Have you ever looked in the mirror and been disappointed with who’s looking back, or even worse, horrified by who you’ve become? After awakening in his bathtub, practically dead and not sure how to face another day, Jesse decided he didn’t want to die - he wanted to live differently. From that moment on, he decided to figure out how to do just that, live differently - and to become the person who utilizes his potential instead of continuously squandering it. In 2017, after two decades of battling addiction, Jesse embarked on a life-altering path toward long-term addiction recovery. This podcast delves into the nuances distinguishing sobriety from long-term recovery. Jesse shares his personal experience, transitioning from the depths of addiction to a proactive journey of change. Discover the power of a growth mindset, the art of processing and releasing emotions, the significance of nurturing relationships, the importance of self-forgiveness, and building a fulfilling life beyond addiction - through the powerful Neuro-Linguistic Programming lens. Jesse’s story is a testament to the transformative power of recovery, providing insights and support for others on their journey. Join Jesse as he navigates the complex yet rewarding terrain of long-term recovery, featuring real-life stories, expert recovery coaching advice, and a supportive community. This podcast is a beacon of hope and guidance for anyone seeking to turn the page from addiction to a life of purpose and joy.
Episodes
Thursday Mar 19, 2020
Thursday Mar 19, 2020
In this week's episode we talk about re-establishing and rebuilding our routines, regimens, and structure when they breakdown - very specifically, because many of us are without jobs and quarantined in our houses.
Addiction recovery meetings are cancelled, gyms are closed, entertainment options are all shuttered, stores are empty - unless it's the grocer and there it can be a MMA fight to get TP.
What do you do when the structure you have built your addiction recovery around begins to fall apart around you? If you don't already have secondary and tertiary options in place, and even those could be unavailable now - it is time to begin to figure this out.
Today, Right Now!
Hit play and learn how S.T.E.M. can work for you. This has been integral for me over the last few days.
If you are finding this episode well after Covid-19 and the Coronavirus have come and gone - don't worry - this episode will get you back on track no matter the calamity that has befallen you.
Trust me - it works for me, like 83% of the time ;)
Thank you so much for listening and being a part of this wonderfully supportive community. No longer are we living in the shadows!
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Monday Mar 09, 2020
Monday Mar 09, 2020
In this week's episode we will discuss the beginning stages of sobriety and recovery and how that can look completely different for everyone.
People ask me how was it that I quit and moved on with my life, sans alcohol - and it came down, for me, to this one quote, "When the pain of continuing to use is greater than the pain of quitting."
All of this was sparked by meeting a man who was 25-days into his own journey and seeing his excitement and trepidation all in one facial expression.
Listen to this episode and then ask yourself these following questions:
I ask that you really sit down, look in the mirror, and sincerely ask yourself why you did this to yourself.
- what trauma caused this
- where is the root of this pain
- can you talk it out with the causer and take responsibility where you can
- what is it that you want out of life
- like, really, really, really want
- what if you knew you wouldn't fail
- then what would you do?
Thank you so much for listening and being a part of this wonderfully supportive community. No longer are we living in the shadows!
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Email: jesseisinteresting@gmail.com
Monday Mar 02, 2020
Monday Mar 02, 2020
In this weeks episode we cover the passage/poem from my meeting tonight titled, "Blame."
Blame: Today I see that blame doesn't work. It doesn't work for two reasons. One, no one really escapes from a family illness and gets better until they identify the illness that is within them. This is particularly true as I get older. It doesn't matter anymore where the illness came from; what matters is how it works inside of me and what I do from there. Two, blaming someone else only keeps the focus off of me. The way for me to get and stay well is to keep the focus on myself, to learn who I am and to develop my own self. When I blame, I postpone my own recovery, and all the recovery that I have attained cannot serve me when my attention and mind are on someone else.
Mantra: "I recognize that blame doesn't work."
Quote: Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up - Jesse Jackson.
Thank you so much for listening and being a part of this wonderfully supportive community. No longer are we living in the shadows!
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Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
In this week's episode we will discuss some questions sent in from listeners just like you.
Are you trying to do it all, scrunching your day with 20 things in an effort to be your own version of super-(wo)man? Let's talk about setting personal boundaries on yourself and organizing your time so each day can be a win.
We will dive into how to find your spark, so each day you feel you have something awesome to contribute toward your sobriety and recovery.
How to recover together, i.e., with a loved one and how that could look, feel, and sound.
We'll go back into internal language and the idea of recovery, recovered, and addiction recovery.
Lastly, let's talk about systematic desensitization and how you can use it to get back into the things that once sparked you, but also used to be your favorite places to use.
Thank you so much for listening and being a part of this wonderfully supportive community. No longer are we living in the shadows!
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If you have questions you'd like addressed on the show, want to book me to speak at an event, or want to recommend or be a guest on this show, please contact me through any of the social media links below or via email. Feel free to contact me here for any other reason as well:
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Email: jesseisinteresting@gmail.com
Monday Feb 17, 2020
Monday Feb 17, 2020
Our emotional intelligence and maturity are constantly being tested. Developing a growth mindset around your ability to redirect your life toward the path you desire for yourself is paramount in your success in addiction recovery. In this episode, we will discuss how saying, "I am an addict," will further cement that thinking into your psyche, into your unconscious mind.
You know how hard it is to start the journey of sobriety and recovery, or is it? Is the difficulty of it merely a mindset perspective we can change so the early stages of sobriety are easier?
What happens we tell ourselves we are an addict over and over again? What happens when we attach our identity to being an addict, to being sad, to being depressed?
Lastly, we will open the discussion up about suicidal thoughts and how they are directly tied to our thoughts about ourselves and the thoughts we have about what other people say to us and about us, how they treat us - and how we internalize those actions into or psyche.
I am not a licensed therapist, shrink, psychiatrist, or medical professional. Let me be clear, I am not a doctor. If you have severe suicidal thoughts and depression then please, please, please, seek professional medical assistance.
I am a certified NLP master practitioner, life coach, and, most importantly, someone in addiction recovery. I am going to discuss today the way I see things, the way my thinking has helped me - the foundation for how my mindset has pushed me toward a level of growth previously believed by myself to be unattainable.
If you know you need something more than I am able to offer please contact the National Suicide Hotline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255.) They have the expertise to help you right now!
Most importantly, it is crucial you realize there are people out here ready to help you through whatever it is your going through, no matter what you need.
I am a piece of your addiction recovery puzzle - I am not the entirety of the solution.
I want you to be the best version of yourself. I want you to reach your potential. I want you to be open to a whole new version of yourself.
Thank you so much for listening and being a part of this wonderfully supportive community. No longer are we living in the shadows!
Also, please subscribe, rate and review the show to help us spread the word about this awesome free content. Your simple action of rating and reviewing does wonders in helping others find the show.
If you have questions you'd like addressed on the show, want to book me to speak at an event, or want to recommend or be a guest on this show, please contact me through any of the social media links below or via email. Feel free to contact me here for any other reason as well:
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Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
In this week's episode, we discuss how tolerating your current life, buffering away from what you really want in life, and how by taking control of your thoughts and mind you can take control of your life.
Tolerating the things in your life you want to change is not just an act of buffering - it's energy depleting and soul-sucking. The energy that it takes from your life when you convince yourself your current state of mind is okay, will leave you with so little energy that you won't have the gumption to get acting toward the life you desire.
When we quit the vice, quit the tolerating of the abuse to ourselves, we will find that, right off the bat, life will seem worse. It will seem really sucky - because you have been buffering, masking away the pain of your life with alcohol or drugs or food or whatever.
And that is okay. You have removed the mask that was blinding you to your real life, and with this new light being shown upon you - you will have to confront what you have been hiding from this entire time.
Listen now for the best action steps that will lead you to the life you have always known was meant for you.
Thank you so much for listening and being a part of this wonderfully supportive community. No longer are we living in the shadows!
Also, please subscribe, rate and review the show to help us spread the word about this awesome free content. Your simple action of rating and reviewing does wonders in helping others find the show.
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Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
In this week's episode, we dive a little deeper into cross-addiction and open up the conversation about the differences between a reaction, emotionally triggered and driven, and a response, balanced and mindfully driven.
Cross-addictions can come from any aspect of your life. We know there are three spheres in our lives: Work, Self, and Relationships and the cross-addiction occurs when we put more focus on one of those to the detriment of the other two. Addiction is the repeated behavior of something even though it is causing us harm. When a focus in our lives becomes an obsession and begins to harm us then we have crossed over from prioritized and focused to addicted.
An emotional reaction to someone else's actions and behaviors is not a good thing. Reacting comes from the emotional child and is not an appropriate behavior for anyone, least of all those of us focused on a positive, forward-moving addiction recovery program.
A response derives from the emotional adult in us all and is seeded in mindfulness and emotional control. When we respond to other's actions and behaviors from this centered beingness in ourselves we are in control of us, we take full responsibility for ourselves - and we take a huge, positive step forward in our addiction recovery.
Thank you so much for listening and being a part of this wonderfully supportive community. No longer are we living in the shadows!
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Wednesday Jan 29, 2020
Wednesday Jan 29, 2020
In this week's episode we discuss how our feelings and emotions are a vital component of our addiction recovery and how are addictive behaviors can rear themselves in other areas of our lives besides using and getting intoxicated.
I am diving deep into my emotional well this week to really bring out my vulnerability and the confusion I have inside myself when my actions don't bring about the intended response. We are the leaders of our own addiction recovery journey and prioritizing our own needs and self-care is what will fill ourselves up on the inside, so we can be 100 percent present and selfless when we show up for those important to us.
Some of my thoughts on feelings and emotions:
Feelings are driven by thoughts which are triggered by an event/circumstance/or happening
- we decide how to think about an event that happens to us, around us, etc.
- we decide how to feel about that thought
- we create our world from our thoughts and the feelings we have about those thoughts.
Some of my thoughts on addiction and cross-addiction:
How do you know if you are addicted?
- Do you continue an activity even though it causes negative consequences in your life?
- Has a behavior become uncontrollable - so even when you know what you are about to do will probably not end up well you continue anyway?
What is cross-addiction:
- When the addict turns the addictive behavior toward something besides the preferred vice.
Thank you so much for listening and being a part of this wonderfully supportive community. No longer are we living in the shadows!
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Monday Jan 20, 2020
Monday Jan 20, 2020
In this week's episode, we answer some questions from my Instagram post that I think will resonate with many of us.
First, we talk about dating an alcoholic and not blaming yourself for their actions and knowing how to move past it.
Hint - it's all about your boundaries and your thinking.
Second, we dive into when should someone start dating if they are under a year in recovery. Should you wait the year so often recommended? Should they be in recovery too?
Hint - again, it's about your boundaries and your thinking, but this time around there is something you can do to find out what it is your attracted to in a person. What you once found attractive in a partner is definitely going to be different now that you are sober and seeing your world through a new perspective.
If you have a question, please go to my Instagram and drop me a DM or comment in a recent post.
Thank you so much for listening and being a part of this wonderfully supportive community. No longer are we living in the shadows!
Also, please subscribe, rate and review the show to help us spread the word about this awesome free content. Your simple action of rating and reviewing does wonders in helping others find the show.
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Thursday Jan 16, 2020
Thursday Jan 16, 2020
In this week's episode, we discuss how thoughts cause feelings, which drive actions, which create results, and how understanding this connection has been and will continue to be the foundation of my sobriety and addiction recovery mission.
Three years, 36 months, 156 weeks, 1,095 days, 26,282 hours - my how time flys.
Every day I wake up sober is the best day of my life.
I want all of you to feel that way, but I have no control over your thoughts, feelings, actions, or results. I can be a helpful guide along the way, but you, and only you, control your thoughts, feelings, actions, and results.
You are in charge of your sobriety. You decide to be sober and work on your best life...or you CHOOSE to use because that suffering is what feels comfortable to you.
I desire you all to be on your own journey with the strength of 1000 gods riding along beside you.