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July 11, 2024 • 23 mins
People are under the control of substances (drugs and alcohol), medications, an other things. It's because whatever or whoever you give your power to, it has the ability to control you. When you give your power, it means you lose your control. Indulging in drugs of any sort, and alcohol, will never help your life, to become better. Being dependent on medication most likely will have you as a lifetime subscriber. It may help as maintenance, but when you're dependent on it, that medication doesn't fix your problem, and most times it leads to more problems. You must know by now, all of it is a moneymaker. As long as people are getting your money, they'll keep making it, despite the harm it causes. Be mindful and aware of what you put in your body. Your mindset leads to taking drugs, alcohol, and different medications. People are quicker to seek drugs and/or alcohol, than they are to allow themselves to heal and move on from their pains. People want a quick fix that leads to even more pain in their lives. Change your mindset, it will change your life!!!

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Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey hey, I'm bad with something
for you to think about. Ihave to tell you my brothers and sisters.
Drugs, alcohol, medications. Theyare temporary fixes, but they have

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permanent effects. Let me say itagain, Drugs, alcohol, and medications,
they are temporary fixes with permanent effects. Cherry, what are you talking
about? Keep listening. I've toldyou many many times through our episodes that

(00:57):
you can overcome your addictions. Youcan overcome any addiction that you may ever
think about. If you choose to, you can overcome it. I've told
you many many times that people goto therapists, psychiatrists, rehab to the

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doctors for medications for assistance. ButI'm here to tell you it don't work
unless you choose change in your life. I don't care how prominent they are

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or think they are. It don'thelp unless you choose change in your life.
I don't care about the medication,I don't care the services that people
provide. It will not help unlessyou change your life. So let's talk

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about it. First of all,when it comes to drugs and alcohol,
it's a trillion dollar? Is it? It? Such? You are a
zillion I don't think so. Butit's a trillion upon trillion dollar industry.

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Drugs, alcohol in different medications,trillion dollar industry. That's why when it
comes to medications of all sorts,there's always side effects because they make those

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medications and they put all kinds ofstuff together to make those medications, and
they make you sicker than what youalready are. They cause other issues within
your body. They don't care.They don't teach you holistic things. They
don't teach you how to heal yourselfwith nature. They don't teach you prayer

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because it's a trillion dollar industry.Rehabs trillion dollar industry. People have went
through rehab. They went through thosedoors, those revolving doors, like eating
tic TACs in and out, inand out, come out good for a
minute, boom right back. That'sbecause the mindset haven't changed, the heart

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haven't changed. And people know whatI've told you in episodes. I've worked
alone side of healthcare professionals, mentalhealth professionals, because that's what I was
at once upon a time. Foryears, I've worked along side of mental

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health professionals who were on more medicationsthan their clients. I've worked alongside mental
health professionals. Who have committed murder, suicide. So you go to people

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and you form inappropriate relationships, justall kinds of things because what you're receiving
is not what you need. Becausethere's a lot of people out there who
do that type of work, butthey're not good at it. I can't

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tell you the amount of people whowould tell me. No one ever told
told me this before. I've neverheard it like that before. In Boom
epiphany light goes off. Most peoplein any position, they're in it because

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of the money. It's a job. I even had a chaplain tell me
one time a chaplain. A chaplainis someone who's supposed to be teaching and
preaching the word of God. Achaplain told me one time, it's just
a job. I asked him flatout, did he believe in God?

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And was he doing his job?Because he really meant it. He said,
it's just a job to him.And I know because I've dealt with
many chaplains in my career, manybecause of what I have done and what
I do. So it's all alot of it is just money making.

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But I'm telling you, all ofthese medications and these quick fixes, they
don't last, but they have permanenteffects in your body. If people really
meant good, they would teach youalternatives changing your lifestyle. Do you know

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that you can change how you eatwhat you eat and it will change your
life, mind and body. Andif your mind and body is good,
so is your soul. You havethat peace within you. I'm a living

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witness. I did it, andI've been doing it for a long time
now. The doctor told me,oh, your numbers are high, your
borderline diabetic. And I've told youthis story before, and I was like,
the devil is a liar, huh, not me? And I had

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three months to get myself in abetter place. And you know what's funny.
I always thought that I ate fairlygood, and I did, but
although I was not eating certain things, some things I was eating was not

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good for me, like candy.It was just certain candy, but still
candy candy. I love potato chips, especially those ruffles with that chelly cheese.
Oh I remember, I don't eatthem, But yes, I used

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to love those those big blow popsuckers. That's what I used to eat.
Those mintos or something like that.I used to eat those all that were
so good. But I quit everythingcold turkey. I've never been a big

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soda drinker, but I did usedto drink different juices. I quit all
of that. I couldn't tell youthe last time I had juice or soda.
I don't crave it or any ofthat. I mean, I run
from it. When I see thatstuff, I'm like, hey, no,
I read the sugar content. Noway I'm putting that in my body.

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No way, white sugar. Youknow, you have to start thinking
now and healthy. And when youlook at all of these products and they
have bioengineered, run, don't takethat crap home or GMO, don't take
that crap home. I've been tryingto buy fruit with the season it you

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can't find it anywhere. It's horribleout there in them streets, I'm telling
you, and they know it.They have bioengineered and gmode everything. So
you have to be smart and startthinking about maybe growing your own little here,
a little there. Can be toobig because they're come and snatch that

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too, you know. So youjust have to be smart. You have
to be smart about what you putinto your body, and it will change
your life. Literally. I hadthree months to get things better, and
when I went to the doctor.She was like blown away. I had

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lost like sixteen seventeen pounds. Yeah, and I was doing intermitt fasting,
which I still do to this day. I'm very cognizant about what I put
in my mouth because I don't likebuying like sauces and stuff like that.

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I don't know what you put init. People put a lot of salt,
a lot of sugar. So Itry to make things naturally. So
that's one thing that you could do. But when it comes to drugs and

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alcohol, you just have to makea choice. Just like you made a
choice to get on it, youhave to make a choice to get off
of it. But some people,they allow that substance to be a stronger
forcing their lives than their own mindset. You allow it to take over.

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Anything you give power to can consumeyour life. I've given up things that
I thought I loved, But onceI gave them up, I never turned
back. You know. It's likerepentance. People think repentance, Oh,

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you repent, and you because yourepented, you can go back to doing
whatever it is you were doing.Oh we fall down, but we get
up. The Bible said we allfall short. Excuses, excuse me.
Yes, we fall short, butyou don't supposed to keep falling. At
some point you're supposed to be ableto stand, but you never will.

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You keep using excuses to stay downor to keep falling. You have to
be stronger than whatever it is.I don't care what you have to do.
Go to the mountains and be awayfrom people. Get yourself together.

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You give power to whatever it isin your life you do. As soon
as I see a pattern in mylife trying to form, I do something
about it. I'm like, Nope, nope, not happening. And you

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guys, you guys and ladies.I'm not trying to say I'm perfect.
I'm not, but I'm cognizant,I'm aware. I'm mindful because I want
to be the best me that Ican be. I don't run to the
doctor all the time. I probablyshould go for some things, but I

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just plead the blood of Jesus overmy life. And guess what, if
I die, I'll be all right. Don't worry about me if I die.
Cheeriot is all right, guarantee.I am good. So I don't
worry about all that stuff. WhenI get pains and this and that.
I plead the blood of Jesus.I don't care how it sound to you.

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That's how I live my life.And guess what I be all right,
I'm not afraid to die, butI don't want to die a mess,
an alcoholic or a drugs attic,or someone who have mental health issues
and depending on drugs, because drugsis just a tool, but they affect

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you permanently within your body. Alcoholaffect you permanently within your body. I
have multiple aunts and uncles who havedied from alcoholism, multiple and a couple
from pills. Multiple. When Isay multiple, I mean multiple, like

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six or seven. That's nuts.Aunts and uncles, not great aunts,
a great uncles, aunts and uncles, that's nuts. And I've had two
that say, if it kills me, it kills me. And guess what
it did. I saw them legsand stuff swell up because the alcohol and
stuff just poison their bodies. Beendrinking fifty years and you don't want to

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give it up. That's a habit. It's a habit. That's what it
becomes you addicted because you have formeda habit. It's habitual in your life.
And it's the same thing with thesemedications. People get on I'm not

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saying that medications don't help, butwhat I'm saying is they don't fix the
problem. The problems are still there, and oftentimes other things develop that's worse.
I think I told you all thestory one time when the World Trade
Center, when that stuff happened.I mean I saw it, I knew

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people that worked there, I sawall the commotions on TV. I mean,
it just really hit me hard,and I was feeling very upset and
anxious about it. And I wentto the doctor and they put me on
medication, some psychotrophy. Mind you, I was a mental health profession at
the time. They put me onsome pycho trophy, and I think I

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took it for two days. Ithrew it in a garbage. I told
the doctor never again, because theyjust trying to help me with my anxiety.
I was hallucinating. I'm serious,I was hallucinating and I said,
oh, heck no. And Iknow I wasn't doing it before I threw
that medication in the garbage. Idestroyed it. I didn't just throw the

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pills in the garbage. I destroyedit. And I told my doctor,
nope, no, nope, I'mgood. Never took that crap again.
You have to be aware of thingsbecause guess what if I would have took
that medication. That medication, itcould cause you to have suicidal thoughts.

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It could cause you depression, Itcould cause all kinds of things, and
it affects you internally. It messeswith your organs. But people every single
day they popped those pills, butthey don't try to work on self.
Some people go to therapists for alifetime. You know that therapists should terminate,

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but they don't because it's about money. If you've been going to your
same therapist for a lifetime, somethingis wrong with that. You have not
progressed. Some of you go becauseyou become so familiar and comfortable with that
therapist. I remember I had tolet go of people because they started to

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feel a certain way. I don'tgo to work for that. I don't
go to work for that. SoI mean, you have to want to
be better for yourself. You haveto want to be better so you can
get off medication. I was onsome allergy medication and I told you about

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this, and I was like,Lord, I don't want to be on
this medication anymore. And I justquit taking it. I started running and
throat dry everything. But I founda concoction on the internet for my symptoms,

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for my allergies, and I madethat concoction which was simple as white
vinegar, lemon oil. You couldlift this oil, spearmint oil, and

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lavender. I mixed it up andevery single night I sprayed my carpet in
my room. Every night, Isprayed my carpet because mind you, I
was in a renter and you knowhow that goes. People have pets and
all of that crap. So Iwas spreading every night with my concoction,

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and eventually it did whatever it wassupposed to do, and I never I
have not been on any elegergy medicationsince then. One time the problem was

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so bad, I did have totake a few because that's on the outside,
So I get my prescription because sometimeswhat's on the outside affects me.
So I'm no dummy, but forthe inside, that's why I was having
a problem. So you just haveto be mindful, try to do things

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a natural way. If you knowyou have issues, try to heal from
the inside out. Deal with whateveryour issues are, face them head on.
Why are you angry? Why areyou sad? You know face head
on, you already know why,but you just have to deal with it.

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Forgive whatever someone done to you.Some of you say, I'll never
forgive, then continue to be thatbroken person. If you never want to
forgive, you're never going to heal. Forgiveness is for you, it's not
for that other person. It's foryou to heal and move on. So
if you want to be hard headedand never want to forgive, you're keeping

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yourself right where you are, whereyou've always been, in that unhealthy mental
state. You have to want tobe better for you. Stop reaching for
that drug, that alcohol, thosepills, because, like I said,
temporary fixed, because permanent damage,permanent effects to your body. And I

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just want to talk about it.In case no one ever told you,
I'm telling you you can be betterif you choose to be better, no
matter what is ling you mentally.Something got you to that point. You
was not born into this world thatway. We develop mental illnesses because of

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the things we go through, andmost are because of what we open ourselves
up to, what choices and decisionswe make in our lives that usher in
all of the stress, all ofthe turmoil. So just like you ushered
it in, you can usher itout. Most of what we deal with

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nowadays, yes we do have,we do go through all of us the
unexpected, but most of the thingswe deal with nowadays is self inflicted.
Self inflicted. So think about yourlife, what is the problem, face
it head on. Only you canchange your life, I mean in a

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permanent and positive way. Only you. Your therapist can't do it, your
doctor can't do it. Only you. Only you. We develop a lot
of sicknesses because of all the otherstuff that causes sicknesses in our bodies.

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You have to start thinking about itall, thinking about what you put into
your temple, your body, andyou know what, That's all I'm gonna
say. I'm leaving it right there. Thank you for listening. I hope
you got something out of it.Much much love to each and every one
of you. Please share this episode. Check out both of my podcasts,

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Relatable Life Chronicles Relationship Chronicles, andI also have a podcast out there that
I no longer use, but Istill have episodes on there. I now
put all of that onto Relatable LifeChronicles and that podcast is Life with Jesus

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in It. You can check themall out. Thank you. For listening.
I end every episode the same,and I hope and pray for real
that you do it. Thank onit
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