From Sobriety To Recovery: An Addiction Recovery Podcast

In this week's episode we discuss how a scarcity mindset, and how it effects so many of your choices, behaviors, and feelings, is detrimental to your sobriety and recovery, your finances, your relationships, your overall well-being - and in my opinion, your life overall. Scarcity versus abundance has been referenced on this show before and today it gets it's time in the spotlight because Corona, t...

In this week's episode Addiction Recovery Specialist Sue Mandell and I discuss our forthcoming Sober Session coaching program. If you would like to join us follow this link ---> Sober Sessions   With topics ranging from grief, shame, and suffering all the way to embracing the journey, getting out of trance state, emotional boundaries and so many more I could fill a book with the topics - this epis...

Ep #71 - In this week's episode we discuss my trip through virtual reality and a game that blew my mind and damn near gave me a heart attack. It stirred this idea in my head that just because my eyes see it, and thus my mind believes it, does not make any of it reality. Where in your life are you creating a reality that does not really exist? Are you fully in your power, knowing you control the ca...

Ep #70 - In this week's episode we discuss the gut, the belly, the enteric nervous system (for you science-y inclined folk out there,) and how that controls 95% of your serotonin levels - which is the determiner in your mood, anxiety, stress, sex drive, and so much more. I know! I thought all of that was in the brain - yup, science is cool. I also talk about socializing during the pandemic and soc...

Ep #69 - Do you let how others treat you determine how you treat them? Do you live in a tit-for-tat world? Are you talking to people to learn about them or judge them? Open communication starts with listening to connect instead of listening to respond. Seeing the bigger picture even when we are prone to tunnel vision.  You choose who you are going to be on your journey from sobriety to recovery. I...

Ep #68 - Anxiety is a child of Fear, and when we attempt to think about our future and what that will look like, it can send us into a swirl. You are going to experience many events and circumstances you previously would party hard through - and now you get to live in these moments 100% present. Keys to gaining control of your anxiety, ask yourself: how am I picturing this event, what will my emot...

In this week's episode we welcome to the show the founder of Valor Fitness Clothing, Jim Hernandez. We will discuss how he surrendered and shut up and listen when he checked himself into the Phoenix House in Venice Beach, California. Why he believes physical fitness is so important to recovery, his clothing line - and the ultimate question...are you ready for what you are asking for when you step...

In this week's episode we dive into the art of patience. Our society is raising us to be all about that instant gratification - but it is that attitude and the lack of impulse control that leads us down paths to a place we do not really want to be, let alone desire to be. Our new selves realizes that being patient isn't the act of waiting patiently, rather it is the positive attitude and behaviors...

In this week's episode, we talk about how me smashing my face on the ocean floor we humbling, painful, and led me into quite the depression over my physical state and the pain I was in. A circumstance last but a short time. An accident can take 1 second to unfold. The aftermath from the circumstance or accident is where the power in ourselves can come to bare. An event might take a few hours from...

In this week's episode Mark Turnipseed joins the show to discuss how Triathlons became the cornerstone of his addiction recovery journey. He used his physical fitness regimen as the center for his recovery and allowed the training requirements for triathlons to become the central focus of his new life structure. His achievements show us all how taking your life up a notch through fitness and nutri...

In this week's episode we dive into the processes for dealing with grief with master-coach Sue Mandell. We will converse on how grief anchors into our bodies, into our minds - and shows itself in our thoughts, feelings, action, and results. The one thing we all have in common as humans is that we all have experienced suffering - even the most rich and elite know suffering, all be it, perhaps on a...

In this episode we wrap up our three part series on limiting beliefs, setting impossible goals, taking massive action. Massive action is taking the action that will lead you to the outcome you desire. It isn't preparing for the big event - it is participating in the big event. It is the actual doing and not the preparing for the doing. When you take massive action you will know because it is in th...

In this week's episode, we discuss how achieving goals you once thought were impossible will become possible when you release your limiting beliefs about yourself. What one person finds possible another finds impossible, and vice-versa. It is not for anyone else to tell you what you can or can not achieve. If they tell you that you are capable of anything - you won't believe them anyway if you are...

In this week's episode we discuss limiting beliefs, why they are your worst enemy, what they are, how to find them in yourself, and what to do with them once they are discovered. When you catch yourself saying, "I can't do that because," and the because is some external thing - then that is probably a limiting belief. Like almost always a limiting belief. The only thing that determines what you ca...

In this week's episode we get into how to be mindful of not minimizing other people's experiences when in conversation with them through equalizing. You want the other person sharing with you to feel seen, heard, and validated. If you spend the whole time trying to draw comparisons of what they have experienced to what you have experienced you risk minimizing what they are sharing with you. I can...

In this week's episode we are going to dive into emotions and behaviors and how to understand the difference between the two - because we can often mistake an emotion for an action or behavior and vice-versa. Dr. Wager (pronounced like you were going to place a bet) and I will converse on how identifying your emotions will lead to better emotional balance. When you can identify what emotion you ar...

In this weeks episode we discuss three of my favorite topics.  Toward vs Away Energy Empowerment vs Disempowerment Present State to Desired State Utilizing these three practices in your day to day life will give you power over every situation that comes your way. "Moving towards" people strive to achieve, create, enjoy the journey toward an outcome while "Moving away from" people want to avoid cer...

In this week's episode we introduce Addiction Recovery Coach Sue Mandell, creator of the, "Choose your Habits, Choose your Life," program. We will discuss curbing anxiety and stress through mindset shifts using pivoting, routine realignment, and so much more.  You can either see this quarantine as a way to move toward doing things you previously didn't prioritize or you can see this as an away ene...

In this week's episode we talk about re-establishing and rebuilding our routines, regimens, and structure when they breakdown - very specifically, because many of us are without jobs and quarantined in our houses. Addiction recovery meetings are cancelled, gyms are closed, entertainment options are all shuttered, stores are empty - unless it's the grocer and there it can be a MMA fight to get TP....

In this week's episode we will discuss the beginning stages of sobriety and recovery and how that can look completely different for everyone. People ask me how was it that I quit and moved on with my life, sans alcohol - and it came down, for me, to this one quote, "When the pain of continuing to use is greater than the pain of quitting."  All of this was sparked by meeting a man who was 25-days i...

In this weeks episode we cover the passage/poem from my meeting tonight titled, "Blame." Blame: Today I see that blame doesn't work. It doesn't work for two reasons. One, no one really escapes from a family illness and gets better until they identify the illness that is within them. This is particularly true as I get older. It doesn't matter anymore where the illness came from; what matters is how...

In this week's episode we will discuss some questions sent in from listeners just like you.  Are you trying to do it all, scrunching your day with 20 things in an effort to be your own version of super-(wo)man? Let's talk about setting personal boundaries on yourself and organizing your time so each day can be a win.  We will dive into how to find your spark, so each day you feel you have somethin...

Our emotional intelligence and maturity are constantly being tested. Developing a growth mindset around your ability to redirect your life toward the path you desire for yourself is paramount in your success in addiction recovery. In this episode, we will discuss how saying, "I am an addict," will further cement that thinking into your psyche, into your unconscious mind. You know how hard it is to...

In this week's episode, we discuss how tolerating your current life, buffering away from what you really want in life, and how by taking control of your thoughts and mind you can take control of your life. Tolerating the things in your life you want to change is not just an act of buffering - it's energy depleting and soul-sucking. The energy that it takes from your life when you convince yourself...

In this week's episode, we dive a little deeper into cross-addiction and open up the conversation about the differences between a reaction, emotionally triggered and driven, and a response, balanced and mindfully driven. Cross-addictions can come from any aspect of your life. We know there are three spheres in our lives: Work, Self, and Relationships and the cross-addiction occurs when we put more...