We can spend years reading the self help books. We can intellectually understand all the events of our life that have blocked us as fully and vibrantly as we want. But we stay in the place of intellectualizing. We understand, but we never embody a new way of being.

This week's guest is going to get you out of your head and back into your heart. That's where you can bring change into your life.

Archie Messersmith-Bunting is The Feelings Guy. He's a mental wellness coach, consultant and professional speaker. In his former life, he was a successful musical theatre performer on Broadway before addiction and clinical depression destroyed his childhood dream and led him to a place where suicide seemed like the only option.

After battling back from the jaws of addiction, Archie now uses the stage to remind us that we're all more than the wreckage of our past.

Some of the topics covered include:

• How unresolved childhood trauma and drug use led Archie to a downward spiral that cost him his dream career, but how he also bounced back from it.
• The night he died in a hospital and why Grey's Anatomy has been lying to us for the last 20 years.
• How you can't get better until you get honest with yourself.
• How trauma is healed in safe connection with other people.
• How our suffering doesn't make us special.
• The importance of taking personal responsibility for your life.
• Why we need to feel our own grief without qualifying it.
• The 5 on the 5 Program

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