How Connecting to a Higher Power Can Give You Purpose
Today’s episode is not your average Friday episode: we cover the idea of believing in God or something bigger than us in life. Religion has been a huge part of humanity for as long as we can remember. We always try to explain the life around us — especially 10,000 years ago when we didn’t understand anything like the sun or the rain. So what I really want to focus on today is the idea that there’s something bigger and the benefits that come from that belief. We hope you don’t shy away and embrace this important topic!
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Overcoming Food Addiction and Striving for Self-Love with Charlie “Rocket” Jabaley
Today, we are so thrilled to introduce you to Charlie “Rocket” Jabaley. Charlie has struggled with food addiction and being overweight from a young age. He has had as many challenges in his life as he’s had successes — and has persevered through it all with his “delusional optimism” (as he likes to call it). He has gone through too many transformations in his life too count and there are so many parts of his story that are going to shock you — from his extreme weight loss to the fact that he was 2 Chainz’s manager, and is now a Nike’s endorsed athlete. His story is going to inspire and show you that there’s a completely different way to look at everything.
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The Impact of Alcoholism on Children
Today’s episode addresses a listener request — how alcoholism affects children. This is a huge issue because it transcends three of the four categories in The Abstinence Myth, which are: biological, psychological, and environmental factors. There is more to the impact alcoholism on children than the biological factor (which is often the only one talked about). Stay tuned for a quick yet impactful episode. Enjoy!
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Create the Life That You Want Through Embracing Uncertainty
In today’s episode, Adi discusses several concepts to help you achieve the life that you want through the power of decision by embracing uncertainty, moving away from a result-oriented attitude, going all in, and being accountable to other people. If you do the work, get the right support, and put the right tools in place, the next decision you make might just start bringing you the kind of happiness and stress relief you never thought was possible. Let us know your thoughts on this IGNTD Recovery episode!
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"This is Just How I Am” is Bullsh*t
This episode is all about habits. We all have them, whether we realize we do or not. We develop them throughout our entire life — and most of them, we learn super early in our life. The only problem with some of these habits is that we don’t remember how they were formed, and — when it comes to feelings, emotions, and anxiety — we generally just continue to operate with the current habits we have even if the results we get from them are negative. In this episode, I explain how we can retrain our brain to create new goals, unlearn habits, and where to begin on this journey.
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Why Quitting is Not an Option
Tune in this week to hear what dawned on me — what does it even mean to “quit” in life? What would it mean to quit on success completely? Is that even feasible? Isn’t there always at least a desire to want to be happy and succeed? And if quitting is not an option, what else are you going to do when you feel you’ve exhausted many of your routes? Can’t wait for you to hear what you think about this week’s episode!
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Relapse and Epigenetics | Recovery
Today’s episode is about an incredible conversation with one of you in the IGNTD Recovery course. She is someone who has been doing really well in her recovery but recently relapsed due to some very real struggles currently going on in her life. After she listened in to the hour-long conversation about recovery with a friend of hers (who was using at the time, with no intention of quitting), the friend later contacted her, saying she was ready to face up to some of the stuff she had been dealing with and wanted to change her life. When my client shared this with me I was blown away. Not only did my client recommit to her recovery, her friend — who wasn’t intending to recover — also decided to take a step in the right direction!
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Alternative Approaches to Addiction Recovery with Stanton Peele
On this week’s episode of the IGNTD Recovery podcast, we have special guest Stanton Peele. Stanton is one of those people who is hard to over-inflate the amount of influence he’s had on the addiction field. He’s one of these people that, if you’re going to look into and understand other approaches to addiction, you absolutely have to know about his concepts — and today, we thoroughly discuss his main beliefs when it comes to overcoming addiction, why he believes you should not label yourself an addict, as well as his books and his online recovery center, the Life Process Program.
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