Addressing Problems, Not Symptoms

We're trained in the West to address symptoms- not problems.

For example, I do not have trouble with sobriety. This is because concurrent to getting sober, I began learning about spiritual psychology, which taught me about unresolved issues and deeper inner work. I then learned my drinking was a symptom, not a problem.

For this, I don't relate to the traditional Western recovery model which focuses on willpower and disempowerment. I don't relate to the stories of people in recovery and their struggle with it. Shit was hard, but once the physical addiction was over, I never had to think about it again. All I had to do was work on myself.

In the West, we treat our lives and the things that show up as holes in a leaky ship.

We put bandaids on the holes and never look for the problems, yet the ocean of problems is powerful trying to bust through.

Identity, limiting beliefs, and story are the things that disrupt our peace.  

We can use “goal line' strategies to temporarily deal with the symptoms, but without acknowledging and dealing with the problems, the symptoms will always persist.

In this episode, I explain how this has shown up in my own life, along with talking about larger systemic factors you may not even be aware of.

I also talk about the giant “purge” of decades of papers and receipts I had hoarded in my apartment, that seemingly, I did not know were there until I completed a bout of inner work that aided me in shedding an old identity.

I also talk about changes to Day 1. that will make it the MOST EXCITING COHORT YET (complete with new resources.)

Links mentioned in this episode:

Dr. Gabor Maté’s video on disease: https://youtu.be/c6IL8WVyMMs

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