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Alive and Free

It’s time to rip the cover off what really works to finally ditch stress, anxiety, anger, addiction, depression, past trauma, chronic pain, and all other kinds of human suffering. No, not just relief, recovery, comfort, healing, or sobriety. We’re talking the F word here — freedom — Happiness and well-being on autopilot.

My team and I will share straight from the trenches what we’ve learned from using a non-therapy, body-based approach to leave our own struggles behind while also coaching thousands of others to do the same. And since these are often such heavy topics, we’re gonna get a bit irreverent and have a good time while we’re at it. Because, despite what you may have been told, real freedom never involves a fight.

Latest Episodes:

Description vs Prescription Jun 13, 2024

Show notes

Description; "I feel happy". Prescription; "I'm doing all of these things so I should be feeling happiness". Don't let the prescriptions and "shoulds" in life, run over the descriptions, and the present moment. Today, we'll talk about this more. Have a listen.

Highlights:

In a list, you'll be given prescriptions, not what will become good, natural byproducts of your living experience. (14:30)
"Where am I at, where am I headed, and what do I need to shift in order to move in that direction?" (17:00)
Take a step back and think, what if everything will just naturally happen, if I just focus on what's important right now? (17:50)
Are you actually satisfied with the direction you're moving, are you satisfied with the pace that you're moving at? (20:25)

Need help unlocking mental, emotional, and physical freedom in your life? Grab my new book, Built for Freedom: Adventures Through Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Addiction, Trauma, Pain, and Our Body's Innate Ability to Leave Them All Behind on Amazon (or Audible) here: https://www.amazon.com/Built-Freedom-Adventures-Depression-Addiction/dp/B0BS79GMYN

Or head over to https://thefreedomspecialist.com/ and book a call where we can look at your unique situation and give you the roadmap you've been missing.

F1 Love Jun 06, 2024

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After the 2024 Miami GP, Lando Norris gains his first win and declares his love to everybody. Now, after a grueling two hour race, he probably felt relieved and wasn't actually feeling "love". Today, we're going to talk about this more. Have a listen.

Highlights:

In that moment, was he really feeling love? (10:15)
Feelings of love and kindness are a direct result of the state that the body is in, in any given moment. (14:20)
Like I've been saying for a long time, your thoughts and emotions are a byproduct of the body. (20:00)
There is a big difference between your senses, and what you make of your senses. (28:20)

Need help unlocking mental, emotional, and physical freedom in your life? Grab my new book, Built for Freedom: Adventures Through Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Addiction, Trauma, Pain, and Our Body's Innate Ability to Leave Them All Behind on Amazon (or Audible) here: https://www.amazon.com/Built-Freedom-Adventures-Depression-Addiction/dp/B0BS79GMYN

Or head over to https://thefreedomspecialist.com/ and book a call where we can look at your unique situation and give you the roadmap you've been missing.

To the Wives... "It's not you, it's me." May 30, 2024

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This one's for the women. A man's "addiction" to pornography doesn't mean that there is something wrong with you or that you need to change. It is just the way that his body has found to cope with his discomfort. We're going to talk about this more today. Have a listen.

Highlights:

Because the "addiction" is no longer sexual, we look at; what are they coping with? (15:50)
Depression, shame, and guilt are all mechanisms that are engaged in order to solve an ongoing problem. (17:25)
It's a chasing of a sensation all because, the person is unconscious of the way that they have built discomfort into their lifestyle. (25:35)
Women, there is nothing wrong with you. And if the guy is wanting to change, that is evidence that he cares and that you are enough. (36:20)

Need help unlocking mental, emotional, and physical freedom in your life? Grab my new book, Built for Freedom: Adventures Through Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Addiction, Trauma, Pain, and Our Body's Innate Ability to Leave Them All Behind on Amazon (or Audible) here: https://www.amazon.com/Built-Freedom-Adventures-Depression-Addiction/dp/B0BS79GMYN

Or head over to https://thefreedomspecialist.com/ and book a call where we can look at your unique situation and give you the roadmap you've been missing.

Get Good Help May 23, 2024

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If you're going to get help with something, at least get good help. Ruminating on the problem won't solve it, so find someone or something that looks at the source, not the symptom. We'll talk about this more today. Have a listen.

Highlights:

Do you really want validation on your trauma? (5:20)
If you don't want things to continue down their current path, validation will not get you to another place. (7:20)
When bad help becomes the main source, it causes rumination on the symptoms, and not on the causes. (16:50)
If you're going to get help, then get good help. (:)

Need help unlocking mental, emotional, and physical freedom in your life? Grab my new book, Built for Freedom: Adventures Through Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Addiction, Trauma, Pain, and Our Body's Innate Ability to Leave Them All Behind on Amazon (or Audible) here: https://www.amazon.com/Built-Freedom-Adventures-Depression-Addiction/dp/B0BS79GMYN

Or head over to https://thefreedomspecialist.com/ and book a call where we can look at your unique situation and give you the roadmap you've been missing.

Bad Therapy by Abigail Shrier May 17, 2024

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Therapy is not really as useful as it seems. In reality, therapy gets you to just ruminate on thoughts and situations that are no longer useful to you. Instead of spending time pouting about it, learn from it and move on. Today, we're going to talk about that more. Have a listen.

Highlights:

When going to some form of entertainment, the emotional controls are almost willfully set aside for the enjoyment of another story. (6:05)
No doubt, teenagers all over the planet have these hormonal things that show up, and have situations that they have emotions about. But it's being blown out of proportion to where everybody is being taught, everybody will have emotions that are too big for them and these tools are needed. Instead of; there might be an emotion from time to time, no big deal. (10:40)
There becomes such a focus on the problem that it becomes overwhelming and it can seem like there's no hope. (27:30)
Don't feel bad if the tools that have been given to you aren't as effective as some other ones out there could be. (43:50)

Need help unlocking mental, emotional, and physical freedom in your life? Grab my new book, Built for Freedom: Adventures Through Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Addiction, Trauma, Pain, and Our Body's Innate Ability to Leave Them All Behind on Amazon (or Audible) here: https://www.amazon.com/Built-Freedom-Adventures-Depression-Addiction/dp/B0BS79GMYN

Or head over to https://thefreedomspecialist.com/ and book a call where we can look at your unique situation and give you the roadmap you've been missing.

Money and Monsters May 09, 2024

Show notes

Money isn't the source of happiness and problems in life. It might just be some warning lights on your dashboard of life. Today, we'll talk about this more. Have a listen.

Highlights:

You're thinking of this creeping up debt as a problem, when all that's happened in the past is that a new solution to the problem has been found. (3:10)
The money in your wallet might be a monster. (8:30)
Life is the greatest give that you can get. (20:50)

Need help unlocking mental, emotional, and physical freedom in your life? Grab my new book, Built for Freedom: Adventures Through Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Addiction, Trauma, Pain, and Our Body's Innate Ability to Leave Them All Behind on Amazon (or Audible) here: https://www.amazon.com/Built-Freedom-Adventures-Depression-Addiction/dp/B0BS79GMYN

Or head over to https://thefreedomspecialist.com/ and book a call where we can look at your unique situation and give you the roadmap you've been missing.

Evolutionary Biology, Science, and Myth May 02, 2024

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Biology, evolution, science, and religions are all great and can be useful tools in life. But they shouldn't interfere with your experience. We live in the present, the now. Not 100, not 500, not 5000 years ago. Today we're going to talk about this more. Have a listen.

Highlights:

There isn't a bodiless it out there, like god, that is saying; "this is the case and you must accept it". But because it's in a book, people accept it. (9:05)
Just because you can connect all the dot's on the paper, doesn't mean that you actually understand the paper. (17:20)
It's not that science is bad. But in the end, it's not needed to live a powerful life.
The effort to try and understand the distant past, has prevented people from making use of the present, in order to have a powerful experience in your life. (33:35)

Need help unlocking mental, emotional, and physical freedom in your life? Grab my new book, Built for Freedom: Adventures Through Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Addiction, Trauma, Pain, and Our Body's Innate Ability to Leave Them All Behind on Amazon (or Audible) here: https://www.amazon.com/Built-Freedom-Adventures-Depression-Addiction/dp/B0BS79GMYN

Or head over to https://thefreedomspecialist.com/ and book a call where we can look at your unique situation and give you the roadmap you've been missing.

F.A.I.R.O's Apr 30, 2024

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FAIRO is an acronym for "false ah-ha's impersonating real ones". Meaning that when an ah-ha moment comes up, no time is wasted in assuming it is the answer and not just an observation. Today we're going to talk about this more. Have a listen.

Highlights:

There's danger in assuming that an ah-ha moment is the truth. (7:55)
The ah-ha moment is the moment when you've conceptualized the world into an idea. (13:30)
Assessing someone on a first impression isn't the issue. Clinging to the impression is. (22:00)
Stop making assumptions from ah-ha's and start making real observations. (30:30)

Need help unlocking mental, emotional, and physical freedom in your life? Grab my new book, Built for Freedom: Adventures Through Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Addiction, Trauma, Pain, and Our Body's Innate Ability to Leave Them All Behind on Amazon (or Audible) here: https://www.amazon.com/Built-Freedom-Adventures-Depression-Addiction/dp/B0BS79GMYN

Or head over to https://thefreedomspecialist.com/ and book a call where we can look at your unique situation and give you the roadmap you've been missing.

False But Useful??? Apr 18, 2024

Show notes

Today we're going to do a little bit of a play by play of a book that I recently read. But as we talk, find what's useful, and keep it. then toss the rest out. Have a listen.

Highlights:

There are humans so busy suffering and chasing power, money, prestige and all the other things that they end up killing each other for it. (3:05)
I was making all kinds of claims, but I found a lot of frustration in that that I wasn't willing to admit. When something wasn't working I'd turn it on, and judge myself more poorly because what I assumed was the truth wasn't. (7:15)
Continue to look and hear with your eyes and ears, find what's valuable and toss the rest. (35:15)
If the body is in a negative state then negative thoughts will emerge. (37:20)
Don't make the mistake of believing that thoughts are reality. They are just a part of your experience. (44:50)

Need help unlocking mental, emotional, and physical freedom in your life? Grab my new book, Built for Freedom: Adventures Through Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Addiction, Trauma, Pain, and Our Body's Innate Ability to Leave Them All Behind on Amazon (or Audible) here: https://www.amazon.com/Built-Freedom-Adventures-Depression-Addiction/dp/B0BS79GMYN

Or head over to https://thefreedomspecialist.com/ and book a call where we can look at your unique situation and give you the roadmap you've been missing.

Everyday Bliss Apr 11, 2024

Show notes

Everyday bliss. Just being in a space where you can enjoy running your body, from just being alive. Not having to operate from a place of constant tension. We're going to talk about that more today. Have a listen.

Highlights:

When talking about a life, it isn't the big things that I'm talking about. It's how do you open the car door, cut food, talk to your spouse, it's all the little things. (8:10)
If the nerve is already agitated to the brink of firing, then the tiniest little thing will set it off. (10:45)
People don't want control over everything, they want life to happen in a beautiful way for them, no matter what's going on. (25:25)
The inner party, is louder than the outer chaos. (28:00)
When your happiness is found in all the little things you do, you no longer need to chase the big things to get rid of your misery. (32:50)

Need help unlocking mental, emotional, and physical freedom in your life? Grab my new book, Built for Freedom: Adventures Through Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Addiction, Trauma, Pain, and Our Body's Innate Ability to Leave Them All Behind on Amazon (or Audible) here: https://www.amazon.com/Built-Freedom-Adventures-Depression-Addiction/dp/B0BS79GMYN

Or head over to https://thefreedomspecialist.com/ and book a call where we can look at your unique situation and give you the roadmap you've been missing.

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