Learning the Slopes of Recovery: The Snowboarding Analogy | Recovery

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Dr. Adi and Sophie Jaffe

Mental Health, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

If you’ve ever been snowboarding or skiing, you already know that the learning process can be hard. After a period of excitement and motivation, you’ll probably realize that it’s a lot more difficult than you initially pictured. You’ll likely crash over and over again and become frustrated with a lack of progress. Over time, however, you’ll pick up the skills you need to take on harder and harder runs until, eventually, it becomes second nature.

Recovery follows a similar process. Many people experience a honeymoon phase, in which they are excited about their recovery and everything seems to be going right…until they “crash”. In this episode, Adi uses the analogy of snowboarding to explore ways in which we can overcome these crashes, keep ourselves motivated in recovery, and reach the stage where all of the skills we’ve learned along the way become second nature.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ignited Recovery podcast, a new way forward for anyone looking for answers but feeling left out.
0:10.2	If you've been searching for empowerment, triumph, and purpose, you've found them right here.
0:15.8	You won't hear the same solutions and you're not going to have any excuses to fall back on because
0:21.1	ignited recovery allows heroes to rise and become their best selves.
0:26.4	I'm Dr. Adi Jaffe and I can't wait to be your guide on this journey.
0:31.7	Are you ready to become an ignited hero? Hello everybody and welcome to this episode of the Ignited Recovery Secrets
0:44.3	podcast.
0:45.0	I'm Adi Jaffe, and I'm so happy to be here with you today.
0:48.5	I went snowboarding with Leo and a couple of friends last weekend.
0:53.0	And first of all, it was amazing and it was fun.
0:55.4	You know, I used to live in upstate New York. And when we go skiing, which is what I did back
1:00.2	then, it would be freezing cold, like 15, 10, 5 degrees outside, you know, below zero with the wind chill.
1:07.4	So I hated it. It's just I despise it. I was born in Israel. Being that cold is not something
1:11.3	I'm interested in. Moving out to the West Coast, you can literally go skiing and snowboarding
1:16.3	with like a jacket and a tank top under it. It was amazing. Beautiful sun, two hour drive
1:23.9	from the beach. Like it's crazy, right? A two hour drive from the beach and I'm snowboarding,
1:44.2	literally almost like jeans and a t-shirt. Beautiful, beautiful day. I took Leo with me, and it was his first time snowboarding. If you follow me at all on social media, you know that Leo skates and does a lot of other things. He's very active, love sports. First time snowboarding. He had tried skiing a couple of times, and he was really, really excited about snowboarding. And so we spent a whole day. We got,
1:49.2	we left the house at 6 o'clock in the morning, which he never wakes up to 6 o'clock in morning.
1:52.9	Super excited. Got home at like 8 o'clock at night. So a very full day. And I realized after the
1:59.9	day after we'd come back that the stages Leo went through in his excitement for going snowboarding, a really, really similar to what I see a lot of times around the people I work with in recovery. And so I thought I would make that analogy for you and help connect the dots. You know, it's always interesting how you hear the same story
2:18.3	in a few different ways and it connects one time when it then another. So there were three main
2:23.6	stages to being there, right? First of all, before we even went on the trip, there was the
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