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If you'd rather watch the video version here ya go: Addiction can be distilled into one sentence. A sentence formulated by impressions. Impressions that were incorrectly interpreted as truth. A truth that was imprinted on the subconscious. A subconscious that orchestrated reality. Sure, it is...

Dec 21, 2024

Self-Actualized Recovery

After an addict has slammed into rock bottom, the definition of “better life” is a low bar. Oftentimes, folks in recovery tend to settle for mediocrity because at baseline, at least they aren't using, right? Wrong. Quitting the substance does not immediately solve your problems and make you happy...

Dec 21, 2024

Exert Agency over Your Addiction

If you want to skip reading and watch the video version, here ya go: The experience of the self is always a defeat of the ego. – Carl Jung Close your eyes and clear your thinking. Now ask your nervous system to bring up the most impactful memories from your childhood. As they crystalize insi...

Dec 21, 2024

Take Control of Your Life - One Breath at a Time

How to use HeartMath in recovery. Do you feel like your life is out of control? As if you are at the mercy of everyone and everything outside of yourself? It is time to step into your power. Life in addiction recovery can feel like drowning in the ocean; incredibly overwhelming, hard to breathe, ...

Dec 21, 2024

8 Ways to Leverage Holiday Family Triggers

Does the thought of spending time with your family cause your stomach to knot? Here are 8 ways to fall in love with being triggered during the holidays: Relapses reach their highest percentage of the year during the holiday season. Being exposed to family members stirs up deeply ingrained trigg...

Dec 21, 2024

4 Ways to Improve Inner Child Work

An addict will never feel good enough without inner child work. 12 Steps are complete.Rehab is conquered.Therapy is continuing.Meetings are chipping. But, you still feel:Unworthy.Small.Incomplete. Sound familiar? Dopamine spikes resulting from sober achievements fueled my momentum for the firs...

Dec 20, 2024

7 Signs You Are a Wounded Healer

Ever consider there being a specific purpose behind your addiction experience? What if the breakdown of your life was an initiation for a higher purpose? Quitting the substance does not magically provide direction for your life. Sobriety can feel void of purpose until you’ve connected meaning t...

Dec 19, 2024

10 Steps to Jumpstart Your Journaling Practice

How many times have you been advised to keep a journal to supplement your sobriety? With the best of intentions, how many times have you stopped keeping a journal in less than a week? Without a journal, we repeat patterns. Without a journal, our accomplishments lose leverage. Without a journal, ...

Dec 19, 2024

How to Embrace Truth-Telling

Reframing Relpase Online Course How many people in your life know the real you? Do you even know the real you? Withholding your authenticity leads to disassociation. You wonder who is actually living your life. Ignorance of your authentic self leads to feeling stagnant. Misguided versions of y...

Dec 19, 2024

3 Steps to Finding Your Higher Power

Are you triggered by the concept of a higher power within the 12-step Program? What if I told you there is no higher power other than yourself? Hear me out: Many sober people are living without the substance but still feel unfulfilled. They haven’t fully embodied the healing process of sobriety....

Dec 19, 2024

You've Quit Using, but Are You Sober?

Consecutive days without using the substance or giving in to the behavior do not mean you're sober. Dependence on substances is the effect, sobriety unearths the causes. Ever wonder why the sober life still feels unfulfilling?Until you are able to unravel the distinct personality of your addictio...

Dec 19, 2024

Is Your Life Buffering

To help my clients describe how it feels to be "stuck" I developed the term "Life Buffering". This is a computer metaphor that almost anyone can relate to. Do you know how it feels to stare at the spinning wheel on your computer or TV screen while they buffer? Sometimes you have to reboot the who...

Dec 19, 2024

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