In no particular order I go over my top-10 of the year. I mean, picking 10 out of almost 52 is not easy - and if you ask me again in three months I'd probably pick out 5 other ones to cover. The task was 10 so here are 10 - LOL

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Sobriety is simple. I said this to my therapist and oh boy did this start a conversation. Sobriety is the act of being sober. Everything else...well, that's everything else. Let's make sure you are using the right words when you discuss your world, the reality you are creating for yourself.

I finish up this episode by discussing something that has been troubling me for the last month and bring to your attention how there are areas in your life where stepping back, taking a breathe, and responding rather than reacting is your best move.

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When there is more value in having the problem than the solution! Isn't that a conundrum to find ourselves in? For many of us, once we hear about secondary gain a flood of memories of how it has kept us standing still, stuck in our old ways, come rushing to the forefront of our memories.

This is like four episodes in one because I cover so much, and am a bit all over the place at times - but I like to think I tighten it up at the end :) 

I'll cover for your listening pleasure...why you would want to go back? What is the psychological hold substances have over you? How you have control over your thoughts - if nothing else this year, you have that. You are not your circumstances. You are an accumulation of your thoughts, feelings, actions, beliefs, values - and all that adds up to your general thoughts about who you are.

Oh boy, talk about a jam packed hour. And I recorded the whole thing as an IG Live so go check that out. It's titled, "episode 96 - secondary gain."

https://instagram.com/fromsobrietytorecovery.

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Alone. Lonely. What is the difference? They can be confused with one another yet they are very much not the same. As we step into 2021 let us learn the similarities and differences together so we can, as a tribe, move forward, not only with a better understanding of them both - but with a healthier mental awareness around how to combat the sadness, depression, or solitude that you may feel when you are lonely.

Lastly, we will discuss what you can do when you feel lonely and how you can go about increases the size of your social circle so your social loneliness doesn't firmly grip you. The script everyone else follows doesn't have to be yours. You get to decide, it is your choice point where your fork begins.

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Being aware of one's sobriety and recovery journey is as important as ever in a world where uncertainty has fully sunk its teeth into our world. Be resilient in the face of a chaotic whirlwind - might be the working motto for 2020.

I'm gonna be up front here - this episode was going to be about how we experience the world around us and instead shifted to me talking about my mother's 65th birthday yesterday, the last conversations we ever had, how our trials and tribulations are literally the foundations which upon our strength and resiliency are built upon, and why who is looking back at you in the mirror dwarfs anything else that anyone else could possibly desire from you.

I talk bandwidth and knowing when to step back and I touch upon how living in a bubble actually leaves us more susceptible to the harms of the world and increases our fragility.

This is a hodgepodge episode that might possibly sum up in the best way possible this topsy-turvy year we have all just worked our way through.

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These six questions are going to be your gateway to opening your mind to the possibilities of what you can achieve in 2021.

This has been one hell of a year. Wiping this one off the board isn't anymore possible than erasing the years and years we have under our belts of using and abusing ourselves.

So let's step into Gratitude and Thankfulness and get back to basics around these six questions. Answer these when you are thinking about your career, your relationships, yourself - anything you desire to manifest in your life can be born out the answers to these BIG SIX.

Ask yourself these questions and write down the answers because you will notice the answers change as you grow and evolve along your journey from Sobriety to Recovery.

What would I pursue:

Once you have the answers above ask yourself these questions.

4. Where are you?

We will revise these in the next episode as we begin the countdown to the next year, best year!

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You choose to change. You choose to stay or go. To quit or continue. When you make these choices for yourself be mindful of inviting others into your decision making process. They will have their own mindset around what you are doing based on the experiences from their life. They may not be aware they are projecting their opinions, beliefs, and values on you but it is part of our human nature to generally give advice and help based on our life alone.

Even when we draw in comparisons from other people's lives, what we experienced from that other person is still run through the internal representations our mind creates around everything we have ever experienced.

When people start to hear about your plan they may inadvertently slide into the "spell caster" role - where they project their limitations upon you as if you will have the same outcome as them just because you are doing something they have a predetermined belief and value around.

Oh, and I laugh a lot in this one and use words I don't even know the definition to - so yeah, this episode is a myriad of hodge-podgy-ness. LOL

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The people who have the most success in life aren't necessarily the smartest or the hardest working. It can often be funneled down to the knowledge you have about yourself. Your self awareness and the ability to evaluate your thoughts, feelings, and actions will be integral to your growth in life - not just in sobriety and recovery.

As you step into your sobriety and on into your recovery you will see obvious changes in yourself in every aspect of your life. Your esteem around yourself will develop and grow positively, your communication in your relationships will evolve into something all new, and your energy toward what you do for a living, for fun, and to relax and de-stress will morph you into a whole new world of opportunity.

Balancing all of this will be very different for you. Everyone in your life will have to step into a new sense of balance around you. This is the homeostasis, the balancing, that you and others will want to put attention and effort toward in order to find a new balance around one another.

In this process you will discover that you have a voice and you have interests that addiction robbed from you. As you begin to up-level your life you may begin to take on a multitude of new enjoyments in your life and that is natural. Embrace this about yourself. Take on a childlike enthusiasm in your new found life. In this personal growth you may see multiple interests increasing what you now believe is your potential.

Step into this new you with jubilance and confidence for it is in your sobriety and recovery that all of this and more is possible.

Here is the link for the TedTalk that I reference in this episode

Emily Wapnick - Multipotentialite

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Emotional Intelligence, EQ, is not fixed. It can be developed. It can grow with you throughout your sobriety and addiction recovery journey. Unlike your IQ, which is relatively stable throughout your life - your EQ is chomping at the bit to be focused on, because it can be raised exponentially when it is prioritized.

A majority of us started our addiction journeys at a relatively young age - which means that our brains were getting screwed with from 18-25. That is right about the time that emotional intelligence becomes the brains focus point in its growth and development. Add in that our society, and world at large, is highly EQ deficient and we have a damn good recipe for an emotionally un-intelligent populace.

It is time we turn our attention to shutting out the chattering mind. It is time we prioritize our EQ through understanding how we internalize our emotions. Not externalizing our emotions, so as to not rock the boat or upset anyone, is not what EQ is about. It is self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management - and we are gonna bring this to the table and put our attention on it.

We do not want to turn into the grumpy, old curmudgeon who no one wants to be around. We don't want to be the gossiper. We do not want to be beating ourselves up in our heads about anything. It is part of the human experience to have emotions. It is not part of our design to be run ragged by them.

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Your comfort zone. Is it really that comfortable? Are you just convincing yourself that the facade you are showing yourself, and the world, is just smoke and mirrors? Is it possible we have all spent a great deal of time manipulating ourselves that life is just fine when in fact it is was a damn sh!tshow? 

In this week's episode, we dive into how empathy, opinions, values, and beliefs of ourself and others can effect our daily life. We further discuss emotional reaction vs grounded response - and we do all of this under the umbrella that living life uncomfortably comfortable is what got us all into this mess to begin with. Step out of your pseudo-comfort zone and step into and through the comfort of living life uncomfortably. When you create a habit of living comfortably uncomfortable you will grow exponentially and this, my friends, plays a huge role in our purpose of living and ultimately fulfilling our soul's journey in this life cycle.

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