Matt Finch and Chris Scott discuss a variety of addiction recovery topics including consistency, full engagement, growth, self-reliance, rebuilding your life, and constant-and-never-ending-improvement (CANEI).
Here are the main topics discussed in this episode:
- The Power of Consistency for Transcending Addiction
- Defining life balance and work-life integration
- Why Matt highly recommends reading The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
- Jim Rohn quotes: “Don’t wish things were easier, wish you were better.” “For things to change, you have to change.”
- Life is a series of problems and lessons and thus reframing challenges as gifts to make us stronger is a useful tool
- Why Chris and Matt left AA and recovered without meetings
- The only requirement for AA membership is “a desire to stop drinking” — yet many of the “AA Police” will tell you you’re not working the program right if you use medical cannabis, which is them playing “Dictator of AA”
- Getting control of your day and keeping it that way
- The soul-crushing suck of working a job or career that you hate and how that can prevent addiction recovery and happiness
- The awesome feeling of quitting a job or career you despise
- Matt reliving some of his most important decisions (such as quitting his counseling career) and how great it feels to make a great life-changing decision
- How people get stuck and how they can get unstuck
- The journey is worth it!
- Having belief in yourself and faith in the process
- How Chris and Matt started blogging and no one believed they would be able to make a living doing it
- Constant-and-never-ending-improvement (CANEI) as a worthy discipline for life
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I just discovered your podcast today, and I’m drawn to the positive energy I felt listening. I’m 30 days sober today, and the past 2 weeks have been a bit challenging with lots of thoughts of drinking which is another reason that I found your podcast to add as a new resource for me. In the beginning of this episode, supplements were mentioned. I’ve always been a very active person and blessed to have maintained my fitness during my 3 decades of blackout drinking. I would like to start supplements to optimize my health. Do you have a list of what you take or can you suggest where I can find the best supplements for me and my lifestyle?
Thank you for your help and support.
Hi Lauren,
We’re so delighted you found our podcast and have a new resource to help you maintain an alcohol-free and healthy lifestyle. Here are some resources to figure out where to begin with supplements:
The Mood Type Questionnaire
Discover Your Brain Type Questionnaire
The “Miracle Supplements” Matt & Chris Used for Recovery