268 - Relapsed Again? Good.

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Matt Dobschuetz

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

4.9 • 672 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

After relapse we often feel dejected and confused. We sometimes begin to question our ability to fully recover.

But what if we looked at relapse as a path to progress? What if our struggle could fuel our growth?

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0:00.0	Porn for Radio episode 268. So last week I was working with a couple of clients who had relapses
0:06.1	and they came to see me kind of dejected. And I don't know if you've ever had one of these
0:12.0	relapses after a period of success where you start to just question everything. You start to
0:17.7	become almost hopeless. Like I can't believe this happened again.
0:22.3	Maybe recovery isn't for me.
0:24.1	Maybe I can't really do this.
0:26.9	And it's a little bit of self-pity, but I get it.
0:31.0	I have empathy for it because I've been there.
0:33.7	And so I had a couple of these last week,
0:35.9	and I happened to be meeting with my coach on Friday.
0:39.6	And my coach, Melissa, has this way of turning everything around in a surprising way.
0:45.8	And so I mentioned this about relapsing and, you know, dealing with clients struggling with this and feeling down.
0:53.7	And she went, that's so exciting and
0:57.2	i was like what that's exciting she goes yeah well a relapse just means that there's progress to me
1:06.1	made that there's a there's something that could be changed there's something that that we could dig into in coaching to make progress and growth.
1:16.3	A relapse just points to the, you know, potentially that area, reveals something.
1:20.9	And I was kind of shocked about this, but I started thinking about it.
1:24.8	And I started thinking about my own recovery and some of the greatest places of progress
1:31.9	that I made came after a relapse, came after I got more clarity or a relapse revealed something
1:40.2	about my plan. And so we're going to talk about that today. Let's start the show.
1:45.4	Porn Free Radio.
1:55.3	Gentlemen, you're listening to me right now. You and I are together. I'm there. I'm in your headphones. I'm in
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