From Sobriety To Recovery: An Addiction Recovery Podcast

Ep #148 - When we take on any endeavor in life, is it the act of taking something on or the benefit of introducing this new thing into our life that is what we are really after? Sobriety itself is just the act of no longer getting intoxicated or imbibing or doing something that has become impulsive and has been seducing our lives down the dark slide for a long time. What we are really after are th...

Ep #147 - The New Year is upon us. I've been talking about this since December 1st and it is here. We have reached the half way point of our baton passing cycle and it is time to really buckle up and get the momentum of 2022 going. There are infinite ways to achieve sobriety and journey into addiction recovery - I have made that clear since episode one. How are you seeking your highest self? How a...

Ep #146 - Patience is not the act of waiting, it is the attitude you have while you are waiting. As addicts we lacked patience in many aspects of our lives. Now, as we journey from sober curious, and from sobriety to recovery - we want to be extremely mindful of how we are being patient or impatient in our life. As we encourage ourselves to add in new, more desirable habits, being mindful of over...

Ep #145 - You don't have to know exactly where you are going on this amazing journey we call sobriety to recovery. When you work on yourself, your recovery, your career, self, and relationship spheres daily - you will get somewhere closer to the version of yourself you desire to experience when you look in the mirror. What I want to focus on today is how you can be the person you desire to be...to...

Ep #144 - You internalize your goals by attaching them to something meaningful within yourself. If you attach your goals to external validation, from other people, places, or things, then the energy you are willing to put toward that goal can and will dissipate when you do not get the response you desire from your hard work, actions, and behaviors - from the people, places, and things you were try...

Ep #143 - If we aren't our labels. If we aren't what we've done. If we aren't what we are currently doing. Then who are we? Labels exist to easily identify a person, place, or thing because going around saying, "hello human," or, "hey person," is just silly. Height, weight, skin, eye, or hair color, religion, gender, age, etc., etc., and so on - these are just a few of the many labels we use to la...

Ep #142 - Face Everything and Release. You are changing. You are growing. You are evolving. This is a fact. Whether it is happening at the pace you think it "should" be or not is a perception issue you are having and we have discussed and will continue to discuss that perspective. As you create these changes in your life, the people closest to you may not recognize these changes in you, they may n...

Ep #141 - Hiding our true selves from ourselves or our loved ones serves to conceal what we are truly thinking, feeling, and experiencing from ourselves and them. Wearing masks is meant to hide something, to be someone we are not, to conceal our true identity from those around us and from the person looking back at us in the mirror. Superheroes wear masks so people won't know who they truly are. S...

Ep 140 - You are ready to make massive changes in your life and you do this through massive action. When you decide to lump all your life changes onto a single day you create a tremendous burden for yourself as now that day has to be THE DAY when everything you want to change in your life has to begin. The unconscious mind will kickback on that. Your old habits, that have been screwed in very tigh...

Ep #139 - A meandering journey into my mind over the last month. First time listeners to the show are gonna want to go back and check out other episodes first as this episode will come off as ramblings of a mad man otherwise. For long time listeners of the show...well, y'all will enjoy the ride. It is time. It has been time. To live is to shine. Step into the SUN. Just hit play and let's dive in w...

Ep 138 - Emotions are powerful. They create bonds for life. The start wars. They evoke laughter and they create tears. I am putting so much effort into feeling my emotions at the deepest level I have ever felt them. I make mistakes. I am human. My ultimate desire for myself is to learn from my mistakes - to dive deep into my heart and evoke the emotions that guide me toward the healing I courageou...

Ep #137 - Okay, so you are ready to take massive action. You are through the pre-contemplation stage and now seriously in the contemplation stage and more so in the action stage. Where do you go from here? How do you start to create your new life? New friends? New environments? New habits? How are you already seeking and navigating your emotional intelligence evolution? There are a myriad of quest...

Ep #136 - Conflict Avoidance is the act of not opening your mouth and speaking your truth because you have concerns that what you want to say, what is important to you, won't be received and in fact - will be rejected. Avoiding conflict is a sure fire way to find yourself in the middle of a rejection conversation, or argument, later rather than sooner. When you push off, and push off, and avoid th...

Ep #135 - National Recovery month and this week I bring you a mental health and addiction recovery professional from Brightview Health. We talk about how addiction recovery is unique and personal to each person, how a supportive community is the primary way out of addiction and into sobriety and recovery - and how you can begin your journey, right now, today. Find out more about Brightview Health...

Ep #134 - You know how you get a feeling inside of yourself when what you say you are doing doesn't align with what you are actually doing? You know how you feel when you look in the mirror and the person looking back at you does not look like the person you think you are in your mind. The main problem is we have this "ideal" self and then we have our actual self - the person living in the externa...

Ep #133 - Developing your growth mindset is essential for your development from sobriety to recovery. As you focus in on what you desire from yourself during this transition it is important to realize that alcohol and drugs are not the only things you can find yourself addicted to. Poor communication, ignoring those around you in favor of your phone, not being present in your own life, and of cour...

Ep 132 - September is "National Recovery Month" and with it comes the energy that recovery is belongs to ALL of us and that recovery, at its core, is about community and that inclusivity is a positive energy source rather than exclusivity. From the SAMHAS website: The 2021 National Recovery Month theme, “Recovery is for Everyone: Every Person, Every Family, Every Community” reminds people in recov...

Ep 131 - You are a completely different person in everyone's mind. Your parents, family, partner, neighbor, co-workers, classmates, and so-on...everyone one of these people has a different version of you, in their head, than every other person whom has ever met you. This is not an accident. No two people can possibly experience you the same. Hell, you don't even experience yourself the way you use...

Ep 130 - Self-sabotage can be the go to excuse for the unmotivated to change. You have experience with self-sabotage in your own life. Once you journey your undesirable behaviors and habits from your unconscious mind into your conscious awareness you are no longer allowing yourself to use that "lazy" excuse as your way out of actionable change. "I'm just immature," "I just always do it this way,"...

Ep 129 - Limiting beliefs, limiting decisions - your limiting stories are what you say to yourself and to others that corral your limitlessness and place you in your boundary box where you limit yourself and what you can achieve in your recovery and life. That can sound like a lot to take in, a lot to envision, and even more to feel. From my perspective, life is not all that complicated when you b...

Ep 128 - Everyday in life we make choices. These choices, when seen from the our future perspective, accumulate into the life we create for ourselves. Our willingness to not push beyond our perceived strength, to stretch ourselves beyond what we think we are capable of - these actions earn us our results. These repeated behaviors become your habits and your habits are the foundation for your ident...

Ep 127 - A bonus episode for the week as my mind is just jumping all around and I have to get this out. When did life become a slog? Why on earth do people dampen the spark and flame others have for doing the little things that bring them joy? There is so much to say about this episode but then that would make this description as long as the episode - so JUST HIT PLAY and let's dive into why Adult...

Ep 126 - Getting triggered into an emotional state is something that happens hundreds and thousands of times per day. Some of these triggering circumstances are just moments in time that pass as easily as they came into your awareness. Others circumstances - well these are the ones that can forever alter your life. These are the ones that we seek to manage and work on in ourselves when they are sm...

Ep 125 - Your physical health was probably compromised pretty severely during your active addiction. For many the body breaking down was the signal that rock bottom was approaching, perhaps even faster than you had imagined. The first year of your sobriety it is important that you do what ever you are able to do in order to get yourself heading in the right direction. That first year it is crucial...

Ep 124 - Are you impeccable with your word? When you commit to an event or to someone are you positive, barring a sudden bear attack, that you will show up on time and ready to be present and not staring at your phone or otherwise off in LALA Land? Being a person with an honorable word might not have been the reputation you cultivated during the height of your addiction. As you journey from sobrie...