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These feelings serve as important clues about our wellbeing and about what makes us happy and unhappy. The post Episode #105 – Tuesday The Fix: Sabotage of Self Part 2 appeared first on Recovery Guy .

For today’s podcast, I am using some thoughts and practices by my dear friend Suzy. Suzy and I met through IG surrounding a family challenge she was having with someone in her life. The opportunity with this person didn’t prove productive at the time, but out of it came the relationship Laura and I have […] The post Episode #104 – Friday The Checkup: How We Heal appeared first on Recov...

If there is anything I have learned about life is that it occurs with or without my permission. Obviously, if it only occurred with my permission only what I wanted when I wanted would it worked for me. Since that is not the case, I learned early on in recovery that I had to live […] The post Episode #103 – Tuesday The Fix: Healing While Hurting appeared first on Recovery Guy .

The original quote was “We have met the enemy and he is ours” was from Admiral Perry after his defeat of the British Royal Navy in 1813. The organizers of a 1970 Earth Day Celebration hijacked the quote to meet their purpose as “We have met the enemy and it is us”. Either way you […] The post Episode #102 – Friday The Checkup: Getting Out of Our Way appeared first on Recovery Guy .

Barrier something material that blocks or is intended to block passagebarricade, fence, hedge, wall Barriers are good except when they allow the rise of boundaries that keep positive people, events or concepts to help us. Boundary something that indicates or fixes a limit or extentcap, ceiling, confines, end, extent, limit, limitation, line, termination Boundaries are […] The post Episode #1...

The word recovery has different meanings to different people. In the clinical sense recovery refers to a condition that a person experiences when they have overcome a particular mental, emotional or physical diagnosis. When it comes to addiction and other behavioral choices recovery takes on a much more broad definition. There are so many different […] The post Episode #100 – Friday Th...

Follow Robert on his 30 for your journey of recovery as he speaks to a group in the park in Bountiful, Utah. Robert explores all of the ins and outs of his personal journey and what he recommends to others as they seek life long recovery. The post Episode #99 – Tuesday The Fix: Follow Robert Along His Path to Recovery appeared first on Recovery Guy .

I hope you are looking at your recovery as an ongoing project. It has to be ongoing. If we stop doing what we did to get to where we are at we run the risk of falling to where we started and even further back. We must view our recovery as a journey. The minute […] The post Episode #98 – Friday The Checkup: Random Thoughts appeared first on Recovery Guy .

Staying focused in the now (today) is more challenging than it appears. The easiest thing to do is get ahead of ourselves. Today is the bigger and more important than yesterday and even tomorrow. WE can change anything about yesterday any more than we can predict how tomorrow will turn. That leaves us to TODAY. […] The post Episode #97 – Tuesday The Fix: Staying Focused in the Now appe...

As many of you know, I recommend Stephen Covey. I appreciate Stephen’s insight as a source of paradigm modeling that when properly understood and applied can help create the mental map necessary to get us from where we are at to where we want to go. “The ‘Inside-Out’ approach to personal and interpersonal effectiveness means […] The post Episode #96 – Friday The Checkup: Ge...

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of putting broken pottery pieces back together with gold — built on the idea that in embracing flaws and imperfections, you can create an even stronger, more beautiful piece of art. Every break is unique and instead of repairing an item like new, the 400-year-old technique actually highlights the “scars” […] The post Episode #95 – Tuesday The Fi...

As a person who required and desires a set plan to help be successful, I strive daily to do the things necessary to help ensure my daily success. I hope the things on this list are things that you can incorporate into your life to aid you in elevating your life to make a difference […] The post Episode #94 – Friday The Checkup: Steps For The Day appeared first on Recovery Guy .

Emile Durkheim was a French Sociologist and considered “The Father of Sociology”. he analyzed how different aspects of society together formed the whole. Durkheim lectured and published sociological studies on subjects such as education, crime, religion, suicide and other aspects of society. What is addiction if it is not a type of suicide. Depending on […] The post Episode #93 &...

I am convinced that adversity will always play a role in my life. I can’t have light without dark, cold without hot, or good without evil. It is what I do with and through adversity that assigns its value. Adversity; unfavorable fortune or fate; a condition marked by misfortune, calamity, or distress: Opportunity; a situation […] The post Episode #92 – Friday The Checkup: Adversity Cre...

Social Distancing is adverse to personally connecting in a way that a person of recovery needs. The Social Model approach is one of the most effective ways for people to become well. When we remove this dynamic from the equation we run the risk of a person relapsing or never getting the doors of recovery […] The post Episode #91 – Tuesday The Fix: Practicing Social Distancing Without B...

As I mention in Part 1, when I allow myself to be distracted by the outside and negative sources it most allows affects me and view of my life. This can be very dangerous for a person of recovery. I need to “take my thoughts captive” and think on the things I can control and […] The post Episode #90 – Friday The Checkup: Things To Think On Part 2 appeared first on Recovery Guy .

When I allow myself to be distracted by the outside and negative sources it most allows affects me and view of my life. This can be very dangerous for a person of recovery. I need to “take my thoughts captive” and think on the things I can control and the things that support my position […] The post Episode #89 – Tuesday The Fix: Things to Think On Part 1 appeared first on Recovery Guy...

As part of the Mindful and cognitive approach to recovery support, balancing and aligning thought supportive actions is critical. “You can’t think your way into right action, but you can act your way into right thinking.” Is a quote by Bill W. Bill was the co-founder of AA? I agree with this statement. Most of […] The post Episode #88 – Friday The Checkup: New Thinking Supports New liv...

The goal is to stop the uncontrollable from controlling. Sometimes the best was to respond to the uncontrollable is to make the necessary changes that make those aspects irrelevant in our life. We can diffuse/neutralize or remove them or we can leave them. In the past, we lived a life that was defined by the […] The post Episode #87 – Tuesday The Fix: Control The Controllable appeared...

We all need a path that promotes wellness and a new way of living. I can’t expect to elevate my life without elevating the path I have been walking. Part of my disappointment and disillusion came from expecting one thing while engaging in thinking that was opposed to achieving it. Mindfulness is a break from […] The post Episode #86 – Friday The Checkup: The Mindful Path To Addiction R...

Finding Your Way explores a particular joy that comes when we find out who we are. For those of us who find our way we realize we aren’t what we did. We did what we did because of who we thought we were. We lost our way. Now, we come into recovery and we are […] The post Episode #85 – Tuesday The Fix: Finding Your Way appeared first on Recovery Guy .

We need to change our thought process and start telling ourselves we can do or be whatever we want. Affirmations is a great way to change that thought process and get ourselves a new belief system that is of great benefit to us – that will make us reach our goals and get what we […] The post Episode #84 – Friday The Checkup: Practice Positive Affirmations appeared first on Recove...

In order to give freely we must first take down the walls of personal secrecy and begin to share who we are and not judge what we learn about others. As a word of caution, let me say with some things we may need to be careful to whom and what we disclose, but for […] The post Episode #83 – Tuesday The Fix: Healthy Relating leads to Healthy Relationships appeared first on Recovery Guy .

Today’s podcast is called 7 Lovely Logics. These logics are common sense approaches to living a life that makes sense. When we practice these logics we can’t help but be the better version of ourselves. We will ultimately lead more healthy lives and have a greater positive impact on those around us. Below are the […] The post Episode #82 – Friday The Checkup: 7 Lovely Logics appeared f...

Join the recovery movement at our Patreon Page. The 4 L’s represent the Four Human Dimensions. Those 4 dimensions are the physical, emotional, mental and the highest dimension, the spiritual. These four dimensions produce four actions that are derived from them. They are to Live, Love, Learn and Leave a Legacy. In a quote by […] The post Episode #81 – Tuesday The Fix: The 4 L’s a...