#166: Am I A Bad Person Or Is It Just My Addiction

The Betrayed, The Addicted, The Expert

Ashlynn Mitchell, Brannon Patrick, Coby Mitchell

Health & Fitness, Education, Mental Health, Sexuality, Self-improvement

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Caller Andrew's Question: "My behavior regarding my addiction was so different than the rest of my life. How do I tell what was addiction/avoidance attachment and what was really me and is in my dna/personality?"

Brannon Patrick, "The Expert", is co-founder of Therapy Utah (therapyutah.org). You can follow Brannon on Instagram @brannon_patrick. He has some really great online courses available at brannonpatrick.com like his Boundary Bootcamp course. Brannon has a program called L.I.F.T. for betrayal trauma and addiction recovery available online starting soon. Go to https://www.liftforrecovery.com/ for more info!

Tyler Patrick, "The Wandering Therapist", is co-founder of Love Strong (lovestrong.com), a Christian-based Recovery + WHOLEHEARTED living therapy practice based in Cache Valley, Utah. If you'd like to work with Love Strong via telehealth or in-person, reach out to us at [email protected] or go to our website: https://lovestrong.com. We have a great online Foundations Of Recovery Class starting soon. This class is for sex addiction recovery and healing from betrayal trauma. Go to https://lovestrong.com/services/foundations-group/ to learn more and sign up.

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0:00.0	Am I a bad person, or is it just my addiction?
0:04.6	Welcome to the Real Talk Recovery Podcast with the Therapy Brothers.
0:10.6	We're brothers, we're therapists, and we know recovery.
0:14.6	Bring your stories, your questions, your successes with real recovery.
0:30.5	Hey, Tyler. How's it going, man?
0:33.0	Good, man. How are you doing?
0:35.0	Good. I was just thinking how I wish I could live the good life like you.
0:39.0	What are you talking about? You're the one who only works like three hours a day.
0:43.0	Where are you going on Wednesday?
0:48.0	We're actually fortunate. We're going to go to a, we're taking a trip to Hawaii with our family.
0:53.0	Man, life is rough, man.
0:55.0	You just get back from the wind rivers in Texas.
0:59.0	It's, it's summer time. We've had a little bit of traveling lately.
1:02.0	It is. We're really fortunate. We got a, we got a good life and we got to take our kids.
1:06.0	Every time our, one of our kids turns 18, we take them on a big vacation.
1:09.0	So that's what we're doing for us.
1:11.0	You epitomize work hard, play hard.
1:13.0	Like you, you live that principle to, to the max.
1:17.0	I should probably, I should probably play a little bit more.
1:20.0	I think I still work too much.
1:22.0	Yeah.
1:23.0	That's awesome, Tyler. So I, I hope you have fun. That's, I mean, you know how I feel about Hawaii.
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