Recover Yourself: Recent Episodes
MartinJon
The biggest problem in the world is that too many people are not living for their own passions. We've all been fooled by approval and attention. Addiction was an escape for us and once we find some clarity we have to look to ourselves and solve the issues that forced us to escape in the first place.
Recovery is a long road but it doesn't stop at "Recovering From." If you want to see your recovery take root and be lasting, if you want to let go of your pacifiers and distractions for good, you are going to have to recover yourself.
Promise me you will find your passions they hold your answer. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/martinjon/support
Energy is all around us and we interact with it at every turn, in every moment. There are things that energetically lift us and other things that weigh us down. How we interact with energy is one thing we can look at whenever we experience any sort of malady we can think of, even being a victim.
This week I am talking with Dr. Marina Kostina about the energy of the choices we make. If everything we do has an energy cost associated with it then every choice, we make is filled with potential and if we can make better energetic choices we can move in a better direction. We all follow energy but sometimes when that disrupts follow our “rules” it can feel quite uncomfortable, and thus we turn from feeling though it and act upon it.
Questions:
1. Where have you interacted with your guiding energy? Did you follow it or did you turn from it for a more intense “better” feeling?
2. What can be gained by following an energetic pull, even if that might invite a feeling of discomfort?
3. What actions are being asked of you by this energy, that you are either avoiding or afraid of considering?
Find out more about Dr. Marina Kostina at https://www.drmarinakostina.com/
If you are a parent or the adult child of a parent you are caring for or if you are a professional caregiver in any field, you face the very real threat of burnout nipping at your heals every day. This podcast can help you take a step back from that and get a wider perspective but working with me on a 4 session Recover Yourself package can finally put to bed any fear of burning out. Once you know how to recover yourself out of any situation, you’ll begin to gain more with every little thing you give. You’ll become unshakable and avoid conflict and stress without even knowing they were an option.
As my work suggests I am always looking to recover myself completely and my aim is to help others recover themselves. I see a client for a total of 4 sessions which is designed to launch self-directed lives and separate us from the constant draw of codependency. These start with my doing a portrait of my client. The portrait is an intimate experience, these open a vocabulary to trauma and are healing. This process is not for everyone and if you are not ready, I will not work with you. It is important that you are ready to step into yourself and stop playing a victim cursed by things around you. If you are interested in working together reach out at https://www.martinjon.com/
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What we are capable of is immeasurable. We walk around believing so many things about ourselves, never having really looked at ourselves from the space of a blank slate. We come into the world already wired through the womb of our mother to believe the world is how they experienced it. From there we further get trained to learn how to experience and expect life to be. But we, individually, are so much greater than that. How do I know? Because not you, nor I, or anybody can ever be described, or understood, so the act of attempting to understand or describe a person will only fall short.
Our possibilities are endless and if we choose to accept the challenge to touch what is possible within us we will be on a journey that will neither end nor cease to amaze us. This week I have the pleasure of talking with best-selling author Guy Finley about our possibilities and the journey that presents us with the lives we are destined to live.
Check out Guy’s books "The Secret of Letting Go," "The Essential Laws of Fearless Living," and his newest book "Relationship Magic: Waking Up Together." He is the founder and director of Life of Learning Foundation, a nonprofit Center for Spiritual Discovery located in southern Oregon. Guy is a faculty member at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York, and at 1440 Multiversity. Tune in live every Sunday morning and Wednesday evening for Guy's free online talks. Guy is a faculty member at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York, and at 1440 Multiversity.
Tune in live every Sunday morning and Wednesday evening for Guy's free online talks.
On March 21st, 2021 Guy will be giving a talk entitled 7 Simple Practices to Actualize Your Highest Spiritual Possibilities.
Register for Guy’s ongoing online talks: https://www.guyfinley.org/webinar
Free registration includes access to Guy's entire replay archive.
As my work suggests I am always looking to recover myself completely and my aim is to help others recover themselves. I see a client for a total of 4 sessions which is designed to launch self-directed lives and separate us from the constant draw of codependency. These start with my doing a portrait of my client. The portrait is an intimate experience, these open a vocabulary to trauma and are healing. This process is not for everyone and if you are not ready, I will not work with you. It is important that you are ready to step into yourself and stop playing a victim cursed by things around you. If you are interested in working together reach out at https://www.martinjon.com/
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Revenge is one of those things that, once we are under the influence of it, we can find it hard to separate from. We all have grievances, but once we allow ourselves to feel like we are being victimized things can quickly get out of hand. In this episode, I am talking with James Kimmel Jr., a lead developer of the NonJustice System, and we are talking about forgiveness.
Those of us in some sort of recovery may have, and may still, feel victimized. We may have utilized our DOC (Drug of Choice) in order to cope with our feelings of victimization. We may have and may continue to, relive and remind ourselves that we were victims. This is just another addiction. The more we live in this space of victimization in our minds the more we are living under its influence. This is not to say we do not have a grievance, we do, but how much are we willing to be controlled by it?
In this episode, we are exploring grievance, revenge, and forgiveness, how they relate to addiction, and how we can further our ability to forgive so as not to live under their influences.
On the path of recovering yourself, you are going to find there is no end to the bombardment of things attempting to keep us living comfortably. Even though wanting revenge, or feeling victimized doesn't sound comfortable, it is often much easier to be a victim than it is to be your own savior.
Questions for groups: When was the last time you felt the desire to get revenge (whether you acted on it or not)? What is the story you told yourself about why you deserve to get revenge? What would it feel like if you were able to forgive those who you have a grievance against sooner? How long is long enough to be aggrieved?
Two books James authored on revenge and forgiveness are The Trial of Fallen Angels, and Suing for Peace. You can find James' personal website and his research work on NonJustice as well as his website dedicated to preventing murder and mass shootings. He also has research articles on addiction, related to justice and revenge as well as the NonJustice method for reducing revenge cravings. If you are interested in learning more about how to implement the NonJustice approach to something in your life I encourage you to check out this episode of Wellness Inc with Dr. Mike Moreno. James is also on Twitter @JamesKimmelJr
As my work suggests I am always looking to recover myself completely and my aim is to help others recover themselves. I see a client for a total of 4 sessions which is designed to launch self-directed lives and separate us from the constant draw of codependency. This starts with my doing a portrait of my client. The portrait is an intimate experience, these open a vocabulary to trauma and are healing. This process is not for everyone and if you are not ready, I will not work with you. It is important that you are ready to step into yourself and stop playing a victim cursed by things around you. If you are interested in working together reach out at https://www.martinjon.com/
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TRIGGER WARNING In this discussion we mention child sexual abuse, rape, and the holocaust.
In this episode, I am speaking with Geoffrey Godfrey of Ideal Option https://www.idealoption.com/ and we are tackling a big step for all of us. Not just recognizing there is a problem but admitting it. So often we can see a problem and as long as no one else brings it up we feel like we are hiding it well. You would be surprised how many children know their parents drink and yet the parents believe that their kids have no idea.
We don’t want to wait until our loved ones are put in the position to have to be our keepers and tell us there is a problem, we know, and it really just takes admitting it. We have to face our demons and that goes well beyond the traditional drugs, alcohol, and gambling that most people put in the addiction category. We have to look at where we are escaping, and why we are living a life that requires escaping at all. There is nothing wrong with having a recreational escape until we are hiding, if we are hiding it then there is a problem and we are going to have to face that. Of course, stigma is a big part of this and we dive into that pretty deeply as well.
Check out these Facebook pages to learn more about what Geoff and Ideal Option are up to.
This is Ideal Option’s main Facebook page and where Geoff hosts Recovery Gone Viral live videos M-F): https://www.facebook.com/idealoptionclinic/Recover4Real
Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/recover4real
As my work suggests I am always looking to recover myself completely and my aim is to help others recover themselves. I see a client for a total of 4 sessions which is designed to launch self-directed lives and separate us from the constant draw of codependency. This starts with my doing a portrait of my client. The portrait is an intimate experience, these open a vocabulary to trauma and are healing. This process is not for everyone and if you are not ready I will not work with you. It is important that you are ready to step into yourself and stop playing a victim cursed by things around you.
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If you’re interested in a walkthrough of Yana, I encourage you to check out this episode on YouTube. Just jump to the 26th minute, and to watch as Tyler walks me through the essentials of Yana and addresses its platform directly.
Tyler Matheny is a co-founder of Yana (You Are Not Alone) which is a program agnostic activity app for the sober community. Tyler helps us define some of the major differences between the terms: abstinence, sobriety, and recovery. Tyler faces his recovery, like many who venture on this path, with the backing of AA. After some time he found that it wasn’t working for him, but he then learned that he was working AA.
It is important to recognize if we are working AA or just trying it. No matter where we find ourselves along the journey if we join a group, or take a course, or buy a product, and expect that to be the end of the conversation, we haven’t been paying attention. We are going to have to work and work hard, first for our sobriety, and then our recovery. Having apps like Yana, and podcasts like this one, communities like AA or S.M.A.R.T. are all aids in the journey. Without you, and your dedication to continuing to do the work, those things can do nothing.
Join Yana Here get.yanaapp.com/share/-sLJZGqweBqibOpz
As an aside, all groups, products, courses, or anything we use as a booster to get us to another level, are not the end. There are limits to everything outside of yourself. You will grow to the limits of the groups, communities, and products that have aided your growth. When you reach that limit, and this is at the core of all that Recover Yourself is about (which is why I mention it) you will have to reevaluate your relationship with it. Does that mean you have to leave? No, not at all, but it is your job to keep growing and that has to come before dogma, rules, tradition, or any other underlining belief in things outside of yourself.
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Addiction holds a lot of stigmas and this episode might really agitate a lot of people because I am looking to place addiction in the hands of every one of us. Those of us who have been traditionally seen as addicts have held the bag long enough.
Politics have divided us and turn us on one another, but that is only on the face of it. Behind the politics, at the core of everything that has been going on in the US my entire life, is addiction. We have journeyed headlong into a contract with any, and all, sorts of escapes. The US has been built, for some, on some unfounded premise that you don’t have to feel uncomfortable. Well, that was never true. Fear is gripping our country today as we, as a country have to face discomfort. Trump has wielded that fear of discomfort as a drug for people that support him with things like his catchphrase “Make America Great Again.” Basically stating “make the discomfort I am feeling go away.” This fear is also being used as a drug for those that don’t support him. As he sows fear and distrust day in and day out we slowly get accustomed to feeling that anxiety, and it is added to a new normal.
Today I believe we are in a position to have to redefine what addiction is or create a vocabulary that can handle the truth of what we have created here in the United States. For lack of a better word, I am using addiction. Trump has rooted his entire tenure in the position of president as a means to obtain an ever-increasing amount of his DOC (drug of choice), whether this is fame or money, or both I won’t venture to say, but his actions are of those of an addict.
If Trump was addicted to a substance, would we support him as fervently as we do? His actions are no less atrocious, and yet people are still standing by and enabling this man. By doing this we are only further harming him, as well as ourselves. In the mix of what has transpired over the past 4 years, we have, as a country become very misdirected due to all of us living under the influence of one thing or another.
I wish I could express how important it is to recognize addiction when we see it, and not simply look to professionals to tell us how to define it. If we can recognize, identify, and accept that addiction is a part of all of our lives we would all be heading toward a better future. As it stands today, with most of the population under the influence of something or another, most people are blindly advancing their lives leaving a wake of destruction that they will claim they are the victim of, just like Trump does.
This is why I passionately spread the message of recovering ourselves. Trump has probably never had a substance abuse issue as we understand it traditionally but he has also probably been chasing his own high his entire life.
One thing to note, Trump is facing detox, unsupervised, and with an audience that sees him as their dealer, if not a savior. For those of you who have been through a serious detox, you’ll know what that can do to your mind. We are headed into an unprecedented territory and I hope there are people that are taking notes because we are going to want to learn from this.
As my work suggests I am always looking to recover myself completely and my aim is to help others recover themselves. I see a client for a total of 4 sessions which is designed to launch self-directed lives and separate us from the constant draw of codependency. This starts with my doing a portrait of my client. The portrait is an intimate experience, these open a vocabulary to trauma and are healing. This process is not for everyone and if you are not ready I will not work with you. It is important that you are ready to step into yourself and stop playing a victim cursed by things around you. If you are interested in working together reach out at https://www.martinjon.com
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Karith Foster is a comedian, speaker, television and radio personality, actress, author, and entrepreneur. In this episode, we are talking about identity and doubling down. When we attach so heavily to our identities, we can easily get lost in details that might not be as important as the feel at the moment.
Our identities are things we really hold dear, but we are always changing so much it is hard to even pin down an identity. However, in our world, today, being attached to an identity can be seen as pretty important, and that has really kept many people from accepting change. For those of us who have experienced addiction, we have all stood by our addict identities when it may have been easier to relinquish that identity. Where else do we do this? How can we approach our identities as fleeting and ever-changing? There is the 5 by 5 rule which states if it won’t matter in 5 years don’t spend 5 minutes being upset about it.
Karith has graciously invited Recover Yourself fans to take a perfectionism assessment at www.karith.com/quiz
On Dec 30th you can attend her Give Yourself the Gift of G.Y.S.T. (get your shit together) https://www.karith.com/seminar.html
Learn more about her Inversity Solutions training for institutions and Corporations www.InversitySolutions.com
Get her book You Can Be Perfect or You Can Be Happy https://www.amazon.com/You-Can-Be-Perfect-Happy-ebook/dp/B089G8JM9P/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
And definitely support her non-profit organization: F.R.A.M.E. (Foster Russell Alliance for Meaningful Expression) www.FosterRussell.org
Questions for groups:
Where did you double down before you sought help? What in your life are you still doubling down to save?
Although growth is difficult, when we do accept its necessity, we find strength and the ability to continue to grow. What has acceptance, and a more fluid idea of your identity, offered your life?
We may have definitions, and preconceived ideas, about sober people. What are yours? How did those ideas keep you out there? How are they continuing to dictate your recovery?
As my work suggests I am always looking to recover myself completely and my aim is to help others recover themselves. I see a client for a total of 4 sessions which is designed to launch self-directed lives and separate us from the constant draw of codependency. These start with my doing a portrait of my client. The portrait is an intimate experience, these open a vocabulary to trauma and are healing. This process is not for everyone and if you are not ready I will not work with you. It is important that you are ready to step into yourself and stop playing a victim cursed by things around you. If you are interested in working together reach out at https://www.martinjon.com/
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