Gabrielle Bernstein: The Journey From Addiction to Awareness
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2016
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Gabrielle Bernstein is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Universe Has Your Back and numerous other books.
She's been featured on Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday as "next-generation thought leader" and leads talks, retreats and meditations for sold-out audiences around the world, embracing her role one of the voices of an emerging generation of spiritual teachers.
Gabby is a also certified Kundalini yoga and meditation teacher. GShe is trained in the Emotional Freedom Technique, is a student of the metaphysical text A Course in Miracles, and practices Transcendental Meditation as taught by the David Lynch Foundation.
In today's conversation, we take a step back into Gabby's personal story, exploring her relationship to faith and how feelings of isolation as a kid led to her become an organizer and leader at a young age. We dive into her year's long struggle with addiction and then work, and her more recent awakening to the role of childhood sexual trauma in her life's journey and the choices she's made.
We dive into her approach to transparency as a spiritual teacher, how she dances between public and private, how opening to the fear in others can serve as a bridge to understanding and so much more.
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| 0:00.0 | One of the lessons throughout the book is choosing to see these obstacles as universal assignments. |
| 0:08.0 | And so when we feel in some way that we're out of alignment with the flow of the universe |
| 0:13.0 | and when we're feeling disconnected from the miraculous that there's an assignment, |
| 0:18.0 | there's an opportunity to pivot, there's something to look at, |
| 0:21.0 | and there's something to work on. |
| 0:25.0 | Today's guest, Gabby Bernstein, is a spiritual teacher, an author, |
| 0:31.0 | a speaker who travels around the world sharing ideas. |
| 0:35.0 | But it wasn't always that way for her growing up in a suburb of New York City. |
| 0:39.0 | She was the kid who felt like she didn't quite fit in. |
| 0:41.0 | Interestingly enough, that turned her into a leader so that she could almost form her own tribes |
| 0:46.0 | in which to fit. |
| 0:48.0 | That led her though into a career in publicity in New York City, |
| 0:51.0 | and then a long stint as an addict, both cocaine and alcohol until she started to pull out of that. |
| 0:58.0 | And that set in motion an entirely new journey, a spiritual path for her, |
| 1:03.0 | which in her own words has been quite bumpy and has sort of moved through a series of evolutions |
| 1:10.0 | as she learns to get honest with herself and then honest with other people |
| 1:14.0 | and then turn around and share what she's discovered. |
| 1:17.0 | We spent some time exploring that journey and also a bit about her latest book, |
| 1:21.0 | The Universe Has Your Back, and I ask her a point blank, does it really? |
| 1:25.0 | So stay tuned and you can hear the answer to that question. |
| 1:29.0 | I'm Jonathan Fields, this is Good Life Project. |
| 1:38.0 | Fancy a fever tree and vodka. |
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