From Sobriety To Recovery: An Addiction Recovery Podcast

In this week's episode we discuss how our feelings and emotions are a vital component of our addiction recovery and how are addictive behaviors can rear themselves in other areas of our lives besides using and getting intoxicated. I am diving deep into my emotional well this week to really bring out my vulnerability and the confusion I have inside myself when my actions don't bring about the inten...

In this week's episode, we answer some questions from my Instagram post that I think will resonate with many of us. First, we talk about dating an alcoholic and not blaming yourself for their actions and knowing how to move past it. Hint - it's all about your boundaries and your thinking. Second, we dive into when should someone start dating if they are under a year in recovery. Should you wait th...

In this week's episode, we discuss how thoughts cause feelings, which drive actions, which create results, and how understanding this connection has been and will continue to be the foundation of my sobriety and addiction recovery mission. Three years, 36 months, 156 weeks, 1,095 days, 26,282 hours - my how time flys. Every day I wake up sober is the best day of my life. I want all of you to feel...

Happy New Year and New Decade!!! I am reviving the pilot format for this episode because so many people check out the pilot episode each week, and when I go back and listen to it - while so much is exactly like I said it would be, there is also so much this show evolved into that I couldn't have begun to imagine it - let alone hint to it this time last year. I launched this podcast because there i...

In this week's episode we're gonna talk about the New Year, the New Decade, and why what happens on New Year's Eve isn't the end-all, be-all, to this last year or the year to come. We've all been a part of some wild nights, I'd be willing to assume, and no doubt there are times of our lives we thought we would never forget that we can not even remember today. Spend your new year doing what you wan...

In this week's episode we discuss the spirituality side of relationships in regards to how our judgments of others affect the relationships we have with them. Our three pillars of our addiction recovery are gratitude, humility, and integrity. Are the relationships in your life lining up with the new person you are becoming and striving to become each day? Would you rather be right or would you rat...

In this week's episode, we discuss how your mental limitations are holding you back from achieving your goals in life. With the new year and new decade fast approaching - it's time we look at what is happening in our minds that is holding us back from our best life. We can't accept responsibility and blame someone else at the same time. That's not how we empower ourselves or take personal responsi...

In this week's episode we discuss why physically going and experiencing events with those closest to you is of the utmost importance. You can't just hide in your house, away from all the triggers, and expect to live any kind of life. Get together with your support system and plan an excursion that will open your mind and eyes to the very real fact that you can go places sober where you once only w...

Ep #40 - In this week's episode we cover how integrity, humility, and gratitude have become the three pillars of my addiction recovery and how you can step into these wonderfully powerful states of being today and on into the new year and new decade.  My therapist has gently nudged me into the direction of running all of my actions through these three states so I can identify if my actions are con...

In this weeks episode we cover the Relationship sphere and the Relationship component in hopes we can uncover new and better ways to deal with our emotions and how to relate to others that have no idea what the hell we're feeling - and we may not know what we're feeling either, lolol. One of my main issues is that I have been feeling things, my self, my relationships - everything in between, throu...

Ep #38 - Your emotional growth is crucial in your addiction recovery. Often our inability to handle our emotions in a healthy way is what led us down the path where addiction gripped us. This is why I focus myself on grounding my emotions in facts not opinions.  This is how I do it and how you can too. Being mindful that you create the thoughts and feelings that draw you into certain directions an...

In this episode, we discuss the Self sphere and the physical component. The Self/Physical quadrant is one of my more requested episodes and a perfect way to begin our year/decade end/beginning series. You are in charge of your body. You stepped into sobriety looking to radically change your life - for whatever reason - and as the year ends one of the most popular resolutions is to get in better sh...

In this week's show I discuss my Life's Blueprint philosophy and the program of the same name. It has done wonders in helping me see my life with clarity so I have confidence in my addiction recovery program and this beautiful journey that is my sober life. I organize my life into 3-spheres (Career, Self, and Relationships) and 4-components (physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.) These 12-qu...

In this weeks episode I do a quick review of this years episodes so you have a better idea of what to go back and listen to again or for the first time. A terrific way to hear me explain many of the key topics I have covered over the last 34 episodes. As we prepare to move into holiday season, it's time to start thinking about how you are going to finish the year strong. It's almost time to start...

Meeting the critical needs in life will allow you to grow in your sobriety & recovery. Physiological, Safety, Love & Belonging, Esteem, and Self-Actualization are the five levels of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Know where you're at and focus there. Physiological Needs: Maslow considered physiological needs to be the most essential of our needs. If someone is lacking in more than one need, they’re...

You have three minds - Reasonable, Emotional, and Wise. Which one you use when a situation, event, or circumstance occurs determines your reaction or response and that in turn triggers a thought which causes an emotion which drives action and creates an outcome. So yeah, which mind you use most will pretty much determine how you experience your sobriety, addiction recovery, and life. My interpreta...

Some people thrive in misery. You take away their misery and bring them into the light and they die emotionally and spiritually because the pain and suffering has been their only comfort. The thought of someone loving them and helping them without wanting anything in return could never enter their minds. - Mike Tyson I do not always have it together, it's like 50/50 most the time. Most importantly...

Shame is the thought "I am bad," while guilt is the thought "I did something bad." Anxiety is the fear of what will happen in the future. There is a huge difference and knowing which negative emotion you are feeling is key in remedying the trigger. Keys to remember and use when you feel triggered or are coming out of a trigger & action moment: You are only responsible for your action You are not r...

Your brain can adapt to anything. As humans, we have shown that ability time and time again. Start seeing your perceived failures as feedback opportunities, your perceived successes as steps forward, and the whole journey as a rebuilding of your mental superhighways - because your brain has a plasticity to it that is remarkable in its adaptation scope. Brain plasticity, also known as neuroplastici...

On this weeks episode we discuss our feelings, forgiveness, and allowing ourselves to pace through them when others so often want to hurry us through both - and, in fact, we have probably hurried others through their feelings and forgiveness process too. Below is the entire page that lead our group session and is now the theme for this episode Today I will not jump over my wounds to forgive too so...

Always doing your best means you put in max effort without over-extending yourself so much that you slide into a H.A.L.T. zone. When you do your best, and you really, deep down, know you did your best you will keep those negative feelings at bay. * Agreement #4. Always Do Your Best Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Und...

No one is a mind reader - regardless of what you, your significant other, friends, or family might think. Ask questions in order to communicate clearly about the wants, needs, and desires of all parties involved. My therapist loves to remind me to speak concisely. She says, "take out 17 words, then respond." So before you speak, ask yourself - are you performing mental gymnastics to get out of a l...

Whatever happens around you, don’t take it personally. Nothing other people do is because of you, it's because of them. When we take something personally, we make the assumption they know what's in our world, and we try to impose our world on theirs.  Why is not taking anything personally important? Because you are in control of your world, not theirs, so you have no idea why they just behaved tha...

Do you honor your commitments to yourself and others every time you make them? Have you stopped the blaming, complaining, criticizing, and gossiping? Being impeccable with your words means you live a life of integrity & your words/actions are honorable. The first agreement is to be impeccable with your word. It sounds simple enough, but it is definitely not. You can’t control every circumstance. B...

The four agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz provides a roadmap toward the highest version of yourself. Integrity is crucial in your recovery journey and by harnessing it's virtues you will be freed of the negative weight and repercussions of actions that go against these agreements. 1. Be Impeccable with Your Word No complaining. No criticising. No blaming. No gossiping.  

2. Don’t Take Anything Perso...