Hello, and welcome back to the Self Healer Soundboard.

This episode, we are jumping back into our workbook episodes for how to meet yourself.

We are currently finishing up Section 3 of the workbook, specifically on page 157, meet

your emotional addictions.

To get started, I think it could be helpful as always to define what we mean when we say

emotional addiction. Again, as always, really simply, an emotional addiction is the unconscious

drive of our subconscious mind toward familiar emotional states. If you tuned into, I think it was

last episode or the episode entitled Meet Your Emotions, we explored the fact that emotions

map onto physiology, to energy in our body, to shifts in neurotransmitters or different hormones.

Some of you might be familiar with the stress hormones, cortisol, and adrenaline.

And really, simply as we often describe, our subconscious mind has quite literally

imprinted all of our life's experiences, in particular, our early experiences.

So those shifts in neurotransmitters and hormones that were most consistently present in our

childhood, in many ways become our familiar home. It's what our mind and body have grown used to.

And if you've heard us speak about the subconscious mind in the past, we again acknowledge that our

subconscious loves that habitual familiarity, because it gets to predict and anticipate exactly

what happens next, of course, based on what had happened in those early past experiences.

And when we don't have that sense of familiar stress hormones or whatever other neurotransmitter,

it might be that as your particular familiar home, we feel different, we feel uncomfortable,

and we feel then driven, compelled by that subconscious part of our mind, to return to that

familiarity, again, giving us that false sense of control and that false sense of security.

While the mind and the body are connected and in constant communication with one another,

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