Recognizing Addiction
Gabby discusses the fine line between healthy habits and extreme addictions, emphasizing the importance of self-reflection. She highlights how unmanageable behaviors can disrupt life, using personal experiences to illustrate the struggle for control. Mari shares her own journey of realizing the impact of these addictions on her ability to enjoy life, culminating in Gabby's revelation of true recovery during a vacation in Portugal.In this clip
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Pursuit of Wellness
Gabby Bernstein: “All Of Us Are Traumatized,” Finding Inner Peace & Spirituality, Struggling w/ Extreme Addiction, Shame, Codependency, Dissociating & How To Heal.
Related Questions
What can I do to break the cycle of addiction and achieve lasting sobriety, considering the insights from the episode #392: It's Not Your Fault, But It's Your Responsibility: Healing Trauma with Thais Gibson and the clip Overcoming Subconscious Patterns? I struggle with addiction, and when I start drinking or using drugs, it gets bad quickly, leading to 3-day hangovers and week-long withdrawals. I can get sober for a week or two, but I often relapse, sometimes worse than others, depending on how quickly I decide I need to stop. I'm severely depressed and tired of living like this. I get no joy or tranquility, which makes me give in to drinking and drugs again. I desperately want to be sober and find peace.
Is it fair to say that the brain can build on traumatic memories, preventing a person from taking actions that could allow them to heal themselves, as discussed in the episodes "Something Scary Happened The Other Day and I Wanted To Talk To You About It" | Mel Robbins Podcast and "478: Are you metabolizing your trauma?" | Functional medicine expert Will Cole, D.C.? For example, I produced a huge activation, which was the largest success of my career, that opened on my mother's birthday. Two weeks later, she died in her sleep. Now, when I attempt to work on large, challenging projects like this one, I can start the process creatively but have great trouble following through on distributing it to people who could help me execute it. Is that a fair analysis of how my mind is perceiving my actions as leading to a similar tragic outcome?