Quit Like a Woman with Holly Whitaker of Tempest

This week on the podcast we have a special interview episode with Holly Whitaker! Holly is doing great things in this world in the space of addiction recovery. She started a movement called Hip Sobriety (now rebranded as Tempest) that leads others through a modern, accessible, and empowering approach to recovery that is built around the individual. Holly knows that there is not a one-size-fits-all path to recovery and through her work, she exposes those she helps to a wide range of tools, teachings, and practices pulled from many different schools of thought.

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Putting on New Glasses and Seeing the World Anew — Empathy and Our Experience

The other night, Sophie and I participated in a panel centered around intimacy, relationships, and sexuality. The panel was full of really amazing people that each shared their very own unique perspectives and experiences. Through hearing these great insights and incredible lessons throughout the panel it really made me reflect. So, in today’s quick episode, I will be sharing what I learned, my key takeaways — and then putting forth a challenge to you all!

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Overwhelming Overwhelm

Can you remember what it was like being a kid and having a pretty limited set of worries? Now, I can barely remember a time at all like that existing for me. Life is full from the moment I wake up to the moment I fall asleep now. And suddenly everything is catching up for me and I’m exhausted. Have you ever been here?

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Waiting for Others Will Leave You Stranded

I remember being the kind of person who would always look for the pieces that other people needed to provide me so that I could succeed in life. I would always look outside of myself for reasons why I wasn’t getting further ahead. But the thing is, we make our reality. We create it. And waiting for the right circumstances is not going to help you create the life you want to live.

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Is Your Glass Half Full or Half Empty?

20 years ago I used to put almost all of my effort into looking at what wasn’t working in my life. I would always focus on the pain and the things that I couldn’t do. From this description alone, most people would consider me a “glass-half-empty” kind of guy. But the thing is: that’s not at all true. I didn’t look at the glass as half empty — I just saw empty.

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