Why on earth would you ever want to go backwards?
04/01/21 • 31 min
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Ep 110 - I am not looking forward to this moment, to this action, but I am looking forward to the aftermath, what I will receive or become after I do this or this is done to me.
This quote from the Yellowstone TV show sparked me to bring this topic to you around my principle of 'Be Decisive.'
You have a choice, every second of your life, to do one thing or do another. Going backwards and using again IS NOT the only choice. You are empowered. You know there are better ways to heal through your suffering. You are not oblivious to this idea, nor are you able to unring the bells that you have heard during this show.
Why on earth would you ever want to go backwards? You have all the choices in front of you when you step into sobriety and journey into addiction recovery. Going backwards...we already know the choices that are waiting for us back there - AND this quote doesn't just go hand in hand with our coping mechanisms around using and abusing. This topic is for you when you are thinking of a negative behavior that you know will bring you an undesirable outcome. Perhaps it's a conversation that goes sideways when you yell, perhaps its a sitting on the couch when you know you really want to be healthy and walking is good for you. The infinite hypotheticals, that are actually our very real life examples, are too numerous to keep writing here.
Going backwards is something to be mindful of every day of your life, sobriety or not, the only time you even need to look backwards is to learn the lesson that experience taught you, take it in, and then leave it in the past where it belongs.
Your future is being written every second of your life. You are the author. Write new things. Don't be like Hollywood and keep writing the same drivel with a different title and a new star attached.
You are better than that. It's time you show yourself this is a fact.
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Thank you so much for listening and being a part of my tribe and this wonderfully supportive community. Here's to the ending of the stigma. 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 listen on iTunes I could really use the bump in their algorithm!
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. I am generally open to being on your show too so reach out and let's pod-swap :)
Feel free to contact me here for any other reason as well:
Instagram: https://instagram.com/fromsobrietytorecovery
Facebook: https://facebook.com/fromsobrietytorecovery
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jessemogle
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Email: [email protected]
Ep 110 - I am not looking forward to this moment, to this action, but I am looking forward to the aftermath, what I will receive or become after I do this or this is done to me.
This quote from the Yellowstone TV show sparked me to bring this topic to you around my principle of 'Be Decisive.'
You have a choice, every second of your life, to do one thing or do another. Going backwards and using again IS NOT the only choice. You are empowered. You know there are better ways to heal through your suffering. You are not oblivious to this idea, nor are you able to unring the bells that you have heard during this show.
Why on earth would you ever want to go backwards? You have all the choices in front of you when you step into sobriety and journey into addiction recovery. Going backwards...we already know the choices that are waiting for us back there - AND this quote doesn't just go hand in hand with our coping mechanisms around using and abusing. This topic is for you when you are thinking of a negative behavior that you know will bring you an undesirable outcome. Perhaps it's a conversation that goes sideways when you yell, perhaps its a sitting on the couch when you know you really want to be healthy and walking is good for you. The infinite hypotheticals, that are actually our very real life examples, are too numerous to keep writing here.
Going backwards is something to be mindful of every day of your life, sobriety or not, the only time you even need to look backwards is to learn the lesson that experience taught you, take it in, and then leave it in the past where it belongs.
Your future is being written every second of your life. You are the author. Write new things. Don't be like Hollywood and keep writing the same drivel with a different title and a new star attached.
You are better than that. It's time you show yourself this is a fact.
*********************
Thank you so much for listening and being a part of my tribe and this wonderfully supportive community. Here's to the ending of the stigma. 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 listen on iTunes I could really use the bump in their algorithm!
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. I am generally open to being on your show too so reach out and let's pod-swap :)
Feel free to contact me here for any other reason as well:
Instagram: https://instagram.com/fromsobrietytorecovery
Facebook: https://facebook.com/fromsobrietytorecovery
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jessemogle
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessemogle/
Email: [email protected]
Previous Episode
Your self-worth is created internally
Ep 109 - Self esteem comes from external validation, whether it be from what you see in the mirror, the things you have accumulated, or from another person telling you how they feel about something you have done or accomplished for yourself or them.
Self-worth is valuing yourself through yourself. When you realize you have value and that you matter, to yourself above all others, then you are in control of your mind, your results, and your self-worth.
Are you seeking external validation when internal validation is what will actually lift you up into the empowered state we all seek in sobriety and addiction recovery?
You have worth. You matter. What do you value in yourself? What matters to you? Are you feeding that part of yourself each and everyday. Put the oxygen mask on yourself or you won't be able to help others.
You matter. You have value. I can externally remind you of this but I can not help you internalize it and believe it. That comes from your own self-work on yourself. You create and build your self-worth - I can instigate but you have to do the work yourself.
It is possible because you have already started doing it - now let's do it with focused intention of attention.
**********************
Thank you so much for listening and being a part of my tribe and this wonderfully supportive community. Here's to the ending of the stigma. 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 listen on iTunes I could really use the bump in their algorithm!
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. I am generally open to being on your show too so reach out and let's pod-swap :)
Feel free to contact me here for any other reason as well:
Instagram: https://instagram.com/fromsobrietytorecovery
Facebook: https://facebook.com/fromsobrietytorecovery
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jessemogle
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessemogle/
Email: [email protected]
Next Episode
Curiosity, Interest, Passion, Purpose
Ep 111 - Do you feel the desire inside you to heed the call of your purpose. Having a clear view and embracing what sparks you up and seeking it out - that is your purpose calling you. It is the solid feeling that your journey is not bound by a destination, rather by the experiences that come from truly living in your seat of wise-minded empowerment.
My sobriety reintroduced me to the things I had been passionate about for decades but had released to the degradation of my addiction. Likewise, you are in the position to go back in time, to when curiosity and interest fed you new experiences that left an impact and gradually grew into passions.
Curiosities, Interests, Passions, and Purposes will come and go, will change and grow, will ebb and flow with your learnings, growth, and lifelong evolution. Passions are inwardly focused. Purposes are externally focused.
It is up to you to recognize the fork in your river. Take notice when life is offering you a huge opportunity to leap into a new way of being. Fire this off inside of you by discovering what lights up your curiosities and flames into interests. From your interests your passions will blossom. From your passions your purpose will be engulf your being.
When it is time to seek that which is seeking you the self discovery that you will undergo, if you choose to accept this journey, will empower you in ways you hadn't imagined. Very little of what I have accomplished today was seeded until after I stepped into sobriety. If you think you can or if you think you can't - you are right.
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Thank you so much for listening and being a part of my tribe and this wonderfully supportive community. Here's to the ending of the stigma. 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 listen on iTunes I could really use the bump in their algorithm!
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. I am generally open to being on your show too so reach out and let's pod-swap :)
Feel free to contact me here for any other reason as well:
Instagram: https://instagram.com/fromsobrietytorecovery
Facebook: https://facebook.com/fromsobrietytorecovery
Twitter: https://twitter.com/jessemogle
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessemogle/
Email: [email protected]
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