most of the time. Another homework for you guys, think of something that is bugging you. Have a great...

Share Your Thoughts! Text Bobbie here! 388 - What Makes You Happy? What makes you want to spend your time on? What gets you excited? Our hobbies can get us to forget our problems for a few minutes or a few hours. Find one hobby or creative outlet it can be as simple as writing. You can do whatever that you want, and that's the moral of the story in this episode. All right beautiful people! Ha...

Share Your Thoughts! Text Bobbie here! 387 - Recovery is Part of your Life! You have to do something for your recovery. It's what gives your life back. We can also do some physical activity. And let's have a homework! It's been a while, but I want you to identify 2 things: 2 new things for you to try that'll help you move your needle to physical well-being. It can be anything t...

Share Your Thoughts! Text Bobbie here! 386 - Let's be Humble Gamblers! What or who came to your mind when the word 'humble' comes up? In this episode, we are learning what it means to be humble. We all know someone who is truly humble. We cannot take lessons in humility. It is a quality that emergence in its own time during the course of our recovery, but as we become more authentic...

Share Your Thoughts! Text Bobbie here! 385 - We aren't the Center of the Universe This episode is about expressing our anger openly and honestly when it's appropriate. Let's reduce our anger and start growing serenity. Love you guys! ------------------------------------------------ Did you enjoy the show? Please leave us a rate and review! This helps us reach other gamblers who may...

Share Your Thoughts! Text Bobbie here! 384 - We have to Work on Our Recovery Every day! The reading is about working on our recovery every day and always keep our guard up. Why do we need that? Because it's really easy to slip back into gambling, drinking, or whatever addiction we have. If we aren't careful and don't work our program, we could replace our old addictive behaviors at...

Share Your Thoughts! Text Bobbie here! 383 - Overcoming Porn Addiction with David Maxwell David Maxwell is a former porn addict. In this episode, he discusses how he successfully overcomes his addiction and shared some tips. I hope you guys found that as insightful as I did. Hope that this episode gave you some new information. Have a wonderful day beautiful people! If you want to be connected wit...

Share Your Thoughts! Text Bobbie here! 382 - Appreciating Ourselves If someone gives you a compliment. How are you handling it? The reading tells us about receiving from other people, the love, and being gracious. Let's be gracious with ourselves and give ourselves gifts as well. Like, if someone gives you a compliment, just say, thank you and be gracious about it. I hope you guys have a grea...

Share Your Thoughts! Text Bobbie here! 381 - Pay Attention, Learn and Change How often do we have a wonderful day? We lose ourselves in trying to do things for other people or that we compromise our values and boundaries when trying to be kind. Let's help people while protecting and taking care of ourselves first. Let's just share the good. I hope you have a great day and we'll talk...

Share Your Thoughts! Text Bobbie here! 380 - Are you a King Baby or a Queen Baby? When addicts suffer from King baby (or Queen baby) syndrome, they want the same level of self-centered gratification that babies and young children need. It is what they want that matters, and they expect their wants to be taken care of right away without effort. This episode is helpful to me and hope for you too! Al...

Share Your Thoughts! Text Bobbie here! 379 - Continuous Change and Learning while in Recovery Are you open to change and growth? While we're in sobriety, or in gambling mode, we should live in our life. That's part of the learning cycle, learning how to live. There's an amazing world out there. And I challenge you to start looking for different ways to connect with all the opportuni...

Share Your Thoughts! Text Bobbie here! 378 - What’s your dream? Dreams do come true, but they often require work. Dreaming is awesome and we're worth it. Now that we're in recovery, it goes back to us being worth it. We have to believe that as well. All right, guys, I love you. Talk to you soon! ------------------------------------------------ Did you enjoy the show? Please leave us a ra...

Share Your Thoughts! Text Bobbie here! 377 - Self-Forgiveness is Key Are you carrying around any baggage that happens from a couple of bad days ago or even yesterday? What is it that you're hanging on to on any particular day? We should start each new day fresh. By dwelling on the past, we ignore the gifts of the present and the blessings of tomorrow, self-forgiveness is key. All right beauti...

Share Your Thoughts! Text Bobbie here! 376 - Defending Ourselves while in Recovery How do you defend yourself? We need to defend ourselves, but please don’t take “defend” literally. We should protect ourselves from people, places, and things that are dangerous to us and to our recovery program. Be safe beautiful people! Don't stress yourself out! ----------------------------------------------...

Share Your Thoughts! Text Bobbie here! 375 - How to Deal with Stress featuring Elle Ingalls Elle Ingalls is one of the world’s top experts on the fight-or-flight stress response. She is a performance coach and helps people deal with their stress, anger, and anxiety. She shares some details about stress and how we can deal with it. Please watch out for her upcoming parenting book that will be out o...

Share Your Thoughts! Text Bobbie here! 374 - Simplifying Recovery This reading kind of captures simplifying recovery, you know, in a way. Giving ourselves a solid baseline that can help us cope with pretty much all of life powerlessness, surrender, and letting go. Whenever you feel overwhelmed, you can always go back to the first 3 steps.  I hope you're having a great week, guys! I love you a...

Share Your Thoughts! Text Bobbie here! 373 - Giving Back while in Recovery Have you ever give back something? In recovery, many people made our program. As recovery becomes a way of life, it's our turn to reach out to those in need. Let’s remember those who came before us who were generous enough to share what they have been through and all their learning. Life is so good. I hope the weather...

Share Your Thoughts! Text Bobbie here! 372 - Our Minds are Powerful and Adaptive We can change our thinking at any moment. We can begin to change our basic beliefs and end our pattern of negative thinking. Are you aware that we’re having the negative thinking? Take care beautiful people! I hope you’re having a wonderful week so far. ------------------------------------------------ Did you enjoy th...

Share Your Thoughts! Text Bobbie here! 371 - Our First Responsibility is to Ourselves God created us as humans, not Gods. It is our nature to be imperfect.  In recovery, we are learning. We are not responsible for everyone. We're learning to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy guilt. Now that we’re in recovery, what learning did you learned?  All right beautiful people! Thank you once a...

Share Your Thoughts! Text Bobbie here! 370 - Only the Brave Know How to Forgive Now that we’re in recovery, did you ever have resentment? The reading said the key to ending resentment is forgiveness and surrender to a higher power. Let’s make room for joy and let go of some stuff so we can have freedom. I'm happy to be here with you. Take Care beautiful people! -------------------------------...

Share Your Thoughts! Text Bobbie here! 369 - Everything Happens for A Reason Sometimes the smallest event has ended up determining what job we have, where we live, or what path we choose. Do you believe that our lives have always been part of God’s plan and it’s not ours today?  We are better able to accept and live our lives to the fullest. Happy Sunday y'all! -------------------------------...

Share Your Thoughts! Text Bobbie here! 368 - The Concept is Simple: Protect Ourselves Are you hurting other people? If you are hurting other people, can you do something different next time to not hurt other people?  If there’s one thing we all can drop, it is criticism. If we come to a place of acceptance and self-love, it is easier to make changes. We’ll be able to give and accept constructive c...