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 didn't waste his potential.
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 and how to handle those pesky emotions active addiction helped keep at bay. Jesse shares his personal experience, transitioning from the depths of addiction to a proactive journey of recovery.
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 a powerful Neuro-Linguistic Programming lens of life. 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
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
Tuesday Apr 14, 2020
In this week's episode we get into how to be mindful of not minimizing other people's experiences when in conversation with them through equalizing. You want the other person sharing with you to feel seen, heard, and validated. If you spend the whole time trying to draw comparisons of what they have experienced to what you have experienced you risk minimizing what they are sharing with you.
I can not really walk a mile in your shoes. I can only understand so much about your life experiences. I can not bear witness to your life through your eyes. If I attempt to draw comparisons with what you have gone through by bridging my past and my experiences with yours - it can actually cut off a great line of communication and influence you to feel unheard, unseen, unvalued, and invalidated.
Communication has its challenges. We all have our own perspective, and through that window we see the world in the way it has been presented to us through our own eyes.
I can work on gaining perspective of your life, but I will never truly be able to duplicate what has formed the basis of your personality and existence - I will never be able to truly know what it is like to be you.
I can put a tremendous amount of effort into seeing, hearing, recognizing, and validating your life's experiences. I can open my mind to your view-points. I can humble myself, which is a key trait to possess when overcoming fear - so that we can build a bridge between your perspective and mine.
There are things I can do. There are behaviors I can have. There is a mindset that opens me up for growth in immeasurable ways - and this I dedicate myself toward. The light can be switched on. The illumination can begin when I put away my internal desire to equate my life to yours - because that can often stop the bridge from being built, rather than lead to its completion.
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Monday Apr 06, 2020
Monday Apr 06, 2020
In this week's episode we are going to dive into emotions and behaviors and how to understand the difference between the two - because we can often mistake an emotion for an action or behavior and vice-versa.
Dr. Wager (pronounced like you were going to place a bet) and I will converse on how identifying your emotions will lead to better emotional balance. When you can identify what emotion you are experiencing you can better understand how to deal with it, bring it under control, and use that knowledge to balance yourself no matter the situation.
Lastly, we will discuss conscious communication over unconscious separation. This will be useful when you start having full on conversations in your head with someone you should actually be talking to. With our guidance, you will be able to move the thoughts in your head out into the real world so you can talk through them - rather than letting those thoughts run wild in your mind. Hint, "my head is saying this," is a great way to get the ball rolling.
Through this quarantine it will be integral for you to get out of protection mode and into connection mode so you can be harmonious with those you are cooped up around.
To learn more about Terry and his business use the below links:
Email: info@generatorcoaching.com
Facebook.com/generatorcc
For his emotional checklist use this link: Emotional checklist by Terry Wager
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Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
Tuesday Mar 31, 2020
In this weeks episode we discuss three of my favorite topics.
Toward vs Away Energy
Empowerment vs Disempowerment
Present State to Desired State
Utilizing these three practices in your day to day life will give you power over every situation that comes your way.
"Moving towards" people strive to achieve, create, enjoy the journey toward an outcome while "Moving away from" people want to avoid certain situations, pain, discomfort or unpleasantness.
Empowered people, like you, know you are only ever going to commit to your goals, outcomes, etc. if you believe you are able to achieve them and you do this by taking responsibility for you own life. Disempowered people, not you - unless you are, then let's figure that out - blame everything and everyone BUT themselves for their predicament and situation(s.)
Going from a Present State toward a Desired State takes place when you understand how your emotions are influenced by everything from your physical body, like posture and eye placement, to the environment around you and the music you listen to.
I hope this brings you toward of a state of empowerment as you negotiate the coronavirus quarantine and work out a new regimen and structure for yourself during this crisis.
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 Mar 24, 2020
Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
In this week's episode we introduce Addiction Recovery Coach Sue Mandell, creator of the, "Choose your Habits, Choose your Life," program.
We will discuss curbing anxiety and stress through mindset shifts using pivoting, routine realignment, and so much more.
You can either see this quarantine as a way to move toward doing things you previously didn't prioritize or you can see this as an away energy where you choose scarcity mode and limited thinking to hold you back from seizing or even seeing the positives that can come from this. Make a list of things you want to do without outside activities and work interfering - and get to it. If you spend the next 1-2 months just watching TV for 12 hours a day you will be sorely missing out on a huge opportunity to better yourself during this crisis event.
Be safe, be love - be positive. And wash your hands ;)
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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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?
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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.
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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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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!
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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!
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