Matt Finch and Chris Scott discuss the power of changing your life narrative and creating an empowering identity and meaning for fulfillment.
The way you think, believe, and act determines your quality of life, and there is a science to creating positive change in these areas.
Here are the main topics discussed in this episode:
- Addiction to over-thinking, worrying, and trying to predict things for feelings of safety
- Thinking of life in phases depending on what you’re going through and what you’re trying to have, be, and do
- Ayurvedic medicine and the different doshas (pitta, vata, kapha)
- Getting more natural energy from reducing caffeine and healing adrenals
- Why exercise is the best stimulant
- Addiction recovery coaching success story from one of Matt’s clients
- Why it’s impossible to predict all of the different challenges you’ll face in life
- The Carnivore Diet as the ultimate elimination diet for trying to treat certain health conditions
- The power of doing 30-day experiments on your diet, exercise, or other goals
- Why it’s often not a good idea to try and change your entire life overnight and how to take baby steps forward and build upon that momentum over time
- Why your environment either supports your goals or prevents you from getting what you want
- Examples of environments that support addiction recovery goals and other goals
- The movie called Wild starring Reese Witherspoon, based on a true story of a woman that quit opioids and other substances by hiking for over 3 months straight
- Coming up with a name for your addict self and your recovered self
- Coming up with names for your old chapter of life and the new chapter of life you’re beginning
- Developing a new and empowering narrative
- Importance of identity
- “Without the sour, the sweet ain’t as sweet”
- Stabilizing your biochemistry to help you feel better and do better in life
- Noticing and feeling gratitude for all the little things in life to monopolize your thoughts and crowd out feelings of lack and fear
- Conditional vs. unconditional happiness
- Importance of creative expression
- What the future of America could look like post-lockdown and into the age of artificial intelligence soon to be upon us
- Mindmed Inc. and their goal of bringing 18-MC to market with FDA approval for the use of certain substance use disorders
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