46: Addicted to the Monkey Mind with J.F. Benoist

Soberful

Veronica Valli

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 628 Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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J.F. Benoist is the author of 'Addicted to the Monkey Mind.' In this revolutionary new book, J.F. lays out how our negative self-talk and limiting beliefs shape our experience. We discuss precisely how our past shows up in our present and how to change this by using the Observing Mind. We also talk about the false sense of belonging that is created in our culture that blocks us from having a real and authentic connection.

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0:00.0	I dreamt that you were twisting through seven suns of gold and the gypsy was insisting
0:10.1	that story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning that you might be a treasure.
0:22.4	I could touch but never hold.
0:27.7	Hi, everybody.
0:28.8	Welcome to the Soberfall podcast.
0:31.1	This is Veronica Valley.
0:32.5	And I'm really excited today because I've got another special guest to interview.
0:36.3	And I'd like to welcome
0:37.9	J.F. Benoit to the show. Hi, J.F. Hi. Aloha. Helloha. All the way in Hawaii, not making us
0:45.5	jealous at all. J.F. Benoit has been counseling people struggling with addiction, mental health
0:53.2	and relationship issues for over 20 years.
0:56.0	He co-founded the exclusive Hawaii, a non-12-step residential addiction treatment center with
1:02.4	his wife Joyce in 2011. He is the creator of the therapeutic methodology experiential engagement
1:10.5	therapy, EET, which focuses on addressing
1:14.5	a person's underlying core beliefs.
1:17.6	This method serves as the foundation of his skills-based book, addicted to the monkey mind,
1:23.6	change the programming that sabotages your life.
1:27.3	To find out more information, you can check out his websites, and I'm going to put those all in the show notes. But welcome, JF, and I'm just going to tell you straight away, I love your book. Wonderful. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me today. I get sent quite a lot of stuff, and I try and look at all of it, and I kind of check this stuff out and thought, yeah, that sounds interesting. And I think your assistant sent me a copy. And I didn't pick it up. And then we scheduled the podcast. I thought, well, I need to pick this up. And I started and I was like, this is so up my street. I can't even tell you. It's just so aligned with how I work. Wonderful.
2:03.6	So where do you want to start? I mean, there's so much there. I want to find out what EET is,
2:09.1	why you wrote the book. Where do you want to start? I think one of the best place to start that
2:14.6	I would say the most predominant question that most people have when they're
2:18.8	struggling with an addiction is how come I can't change? Because people have been to therapy
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