Welcome to today’s show!

WHAT WE’LL LEARN:

• Why Robert considers himself a Christo-Buddhist
• How Tibetan Buddhism led him down a certain path for 15 years
• How the Dalai Lama led him towards seeing Christ as a bodhisattva
• How we numb out the pain and shame at the risk of ever feeling happiness
• Why Robert thinks the “what is your drug of choice” question is ridiculous
• How to differentiate between mindfulness and meditation
• How mindfulness trains the brain to slow it down and not react to past trauma or bodily sensations
• Why Robert feels treating the trauma instead of the addiction is the right approach
• Learn a few mindfulness tools for our tool box
• How mindfulness leads to meditation
• What does brokenness do for our life
• The connection between mindfulness and Rumi’s poem, The Guest House
• Why a regular mindfulness practice is so important to one’s recovery

RESOURCES MENTIONED

• Brene Brown Talks About Numbing Out
• Waking The Tiger
• Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
• Liferecoveryconsulting.org
• robert@liferecoveryconsuling.org
• A.I.R. Private Facebook Group 

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