225: Overcoming Addictions - with Anna David
Achieve Your Goals with Hal Elrod
Hal Elrod
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2018
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
A well-respected expert in her field, Anna David is a New York Times bestselling author of two novels and four nonfiction books about addiction, recovery, and relationships.
She has appeared on the Today Show, Dr. Drew, CBS Morning, and Insider. She's been published in the New York Times, TIME, Vanity Fair, Cosmopolitan, Esquire, and has been written about in Forbes, Martha Stewart Living, Entrepreneur, Allure, and Women's Health, among many others.
Most recently, Anna and I co-authored the newest book in the Miracle Morning series, The Miracle Morning for Addiction Recovery: Letting Go of Who You've Been for Who You Can Become, along with Joe Polish - founder of Genius Recovery.
During today's conversation, here is a sneak-peek at what you'll hear:
- About my own drug addiction in my 20s, which I've never spoken about publicly – until now.
- Why addiction is our #1 health crisis today - and the major misconceptions surrounding addicts (including the fact that an "addiction" can be much more than just drugs or alcohol).
- Anna's story of how she developed an addiction to cocaine, alcohol, and Ambien, discovered the nature of her addiction while in rehab, and stayed sober after one unsuccessful experiment 18 years ago.
- The #1 most common trait that all addicts have in common.
- How you can help people currently struggling with addiction - and the importance of treating people with compassion instead of judgement.
- And much more…
To get access to the full show notes, including the transcript, audio and links to all the resources mentioned during our discussion, visit HalElrod.com/225
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams. |
| 0:09.5 | I am your host Hal Elrod and I invite you to join us each week as we share actionable strategies. those who have achieved extraordinary goals themselves and we ask them to give you a peek behind the curtain |
| 0:25.0 | and teach you exactly what you need to do the same. |
| 0:28.0 | Ready? Here we go. |
| 0:30.0 | Good morning goal achievers. It is morning somewhere in the world so I can say that. |
| 0:36.9 | I'm excited as always right when do I ever not be excited to bring on our guests for the |
| 0:41.7 | podcast but welcome to the Cheever Goals |
| 0:43.9 | podcast this is your host Hal Elrod and today I'm bringing on a newer friend of |
| 0:49.3 | mine if you will and the newest co-author in the Miracle Morning book series. |
| 0:55.0 | You're about to meet Anna David and I'm going to tell you a little bit about Anna because |
| 0:58.8 | what she has overcome in her life, what she's accomplished is pretty extraordinary. |
| 1:03.4 | She is the New York Times best-selling author of two novels and four |
| 1:07.7 | non-fiction books about addiction, recovery, and relationships. Anna has been published in the New York Times. recovery and Cosmo, People, Marie Claire, Redbook, Esquire, |
| 1:23.2 | self, Women's Health, and the Huffington Post. |
| 1:25.5 | I'm out of breath, but I could keep going |
| 1:26.9 | because there's a bunch more. |
| 1:28.2 | And she's been written about in numerous publications as well. |
| 1:31.8 | That includes Forbes, Martha Stewart Living, |
| 1:34.2 | entrepreneur, Allure, and Women's Health. I think you can understand why I asked her to be a |
| 1:38.8 | co-author based on her prolific writing experience and she's appeared repeatedly on the today show, |
| 1:45.0 | Hannity, Dr Drew, the talk, the CBS Morning Show, the Insider and numerous other programs on |
| 1:50.9 | Fox News, NBC, CBS, MTV, BH1E, I could go on and on. |
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