Today’s topic is addressing why we seek validation outside of ourselves. I will break this down into three parts. First what is validation ? Second, why do we do it and why do we feel like we need it. Finally, how do we learn to validate ourselves. Validation is the deep need that we have to be understood. I do believe …
TAA022 Recovery: Isolation and Loneliness
Addiction Recovery: Isolation and Loneliness Today’s topic is about how we disconnect in multiple ways, why we do it, the results, and how to reconnect to ourselves and the world. The issues I tackle are specific to the struggles addicts deal with after recovery. This is not talked about a lot in public media I have found. Perhaps this is …
TAA021 How To Handle the Urge to Drink
How To Handle the Urge to Drink All of our actions are guided or manipulated by our emotional state and the feeling inside. For most addicts we have this varied layer of tension that causes us deep pain. The reaching out for external things tonight is just a coping mechanism that we’ve developed because who wants to be in pain …
TAA020 How to Establish and Maintain Healthy, Meaningful Relationships
Deep healthy relationships: The Power of Vulnerability Today my topic is how to form and sustain healthy meaningful relationships and the power of vulnerability There is a poem that I absolutely adore and I usually handed out during my yoga teacher training’s. It Takes Courage Author Unknown It takes strength to be firm, It takes courage to be gentle. It …
TAA019 How to Process Emotions
How to Process Emotions: How to let go of anger, sadness, and open to love all the time Closing down and withdrawing is something many people have perfected. If something uncomfortable or even extremely joyous happens, if we don’t know how to ground and house the energy or rather, if we don’t know how to stay present and keep our …
TAA018 Live Coaching: Spiritual Seeker
Spiritual Seeker: How to connect deeper and listen to inner guidance Listen in as Erin does live coaching helping her student touch that space inside on a deeper level to process some past grief. Tapping into inner guidance helps us to process raw emotions. When we start digging spiritually at a certain point we reach a point where we want …
TAA017 The Process of Recovery
An Outline of my program for Life After Addiction In this episode, Erin discusses her Life After Addiction program. 12 weeks can change your life. We start with the basic tools and work out way up healing trauma, igniting passion, and adding unconditional love along the way. This program is the combination of meditation, yoga, nutrition, and coaching. The best …
TAA016 Live Coaching: Unworthiness
Unworthiness, Financial Instability, the state of Overwhelm and how to address it This week’s episode is a live coaching call from a listener of Empowered Serenity Coaching. Listen as I use the tools I’ve been teaching you to help her get some clarity. Along with some laughs and tears, we help to create some space underneath the cloud of overwhelm …
TAA015 Overcoming Addiction: How to find the real cure
Why our approach to addiction is all wrong and how to find the real cure. How we treat addiction is completely backwards Punishing and isolating addicts is not the way to cure them. Addiction is just a symptom of a deeper problem. We want to bond to something and when we can’t bond with other people, and we disconnect from ourselves, then …
TAA014 Life After Addiction
How to live passionately with freedom and meaning after alcohol addiction What’s after addiction? Your life. Hidden gems inside of each of us. This fiery passion for something Special talents and gifts Most addicts live this life of purgatory after addiction. Why is this? Because the last time we remember feeling intense emotions, we feel like they drove us to. Just …