Today I want to talk a little more about perspective with you all — but this time, with a really specific slant. If you’ve read my book, The Abstinence Myth, you’ll know that I tell a story about my experience with women — specifically, this experience when I was in Jr. High where I ask a girl I really liked out. I plucked up the courage with my heart beating out of my chest… but she said no. I was devastated. Then, the next day at school, all of her friends knew. That experience was so traumatizing to me that I didn’t ask another girl out until my twenties! I relate this experience to the type of people I see now in my practice. Sometimes, their level of shame and embarrassment related to social faux pas become so extreme that they hold them back from doing the things that they want to do in the future. So, in today’s episode, I let you in on the revelation I had around perspective that allowed me to stop negative self-talk in its tracks; get out of these negative, self-sabotaging thought patterns; and move on from bad days without blowing them out of proportion!

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Today I’m here with a special guest, Ruby Warrington. Ruby has a completely different approach to alcohol and addiction than I do with IGNTD — that’s why I wanted to have her on the show. Her new book, Sober Curious, is all about a curious approach to living alcohol-free. It’s a radical takedown of the myths that keep so many of us drinking. As both a conversation starter and handbook, Sober Curious strives to empower readers to transform their relationship with alcohol so that they can lead their most fulfilling life. In this episode, we talk about her approach to sobriety, her own journey with entering the “sober curious” space and questioning her own relationship with alcohol, her stance on all things addiction-related, and her book, Sober Curious.

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For this week’s episode, I decided to take a closer look into somebody’s work that I greatly admire — Gary Vee —  and dug up 10 of his principles that I thought were applicable to the work I do here, with IGNTD Recovery. Gary Vee has made a name for himself on social media with more than 12 million combined followers across all of his social media. I’m sure he needs no introduction! These are my top 10 favorite concepts from Gary Vee’s work that I think we can take and apply to recovery. I hope you’ll find the same inspiration and motivation in them as I do.

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Today’s episode is all about the 1% principle. This principle is about ridding ourselves of the notion of perfectionism and Mount Everest-sized goals. Many of us fall into the trap of setting such large goals that we cannot even fathom a way to actually achieve them. Adi offers advice, originally from his most recent weekly chat on the IGNTD Recovery Program, on how you can use the 1% principle in your life to create small, bite-sized steps to fully achieve your larger goal.

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Today’s topic comes from an Instagram Live I did a couple of days ago where I shared this notion of how perception is reality — especially when that perception tends to be negative and self-enforced. Often, we believe our own view of things over almost anything else, when what we really need to be doing is broadening our view through others’. You need to measure how you’re doing, not just by your own perception, but through others’ views and knowledge. I hope you’ll join me this episode to explore this idea!

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On today’s episode I tackle a hard topic — fear. We all have them and sometimes they even hold us back from doing what we love. And, even if we don’t see them, they’re still there. It’s part of what being human is. A lot of people think that their end goal should be having no fears at all and being completely secure in all aspects of their life, but I don’t think that’s the right goal. Fears and insecurities can actually drive you to do better. In this week’s episode, I want to help you by addressing some of the most common fears, giving you some techniques and systems that you can put in place so that your fears do not become debilitating, and also (most importantly), differentiate between healthy fears and unhealthy fears. Hope you enjoy this short but impactful episode!

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Today’s episode is a complimentary follow-up episode to the recent IGNTD Recovery Secrets episode on connecting to your higher power, I figured it was high time that we discuss the opposite of that; powerlessness. Powerlessness is the idea that we do not have control over any of our circumstances or the actions that we take. It literally means, “Without ability, influence, or power.” In traditional approaches to treating addiction, the idea of powerlessness is often reinforced — but this idea is damaging and simply not true. You are not powerless — even if you may feel you are right now, at this moment. Hope this resonates with you!

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In today’s episode, I explain the origin story behind the IGNTD Recovery system. Your purpose and the why are the things that drive what you do, in life or in business. So in this episode, I really want to focus on this idea and explain my motivation behind what I’ve created. I speak about my early days with drug abuse and my experiences in rehab and jail all the way to going to school and learning about addiction and discovering my purpose in life: to help a million people struggling with addiction get the help they need. IGNTD Recovery has come so far and I can’t wait to tell you all about the strides being made to help others overcome their addictions!

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