(Encore) SMART Recovery: The ABC’s of Recovery

Welcome to today’s show!

 

WHAT WE’LL LEARN:

 

• How hearing a sermon in a church led Peter to “wake up” and start to heal the suffering within.
• How his Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. household normalized alcohol use.
• What led Peter to get “interventioned” at work.
• Why Peter found SMART recovery early on in his recovery and how it helped him.
• What is SMART ‘s 4-point program.
• Learn a few SMART recovery tools: for example, “ABC” tool.
• How mindfulness works to challenge our automatic belief system.
• What we need to do to release our stories (our past trauma).
• What makes SMART different is focusing on the internal locus of control.
• How Peter uses his spirituality in his recovery and focusing on possibilities instead of challenges.
• What the Oscar Wilde quote says that helps Peter get through the “heavy spaces” in recovery.

 

RESOURCES MENTIONED

 

• David Kessler
• SMARTRecovery.org
• Smart.southdakota.org
• Smart Recovery South Dakota Facebook Page
• A.I.R. Private Facebook Group 
• Schedule a free consultation with me!

 

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