Atheists in Recovery

Atheists in Recovery

Atheists in Recovery podcast will address the spiritual and scientific belief systems of people in long term recovery in order to deconstruct limiting thought patterns, and introduce new behaviors and routines you can use.

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May 19, 2022 8 mins

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In today’s episode, I talk about how to tell when your pain is protecting you  by dialoguing with our emotions. And the pain that I will be referring to is guilt, shame, remorse, maybe judgment, self judgment caused by the inner critic.

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"Never let a good crisis go to waste." Winston Churchill

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In today’s episode, I list 3 ways to build your resilience in the face of pivotal events. 

 

I announce a new project I’m excited about and invite you to join me on my new journey!

 

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    “You had someone to go places with. You had a date on national holidays!” -Marie, When Harry Met Sally, 1989



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    Loneliness is a feeling that I know a lot of us try and avoid. And the thing is, we've all felt lonely at different points in our life. So it's an important topic. I've described loneliness...

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    “Man is least himself when he talks in his own persona. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

    -Oliver Wilde

     

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    In today’s episode, I talk about the masks that do more harm than good. The masks we wear because we are afraid; we are afraid that it an...

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    “Creativity is a basic human response to trauma and a natural emergency defense system,” Louise DeSalvo 



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    I spend some time talking about what writing can do for us and why writing works. I talk about how writing in community can be beneficial and how I will structure my upcoming writing groups b...

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    People who are resilient allow themselves to be changed by the experience of adversity. To be resilient is not to avoid difficulty but to play an active role in how difficulty transforms you. -Kelly McGonigal, PhD, health psychologist, Stanford University

     

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     I’ve found that if one can focus their a...

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    1. What is narcissism really? I discuss the myth of narcissism and how social media gets it terribly wrong.
    2. How do you know if you’ve been in a relat...
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    In today’s episode, I list 3 ways writing takes you from hopeless to hopeful:. And I’ve decided to end the Atheists in Recovery podcast so this is the final episode. I thank you all for listening.   I announce a new project I’m excited about and invite you to join me on my new journey!
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    September 30, 2021 33 mins

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    WHAT WE’LL LEARN:

    • How Johnathan’s early view of religion helped shape his identity in the world.
    • How his southern baptist “angry form o...
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    September 23, 2021 14 mins

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    In today’s solo episode, I’m sharing how I use hypnotherapy to treat addiction. Below I outline 5 takeaways hypnotherapy can help you with addiction.

     

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    • Hypnotherapy is not new. Hypnotherapist...
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    September 16, 2021 43 mins
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    • How Rob’s community wanted to thank him for his contribution to the community and invited him to meet the Queen. And what his inner dialogue was like (hint: he was not happy).
    • Rob talks about his childhood growing up and how his identify was formed but it was not an easy road to becom...
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    • How David’s earliest memories were rooted in sadness & depression and he felt like something was terribly wrong with him.
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    • How Derek earliest memories were rooted in religion but his connectedness and place of belonging was found (and still is) in nature.
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    • How Valley’s earliest sense of self was formed during “alot of using and instability.”
    • Valley’s mother thought since Valley ...
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    • How hearing a sermon in a church led Peter to “wake up” and start to heal the suffering within.
    • How his Dean Martin, Sammy D...
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    • How atheists/agnostics have found sobriety in AA.
    • The A.I.R. audience has spoken: we ...
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    • Episode 22 starts our December series, Movies That Move Us.
    • Learn why Adina loves thi...
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    In today’s episode, I list 5 journaling prompts I use most often (and why I think it’s the greatest recovery tool). And I’m taking a pause in August through the end of September to focus on family time, travel, self-care and to tweak a few things with the podcast. In the meantime, you may want to catch up on episodes 1-105 or re...

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    Vulnerability

    “Vulnerability smells like rotten eggs, feels like slimy fish, tastes like ash.”

     

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    WHAT WE’LL LEARN:

    • Paul’s deepest roots came from living with a family of doctors that pushed him to excel at school. He deeply wanted to learn more about the nervous system and what makes up the brain & spinal cord.
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