Love Letters and Mixtapes

What is emotional sobriety? What is emotional intoxication? And how are they distorting our perception, introducing grandiosity, reducing discernment, or negatively impacting our lives and our relationships? In this episode, we define emotional sobriety, walk through an emotional sobriety checklist and discuss 4 skills that can empower us on our emotional sobriety journey. If you are interested in learning more about emotional sobriety, listen to episode 2 of this podcast or follow my Emotional Sobriety podcast playlist on Spotify.

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If you have been feeling out of step with the world around you, this is the episode for you. Together, we'll explore the positives and negatives of finding ourselves in prolonged phases of healing and hiding. We also explore the power of presence and what that looks like when we are attempting to create distance even from ourselves.

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In my return episode following a brief health hiatus, I ask the question, "What if we didn't run away from ourselves?" The world talks about acceptance and self-acceptance, but what happens when we are moving through cycles of fear, deprivation, sadness, or loneliness? Very often, we are encouraged to call these things by a different name, to distract ourselves into new and more attractive feelings, or wear a mask to appease the outside world. What if we decided that our full range of human emotions and experiences were simply okay, expected, and not even that out of the ordinary? What if we decided that all of us was welcome here?

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What is the difference between our breakdowns and our breakthroughs, and what can we learn from them?

If something in our lives is continually breaking down and always seems on the verge of falling apart, maybe we should just let it. Sometimes I think the “aha” moment occurs when we stop evaluating our strengths and skills by how hard we can work to fix things, how proficient we are at foreseeing problems, or how skilled we are at playing emotional and intellectual chess and instead appreciate how gracefully we can let things go.

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"It's almost like we think the way other people drink."

"I am so afraid of being found out, but I don't even know what I did."

"If I don't know what is going on or can't see 5 steps ahead, then something must be wrong."

If these statements resonate with you, then you have found yourself in the right place. I sat down this evening with no notes or outlines, I hit record and just started talking to you the exact same way I talk to my younger self. It can be challenging to admit that as adults with agency, opportunities, and freedom, that we still feel the aftershocks of trauma or deprivation in our lives. I understand the appeal to lean towards bravado, to put up walls, to hide behind a mask of overcompensation or perfection to distance ourselves from those feelings that seem to chase us. But that always ends up leaving us empty. This episode is a reminder that you are not alone, you are only responsible for yourself, you don't have to fix it, you don't have to fix them, and that sometimes it's okay to just sit this one out.

*Please note there is changing language around substance use disorders. For the sake of this community and the specifics of what I am discussing here today, I will continue to use the terms alcoholism and addiction. I understand and honor that may not resonate for everyone.

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If we are not careful, we can go through our whole lives and only be known for what we did for people and what we hid from people instead of being known for who we are and what we thought, felt, liked, loved, and needed. In this episode, we explore what happens when we speak our truth and live authentically when there are things we don’t want to say out loud. If you've lost your voice, if you are choking on your words, if you worry about being rejected or abandoned when you show up in your wholeness, if that mask of invisibility is getting too heavy to hold up any longer, this episode is for you.

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Stepping away from compulsive "okayness" was heavy on my mind this morning as I hit record for this pre-coffee episode, where we explore getting curious about our lives, opening doors of perception, healing phantom pain, and integrating all of who we are. Together, we'll explore what mirror work is and how we can show up for the reality of our experience with a little more compassion and a little less judgment.

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