Alive and Free

Amber joins us today for an insider's look at what really goes on at a rehab center. From the schedule, to the therapy, to the classes, there's lots to talk about, including why the success rates are as low as they are across the board and what can be done to turn that around. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• So alcohol became an escape, and at a certain point it became a catastrophe. (6:40)
• Why is it called recreational therapy, why not just play? (17:25)
• The thing I'll say is that therapy got me through. It didn't get me over my troubles, but it got me through. (31:10)
• Everything that you encounter in your life is going to change the function and neurology and synaptic patterns and everything else going on inside you. Pinning that on addiction only is a bit dishonest. (39:35)
• I'm not worried about sobriety. Only addicts are worried about sobriety. I'm a human being. (44:25)

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Over the time that I have been building and running my business, there have been a good number of arguments made against me and why anything I do won't work. So, today we'll just run over a few of them. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• Therapists consider it unethical to get peoples hopes up and say that it's possible to get over depression and anxiety without medication. (7:25)
• People argue that I'm not a licensed therapist and I say, I know. Thats why I can do what I do. (10:10)
• Doctors are too busy labeling what's happening instead of seeing what's there. (29:35)
• There's things that we can do with stuff that we can see, taste, touch and smell. There's nothing we can do with a theory. As soon as you believe that theory is real, then it's a fight against a phantom. (31:20)

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Today lets talk about your bag of tricks. All these little tips and tricks that are available at anytime because they come from you. Go ahead, have a listen.

Highlights:

• When people take bits and pieces from other material, sometimes they're cobbling all the little pieces together and in the end they don't get to enjoy that it's not just a puzzle, but a picture also. (4:00)
• When you're in the here and now, you do not experience anxiety. Anxiety is a future oriented thing. (7:10)
• Being so focused on doing something right means not just doing the thing. Doing something right is not doing the thing. (11:50)
• Just by turning a conclusion (an ending) into a beginning (a quest or a question) a whole new world of inquiries opens up. (17:30)

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In spirit of upcoming Halloween, Lee is playing devil's advocate with some common questions that we get in mind.

Have a listen.

Highlights:

• It's not uncommon for a human being to have assumed that because another person uses a word that their familiar with, that therefore they know everything about that word and subject and can pronounce their opinion on it. (3:15)
• Assuming that I have to understand your struggles in order for you to let them go is such a big misconception. (10:45)
• I don't deny what happened in my life, but I don't suffer it. (20:25)
• Diagnoses are just a snapshot in time of how you are doing at the moment. (26:10)
• Don't let good experiences be a mountain top experience, let it be the base line. (34:45)

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Today, Lee decides to air his opinions about The Freedom Specialist — "You were operating like a non-profit without any of the benefits of being a non-profit." It's what led us to actually create Built for Freedom as a non-profit to be able to offer help and support to people who aren't in a position to afford that on their own.

If you'd like to join us in offering scholarships for those in need, you can donate here.

Highlights:

• I didn't realize that I knew something valuable, and when someone pointed it out in a pointed fashion, I went for it. (13:20)
• These are people that are trying to learn self-defense in order to protect themselves, but I'm teaching it in a way that you cease to become a target in the first place. (14:15)
• Freedom can spread like a virus. A freedom virus. (23:20)
• We're not trying to change the medical industry or the psychology industry. This is something totally different. (31:10)
• This basically eliminates the notion of problems by teaching people how to live so powerfully that what they used to call problems, evaporate on their own because their entire life is just blossoming. (32:00)

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School is one example of a social institution where some people thrive and others tank. But what if that has more to do with the way it's set up than whether some students lack the ability to learn.

This was Kathy Kolbe's connundrum. Dyslexic, dysgraphic, riddled with ADHD, and a female in the mid-twentieth century is not exactly a winning formula for success. But she was determined to scientifically prove equality. What she produced has been a tremendous asset in helping our clients learn how to succeed at healing, recovery, and happiness in a way that matches their own strengths (instead of being forced to always do things the way the teacher says). It has freed them to finally be and honor themselves just as they are.

Today well talk about that a little more. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• There's a lot of people listening that don't realize that when they think there's a deficit in them, they've really just been asked to operate differently than their own strengths. (11:10)
• Being burned out, hopeless, stressed, and depressed; how much of that is just you trying to be someone that you're not? (12:00)
• It gave perspective on the way I operate and It gave permission to be me. (27:55)
• This is not an excuse to cop out on what you aren't as familiar with, but maybe that there are other ways to do it.(29:10)
• Your perception of the world, your instinctive reaction to the world, is the place where freedom can be put on autopilot. And that is markedly different than Kathy's conation. (34:45)

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Are you really what you eat? Most of the research seems to point that direction. At least we can say that what you put in your body has an enormous effect on how you experience your life.

Meet Glucose, that wonderful saccharine molecule that has a tendency to break down arterial walls and pump the pancreas for all of its insulin. It's the bad guy in so many diets. Yet when eaten after other foods, those foods often nullify the blood glucose spikes that are the hallmark of diabetes. Simply the order the food is eaten changes that. And that's just one way to play nicely with the bad guy so Mr. Glucose doesn't bully your innards as much.

Today we'll talk about this more. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• She's very careful to mention that you are the scientist of your own life. If it doesn't work, change it up. (6:20)
• When handling one part of the human body well, it cascades to other things. When handling two parts well, it seems to give exponential help to the body. (7:40)
• Making the argument that you get all these antioxidants from a big spoon of honey is not going to work when they can all be gained in a blueberry. (:)
• It was all sugar. It's no longer a gas station, it's a sugar station that happens to sell gas. (26:00)

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What if we could look at a diagnoses not as limitations but as possibilities like many cultures have done over the millennia?

People with multiple personalities have the ability to split their emotions and other changes in the body. Yes, I said an ability. Instead of thinking on diagnosis as a disorder. Maybe we can think of it as a strength.

We'll explore more of this today. Have a listen.

Highlights:

• The difference between somebody with multiple personality disorder, and a normal person, is that the former's personalities don't talk to each other. (7:15)
• We had a client who claimed to have OCD. So we did a cognitive test on them and they were high in facts and structure. So what if it's not a disorder, but instead a strength? (12:05)
• Back then the answer was to cast out people with multiple personalities. To put them through some kind of experience that maybe un-fractured the mind a little. (22:20)
• A person with different personalities, has many different personas and masks. The fact that they can take them off at will is amazing (24:55)

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As my dad battles his cancer, his doctors are prescribing him with more and more pain meds. But as they give him the substances to shut off his pain signals, they aren't even questioning whether or not this is adding to the massive bowel obstruction seen on his CT scan. Nor are they even considering any option that is not a drug to alleviate his pain

Yet I show up and give him simple things to do to ramp up his own internal pain killers. These are things "pain doctors" should know, but instead they give me a quizzical look like I'm an alien. All because they aren't questioning whether or not the method they're used to is the only or even best way

So today we'll talk about the possibility that comes from being willing to question.

Have a listen.

Highlights:

• There's lots of places where people just swallow the information instead of questioning. (8:30)
• None of them have ever experienced it. And that led to the question, "Why am I listening to them if their answers will only ever keep me on the roller coaster?" (12:25)
• What we're dealing with is your biology. What we're dealing with is the comfort of your system, and how your mind makes sense of that. (13:50)
• Doctors are trained to never suggest that they don't know what's going on. (30:45)
• It was a really hard thing for this man to even question his own practice. (34:40)

Need help unlocking mental, emotional, and physical freedom in your life? Grab my new book, Built for Freedom: Adventures Through Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Addiction, Trauma, Pain, and Our Body's Innate Ability to Leave Them All Behind on Amazon (or Audible) here: https://www.amazon.com/Built-Freedom-Adventures-Depression-Addiction/dp/B0BS79GMYN

Or head over to https://thefreedomspecialist.com/ and book a call where we can look at your unique situation and give you the roadmap you've been missing.

Let's get real about what it feels like when emotions and behaviors take over. When that happens, what do you do?

Today we'll also talk about questioning things. Not necessarily everything, but all the things that, when questioned, add up to a lot more freedom.

Have a listen.

Highlights:

• Question everything. If it's helpful and useful to you, then question it. (14:00)
• In any conflict, there's ten fights and nine of them are going on inside yourself. (21:25)
• If there's somebody that's saying "I've had a worse life", I won't deny that. But what do you want to do now? (26:00)
• In the moment that "I don't know if I can let this go" is said, then nothing is being let go. But once it is questioned, then it has already been let go. (28:10)

Need help unlocking mental, emotional, and physical freedom in your life? Grab my new book, Built for Freedom: Adventures Through Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Addiction, Trauma, Pain, and Our Body's Innate Ability to Leave Them All Behind on Amazon (or Audible) here: https://www.amazon.com/Built-Freedom-Adventures-Depression-Addiction/dp/B0BS79GMYN

Or head over to https://thefreedomspecialist.com/ and book a call where we can look at your unique situation and give you the roadmap you've been missing.