Inner Truth with David Newell

Sex addiction.

Some people don’t think it’s a real thing.

Others conjure up images of creepy men in trench coats at playgrounds.

Other people see it as an aspiration. “Too much sex? I’d love to have THAT problem...”

Up until five years ago, Dominick Quartuccio, didn't think about it too much either. A blistering success in corporate America, he only started to question himself as his desires led to the tragic breakdown of his relationship.

Determined to face things head on, he went through intensive therapy, 4 years of sex addicts anonymous, and a whole raft of inner work to go deeper into understanding the condition.

Now, in one of his first public interviews, we talk about the making of a sex addict.

In this incredibly courageous discussion, Dominick helped make sense of:

the events and conditions of his early years that created a secret private life - his private and public lives that he helped apart for decades - the collateral damage to the relationships in his life - what it was like going to his first 12 step meeting - the underlying problems we face for men, women, and wider society

Men - If you’ve ever felt elements of your sex life are secretive, chaotic, wrong, burdened by guilt/shame or escalating in a troublesome way... I think you'll will find many answers, comfort and relief in Dom's story.

Women - If you’ve ever been with a man who seems sexually/emotionally/intimately distant, and you can’t seem to penetrate his walls, context aplenty can be found here.

At 23, Andrew Forsthoefel walked out the back door of his home in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, with a backpack, an audio recorder and a sign that read “Walking to Listen.” He had just graduated from university and was ready to begin his adult life, but he didn’t know how. So he decided he’d walk and listen on a journey of 4,000 miles across the USA over the course of 11 months.

What started as a quest to explore and to listen to other's perspectives, quickly became a deep, introspective journey into his own self; his fears, doubts, joys, solace and loneliness. As he navigated his way across the US, having interactions ranging from the most ordinary to the most profound, he found a world that was a mirror of himself and a journey that was a pilgrimage of the soul.

Along the way, thousands of people shared their stories with him, often exposing their most intimate selves to a stranger who was deeply committed to listening. Those conversations were often tinged with threads of pain, be they from long-held divisions in race and class or from the moving stories of personal heartbreak and sacrifice. Each one provided Andrew an opportunity for deep listening and reflection, and within it the potential for profound inner transformation.

By the end of his journey, Andrew was a different person with a new perspective on what it means to come of age today. Having been transformed through the power of listening, his experience is a beacon of light to inspire others to step out into the world, connect deeply to others and find themselves in the process.

Darren Gold is a Managing Partner at The Trium Group, where he advises and coaches CEOs and leadership teams at many of the world’s most innovative companies, including Roche, Dropbox, Lululemon, Sephora, Cisco, eBay, Activision, and Warner Bros.

He is the author of the new book Master Your Code: The Art, Wisdom, and Science of Leading an Extraordinary Life.

As human beings, we’re born with roughly 20,000 genes that fill every cell in our body. This genetic code makes us who we are and guides our behavior. From the moment we take our very first breath, we’re genetically hardwired to react, avoid risks, and stay safe. Or so we think.

What if this is a myth? What if we’re not genetically determined? What if we can erase and replace our internal programming—and master our own code?

For more than 50 years, scientists operated under the largely untested assumption that our genes govern our behavior. But the emerging field of epigenetics has revealed a new truth: our genes don’t have full control of our lives. We do.

Our behavior is driven by a subconscious program of our own making, one that’s a result of our environment, explains renowned advisor and bestselling author Darren Gold. Throughout our lives, we accumulate thousands of beliefs, values, and rules that help us make sense of the world. They guide how we behave, but they also limit our results. Think of it as a computer program that runs your life, says Gold. The good news? We can rewrite and author our code.

In his new book, Master Your Code: The Art, Wisdom, and Science of Leading an Extraordinary Life, Gold presents a guide for rewriting your program and mastering your code in every aspect of your life, including your career, health, relationships, and financial success.

In this episode we dive into:

• How to evaluate whether your beliefs and rules serve you, or if they’re dragging you down
• How to be the shaper of your life, not a victim of your circumstances
• How to use your body to control your brain’s default response, enhance your mood, and improve decision-making
• Process traumatic events and deeply embedded survival strategies so you’re no longer a prisoner of your past

And much more!

Enjoy!

Boom! Its a New Year and we are off to a fresh start with Inner Truth. Happy 2019!

It's typically this time of year that we contemplate what has past and what will come for us over the next 12 months. All the life reflection, breakups, new romances, job searches, seem to come to fruition at this time.

So I thought it would be fun to kick things off with someone who makes predictions for a profession. Tarot is something has fascinated me for years, in particular its connection to archetypal psychology and Carl Jung's work on the collective unconscious.

Do we all contain within us archetypes and stories that play out over our lives? Joseph Campbell's famous work on the Hero's Journey (the inspiration for Star Wars) certainly indicates so.

So I reached out to one of the foremost and talented Tarot card readers in the world (Elaine Mary Collins) to talk about everything to do with the system as well as make some predictions for 2019.

In this episode you'll learn:

• What Tarot is and how it was developed;
• What a reading is really showing you;
• How Tarot connects to the mind-matter quantum model of the universe;
• Mind-bending synchronicities you can experience from Tarot;
• What are archetypes and how do we express them in daily life;
• What are the predictions for 2019;
• How to get started in Tarot and use it for inform your life

Enjoy!

Elaine runs retreats across on the island of Ibiza as well as seeing clients in person or via Skype. She makes regular visits to London and Los Angeles and is invited to various other destinations with her work.

For information on workshops or speaker opportunities, please contact her via her website (www.elainemarycollins.com).

Will Williams is one of Europe’s leading Vedic meditation experts and founding teacher at Beeja Meditation, a London meditation centre committed to sharing the teachings of Vedic Meditation.

He discovered meditation 11 years ago after experiencing stress-related insomnia. When he spoke to a friend whose life had been transformed by Beeja meditation, he gave it a go. He now dedicates his life to sharing the practice.

To begin with he travelled for two and a half years meeting with meditation masters from across the world, receiving training from the pre-eminent master of ancient vedic knowledge, from which the Beeja technique derives. He discovered beyond rituals and rites of passage, the most powerful techniques were the simplest. It just required the right teaching.

Will’s best-selling book ‘The Effortless Mind’ has been described as ‘game-changing’. He speaks regularly at summits and events across the world, and has been featured by The Times, The Guardian, Daily Mail, Sky News and the Evening Standard. He is the current wellbeing adviser to the OECD.

In this episode we speak about the raft of meditation apps and modalities on offer, how each works, and how to pick the best one for you. Specifically covering:

• What is Beeja meditation
• Vipassana vs. Vedic meditation
• The difference between mantra and targeted approaches
• Limitations of meditation apps
• The gradual path of improvement
• Reaching transcendent states
• How to heal the deepest energy blocks

Enjoy!