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Spirit Gym with Paul Chek

EP 41 - Dean Taraborelli: Addiction - An Insider's Story Of Healing

Spirit Gym with Paul Chek

Paul Chek

Religion & Spirituality, Wellness, Society & Culture, Plant Medicine, Relationships, Alternative Health, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Paul Chek, Spirituality, Sexuality, Holistic Health, Health & Fitness, Personal Development

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2019

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Why do some people battle with addictions their entire lives while others make a full recovery?

The key to healing, like most physical dis-eases, is something far deeper and more targeted than a 12-step program built like conventional medicine to treat everyone for a variety of problems that never really get solved.

Dean Taraborelli describes his 30-year journey from addiction to recovery that led him to create the Sanctuary at Sedona in this revealing Living 4D episode.

Learn more about the Sanctuary’s approach to helping people recover from addictions by downloading the free ebook, Be Recovered: Transformational Healing Through Integrative Addiction Recovery by Dean and Kelley Alexander.

Show Notes

  • Dean’s problems with addictions started when he was a very young teenager. (4:50)
  • No one close to Dean really knew how deeply his life was harmed by drug abuse and addictions until the bitter end. (10:51)
  • The health of your gut and inflammation may be a determining factor for addictions. (17:48)
  • Understanding how epigenetics affects human health and treating addictions. (27:57)
  • “Many of us have lost track of or lost confidence in our deep sense of our own intuition and what's right or not for us.” (35:11)
  • What is iatrogenesis? (38:37)
  • Most kids are largely programmed and conditioned by their parents by age 8. (48:40)
  • Dean’s addiction was a wakeup call from his soul leading him to what he does today at the Sanctuary. (52:39)
  • What is your higher power? (59:23)
  • “Being normal in a dysfunctional society is not necessarily a good reflection of what it's like to be healthy.” (1:05:21)
  • The uneasy state of the external world may play a huge role in unresolved emotional problems. (1:09:10)
  • “Everybody's got an addiction to their belief system.” (1:13:40)
  • Dean’s definitions of addiction. (1:16:42)
  • The role religion plays in addiction and the blame game with women. (1:24:47)
  • The five deeper reasons people seek help from their addictions. (1:38:41)
  • Differences between the mind and brain. (1:41:35)
  • Moving from recovery to “being recovered” is the ability to learn from hard life lessons. (1:49:19)
  • The telltale signs of addiction. (1:57:08)

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Transcript

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You know, I was looking into the success rates.

0:03.0

So AA has a success rate.

0:05.6

It's between 5 and 10%.

0:09.5

Treatment in as a whole has a success rate about the same.

0:12.7

It's probably closer to five than 10,

0:14.6

but it's around in there somewhere.

0:17.0

And then they have this thing spontaneous remission.

0:20.3

And spontaneous remission, that's where, hey, somebody just decides they're going to stop doing something or they're going to get well and they get well without doing anything.

0:28.3

So I thought to myself, well, gee whiz, I can spend another 50,000 at treatment.

0:33.3

I can go to AA and spend a buck a day

0:35.5

and go through that process, or I can do nothing.

0:38.0

And my chances are statistically the same.

0:41.3

And I thought, okay, well, wait a second, let's look into this spontaneous remission because, you know, you look at people with stage

0:49.4

for cancer, you look at people that the doctor comes into the hospital and says, well, you get your

0:54.7

affairs in or whatever, you got three to six months to live, or you know, you've heard the story.

0:59.5

And then somehow these people go out and live another decade or two and have amazing lives and they

1:06.4

have this remission and I thought how can we not leave it up to spontaneity?

1:10.9

How can we help to create this remission process? Welcome to Living 4D with Paul Check. Today's guest is the founder and

1:27.5

co-director of the sanctuary at Sedona Dean Tara Borrelli. Dean's pioneering work in developing the sanctuary's Integrative

1:37.0

Addictive Recovery Program has been used to help hundreds of clients to successfully treat addiction.

1:44.0

Dean is a member of the Senior Teaching Staff for the Four Winds Society

1:48.9

and author of Be Recovered, Transformational Healing through integrative, addictive recovery.

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