The Gris Alves’ Podcast Tales of Recovery

Only after revealing her deepest dark secret, Robin Clare was able to become her most authentic spiritual self. Struggling with food addiction and bulimia, for decades, she finally dug deep into current and past lives to heal wounds that had blocked success and fed her active addiction. 

Now in recovery, Robin is living her Soul Mission as a speaker and life / writing coach. As an author, she documented her extraordinary spiritual journey in the highly-acclaimed Messiah Within, followed by Amazon bestsellers, The Divine Keys, and now, Feast & Famine: Healing Addiction with Grace. 

Robin completed the Recovery Coach Professional (RCP)© designation training in July 2020. She was awarded the 10Best Life/Business Coaches and 10 Best Energy Healers in The Natural Nutmeg Readers Polls of 2017-2019. 

I loved having Robin as my guest on the Tales of Recovery Podcast, please enjoy her heartfelt wisdom!

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My dear friend Golden messaged me a few weeks ago and told me about her friend Leanne, whom she surfs with wanted to share her Re-covery story.  Leanne and I connected right away and here is this week's Tales of Recovery podcast for you, a GIFT to the world.  Thank you Leanne for speaking your truth and encouraging others to pursue healing. 

Leanne transformed trauma into clarity, inner peace, and newfound joy-through surfing, EMDR, and sisterhood.  She joins me this week on Tales of Recovery to share her story of intense pain, suffering and the road to healing.  It was an honor to have you on here Leanne~your courage and resilience are inspiring. I felt your healing presence and loving energy the entire time we were together. 

May this podcast help encourage anyone suffering from trauma. There is hope and you are not alone~

You can follow Leanne's journey on IG @onelovesister @groundswellcommunityproject and on her webpage in2clarity.com

This week on Tales of Recovery we go Bi-lingual again! 

Once again I am on here letting my voice speak of this intense habit humans have of returning to the addiction of certainty via the naming of a specific idol.  I wonder why even after a deep awakening, a process of religious deconstruction and a time go healing- the addiction to certainty and returning to worship the idol of our childhood returns?  Could it be.....superstition? 

Who knows.  Tales of Recovery.  

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 Practicing calm, entering into Presence~

22 Minute Meditation led by Gris Alves

On Tales of Recovery this week, I share some highlights of my experience with meditation throughout the years.   As a little girl, in recovery, dancing, playing or out of a desperate desire to heal and find answers to my reality.

There are many ways we enter into this space of PRESENCE without always being aware of it.  When we are little looking out the window on a road trip, sitting on the beach and listening to the waves, entranced in dance or drumming.... or even with a guide anxious to get it over with! 

As I've grown into this sweet practice over the years I realize it is just that: SACRED. To be able to stop for a few seconds and know that we are breathing, alive, sensing it ALL... is a gift.  Meditation Practice has helped me notice the beauty, the suffering, the grief and the joy all the while remaining grounded, calm, grateful and aware.   

In the state of affairs we find ourselves in, this medicine (WHICH IS REALLY YOU) is available to all.  Let's practice together~ 

May we breathe lighter~

May we breathe deeper~

May we awaken together~

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On death and dying (part one) begins from a conversation on the difficulty of goodbyes, illness and end of life situations.  Which are inevitable.  Why are we so scared of the "D" word?  

Can we begin to realize that it is not a superstitious omen to talk about our transcendence - but talking about death can be an awareness of the actual full and meaningful LIFE that we are gifted to experience here for a while.   AND since it will end, how do we want to LIVE?

In a world with so much available information, healing modalities, science based evidence on the power of meditation and connection....WHY are we still drinking the Kool-aid LIES of patriarchal religious belief systems and the toxic contracts on negative self-worth that these systems create? WHY? 

What if we can imagine for a few minutes a day that we were born in a different setting, with no prison boxes, but a free and inclusive community that celebrates all lives?  A community that is aware of the gift of life and our birthright of KNOWING we are love and light and divine beings?  

What if we were told this every day growing up instead of : you must hustle for your worth, you are born evil and will burn in hell unless you comply to oppressing standards,  pray the A,B,C prayer, and always follow these lame ass rules that are making us sick?

How would our lives be different if we could visualize this daily during meditation: That we are love and lovable and that we BELONG- to ourselves first and to everyone else.  

We could meditate on that alongside a growing awareness of the 'lies and fake ass kool-aid' we think we must comply with.  I mean do you really think its working out for you? 

Let's check ourselves and switch out the outdated software.  Sooner than later. For the LOVE.   

RE-covering our lives, 

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A Mindfulness Practice of Emotions, led by Gris Alves