Your Best Buddy; You or Your Addiction?

What’s the Value of Addiction?

Welcome to episode #6 of the “What’s the Value of Addiction?” podcast. For this episode I have the amazing Marilyn Bradford as my guest.

Marilyn is a psychotherapist, international speaker, author, and Access Consciousness Certified Facilitator with more than thirty years of experience in the addiction field. She has facilitated change and possibility for thousands around the world.
Marilyn is the creator of Right Recovery For You, a unique and radical approach to ending any addictive or compulsive behaviour.
She herself has a history of addiction and spent 17 years following the steps of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) before she found Access Consciousness.

In this episode we talk about how AA and its structure can be a great contribution especially in the beginning of your journey to sobriety. Although both mine & Marilyn’s experience is that AA does not teach you how to create your life, that’s where we both have (and still are) using the tools of Access Consciousness every day.

We have a very vulnerable conversation about how addiction can be like your “best buddy” and how the exploration of living without addiction is really about learning to be with yourself (which is NOT always comfortable).

We also talk about how addiction can show up in so many different ways; alcohol & drugs yes absolutely, but also as perfectionism, being right, being wrong, being the perfect mom etc.And with any kind of addiction you’re leaving your being, you’re leaving yourself.

Key takeaways;
- What if you can be grateful for the thing you were addicted to - how much was it there to serve you?
- Creating separation & distance to create change never works
- Addiction is an energy looking for a target
- Kindness with yourself can be a strong talk, it’s not always being nice

RESOURCES & LINKS
www.marilynbradford.com
www.instagram.com/rightrecoveryforyou
www.brendonwatt.com
www.accessconsciousness.com