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October 7, 2016 By Melissa Sue Tucker

ASP040: Discovering Your Inner Gold: Doing The Work

Discovering Your Inner Gold: Doing the Work

This week we are talking about doing the work required to discover your inner gold.  We jump into all the different ways that people use to avoid paid and the fear of pain.  Then we get to the good stuff, what is on the other side of that pain.

Inner Gold:

We are born with our Inner Gold inside of us.  Dysfunctional and unloving households suppress them.

  • aptitudes
  • interests
  • loves
  • passions
  • capabilities

Dr. Dean goes into the conflict between the individual and the collective.  The collective is all those forces that want us to fit in and become part of the collective.  The problem with that is is not possible for an individual to ever fit in.

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“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
– EE Cummings

If someone wants to discover their inner gold, they need to get back in touch with their original self.  We need to reconnect and heal those psychic wounds.

A list of distractions:

  • Addictions
  • Dysfunctional Relationships
  • Jobs & Workaholism
  • Life Projects
  • Life Coping Strategies
    • Codependency
    • People Pleasing
    • Never Saying No
    • Self-Abnegation: the denial of oneself
    • Relationships and friendships with people who you shouldn’t be friends with.
    • Enabling

Step 1: Stop running and let the pain hit you

Imagine Indiana Jones running from that big ball. Then just stop running.  Running includes any of the behaviors listed above.  Or it might be something different.

Step 2: Grieve

Many times people find that they grieve a childhood they did not have.

Sometimes there is sexual abuse, physical abuse, emotional, verbal, spiritual abuse, abandonment, and/or neglect.  These abuses can create a deep well of shame.

Shame is different than guilt.  Guilt is remorse over something you have done and you can make amends for.  Shame is a darker feeling.  Shame is associated with one’s identity.  Shame causes you to feel completely worthless.  The only way to stop letting shame run you is to feel it and grieve.

Step 3: Do the work

Doing the work can look many different ways.  But it’s pretty simple. (Not easy mind you, but it is simple.) It is traveling through the pain and reintegrating it into your human experience.

Doing the work starts with a recognition that your current life is not working for you.  You are unhappy with your results.  It requires a willingness to go within and immense honesty.

  1. You can do the work by going to meetings.  Dr. Robb recommends ACA meetings and CoDA meetings.
  2. You can also journal or record audio.  Most phones today have a recording option on them.  The key to getting this to work is to just let the information flow out of you.
    • Some questions to journal/record on include:
      • Why am I involved in this dysfunctional relationship?
      • What am I getting out of it?
  3. Find a therapist or a coach. Make sure they understand what you are going through.
    • You’ve heard me say how much I love coaching.  Every person has a natural level of success they will achieve on their own.  (I’m not talking about money, although that can be one way to measure it. If you are reading this then you are successful!)  We must be open to feedback and coaching from someone who has been there and can see what we can’t.
  4. Create a support system.

Step 4: Beautifully start to discover and reconnect with your true self, your inner gold.

This is the perfect time to start trying new behaviors. Practice and be patient with yourself.   Explore new career paths if you are unhappy in your career.  Start to explore what you want in life.

I’m excited to know how you feel about this episode.  Please leave a comment below and let us know.  What did you love as a child? What will your next step be?

Resources:

Dr. Robb can be reached at drrobb@nextstagerecovery.com, by phone at 908-922-3009 or 908-757-4721, on the internet at www.NextStageRecovery.com, on Facebook at  facebook.com/nextstagerecovery, and on Twitter at @RecoverWithDean.

This is the 2nd in a series of 6 episodes with Dr. Dean Robb.  Did you hear the others?

  • Episode 39 Dr. Robb & I discuss “Realizing Your Potential in Recovery“
  • Episode 41 Dr. Robb & I examine the question “What is Emotional Sobriety?“
  • Episode 42 Dr. Robb & I review “Renewal, Hitting a New Bottom and Starting Over“
  • Episode 43: “What is Codependence? What are its symptoms? Where does it come from? How can it be overcome?”
  • Coming Soon | Episode 44: “Developing Mature, Healthy, Balanced Relationships in Recovery”
  • Bonus Episode – Did you hear the 1st podcast we did together?  Dr. Robb & I went really deep into how PTSD and Emotional Trauma from Childhood needs to be addressed if someone wants to truly recover from addiction.

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Special thanks to Dr. Robb for joining me this week.  Until next time!

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Related posts:

  1. How To Not Be Codependent
  2. ASP035: PTSD, Emotional Trauma From Childhood Needs to Be Addressed
  3. ASP041: What Is Emotional Sobriety?
  4. ASP033: Loving What Is – Chapter 1 of Byron Katie’s Life Changing Book

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Melissa Sue Tucker

Melissa Sue Tucker from Oak Creek Wellness interviews inspiring family members and friends of alcoholics, drug addicts, and people who have struggled with other addictions. Discover tips and tricks on how we can keep ourselves healthy when we are in a relationship with an addict. You can also hear from holistic health and wellness professionals that share insight into keeping yourself well. Although Melissa confesses she does not have it all figured out, through the help of seminars, life coaches, and wellness professionals she has been able to work through her feelings of sadness, guilt, and shame associated with having two younger brothers struggle with drug addiction. After one brother passed away, she decided that his death would not be in vain. Only recently after watching Johann Hari's Ted Talk: Everything You Know About Addiction is Wrong did she decided to take action by focusing on inspiring hope and change by providing love and support to friends and family members of addicts. “Be the change you wish to see in the world” - Gandhi

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