From Sobriety To Recovery: An Addiction Recovery Podcast

Ep #173 - You stand in front of the mirror. The voice inside your head has been badgering you for way too long. You look at yourself and who is looking back is not someone you want to recognize any longer. You have been envisioning a new you, telling yourself to get off your ass and just get er' done - and yet here you are, standing still, when every piece of you wants nothing more than to take an...

Ep #172 - NLP Trainer and Master Practitioner Aubrie Pohl joins the show as she and I discuss how NLP guides me in my sobriety and recovery, where she utilizes NLP in her own recovery journey, and the why's, what's, and how's of the NLP experience in your day-to-day life. We touch upon so many past episodes, because I have been weaving NLP in and out of these shows since day one. Through Aubrie's...

Ep #171 - You choose your habits and your habits create your life. When we step into this conversation seeing that the life you have and the life you aspire to have are created by the habits that run your life then we grasp the level of empowerment you have always had in choosing the life you desire. We are trauma-informed, meaning you understand that trauma has occurred in your life, and in every...

Ep #170 - 2001 days sober! It feels like day one was yesterday. Let's take a walk together as I reflect back on those first days, discuss how I got into the work I do, and the stages of recovery you and I are going through so we can more deeply understand that our journeys are beautiful and working for us not against us! Just hit play and let's dive in with our open minds, hearts, and energies bri...

Ep #169 - The time between the stimulus and your action is where your choice exists. Your choice to react emotionally triggered/activated/cued or to respond emotionally grounded will determine the outcome of any interaction you are having in your life. You know what it is like when someone goes half-cocked on you. Likewise, you know what it feels like when someone approaches you with an issue and...

Ep #168 - Empathy, what is it good for? Absolutely everything. As we all traverse the ebbs and flows of our own life journeys, we are consistently going to find ourselves in a place where someone will be in need or want of support and in these moments you are capable of being the person for them in that moment.  No doubt you have desired someone to be there for you, to be capable of stepping into...

Ep #167 - My 47th trip around the sun began this week and to celebrate I bring a list of insights evoked from my subconscious from this one sentence my co-trainer said during our most recent NLP training. "You don’t see the world the way it is you see it the way you are." From this statement came this list and now I share it with you. It was very literally a conscious stream of thought and my fing...

Ep #166 - Desirable language patterns. How often have we discussed this? You all know by now how important I believe positive, growth-minded words are to our growth and evolution. As you become deeply aware of how your words paint your world, create your world, you fathom the depths of change shifting your words from impossibility to possibility based patterns can truly have in your life. How you...

Ep #165 - Breaking the stigma of addiction. I have heard people use that phrase so often it has almost lost its meaning and strength to me. So, today we are going to dive into what stigmas are and how they are showing up in our society. It is not just addiction where these stigmas live. Stigmas are circling around us every, single day, and you very well might be guilty of a few of them. Our minds...

Ep 164 - The principles you lead you recovery by can be your guiding light. This week I will introduce you to the recovery principles the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration discusses on their website. The SAMHSA has a ton of helpful information from lists of service and treatment centers in your area, mental health and wellness articles, and a bevy of phone numbers you can g...

Ep #163 - Where in your life have you noticed your desire to help others just like ourselves? Have you ever wondered how you can better support those you meet in our community? Even as the host of this podcast, the author of a book on success habits, an addiction recovery speaker, coach, and trainer - I am consistently seeking further education on how I can better support and inspire those living...

Ep #162 - Forgiving yourself for an idea you had about your life and then not fulfilling that expectation is an important part of your sobriety and recovery journey. I have experienced the feeling of looking back on my life and beating myself up because I didn't achieve the hopes and dreams I had for myself when I was in high school. Some of you may have gotten into addiction before that even, may...

Ep #161 - What motivated you to seek relief in addiction? What is powering you forward in your sobriety and recovery? What was once your medicine became your poison and now it is time to reverse engineer what you did then and transform it into something beneficial now.  We all had a childhood. Traumas and sufferings happened to us and we internalized those the best we knew how based on the resourc...

Ep #160 - We have covered a lot about the meaning of words, the human experience, and our programming over the last month and to wrap up this story arch we finish by discussing how you, and your mind, attach meaning to the words you use, hear, and experience in your life. Words are just words. They have definitions that help us all agree on what a word means so we can communicate, yeah, this just...

Ep #159 - The un-trained mind isn't going to be the desirable navigator of your sobriety and recovery journey. Imagine monkeys just going bananas in a tree...that is your mind. 50,000 thoughts a day (the number varies according to the source but we'll ride that stat today) and studies wanna say 45,000 are recycled from yesterday. I vote that it is higher. So, you want to change your life. You want...

Ep #158 - Today I experienced an emotional state and physical body shift when I introduced my self as a person in Addiction Recovery at a meeting where attendees traditionally say, "I am an Alcoholic." We have discussed this many times on this show - Identity statements.  I am stupid, dumb, fat, ugly, mean, angry, a people pleaser, a narcissist, depressed, yada, yada, yada. Statements that start w...

Ep #157 - Your mind is a vast ocean of programming. Everything you have experienced in your life is recorded by your unconscious mind and from the moment your five senses bring something into your awareness your mind attaches meaning to it. How is this meaning attached? Why do you attach the meanings to circumstances and events the way you do? When is now the best time to begin the journey of inve...

Ep #156 - Your influence spans well beyond just the immediate people you interact with on any given day. Your choices to wake up sober or hungover can impact the lives of people 3, 4, 5, 6, etc. circles beyond you. This Impact Tree won't necessarily be a motivator to use or not use - if that were the case then we'd all have stopped after someone cried for our health and safety as addicts. What thi...

Ep #155 - You have heard me talking about The Tribe for about a year. The evolution of my tribe is to create and introduce you to The Wise Mind Empowerment HUB. This HUB is the evolution of the podcast. It is a place for us to grow and evolve through learning with one another. So many of you have reached out and asked how you can be more involved in what I talk about and The HUB is my answer to th...

Ep #154—The journey From Sobriety to Recovery is vast, expansive, and beautiful. It can be fraught with triggers, cravings, and, of course, trials and tribulations. Simultaneously, it is the most beautiful experience of you as the Phoenix rising out of the ashes. How you decide to experience your personal journey is all on you—I can merely introduce you to more empowering ways to embrace your jour...

Ep #153 - What you think, what you feel...neither is permanent. Your mind is this vast array of thoughts, feelings, memories, inner-self talk, and so much more. I marvel at my ability to push through quite a bit in my pursuit of my All The Way Up Life. I know you are seeking the best version of yourself and your own mind can be the biggest deterrent of you actually taking action on the things that...

Ep #152 - The way you frame and reframe your "old" self and your "new" self will have dramatic effects on the energy you have toward your addiction recovery. Who you used to be versus who you are now - the two people are not the same even though it is still your face looking back at you in the mirror.  Frames are shortcuts that people use to help make sense of our complex world, they provide meani...

Ep #151 - Oh, the places we will go! Oh, the places we have been. Let us be informed by the past - content in the present - ambitiously discontent for our future. 150 episodes and counting. In this episode I go over how the show has changed and shifted and grown with me, with you - together - as a tribe of recovering individuals who utilize our combined energy to seek our best self, encourage othe...

Ep #150 - Another milestone podcast. Sobriety is a journey from the trance-like state of living in the bubble society provides for us and sliding into the reality of the life we are actually living. You signed up for this. You committed yourself to this journey. Fear, anxiety, stress, self-doubt, and so many more undesirable emotions are awaiting you on this journey. BUT, and this is key, BUT - th...

Ep #149 - Get your popcorn ready because this is a long one. Five years sober and counting and today I bring you a myriad of deliciousness from my brain. From a brief history of who inspired and sparked me toward this movement of mine, and now ours, and then into why I have embrace NLP as my foundation and utilize it in every facet of my life, let alone my sobriety and recovery. From personal resp...