Alive and Free

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 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.

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.

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.

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. 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.

Proprioception can be often thought of how you perceive your physical situation, but it goes a lot deeper than that. It is how you perceive yourself in any situation. Proprioception is how you catch yourself in the act of living. We're going to talk about this in depth today. Have a listen. Highlights: The prediction is made first, and only if the prediction is wrong, is more energy spent trying to figure out what's going on. (6:00) We end up limiting our future by never challenging the predictions of the past. (11:20) The physicality of it is an attempt to sideline all of the thinking and doomsday-ing that's happening inside. (21:45) If a reaction to something was less than it was before, and if it stays that way over the course of a day or two, the brain is now making different guesses about the idea that has been adopted. (:) 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.

AF 243 - Affirmations & Disbelief Sounding like opposite ends of a spectrum, affirmations and disbelief are not so different. In fact, affirmations come for the disbelief in yourself and the lack of surety. Today we'll talk about this more. Have a listen. Highlights: If you don't go through pain, then you don't gain pain. (3:45) People are trying to find a trauma to blame their problems on, and they feel worse because they're "just that messed up". (8:35) I can say that I feel like there's something missed in the beauty of life, in its natural form. (22:25) What if, by itself, without any need to improve it, just being human is one of the most glorious things we can experience. (24:30) 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.

Although Integrity and honesty may seem very similar, there are a few key differences that make a whole lot of change. Today, we'll talk about that more. Have a listen. Highlights: …under the assumption that in the next 20 years of life, an opinion would and should never change. (5:40) If I could connect to people on their goodness, then positive things would come out of it. But I thought goodness meant that people thought and operated the same way I do. (14:55) At different times in the world, goodness would have been defined differently. (18:00) Only when the perception change, does the reaction change. (27:05) 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.

The culture around addiction and mental illness today convinces you that you have a massive problem. It's fueled by your subconscious mind. And it's something you're helpless over. But what if none of that is true? Well, good news: It's not true. You don't have a problem with addiction or mental health. You don't have a subconscious mind plotting against you. And you have full control over your body and mind. 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.

So Bob is out of town, and Lee decided to do a classic rewind of an important podcast. With one of two amazing episodes; this is from September 1, 2021, called The Body-Based Approach to Happiness, Health, and Well-being. In our modern society, we put too much emphasis on our minds, thoughts, and feelings. The problem with this is your mind is just a fraction of your total experience of life. In fact, your whole body is a brain. And I can prove it. Pinch your finger right now and you'll experience pain signals shooting up to your brain. Yet, when it comes to emotional baggage, trauma, addictions, and other mental ailments, we forget about the body and hyperfocus on the mind. If you want to permanently free yourself from these mental diseases, you have to first start in your body. Ancient cultures from all over the world knew how to do this. But we forgot how to do it in our modern world. In this episode, I'm revealing how a body-based approach to happiness, health, and well-being is more effective than any therapist could hope to be. Listen now. Show highlights include: The strange way laws prevent therapists from helping you as much as they could (4:09) Why therapy and counseling can only help a fraction of your mental health problems (even if it feels like they're working) (14:33) How chanting mantras can actually make your anxiety, depression, and even schizophrenia subside (17:11) Why using your body is the single best way to eliminate all your mental and emotional baggage forever (19:32) How to teach your body freedom so you can erase mental health problems, addictions, and even chronic pain from your life (28:38) 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.

Comas aren't always, lights out and unconscious for a long time. Sometimes it's just the lack of energy from overstimulation. And in today's world, there's a lot of it. Today we'll talk about it more. Have a listen. Highlights: Everything you see is changing the tension patterns in your body, and that's going to change your perspective of things. (8:00) When you prime your system with; something's gone wrong and we have to find the mystery, you unconsciously live your life that way. What entertains you, trains you. (13:05) When you do something unconsciously, it seems like you don't experience it. (20:35) Instead of wondering why there's little energy to do things, maybe, just maybe, It's being used to process everything you see. (28:00) 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.

The breath has been studied many times over for years. All the little tips and tricks can help understand the breath. But mastering it comes for paying attention to how it feels to you. Today, we'll talk about the breath. Have a listen. Highlights: People tend to try to master breathing by only thinking about breathing in certain regards or certain breathing practices instead of understanding the nature and depth of what breath really is. (6:30) The best place to start, in terms of mastering the breath, is to pay attention to it. How are you breathing during the day? (8:40) How are you breathing? And when you consciously slow it down, what changes? (14:25) You're never going to see the link in how you're breathing and what you're doing and how you're feeling, until you pay attention. (26:50) 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.

Not everything is purely psychological. The biology of a person has a lot to do with their emotions, their thoughts and their moods. So, connection the biology to the psychology can be a key experience to letting go of trauma and addiction. Highlights: I'm taking my years and years of experience understanding how the mind and body are intertwined, to bring the mind and the body together too un-stitch all of the quilted patterns of misery that people have stitched to themselves over the course of their lives. (12:50) There's nothing wrong with allowing breath work to happen, but why not let it happen on purpose? Why not be deliberate with how you use the breath? (14:05) I hold people in this spot, teetering on the edge of play and challenge and discomfort, back and forth to where they can't keep holding on to their old reasons to suffer. And somewhere in the middle of it, the magic happens. (27:05) The key understanding is that people's thoughts and feelings come from their biology. (33:50) 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.

Recovery shouldn't take forever. There's no reason for you to be an addict, or a recovering addict, for a majority of your life. Today we're gonna talk about that a little more. Have a listen. Highlights: If you are not able to live a life free of that thing, and happy, and more capable than you were before, then it doesn't deserve the title of a rehab center. (4:00) I've often compared it to being chased by a rabid dog; you always have to stay one step ahead and you can't stop. (6:55) If it takes 30 years to overcome something that can happen in days, weeks, or months, then whoever's running that program, doesn't have a clue about it. (11:20) How closely have you paid attention to the small things, and how well have you trained yourself to recover. (14:20) 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.

Knowing that there are more than the 5 senses you were taught throughout your childhood, let's talk about another one. Today we're going to talk about the sense of self. Have a listen. Highlights: Humans use a sense of self as a way to navigate the world of society and as a way of motivating ourselves. (9:00) We talk about ourselves as if that's who we are all the time, but really, that's something that is altered. (13:25) That self is whatever I've identified as me. It has to do with experiences I've collected, or had powerful emotional responses to, or the things that have felt "important". (18:45) This search for who you are, is what a lot of people are on. (27:05) 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.

We live in such an immense world. The belief that humans are a superior race and are built to rule all is not true just because we've invaded everything. Today we'll talk more about what's going on in not our world, and what we're missing. Have a listen. Highlights: We are so dependent on our eyes, We are so dependent on our eyes because they are the most delicate of our senses. (4:00) Across the board, humans aren't really doing much difference, except in terms of quality. (13:20) There is something that we're calling life that is massively varied, all of which is experiencing itself in a variety of ways that we humans can't even understand and yet we have the hubris to believe that we are the reason for all of it and that we are more important and better than the rest of it when there's so many places where we fall short and so many things we do not see. (15:30) There's so much that we don't understand about reality, so much that we are missing because our senses are set up to help our species survive the way that this species does. (18:05) 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.

Today, we're going to think about what's really going on when you tell somebody that your day was good, or when you feel sad. Although it might seem like just a simple feeling, there's more to it than that. Have a listen. Highlights: They were creating stories about how they were marred when in reality they weren't, and that goes back to, what are we creating with our own thoughts. (11:50) These experiences are built out of a brain that's just pulling information from the body that it happens to be sitting in. (14:25) It's a lot easier to live in a world where you already know what's going on. (35:25) Emotions are not a reflection reality at all, it is your brain's best guess about how it should respond to the situation. (37:45) 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.

Lee had the question; what is a human? A big bundle of nerves and tissue or some higher and wiser being on this planet? Today we'll talk more about it. Have a listen. Highlights: From the very beginning, human cells are bejng supported by bacteria. (14:15) People are too busy saying we are meant to dominate nature, when really, we are at the mercy of nature the entire time.k (14:45) A human is never existent without the environment it's in. (18:20) If we hold our body in such a way that doesn't make viruses and bacteria the enemy, what could be possible? (30:00) Human is a category, but what does it mean to be you? (37:00) 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.

Today we're talking a little about an experience we had with the human nervous system. Maybe we'll get on somebody's nerves a little, maybe not. Have a listen. Highlights: This whole collection of nerves is providing your human experience. (4:15) Even as he's dead, he treats him with the utmost respect. (13:00) The identification of one's self with the body, on one level, creates a possibility for experience, but on another level, it creates a trap inside that experience. (29:30) The whole nervous system was almost mapped out like a tree. (31:30) 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.

With all the clamoring voices declaring the latest health fads and superfoods, so many of which seem to be in contradiction to each other, how is one to know what to do? Do we follow the simple advice of Michael Pollan (Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.)? Or do we micro measure every morsel for optimum productivity and neurological function? Lots to discuss, and, as always, with an eye to making things simpler. Have a listen. Highlights: Nowadays you can walk into almost anywhere and see the teenagers have all the signs of being youthful, but there's something off with their physique. (5:50) There are a lot of experts today that claim to know what health is. But when I step back and look at it, it just seems to be that what we're claiming health is, is really distorted. (9:25) People define freedom as the ability to do whatever you want to do, but I've suggested the following definition; that freedom is the ability to not do what you don't want to do. (21:29) It doesn't have so much to do with your genetics, but the way you learned to eat. So if you change the way you eat, you can actually change what the outcomes are. (32:55) 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.

With the crazy season upon us, don't let that be something to take the happiness away. So many people feel they have more responsibility and expectations on them because of the chaos of holidays. Today we'll talk about that more. Have a listen. Highlights: Everybody has expectations for a holiday when they don't have expectations for an average Tuesday. (2:50) With traditions, is this the kind of experience that you want to have, or are you just putting yourself on autopilot and trying to knuckle through the holiday? (8:25) It's almost like saying, "take a holiday from the holiday". (27:30) The holidays are a chance for everyone to catch their breath, not just one person. (31:25) 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.

I periodically get people asking me if we do couples' counseling. While we have worked with a number of couples, it's usually one at a time. So I decided to bring on a guest whose approach to bringing what she calls "everyday eroticism" into a marriage that still has to wash the dishes and get the kids off to school, might just be what turns the tides for you. Alexandra Stockwell, MD, is an author, physician, and personal coach turned relationship guide and is here to share her wisdom. Have a listen. Highlights: Understanding gives you enough framework to feel safe to have different experiences. (6:55) People don't honor the "I just knew" piece enough. It's a feeling in your system, it's not an intellectual problem with a person, it's the only thing your body could make sense of. (8:45) You have no chance of creating what you want if you don't know what you want. (23:00) I think the way to be human is to eliminate the taboo as much as we can and be integrated with all the elements that we get to express in a marriage. (47:10) You can find out more about Alexandra's work, her book, and her podcast at https://www.alexandrastockwell.com 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.

Fasting isn't the hungry problem that I always thought it was growing up. Although the hunger may set in at some point, it isn't a "no pain, no gain" situation. Today, we'll talk about that more. Have a listen. Highlights: Even though I felt great, there was nothing to show a breakthrough. (11:30) What if fasting is a gift to my body to finally allow it to go through its full cycle? (14:40) Everybody's talking about a painful death, but your body is designed to make that not happen, if at all possible. (17:50) If you give somebody a promise of something that they haven't experienced, they'll make believe what those words mean without realizing that those words connect to something already in their experience. (40:20) 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.

What is faith? Inside of all the confusing definitions, descriptions and depictions, let's look at faith as focus. Let's see faith as where you put your attention. Today, we'll talk about that a little more. Have a listen Highlights: People ask where is god in this and the response is where do you want him to be in this? Let him be everywhere. Why does he need to be in one little pocket. (2:00) If your focus shifts, that doesn't mean you lack faith, it just means that you're interested in something else and your focus has shifted. (10:20) My focus was, I want to live a full life. The life that I feel in my bones that I came here to live. And if I put my focus there, unwavering, what might happen? (15:00) If you don't train your brain to focus on the things that matter to you and that build life and vitality, then how is your body going to know to do that on autopilot? (16:45) 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.

Throughout the years, the biggest ingredient I've found that determines whether a person finds freedom or not is what I'll call "commitment". Not commitment in the sense of making promises, but a drive to "make this work". That drive is what led me to my own freedom. It's not the only ingredient, but definitely one of the biggest players. So let's look at it. Could it possibly be that the main reason we fail is because we are more committed to our story, our comforts, our victimhood, our traumas, our triggers, our diagnoses, and our pains than we are to creating a life of freedom? Could that be the real obstacle? Have a listen. Highlights: I just admit that I cannot do for somebody, what only they can do for themselves. (10:10) To put MD after your name, makes people automatically assume that you're an expert on the subject that you're teaching. Even if that's not the case. (14:00) The experience we're giving is also transmitting how to live a good life from your previous one. (32:40) Are you willing to embrace that your feelings and thoughts could have been wrong because you're finally more committed to letting go of the pain, than being right? (36:50) 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.

Here comes the second half of Amber's inside look at what really happens inside a good rehab center. This time, we'll also discuss what else might help. Highlights: Your life was built to be you. A unique expression of life on this planet that has never been here before and never will be again. (4:00) Most people struggle not because they're stupid and don't understand something, but because the rest of their body hasn't gotten it yet. (19:30) When you're taking a medication, you're inserting chemistry into your body to force that chemistry into a different space. (20:30) The people that are the lowest on the totem pole, they start going to other places for help. It's drinks and drugs and pornography and when they're beaten down from that, they'll find somebody else who will lift them up and in those places they're being molded until they almost form a different breed of human. (29:15) 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.

Amber joins us today for an insider's look at what really goes on at a rehab center. From the schedule, to the therapy, to the classes, there's lots to talk about, including why the success rates are as low as they are across the board and what can be done to turn that around. Have a listen. Highlights: So alcohol became an escape, and at a certain point it became a catastrophe. (6:40) Why is it called recreational therapy, why not just play? (17:25) The thing I'll say is that therapy got me through. It didn't get me over my troubles, but it got me through. (31:10) Everything that you encounter in your life is going to change the function and neurology and synaptic patterns and everything else going on inside you. Pinning that on addiction only is a bit dishonest. (39:35) I'm not worried about sobriety. Only addicts are worried about sobriety. I'm a human being. (44:25) 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.

Over the time that I have been building and running my business, there have been a good number of arguments made against me and why anything I do won't work. So, today we'll just run over a few of them. Have a listen. Highlights: Therapists consider it unethical to get peoples hopes up and say that it's possible to get over depression and anxiety without medication. (7:25) People argue that I'm not a licensed therapist and I say, I know. Thats why I can do what I do. (10:10) Doctors are too busy labeling what's happening instead of seeing what's there. (29:35) There's things that we can do with stuff that we can see, taste, touch and smell. There's nothing we can do with a theory. As soon as you believe that theory is real, then it's a fight against a phantom. (31:20) 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.

Today lets talk about your bag of tricks. All these little tips and tricks that are available at anytime because they come from you. Go ahead, have a listen. Highlights: When people take bits and pieces from other material, sometimes they're cobbling all the little pieces together and in the end they don't get to enjoy that it's not just a puzzle, but a picture also. (4:00) When you're in the here and now, you do not experience anxiety. Anxiety is a future oriented thing. (7:10) Being so focused on doing something right means not just doing the thing. Doing something right is not doing the thing. (11:50) Just by turning a conclusion (an ending) into a beginning (a quest or a question) a whole new world of inquiries opens up. (17:30) 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.

In spirit of upcoming Halloween, Lee is playing devil's advocate with some common questions that we get in mind. Have a listen. Highlights: It's not uncommon for a human being to have assumed that because another person uses a word that their familiar with, that therefore they know everything about that word and subject and can pronounce their opinion on it. (3:15) Assuming that I have to understand your struggles in order for you to let them go is such a big misconception. (10:45) I don't deny what happened in my life, but I don't suffer it. (20:25) Diagnoses are just a snapshot in time of how you are doing at the moment. (26:10) Don't let good experiences be a mountain top experience, let it be the base line. (34:45) 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.

Today, Lee decides to air his opinions about The Freedom Specialist — "You were operating like a non-profit without any of the benefits of being a non-profit." It's what led us to actually create Built for Freedom as a non-profit to be able to offer help and support to people who aren't in a position to afford that on their own. If you'd like to join us in offering scholarships for those in need, you can donate here. Highlights: I didn't realize that I knew something valuable, and when someone pointed it out in a pointed fashion, I went for it. (13:20) These are people that are trying to learn self-defense in order to protect themselves, but I'm teaching it in a way that you cease to become a target in the first place. (14:15) Freedom can spread like a virus. A freedom virus. (23:20) We're not trying to change the medical industry or the psychology industry. This is something totally different. (31:10) This basically eliminates the notion of problems by teaching people how to live so powerfully that what they used to call problems, evaporate on their own because their entire life is just blossoming. (32:00) 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.

School is one example of a social institution where some people thrive and others tank. But what if that has more to do with the way it's set up than whether some students lack the ability to learn. This was Kathy Kolbe's connundrum. Dyslexic, dysgraphic, riddled with ADHD, and a female in the mid-twentieth century is not exactly a winning formula for success. But she was determined to scientifically prove equality. What she produced has been a tremendous asset in helping our clients learn how to succeed at healing, recovery, and happiness in a way that matches their own strengths (instead of being forced to always do things the way the teacher says). It has freed them to finally be and honor themselves just as they are. Today well talk about that a little more. Have a listen. Highlights: There's a lot of people listening that don't realize that when they think there's a deficit in them, they've really just been asked to operate differently than their own strengths. (11:10) Being burned out, hopeless, stressed, and depressed; how much of that is just you trying to be someone that you're not? (12:00) It gave perspective on the way I operate and It gave permission to be me. (27:55) This is not an excuse to cop out on what you aren't as familiar with, but maybe that there are other ways to do it.(29:10) Your perception of the world, your instinctive reaction to the world, is the place where freedom can be put on autopilot. And that is markedly different than Kathy's conation. (34:45) 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.

Are you really what you eat? Most of the research seems to point that direction. At least we can say that what you put in your body has an enormous effect on how you experience your life. Meet Glucose, that wonderful saccharine molecule that has a tendency to break down arterial walls and pump the pancreas for all of its insulin. It's the bad guy in so many diets. Yet when eaten after other foods, those foods often nullify the blood glucose spikes that are the hallmark of diabetes. Simply the order the food is eaten changes that. And that's just one way to play nicely with the bad guy so Mr. Glucose doesn't bully your innards as much. Today we'll talk about this more. Have a listen. Highlights: She's very careful to mention that you are the scientist of your own life. If it doesn't work, change it up. (6:20) When handling one part of the human body well, it cascades to other things. When handling two parts well, it seems to give exponential help to the body. (7:40) Making the argument that you get all these antioxidants from a big spoon of honey is not going to work when they can all be gained in a blueberry. (:) It was all sugar. It's no longer a gas station, it's a sugar station that happens to sell gas. (26:00) 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.

What if we could look at a diagnoses not as limitations but as possibilities like many cultures have done over the millennia? People with multiple personalities have the ability to split their emotions and other changes in the body. Yes, I said an ability. Instead of thinking on diagnosis as a disorder. Maybe we can think of it as a strength. We'll explore more of this today. Have a listen. Highlights: The difference between somebody with multiple personality disorder, and a normal person, is that the former's personalities don't talk to each other. (7:15) We had a client who claimed to have OCD. So we did a cognitive test on them and they were high in facts and structure. So what if it's not a disorder, but instead a strength? (12:05) Back then the answer was to cast out people with multiple personalities. To put them through some kind of experience that maybe un-fractured the mind a little. (22:20) A person with different personalities, has many different personas and masks. The fact that they can take them off at will is amazing (24:55) 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.

As my dad battles his cancer, his doctors are prescribing him with more and more pain meds. But as they give him the substances to shut off his pain signals, they aren't even questioning whether or not this is adding to the massive bowel obstruction seen on his CT scan. Nor are they even considering any option that is not a drug to alleviate his pain Yet I show up and give him simple things to do to ramp up his own internal pain killers. These are things "pain doctors" should know, but instead they give me a quizzical look like I'm an alien. All because they aren't questioning whether or not the method they're used to is the only or even best way So today we'll talk about the possibility that comes from being willing to question. Have a listen. Highlights: There's lots of places where people just swallow the information instead of questioning. (8:30) None of them have ever experienced it. And that led to the question, "Why am I listening to them if their answers will only ever keep me on the roller coaster?" (12:25) What we're dealing with is your biology. What we're dealing with is the comfort of your system, and how your mind makes sense of that. (13:50) Doctors are trained to never suggest that they don't know what's going on. (30:45) It was a really hard thing for this man to even question his own practice. (34:40) 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.

Let's get real about what it feels like when emotions and behaviors take over. When that happens, what do you do? Today we'll also talk about questioning things. Not necessarily everything, but all the things that, when questioned, add up to a lot more freedom. Have a listen. Highlights: Question everything. If it's helpful and useful to you, then question it. (14:00) In any conflict, there's ten fights and nine of them are going on inside yourself. (21:25) If there's somebody that's saying "I've had a worse life", I won't deny that. But what do you want to do now? (26:00) In the moment that "I don't know if I can let this go" is said, then nothing is being let go. But once it is questioned, then it has already been let go. (28:10) 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.

Lee brought up the question "is angustia sin?" Angustia is the constriction brought by chemicals in the body from their experiences. Sin is something offencive against moral law. So when you experience something that is against your own morals and your own laws and you feel that disappointment, or that constriction, you feel angustia. Today we'll explore that more. Have a listen. Highlights: The more experience and interaction there is with certain concepts, the more the brain can fine tune its understanding of the world. (26:30) When sin enters into a being, the PH levels change and they cause changes in the body that are "leading toward death". (27:10) When you get down to the bottom, a person experiences their sin in angustia. When the life is being squeezed out of their body by themselves. (39:15) If karma is taken as "what goes around comes around", and somebody does good in order to get good in return, but they don't get that good, they'll experience disappointment. Which is angustia, which is sin. (39:40) The idea that life is a byproduct is a great way to measure whether or not what you are doing is in harmony with the life that you are. (55:05) 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.

As we get older and spend more time on this planet, we often create and experience what might be dubbed turmoils and trauma. But these aren't always bad. These biologically intense experiences often create tensions, emotional patterns, and behaviors. As a result, we unwittingly change our instinctive reaction to life. But this doesn't always have to be an accident. Consciously creating those kinds of experiences while also deliberately redirecting the response in the body generated what might be dubbed "positive trauma", or what one author and researcher calls transformation through turmoil. Today we'll talk more about this. Have a listen. Highlights: If trauma is defined as a seed idea at a time during physical or biological intensity, then there's no need to call it good or bad. (8:45) "Do you know the type of intensity and care that has an intention that is good for you?" (15:30) Being grateful for not just the results, but the process of trauma as well, was refreshing. (17:25) There are ways to court this conscious discomfort. (29:00) Oftentimes, the way out is in. In resisting discomfort, we are keeping it around. (31:40) 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.

As humans, we inevitably create tension patterns in our body from experiences we've had and the way we've lived. Those tension patterns can show up in all sorts of situations, from the way we talk, all the way down to the way we walk. Using new and different movement to mess with those tensions and put a "disturbance in the force" is a ridiculously simple method that can free us from these tensions. Those movements also have the added benefit of revealing all the other patterns we've created. We'll explore this a little more today. Have a listen. Highlights: Any lever in the body will effect something, so let's pull the practical ones. (11:40) It's impossible to lie and hide what's on the inside. It's like whack-a-mole, it'll just pop out another hole. (13:20) On the second day of retreats we have the guys move in various ways to get rid of their physically rigid form, and that will translate to their mentally rigid form. (16:20) Start breathing before the movement, keep breathing throughout the movement, and continue breathing after so that the breath becomes an envelope. (19:45) Hard work is not a virtue. It may be required from time to time, but it's not a virtue. It's taxing on the body, and the body doesn't want it. (23:30) When the movement can be something that is smooth and powerful, there's more power with less effort, and your body doesn't suffer the consequences. (:) 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.

We all know that feeling when you're watching a movie and you feel the stress and the tension just like the character on the screen. This is your body creating a tension pattern around something that you subconsciously enjoy. There are many things people do to control these states — like chants or meditations — but not all of these are beneficial. None are better or worse than others, but they aren't always everything they are cracked up to be, despite the propaganda. Today we'll explore some things to watch out for. Have a listen. Highlights: Every human life seems to have a different expression of human-ness (2:00) Whatever activity you engage with, however good or bad, it is conditioning your mind and your body to function in a certain way. (7:40) You didn't break your brain, you just taught your body an uncontrolled skill (9:40) If you are training and then the army invades, and you're exhausted, then your training didn't serve you well. (12:05) Do you want an employee that sits down for their lunch break and wakes up 13 days later? You're going to be functional in society when you're in these ecstatic meditative states. (15:35) Meditation is not designed to cope with life. It's a place where something very, very deep within a person can open up in really profound ways and you can grasp the nature of your own existence. (25:30) 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.

You know that feeling when you want to ask for something but you don't want to seem weak or helpless? Or when you feel guilty because somebody else didn't communicate clearly and you "let them down"? These are the times when we, as adults, forget that we can actually ask for things. We spend all out time telling our kids this, and yet often don't do it ourselves. It might surprise you how freeing it is to ask for things — to "use our words" — instead expending all that energy in the constant chess game of manipulating other humans, holding expectations, and then hoping people read your mind and do what you want. Just ask. Here's more on that. Have a listen. Highlights: Alive and Free go hand in hand. The more life you have flowing through your body, the more alive you will feel and the more free you will feel, regardless of your circumstances. (1:50) We set up this expectation that if somebody really loves me then I shouldn't have to communicate what I want from them. (6:45) I'm too lazy to care enough about the other person to communicate effectively with them and then I want to blame them for lack of communication. (14:40) You don't actually love people. You love the idea of them, and when they don't measure up to your idea you get upset about it. (17:00) There is some courage in putting yourself out there and appearing vulnerable (8:50) When you are honest, you have the most power in any room. Everybody else is busy trying to manipulate other people into believing them. (20:35) 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.

People told me from the time I was little that the universe was created either by a big bang or by some outside, greater force. And (because I was little) I never really thought to question that. But what happens if, instead of just accepting every "fact" just because someone bigger or older says it's a fact, we take a second to pause and actually see if they are useful ways to see the world? That journey — allowing yourself to question everything that has been told to you — can sometimes feel scary, but it opens the door to better solutions than the ones that haven't been working. It also frees you from being sucked in or duped by another authority, documentary, news reel, or even research study. It gives you the ability to see life with your own two eyes instead of always having to look through the eyes of others. So let's challenge some "facts" today, shall we? Some BIG ones. And then see how that relates to your freedom from trauma, addiction, depression, pain, and so much more. Have a listen. Highlights: Nobody has witnessed any of these explanations, they're just theories attempting to explain what we don't know. (4:25) Nobody is right, the question is whether it's useful to you in your life. (19:05) That's where the religions that have stuck around have flourished. They've been useful enough to people that they have some staying power. (19:15) It's important to question any narrative that you've been given. (21:20) When I speak from my own experience and don't exaggerate, people don't try to argue. (34:25) Build your life from your own experiences and then borrow whatever is useful to you from other people instead of believing it because of their authority.(35:30) 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.

Sometimes we have these emotional rocks — literally, these are crystallized bits of ammonia, lactic acid, and other chemistry just sitting in our system. Leftovers from previous emotional soups run dry and not cleaned from the pot. Those "rocks" form because of the way your body instinctively responds at a molecular level to changes in your environment or situation. You might feel this as stress, ecstasy, anger, or even bliss, but what's really happening are that a bunch of neurons and cells are caught in a habitual chain reaction. And if not allowed flow through you and out, if resisted or suppressed in some way, those chain reactions persist. That's the key. Resisting, interpreting, and giving meaning to all those reactions repeatedly trains your system to create it as a shortcut. Today, we get to explore a bit about breaking the rock cycle. Have a listen. Highlights: If you don't clean out your body you just have a bunch of emotional soups that are left in there. (8:30) Your body is basically a walking Petri dish because of all the little bacteria and things in it. (16:25) There isn't a root issue with you, there is just a state that your body is in and your brain's interpretation of that state. (17:30) If your body doesn't change its state, then it's feeding the brain the same information to build with. (18:35) The rocks of your body form out of the soup of the emotions that are inside of the system. (21;40) 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.

A breath of fresh air is more than just the smell of trees, grass, and ozone? That one action is one of the fastest ways to mix up the chemistry in your body and create a completely different experience of life. It's a very simple, direct, and even easy process at times. Because how you feel is directly tied to your internal chemistry. We had a client with anxiety who needed a change. Someone constantly anxious. Someone getting the creepy feeling like there were people in his house even when he knew that nobody was there. And with a just little bit of breath work he began to feel amazing. We're talking minutes here. Because with a few adjustments to how you breathe, you can power up your body, think more clearly, calm yourself down, and even eliminate pain. Today, we get to explore that a bit more. Have a listen. Highlights: As I learned to breath better I became more aware of my body. (11:04) Where you agitate the breath or where you don't agitate it will create a different effect in the breathing and the body. (17:25) This is a guy with lots of anxiety and after some breath work, he feels amazing .(21:20) Breathing changed him and helped clear out his OCD in a week. (22:30) What we're doing is not a pitch to help somebody, but rather an invitation to more life. (36:30) Maybe take some time today and consider the gift that you have of the breath of life. (38:30) 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.

What if the real answer to your situation is that there was never a problem? I mean that with things as small as "he took my toy" and as big as depression, anxiety, PTSD, and the like. It's the radical, all-in-a-moment shift in perception that makes just about every problem vanish as quickly as it appeared. Without that, you end up endlessly chasing the next carrot and building an unpaid career in healing that never promises retirement. Nearly two decades training and teaching kung fu taught me about chasing the carrot. From lengthy sequences of movements to small little death points, there's always something else that you need to master or some ancient technique that was "long forgotten". But those are for the black belts. Or the next belt. And if you don't keep at it, you'll miss out. Major FOMO. Same thing happens with the latest new-fangled healing modality or whizbang medical breakthrough. You need this, or you must have that. But do you really? The answer to that lies in looking at your situation again and seeing through all the competing voices to what's really going on. Do that, and all the unnecessary carrots vanish like the mirages they are. Today, we get to explore that a bit more. Have a listen. Highlights: In order to keep you going, the industry had to keep you aware that there was more. (6:55) In order to make you feel like you need something, advertising corporations show you something that makes you think your life is miserable. (11:36) If you can't be happy when you aren't married then you're never going to be truly happy when you are married. In fact, that makes it worse (12:12) What is the life that is within me asking for? Not, "What does everyone say it should have?" (20:25) If you can't explain it to a six year old then you don't understand it yourself (34:40) The chase ends not when you solve the problem or fix yourself, but when you realize you were never broken in the first place. (35:55) 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.

Perry came to us as a videographer, not a client. He filmed retreats for us for 4 years until finally asking for some of the physical work we do to help him out. This is a guy who has run yoga retreats, explored all sorts of personal growth work, experienced a vast array of psychedelics, and deeply gets the link between the mind and the body. Yet still, he said afterward, "I thought I understood what you guys do, but I didn't realize just how deep it was." That's what happens when you bypass the mind and work both directly AND deeply with the body. Things change fast. Because all our mental and emotional issues are built on the state of the body. Change that, you change everything. Have a listen. Highlights: People are hungry to know how their body works and not have to rely on a book they read or anything else (7:20) By the time he got up it was like the facade had fallen and there was a real person sitting in front of me (10:25) If you're talking about a broken person, there's no such thing. If they were they'd be dead (11:55) Once someone puts a label on what I'm doing, they think they understand, and they discount it (14:20) It's the body, not the mind, that experiences the change, and it rises up and discovers it's not lacking, not weak. (24:25) It only seems impossible because you're looking at it from your history, not from your possibility (26:15) 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.

Here's something that will make you challenge everything you believe you know: The real reason why there's so much anxiety, or depression, or pain, or frustration, or stress, or fear, or anger in your life is NOT because something's broken inside you. Or because something's "wrong" with you. The real reason is because you probably never trained in conflict. So when conflict shows up, you do your best and exhibit the above emotions. And you know what? By training yourself in conflict, you can figure out how to be free of conflict. You can even find joy in conflict, and banish these nasty emotions without any other work or effort. And this creates a freedom to feel joy surge through your body at every moment in the day. In this episode, you'll discover how to unlock this kind of freedom inside of conflict and live the rest of your life in immense joy. Listen now. Show Highlights Include: The oddball "narrate your life" trick for never getting road rage again (1:54) The "Martial Arts for Healing" method for erasing your trauma through roughhousing and play fighting (9:16) Why the root cause of all your suffering is from conflict (and how you can create freedom and joy inside conflict) (10:10) The "pride is punched" secret for unlocking joy even when you're being physically attacked (12:21) How taking blame for the conflicts you find yourself in liberates you from them (16:19) The "Functional Meditation" technique I reveal at retreats which lets you bring a meditative quality to everyday life (21:08) 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.

Labels and diagnoses, from ADHD to codependency and every one in between, usually limits your potential. For example, I recently discovered that I probably have ADHD. But since I never labeled myself as ADHD or have gotten an official diagnosis that I have ADHD, it's been a super power for me instead of a way to victimize myself. The problem is, most people don't operate like this. They get labeled an addict, then falsely believe that they're an addict forever. It strips the power from them instead of empowering them. The solution? Challenge all of your narratives, even the ones you created. Because there's a chance you're limiting yourself instead of tapping into your natural super powers. In this episode, you'll discover how to challenge your narratives and unlock the pent-up super powers you already have inside you. Listen now. Show Highlights Include: The counterintuitive way creating habits to get into a "flow state" can leave you more distracted and less productive (0:51) Why the ADHD population is the most underserved community on Earth (and how to use it as an unfair advantage for life) (5:34) How thinking of your ADHD as "otherabled" lets you unlock the super powers it can give you (7:58) Why the mentality of modern education makes you think your strengths are weaknesses (10:09) The insidious way labeling yourself gives you a negative perception of yourself that lasts for decades (11:34) Why taking a problem solver test (like the Kolbe test) gives you a better insight into how you operate through life than a personality test (20:40) How starting your day by creating a "Not To Do" list can boost your productivity and make your happiness soar (25:38) 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.

The concept of "healing" might sound appealing, but it's actually a dangerous trick in disguise. Why? Well, it means you have to believe something is wrong with you in the first place, otherwise healing would never interest you. And when you let healing lure you in like a worm on a fishing rod it can actually create more misery, shame, and suffering. But it doesn't have to be that way. You don't have to "fix" or "heal" anything. Instead, you could just be done with that "masterpiece" of your life, and start painting a brand-new canvas, free from your past mistakes and trauma. How do you do this? In this episode, I reveal the counterintuitive way to stop judging yourself for your past, and how this unveils a new beauty in life. Listen now. Show Highlights Include How diving deep into art forces you to see the hidden beauty in life (1:29) The insidious "fix me" trap you can fall into on your healing journey which actually heightens your misery (6:53) The "Masterpiece" mindset shift for becoming oddly grateful for your past traumas, addictions, and suffering (9:04) How writing your own eulogy can help you set down the worst things from your past and start a new life (16:27) Do you shame yourself for your mistakes? Here's why celebrating them instead frees you from them instead of imprisoning you to them (24:32) 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.