529: Living with Addiction with Dr. Cali Estes
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 17 August 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
When you hear the word addict, it may conjure up images of alcoholics stumbling out of bars late at night, or of bleary eyed celebrities being admitted to rehab. But addiction comes in many forms and nowadays includes a whole new set of vices, such as online gaming, pornography and even social media. If addiction is now defined as any compulsive behavior that starts to impede your life in significant ways, it’s likely that many of us may need to take a long hard look in the mirror.
Listen and learn:
- How to know whether you’re addicted to something
- Why many therapists have troubled backgrounds
- The difference between therapy and coaching
- Realistic suggestions for overcoming addiction and addictive behaviors
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Cali Estes Ph.D is an addiction therapist, recovery coach, yoga and pilates teacher. She is the author of a number of books including, I Married a Junkie.
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| 0:00.0 | When you say the word addicts or speak about addiction, many of us conjure up Hollywood |
| 0:08.8 | images of the old movie train spotting, or we think about junkies at a bus station or |
| 0:14.2 | in a train station, we think about alcoholics drinking themselves to sleep every night, |
| 0:18.8 | or celebrities popping pills. But addiction comes in all shapes, all sizes. There's a whole bunch |
| 0:23.9 | of things right now that are pulling people in that just weren't there before, things like |
| 0:28.7 | online gaming, pornography, even social media addiction, is really pulling people's lives apart. |
| 0:34.8 | If we define addiction as any compulsive behavior that gets in the way of you and whatever life |
| 0:41.6 | you're trying to lead, most of us, if we look in the mirror, either ourselves or one degree of |
| 0:46.8 | separation, are directly connected to addiction. If you're new here, it's the Lucas Rockwood show. |
| 0:52.3 | I am a yoga teacher, a teacher trainer. I'm a serial entrepreneur. I'm the father of three kids, |
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| 1:30.4 | calendar as well as this show. Lastly, if you'd like to send in a question for the show, message me |
| 1:36.0 | on Instagram at Lucas Rockwood. Welcome everyone. Today's show is called Living With Addiction, |
| 1:43.5 | and I am joined here with Dr. Kelly Estes. Kelly is an addiction therapist, a life coach, |
| 1:48.7 | a recovery coach, a yoga teacher, a Pilates instructor. She is the author of a number of books, |
| 1:53.9 | including I'm Mary DeJunkey. We'll be chatting about that today. She's the founder of the Addictions |
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