Ep 153: Letting Go of an Addiction – Smoking, drugs or something else that’s killing you

Help Me Be Me

This is for anyone who wants to quit something but is terrified of trying again – or feels hopeless about it. Or overwhelmed. Maybe you’ve already proven to yourself that you don’t like life without this thing enough to stay off of it. Or you are too disheartened to try again.

I would bet that although you still do it, you hate this thing so much. You hate that it causes you so much sadness and lost time. And lost self-esteem. And you wish more than anything that you could just press a button and this thing would be gone from your life. That you didn’t have to struggle with this problem. A problem that stays between you and others. That keeps you from love or health or confidence. Of really feeling you can invest in your life being long and happy.

I know that feeling well. It’s like living as a dead person – you are always aware of this dark shadow that is – that thing. The deadly addiction. And you want to turn off your ears and mind to it because it really feels like “I have no other option – so why would I listen?”

But what you can’t see from here is that change is possible when you have the right logic. Change is totally possible when you have the understanding that allows you to truly let go of this problem. I’ll talk a lot about my particular addictions in this episode. And here are the books that I mention – PLEASE READ ONE!!!

For smokers:

https://amzn.to/3mVEM8N

For vapers:

https://amzn.to/3kEK5q9

For over-drinkers (but I think it will apply to drugs, too):

https://amzn.to/3mP65RX

Another for more severe drinkers:

https://amzn.to/3kKvLMQ

Haven’t read this but it’s using his principles, about emotional eating:

https://amzn.to/3BoYehY

This episode is dedicated to my aunt Margaret. I love you. And I will miss you forever.

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