From Sobriety To Recovery: An Addiction Recovery Podcast

A growth mindset is the ability to see everything as an opportunity to learn, grow, and experience from. That any ability and skill can be developed no matter your background or current abilities. A fixed mindset is believing that skills, talents, knowledge, etc. are relatively fixed and can not be grown nor cultivated. A growth mindset realizes every single opportunity in life is a chance for gro...

Going to concerts and events you used to party at can be hard, but there are plenty of ways to change how you see the partying going on around you. It's all in perspective and today is the day to start making that change - in your behavior, your attitude and your thoughts. Bonus: how to fill your normal days with activities that keep you humming along in sobriety. Play it out through to the credit...

Obstacle thoughts: thoughts that are perceived obstacles to the goal or destination you want to achieve. - Purpose, direction, and reason for what we are doing with our lives - Without goals, there is no direction or movement and only stagnation Obstacle thoughts strengthen themselves by providing evidence through your own actions - Law of Attraction - Frequency Bias or Illusion (Baader-Meinhof Ph...

Your sobriety and recovery must come first or everything else won't even exist - let alone come second. How are you prioritizing yourself? I utilize the four components of life: physical, emotional, mental, & spiritual to structure my addiction recovery.   This is where I was always hungover sad, lonely, disconnected, depressed - name a negative emotion and I felt it. underachieving determination...

Just say NO What is important in your life? FOMO & YOLO Parties are forgotten, grades are forgotten, most everything you do in school, work, LIFE will be forgotten - except the experiences that truly bonded you with other people, places, or things. What is the end result? Where are you going to get to? Reverse engineer what it is you want the outcome to be and lay down the timeline from there. P +...

Sometimes others are to busy seeing who you were to see who you've become. Sometimes you are to busy seeing your old self in your head or in the mirror to see the new you. Are your actions, behaviors, attitudes, and words conveying you have changed? You are already making drastic changes in every area of your life because you are fully embracing sobriety and recovery - now, you know it is time to...

This is a page from a book my therapist uses for our topics on our Monday night meetings. This was the excerpt for April 29th. We can define who we are by getting to know ourselves in sobriety and recovery. This means we get to re-evaluate what we stand for, our moral character, our belief systems, what we will enjoy, and what we won't tolerate any longer. We can also stop judging others by no lon...

Emotional Self Regulation Attitude: control your and don't get emotionally triggered. Intention: what is the outcome you desire from the interaction? Attention: what action(s) will you take to see the outcome achieved? Distraction: their words will be the #1 thing to overcome!  Ask yourself why are they saying this? to make themselves feel better to keep you down they are used to the way things ar...

Self-control is the ultimate expression of maturity and character in life. By using self-regulation (Intention - Attention - Distractions - Attitude) in your everyday life you will become more aware of why you do the things you do. If we are experiencing completely unruly thoughts we will be living our lives like an emotional yo-yo. Happiness and sadness come from past based thoughts. Anxiety and...

Don't fear rejection because it's not about you, it's about them. - You can not lose what you didn't have. - If the relationship is strained then you are at a crossroad and something has to be done. - DO NOT put other's needs above your own. It is time for you to heal and grow and move forward and step into a new you. How would you act or respond in the conversation if you felt 100% WORTHY!? 1. Wh...

We've made mistakes, hurt others, hurt ourselves - yes, we know there are many amends to be made, and many that already have been. These errors in our ways do not mean we are no longer worthy or entitled to abundance. We are human and we are perfect when we are acting and behaving imperfectly. Failure comes from not learning the lessons we were offered through our actions that brought about negati...

At what age does someone go from having potential to having wasted that potential? It is not easy for me to take a day off. Self-care is one thing, just chilling around my house and turning off my brain is another. Here are MY keys to being in the moment. You are done "wasting" time. You are sober now and you just bought back all that time from the future you would've been using. Only the self, th...

Fear should not be avoided. Journey through the fear to gain the courage to continue forward on your quest. If you are not feeling fear in something you are doing then you are in your comfort zone - and no true growth occurs inside your comfort shell. Fear: An unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain or a threat. Fear is a natural human e...

  Ep #10 - Expectations lead to disappointment because rarely will something live up to the picture you have of it in your mind. Being confrontational and defensive is your ego talking and, if you're even remotely similar to me, the ego is what got me into the mess to begin with. Not wanting to feel fear, anxiety, or any undesirable emotions, is the child ego being in charge. Managing and controll...

Ep #9: Self-doubt is a feeling, and we know that feelings come from thoughts - which are abundant, fleeting, and controllable. An expectation is a thought about how things could, should, or would play out in reality. When I feel self-doubt, I follow these three keys. The three ways I find confidence are through self-doubt. My memories are just thoughts, and thoughts drive feelings, and feelings an...

Valentine's Day is a day to share the love you feel toward the ones you love. For me, it is also the day that my mother succumbed to alcoholism and Crohn's. I share my story of my path to addiction and the events that left me with the trauma I am cleaning up and healing through as a man today. Thank you so much for listening and being a part of this wonderfully supportive community. No longer are...

There are many ways to get sober and just as many toward the path of recovery. Being accepting of one another's paths and not judging each other for not doing it "my" way is key in being of integrity, humility, and gratitude. There are so many commentators on Instagram about how "you" should get sober. What's really important is that you stop using. How that looks today is probably not how that wi...

Play it out to the credits. Having just one isn't a choice for us. See, in your mind, how the movie ends when you have "just one." We know there is an addict in us, we don't need to be reminded every second, of every day. Our addictive mindsets are in there, lurking, and to be aware of that is your most powerful weapon. Special occasions are difficult things to attend when you are in sobriety and...

We are in charge of our own thoughts, feelings, and actions. Blaming someone else for how we behave is immature and unacceptable behavior. Children blame others for how they feel and as adults, we are in responsible for teaching them that we decide how we feel, but that's hard for adults to do when they too blame others for how they feel, think, and act. Emotional Maturity is so many things in lif...

Ep #4 - The absolute key is to make drinking and/or using again a non-negotiable. You chose to step away, or in my case run like hell, from alcohol and drugs. Let each day live in its own bubble knowing the further you get away from your last high further amplifies why this is the best decision you've ever made for your life! The first day, week, and month will be packed with a ton of physical com...

Ep #3 - The Six Human Needs are foundational for everyone alive. In Addiction Recovery understanding how the six human needs lead you into addiction will drastically benefit you as you move through sobriety and into recovery. Here are the six human needs as defined by Tony Robbins:   1. Certainty 2. Uncertainty/Variety 3. Significance 4. Love/Connection 5. Growth 6. Contribution   If an activity,...

Ep #2 - Growth Mindset in my addiction recovery is a pillar of my recovery stability. I reference both of these strategies in my sobriety and recovery. "I'll never use again," versus "One day at a time." One side of me steers away from absolutes and another side of me knows that my actions are my choice - and being that my choices determine my actions, why not say, "I will never use again." Conver...

Ep #1 - Congratulations for taking your step into the world of Sobriety and Recovery. I reshoot this pilot for the 2023 year as the show as grown and evolved so much from its first days in 2019. I am honored to have you take a listen and hope you love it so much you come back for all the episodes! I am launching this podcast because there is so much I have learned and so much more to learn about m...