Believe In Big Change

 I'm gonna talk about emotional manipulation. Many of us have been subjected to this physically sexually, some form of trauma in our lives. Most of us. By the time we are adults have experienced one form of trauma, at least one form of it. It's very stressful, very difficult. Some of us have turned to substance abuse like myself, most of my trauma and stress was of the emotional nature a...

This message is crafted for those in early recovery that could be recovery from substance abuse, um mental health challenges, some other disorder, an eating disorder, um, or depression, it could be something, you know, a relationship that could be a number of things that we could consider ourselves in recovery. Support the show

We're gonna talk a little bit about rejection. We make these efforts for connection and we feel rejected. And if we feel that rejection over and over again, I believe, and this is what happened to me. Our minds, my mind became conditioned to feeling I'm not enough, there's something wrong with me. They don't understand me that negative self talk that would build up and it becam...

 I'm gonna talk about rejection today and how to handle rejection what I do on a daily basis because I believe a lot of this comes from beer. It comes from shame. Some people think it's just energy whose energy is it, is it my energy? Is it your energy? Is it our energy? Where does it come from? So I'm going to discuss that a little bit today. Again, it can be difficult. It can be c...

 I'm gonna talk about some more change today and some steps that I had to take a while I felt were necessary for me to recover from the disease of alcoholism that I have, and the shame that has carried with me for decades. Actually, believe it or not, you know, I went from a person running a very successful company for a number of years to a person that started to believe that they weren&apos...

it sounds like a big key in in terms of working through shame, were there lies a lot of pain suffering we've had to endure. And in some cases we've chosen to indoor the suffering, as they say, pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. A big key for me. Working through that when I went through treatment the last time, as I've said before, I've been through it multiple times, wa...

What I want to talk about a little more today and a little more with a little more depth is we've talked about compassion and empathy and you know, for a while I lost it, I lost the ability to have access to that. Um I went through my version of a lot of stress. Some would call it trauma. Some people don't like that word. So you can call it a lot of stress. You can call it trauma, whatev...

What I want to talk a little bit about today and I've written about this and some of the blogs is a little bit about relapse. My road to recovery. Relapse is a part of my story. I've been battling the disease of alcoholism for over a decade. Uh just to give you a little background, I went to multiple treatments. I had the best intention every time to want to abstain from alcohol. I didn&...

We're gonna talk a little bit about that to be okay with your, your thoughts and feelings and not judge ourselves. And as I said in the newsletter, we want to focus on you and a little self care. We can never have enough of that. I realized that I'm at my best when I'm taking care of myself and when I say that my best taking care of myself and and being of service to others. Being a...

We're going to talk about something that is quite complex in the treatment and recovery communities. We're gonna talk about co occurring disorders or also referred to as dual diagnosis. It's basically defined as a person that has one or more substance abuse disorder, an addiction and one or more mental health disorder, a mental health challenge or illness. And unfortunately there ar...

We're gonna talk about your loved ones, friends, family members, and people that you're very concerned about. That could be struggling with potential mental health issues, addiction or both. And whether or not you really believe that day want help, that they think they need help because denial can certainly be a part of this process and it is a process I to them in recovery and would lik...