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The Magic of Being Sober with Laura McKowen
Laura McKowen is an author, award winning blogger and host of Spiritualish, a show that provides an irreverent take on self help. She has been featured on WebMD, the New York Post, Bravo, the Today Show, and more. Laura also hosts sold out retreats and courses teaching people to say Yes to a bigger life. In this episode, she and Eric discuss her newest book, “We are the Luckiest, the Surprising Magic of a Sober Life”
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In This Interview, Laura McKowen and I Discuss the Magic of Being Sober and…
- Her book, We Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life
- Addiction isn’t about will power or being bad
- How we as humans are “magnificent monsters” in that we all have light and dark inside of us
- Being in a liminal space is where transformation takes place.
- Looking at challenging times and asking “What is this trying to teach me?”
- Embracing the mystery of not knowing
- How addiction demands everything
- Having a “split mind” – the conflict of wanting to drink and knowing that you shouldn’t
- The cognitive dissonance between who we think we are and what we’re doing
- Being afraid of how you’ll feel when you’re not drinking
- Understanding that sobriety gets better, then it gets worse, then it’s different
- Her experience with AA and the positive and negative aspects of this recovery program
- The importance of dealing with the physical body in recovery
- The fear of “aloneness” and not having a home within ourselves
- Dealing with the ongoing struggle and need to be fixed or saved by someone
- Learning to not being afraid of herself and starting to build self esteem and dignity
Laura McKowen Links:
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037: Srini Pillay
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This week we talk to Srini Pillay M.D. Founder and CEO of NeuroBusiness Group.
Srini Pillay, M.D. is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Invited Faculty at Harvard Business School. He is also the Founder and CEO of NeuroBusiness Group. He graduated with the highest number of awards during his residency training at Harvard. He is also a Certified Master Coach. His specific expertise is on helping companies reach their goals by coaching strategy acceleration, change management, innovation, sales optimization, stress management and many other corporate goals. He has 17 years of experience in brain imaging and has an international reputation as a human behavior expert with special emphasis on stress and anxiety. His latest book is: Life Unlocked: 7 Revolutionary Lessons to Overcome Fear.
In This Interview Srini and I Discuss…
- The One You Feed parable.
- The power of possibility.
- The difference between conscious fear and unconscious fear.
- What brain science tells us about unconscious fear.
- How unconscious fear is a major factor in our lives.
- The CIRCA method to manage unconscious fear.
- Chunking your issues into smaller, more manageable pieces.
- Ignoring the mind’s chatter.
- Giving your self a reality check.
- Remembering that “this too shall pass”
- Keeping our thoughts on what we can control.
- Focusing our attention on positive things for some amount of time.
- “Yoga Rage”
- Turning on the default node network.
- Dealing with “bottom up anxiety”.
- How to handle emotional flooding.
- Being willing to make mistakes and be wrong.
- How simple action can be the highest form of intelligence.
- Taking small risks by tinkering.
- Using preemptive perception to make better decisions.
- Embracing the complexity of who we are.
- How we are wired to manage disappointment versus achieving fulfillment.
- Probability vs possibility thinking.
- Mimicking the exceptions rather than the rules.
Srini Pillay Links
Srini articles in the Harvard Business Review
Life Unlocked: 7 Revolutionary Lessons to Overcome Fear
Your Brain and Business: The Neuroscience of Great Leaders
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032: Dan Harris (ABC News)
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This week on The One You Feed we have Dan Harris.
Dan is best known for his work on ABC News, Nightline and Good Morning America, but we invited him on the show because of his latest book: 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works–A True Story.
I was fascinated by this book. Dan was driven to meditation and self help out of a self imposed crisis after he had a panic attack on national TV. His journey through that landscape mirrored my own to some degree. He had a degree of skepticism from the beginning that he retains today. He also was perplexed by the paradox that most fascinates me: What is the degree that serenity can erode our ambition?
Going from the esoteric teachings of Eckhart Tolle to the down to earth practical modern buddhism of Mark Epstein (author of the classics Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart and Thoughts without a Thinker) he was able to find an approach that worked for him. The book is insightful, hilarious and very instructive.
In This Interview Dan and I Discuss…
- The One You Feed parable.
- That the mind can be trained for compassion and happiness.
- Exercising the brain just like the body.
- The science of meditation.
- The message for people who are skeptical of meditation.
- The voice in my head is an asshole.
- 10% happier not unicorns and rainbows.
- What meditation isn’t.
- Reading Eckhart Tolle.
- Our tendency to focus on the bad things and ignore the good.
- The difference between constructive anguish and useless rumination.
- The difference between pain and suffering.
- “the craving to be elsewhere, to be otherwise, permeated my life”
- The tendency to project into the future.
- “The background static of perpetual discontent”.
- How we are like colicky babies who are never quite satisfied.
- His conflicted view on the tendency to never be satisfied.
- How dissatisfaction can drive us forward.
- When it is useful to keep pushing and when is it better to back down?
- The happiness set point theory.
- Raising our emotional set point.
- Ambition versus satisfaction.
- Motivation coming from happiness versus pain.
- Not being attached to the results.
- Romanticizing melancholy.
- How a certain amount of stress is necessary.
- Being happy does not work at cross purposes to being successful.
- Dealing with failure.
- How when our minds wander we are less happy.
- Meditation in less than 140 characters.
- Remembering to feed the good wolf.
- How one of the meanings of mindfulness is remembering.
- Training to be less of an asshole.