199: Dr. Robb Kelly on Spirituality and Sobriety
Soberful
Veronica Valli
4.8 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Robb Kelly is one of the leading voices in the addiction recovery movement. In this episode, he tells his miraculous story of recovery from homelessness to a Ph.D. He explains the significance of neuroplasticity combined with spiritual awakening is the key to recovering from alcoholism.
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| 0:35.8 | but I took it as a warning, that you might be a treasure. |
| 0:42.6 | I could touch but never hold. |
| 0:47.7 | So welcome to Dr. Rob Kelly to the Sober Four podcast. |
| 0:52.0 | It's nice to finally meet you. |
| 0:53.7 | You too, Bronica. Good to be here. Thank you for having me. I've seen you pop up and I know we've both had to reschedule this a couple of times and I've seen your staff on social media and stuff. And then I didn't realize until you got into the call, you're also a Brit that lives in America. I know. It's awesome. There are a few of us around, |
| 1:12.4 | but it's really nice to meet another Brit, I must admit. Every time I talk through, I go to the |
| 1:16.8 | off license, you got what? Oh, sorry, liquor store. It's all the little stuff like that. |
| 1:22.9 | Did you marry an American or did you? I did. I married a girl from Dallas. Well, she was born in Austin. Yeah. Yeah. I married an American as well. So Dr. Rob has overcome homelessness, alcohol dependency, trauma, PTSD and MDD. What's MDD? I don't know what MDD is. I don't know who put that in there, but I don't think there's any such thing. I don't know. Oh, it's an error. And a world world event to be the Gordon Ramsey of the addiction |
| 1:49.9 | treatment world. Before Rob succumbed to addiction and mental health issues, he played bass |
| 1:54.3 | guitar at Appi Studios with Queen David Bowie and Alton John. You're one of those people who's just |
| 1:58.8 | had like 15 lives in one lifetime. |
| 2:01.8 | You've been homeless. You have a PhD from Oxford University and you're a doctor of psychology, |
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