Alive and Free

There are a lot of similarities between pain (even chronic pain) and emotions. But the most important similarity is this:

Your pain and emotions are an opinion!

This fact is backed by the leading neuroscientist on pain research. And it's great news.

Why?

Because opinions can be challenged! And by challenging your opinions, you can stop decades-long depression and chronic pain in its tracks.

In this episode, you'll discover why pain is just an opinion your brain has, and how this makes it easier to overcome your pain.

Listen now.

Show Highlights Include:

• How to take control of your experience with chronic pain (without relying on painkillers, therapy, or physical therapy) (1:23)
• The "Pain in your Brain" secret for significantly reducing the pain you feel in your body almost immediately (3:36)
• The weird way even watching a hammer smashing a hand on TV can cause low level aches in your hand (and how to use this "power" to eliminate your pain) (4:42)
• Why a clinical neuroscientist believes that pain you feel is 100% made up in your brain (8:19)
• How to reverse 7 years of excruciating back pain by getting punched in the back (11:13)
• The scientific explanation behind why chronic pain isn't actually "pain" (and how this helps you get rid of it for good) (12:04)
• Why tickling the side of your face can clam even the most debilitating headaches (17:42)

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.

We're suckers for authority. We see someone in a white lab coat, and immediately think they know all the answers. But reality doesn't typically play out how they say:

Take Amber for example, a featured guest on this episode. She battled chronic pain for years, got prescribed pain pills, and shortly became addicted to them. When she realized she was done taking pain pills, she quit cold turkey. And the next time she went to her doctor—someone she likes as a person, mind you—he told her that quitting pain pills cold turkey could've killed her. Well, it didn't.

And we do this in our own lives too: with therapy, with visits to the doctor, by reading self-help books, and even by scrolling WebMD only to convince ourselves we're dying.

The truth is, authority isn't always right. In fact, it tends to be wrong a lot of the time. And this is dangerous because at the end of the day, we're our own ultimate authority figure.

While it may seem like bad news, it's not. Because this empowers us to make positive changes by simply questioning authority.

And in this episode, you'll discover how to do just that to free yourself from addiction, misery, pain, and suffering.

Listen now.

Show Highlights Include

• Why we're predisposed to believe anything from an authority speaker's lips (even if its dead wrong and causes more suffering) (5:41)
• The insidious way pain pills promise to make you better for your family (and how to quit them cold turkey when you realize they aren't serving you) (8:12)
• The "Slippery Slope" reason why pain pills can help you one day, then overwhelm you with addictive tendencies the next (9:22)
• How doctors prescribe you life-changing pills off conclusions from the data, not the data itself (and why understanding this distinction helps you break free from addiction) (12:48)
• The"experience" mindset shift which instantly turns emotions generally considered as bad into fun roller coaster rides (16:11)
• The weird way watching Inglourious Basterds can help you blow up your trauma—for good—in a fiery explosion (18:37)
• The "beyond the Milky Way" secret that unlocks an infinite amount of hope that your addiction is not permanent (20:30)
• How the stories you tell yourself can dupe you into thinking you have full-blown kidney disease (even if you're perfectly healthy) (24:23)

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.

Society has been brainwashed into believing a lie. This falsehood has caused more addiction, pain, and suffering than perhaps any other lie in history. But the good news is: It's a lie.

So, what's the lie? The disease theory of addiction.

Now, this theory has helped many people overcome their addiction, but they still aren't freed of it because one of the tenets of this theory is that you can't get rid of addiction. That's where the lie comes in.

And in this episode, you'll discover several reasons why it's not only possible to free yourself from addiction—for good—but it's also easier than you might think.

Want to experience a life that's not driven by your addiction? Listen now.

Show Highlights Include

• The one single "lie" everybody believes which ruins all the life in you (1:25)
• Why the therapy industry itself is broken (even if it's helped you overcome some issues) (3:03)
• How propaganda borne the idea of "addiction" (and how understanding this makes it 100x easier to conquer your addictions) (4:45)
• The insidious way the "Disease Model of Addiction" traps addicts into a vicious cycle of addiction (and why this theory is dead wrong) (6:09)
• The "Symptoms Underneath" secret for addressing and erasing embarrassing or shameful addictions like pornography (10:44)
• The "ABLE" system for unlocking the power to turn up and down the volume of any problem or emotion you're facing (20:19)
• The weird way to stop fighting with your spouse and develop a stronger sense of communication by simply leaning back when arguments pop up (22:17)
• How your belief alone can cause cancerous tumors to disappear and come back (and how to use this fact to free yourself from addiction) (32:59)

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.

Scientists discovered that a tiny fraction of the weight of a dime creates enough pressure on your cells to force them to divide.

What does that mean for healing yourself from decades of suffering and trauma? Well, it only takes a little nudge of pressure, applied in correct places, to free you from your decades-long misery.

Yes, it can be that simple. In fact, when I speak of "Stick Work" that I do at Freedom Specialist Retreats, this is why it can completely liberate you from your trauma in mere moments.

In this episode, we examine Chapter 3 from my newest book, Built for Freedom, and how to use your body and pressure to eliminate your deepest held traumas.

Listen now.

Show Highlights Include

• Why letting your fear fuel you drowns you in suffering (and how to free yourself of fear instead) (2:52)
• The "Stick Work" secret of jabbing a stick into your ribs that liberates your problems almost instantly (4:08)
• Why you can leave therapy feeling like a million bucks yet still haunted by old feelings (9:45)
• How treating your body like a glorified instrument relaxes both your physical and mental stress (13:45)
• Why tension can create either misery or bliss in your body and mind (and how to use it for bliss more often) (15:08)
• The bizarre way being punched can unleash pent-up emotion lurking in your body and free you from it (17:28)
• Why you can change your nasty negative thoughts in mere moments (even if you're suffered through decades of deep trauma) (26:20)
• The insidious "Re-Traumatizing Effect" therapy often creates that keeps you stuck in misery and suffering (29:22)
• How activating your sympathetic nervous system can release years and years of trauma in a jiffy (37:34)

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.

About 14 years ago, a plane crashed into a volcano it didn't see because the coordinates had been two degrees off on the instrument panel.

This story reminds me of the current state of therapy: Therapy's success rates are shockingly low. In fact, even shock therapy gives you better odds. Now, it's not because therapists are bad people, most of them have the best intentions, but they're just two degrees off on how to solve it.

Well, in this episode, we look at Chapter 2 from my newest book, Built for Freedom, and my journey for discovering a better, faster, and more effective way to conquer your addictions and trauma.

Want to speed up your "healing process," and free yourself from your past? Listen now.

Show Highlights Include

• The insidious "Shock Therapy" trap many people fall into after a traumatic experience that they think will help, but actually increases their suffering (7:13)
• Why popping healing sessions like pills can result in getting help for 14 straight years without overcoming your problem (8:52)
• How the healing process itself can make you addicted to it and unable to ditch your past (12:33)
• The weird way depression can become a meditative state (and how to figure out if you secretly like your depression) (16:07)
• Why shock therapy actually has better odds at reducing your symptoms than most of the regular therapy modalities (17:55)
• The "Dancing with Fear" secret for using your fear to make you happier and more free (19:29)
• How blindly believing what people like Jordan Peterson or even I say is a recipe for anxiety and misery (and what to do instead) (31:47)

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.

Imagine your body is an airplane, and you have no idea how to control it, let alone fly it.

Well, that's how most of us live our lives. It's no wonder we drown in addictions, traumas, and misery.

But what if someone gave you the manual for that airplane and proved that it's easy to operate?

Well, that's what you'll get out of this episode.

In this episode, you'll discover why living free and happy is easier than you're making it. I also reveal some fun anecdotes and stories from the first "adventure" in my new book that will make an immediate improvement to your life today.

Listen now.

Show Highlights Include

• How to benefit from the Freedom Specialist retreats (without paying thousands of dollars or leaving your family for four days) (1:45)
• Why living a life others secretly envy can drown you in misery (and how to overcome this) (14:57)
• How "forgetting" your identity unleashes a cool, calm, and stress-free demeanor (17:31)
• The weird reason letting go of pent-up sadness is so difficult (19:48)
• The oversimplified, yet wildly effective "right now" technique for releasing your trauma (20:59)
• Why "How To" self-help books create more overwhelm, anxiety, and depression than they alleviate (and what to read instead to actually overcome your emotions) (24:14)
• The 3-minute "Breath Switch" secret for boosting your mood (25:02)
• Why making jokes about serious "problems" like addiction and trauma helps you free yourself of them faster (26:46)

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.

When you invite freedom into your life, it creates a domino effect that seeps into every aspect of your life—for the better.

Take Lee for example:

By inviting freedom into his life after attending a retreat, he finally put his body at ease. Then, his mind became at ease, and he didn't have as many dark and depressing thoughts. Next, he lost 30 pounds, then 60 pounds, then 100 pounds. Before freedom, he had sleep apnea and stopped breathing 175 times each hour. After freedom, he's had nights where he only stops breathing 0.4 times per hour! He's also sold his home, sold 99.5% of his possessions because they were no longer serving him, and is unquestionably the happiest he's ever been in his life.

Imagine you had a similar transformation — where joy and freedom are your defaults. And you experience a glorious cycle of your life getting better each and every day.

That's what freedom offers you. And in this episode, Lee and I break down Lee's amazing transformation in nitty-gritty detail, so you realize positive change is more possible than you think.

Listen now.

Show Highlights Include

• How choosing freedom can help you lose 30 pounds, erase your negative thoughts, and unlock a joy-filled life (3:51)
• The weird way freedom can eliminate serious health problems like sleep apnea (5:19)
• How to "flip" your mood from gloomy and depressed to bubbly and happy with one simple question (7:01)
• Why your body can dupe you into feeling depressed even when you aren't (and how to notice when this happens) (8:59)
• How to physically rewire your brain for joy and peace instead of depression and misery (12:07)
• How freedom helps you feel almost 4 decades younger (14:39)
• The sneaky "hidden costs" of your identity and how they gradually fill you with dread and overwhelm (24:24)
• How purging 90% of your possessions invites freedom into your body and psyche (28:47)
• The "Subtracting Misery" secret for instantly boosting your happiness (without exerting any effort) (36:34)

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.

Have you seen the Netflix documentary, My Octopus Teacher? Lee and I recently watched it—and it blew us away.

Why?

Because it puts this thing we call life into perspective. It shows you how to overcome trauma and pain without letting it consume you—and without forgetting the lessons that can help you avoid traumatic situations today.

In this episode, you'll discover how acting like an octopus may be the key to leaving your decades of trauma in the past for good. And how this helps you embrace the animalistic freedom we all secretly crave.

Listen now.

Show Highlights Include

• The "Octopus Tentacle" secret for incinerating your negative thoughts (2:12)
• The insidious way your lack of self-worth manifests as Shiny Object Syndrome (and how to be completely at peace where you are right this second) (8:07)
• How watching this breathtaking documentary about an octopus can help you jettison your trauma for good (10:31)
• The trick for learning from your trauma without letting it consume your mind and burden you with negative thoughts (13:17)
• How narrating your history of trauma can both help you and retraumatize you (and how to know when it's time to ditch the story) (19:04)
• Why well-meaning counselors and therapists can accidentally riddle you with post-traumatic stress (24:23)
• How recognizing you're an animal frees you from every "human problem" you have (28:51)

If you want to radically change how much control you have over your emotions in as little as 20 days, you can go to https://thefreedomspecialist.com/feelbetternow and sign up for the Choose Your Own Emotion course.

If you or somebody you know is looking to drop the 'F' Bomb of freedom in your life and break free from addiction, depression, anxiety or anything that's making you feel flat-out stuck, 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.

If you'd like to buy a copy of my book, Is That Even Possible?: The Nuts and Bolts of Energy Healing for the Curious, Wary, and Totally Bewildered, you can find it on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/That-Even-Possible-Healing-Bewildered/dp/1512336041

Every relationship is hard, whether with your spouse, kids, or friends. But we have a tendency to make our relationships harder than they actually are too.

When emotions infiltrate your relationships, especially in heated conversations and arguments, it leads to compromises, hardships, and even resentment.

The solution?

Slowing things down to an Eeyore trot. For example, when you have an argument with your wife, you can use email to communicate about it (without sacrificing living life in the moment).

Jasmine and I recently did this after I wanted to experiment with THC gummies in Colorado and she felt a certain way about it. But through email, we came to a solution that worked for both of us and stifled resentment which would've bubbled if we didn't.

In this episode, I reveal how to slow things down, how to realize most problems aren't an emergency, and why doing this will make your relationship more loving and prosperous.

Listen now.

Show Highlights Include

• How to use psychoactive substances to produce profound experiences that can add beauty to your life (5:36)
• Why stripping the emotion out of conversations with your loved ones allows love to blossom (and how email does this with ease) (14:49)
• How your fear of rejection creeps up in your marriage and tries to sabotage it (even after 19 years of proof that your spouse won't reject you) (18:46)
• The sneaky way acting out of a present motivation in your marriage can cause irreversible regret later (24:18)
• Why seeking to be heard from other people is a recipe for disaster, distress, and divorce (24:47)
• The "never the person" trick for swimming through arguments and disagreements without resentment bubbling up (31:13)
• How creativity, not compromises or cooperation, can turn every negative thing in a relationship into a deeper reason to love (33:24)
• The "Eeyore Secret" for slowing down in your relationship and preventing emergencies before they happen (36:55)

If you want to radically change how much control you have over your emotions in as little as 20 days, you can go to https://thefreedomspecialist.com/feelbetternow and sign up for the Choose Your Own Emotion course.

If you or somebody you know is looking to drop the 'F' Bomb of freedom in your life and break free from addiction, depression, anxiety or anything that's making you feel flat-out stuck, 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.

If you'd like to buy a copy of my book, Is That Even Possible?: The Nuts and Bolts of Energy Healing for the Curious, Wary, and Totally Bewildered, you can find it on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/That-Even-Possible-Healing-Bewildered/dp/1512336041

Most people lead their lives with their mind, not their heart. This causes unnecessary stress, worry, and anxiety.

Why?

Because your heart sends signals to your mind, and your mind makes up negative stories about whatever your heart's sending you.

And most people don't realize they can lead their lives with their heart instead of their mind. But by leading your life with your heart first, you can eliminate these anxiety-inducing thoughts before they even pop up.

In this episode, you'll discover how to lead your life with your heart first, how it erases much of your suffering, and why it'll make your life easier and happier.

Listen now.

Show Highlights Include

• The insidious way our brain makes up stories about our life (and how these stories can either be beneficial or harmful) (3:01)
• How thinking in terms of stories gives you gut-wrenching anxiety that makes your blood pump, your heart hammer, and blurs the beauty of life (8:41)
• Why believing everything your mind thinks can wreck your relationships, heighten your trauma, and make you miserable (11:06)
• The "Dumb It Down" secret for eliminating 90% of your anxious, worried thoughts (14:16)
• How simply looking into this fancy mirror can shatter all the mental projections you have about yourself (25:14)

If you want to radically change how much control you have over your emotions in as little as 20 days, you can go to https://thefreedomspecialist.com/feelbetternow and sign up for the Choose Your Own Emotion course.

If you or somebody you know is looking to drop the 'F' Bomb of freedom in your life and break free from addiction, depression, anxiety or anything that's making you feel flat-out stuck, 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.

If you'd like to buy a copy of my book, Is That Even Possible?: The Nuts and Bolts of Energy Healing for the Curious, Wary, and Totally Bewildered, you can find it on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/That-Even-Possible-Healing-Bewildered/dp/1512336041