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 …
TAA013 Creating a Successful Career
How to set yourself apart in the workplace The first thing is Recognizing your gifts. There are 3 kinds of business: Your’s, your neighbor’s, and God’s. Whose business are you in? So making sure that you’re keeping your mind and focus and feelings on the desired outcome, for one it feels good, and secondly you’re going to act from that …
IJ021 How to shift your perspective: Lessons from a Course in Miracles
LESSON 3. I do not understand anything I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place]. This initial work starts to set the foundation for uprooting belief systems that may not serve us. They recommend not practicing longer than a minute or two at a time, and only practicing this technique two times a day. …
The Power of Coaching to Cure Bad Habits
Two weeks ago I was in San Diego for the second time in 2 weeks. I love San Diego and I was happy to fly out for both events: My best friend’s wedding and a MasterMind conference, from my coaching school, followed by a Yoga Retreat. Vacations are always the best, but on the second trip I knew I would …
TAA012 How to get into a good routine and build good habits
How to get into a good routine. How to build good habits. Lemon water Course in miracles work Manifestation: goals with positive affirmations. Routines have helped me so much especially because I’m my own boss. Accountability Commitment So I’m going to list out the steps. What routines do you want to adopt and/or how do you want to feel (long …
TAA011 How to create and achieve goals
Goal setting and the art of resilience Goals are something that I get really excited about. I think from a young age I learned how to set them and achieve them and from that practice it has become second-nature. I get many compliments very often about how ambitious I am and how when I dream something up I make it …
IJ020 A course in miracles
Lesson one: Nothing I see in this room [on this street, from this window, in this place] means anything. Imagine if all of the years of trauma, emotional suffering, shock, faulty beliefs, and just overall baggage we carry with us was eliminated. That’s what this first lesson reminds me of. If we could clean our lens – so squeaky clean …
IJ019 How To Draw in Positive People
How to deal with negative people How to deal with negative people, and then how to draw the right, positive kind of people toward you. How to deal with negative people: don’t get sucked into their story. Create healthy boundaries Take full accountability for our own emotions and let them do the same with theirs. Erin worked at a school …
TAA010 Breaking Free from Codependency: The journey of independent emotional health
The definition of “codependency” is excessive emotional or psychological reliance on a partner, typically a partner who requires support due to an illness or addiction. Here’s the thing… When we are codependent on someone or something outside of ourselves, we make ourselves out to be incomplete. Just think of the word “dependent” = I can’t survive without you. Usually when …