107 - Three Steps into Recovery from Addiction

About this episode

This episode discusses the three essential steps into recovery from addiction, emphasizing recovery as a lifestyle and a path to healing and liberation.

Click here to read the episode highlights. The "Living with Heart" Podcast is brought to you by Chip Dodd Resources (www.chipdodd.com) and The Voice of the Heart Center (vothcenter.com). You can connect with Dr. Chip Dodd at chip@chipdodd.com. Contact Bryan Barley for coaching at bryan@vothcenter.com. Be sure to subscribe to Dr Chip Dodd’s new Substack. He will be sharing two to three articles a week. The topics focus on healthy relationship, personal growth, and leadership. Dr. Dodd shares content two to three times a week. To subscribe, use the link above or go to chipdodd.com. Recover is not a pill > Recovery is a path. Recovery is not a quick fix > Recovery is a lifestyle, lived one day at a time. Recovery allows us to live with a “new set of glasses.” People in recovery no longer see life through the “tinted glasses” that denial gives them, but they begin to live in clear reality. This clear reality contains a new hope that is the soil out of which the ability to live will fully grow. Recovery provides so much more than abstinence FROM what was harmful. It allows a person to get recovery OF. Not only does admission of powerlessness (The First Step, episode #106) open…

People in this episode

Hosts: Dr. Chip Dodd, Bryan Barley

Topics covered

• addiction recovery
• personal growth
• healing
• dependency resilience
• lifestyle change

Keywords

• recovery
• addiction
• healing
• personal growth
• dependency resilience
• Six Freedoms

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Chip Dodd Resources, The Voice of the Heart Center, Substack, chipdodd.com, vothcenter.com

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