Welcome to today’s show!

WHAT WE’LL LEARN:

• How hearing a sermon in a church led Peter to “wake up” and start to heal the suffering within
• How his Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. household normalized alcohol use
• What led Peter to get “interventioned” at work
• Why Peter found SMART recovery early on in his recovery and how it helped him
• What is SMART ‘s 4-point program
• Learn a few SMART recovery tools: for example, “ABC” tool
• How mindfulness works to challenge our automatic belief system
• What we need to do to release our stories (our past trauma)
• What makes SMART different is focusing on the internal locus of control
• How Peter uses his spirituality in his recovery and focusing on possibilities instead of challenges
• What the Oscar Wilde quote says that helps Peter get through the “heavy spaces” in recovery

RESOURCES MENTIONED

• David Kessler
• SMARTRecovery.org
• Smart.southdakota.org
• Smart Recovery South Dakota Facebook Page
• A.I.R. Private Facebook Group 

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