No Shame Allowed: Healing From Addiction & Returning to Self-Love with Seano McFarland

Take Back Your Mind

Michael B. Beckwith

Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

5 • 697 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Today, Michael speaks with Seano (pronounced “Seen-oh”) McFarland, a renowned therapist and coach specializing in the treatment of chemical addiction, trauma, sex, and love addiction.

He is the CEO of Shell Avenue Venice in Venice, California, a community spiritual hub and residential program. His clients range from top executives, celebrities, iconic change agents, and athletes to gangbangers and parents who struggle with their children’s addiction and everything in between. His podcast, The Seano Show, invites listeners to be a fly on the wall during intimate conversations surrounding recovery.

Conversation highlights include:

-How the traumatic effects of Seano’s abduction, torture, and being used for child pornography at age 12 led to his addiction and drug trafficking, and how he ultimately transcended that and became sober 37 years ago

-Why self-forgiveness is essential in the journey of healing from addiction

-Seano’s founding of Shell Avenue Venice, which he created as a ‘mix of Motown and San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury Free Clinic’ and has a “no shame and no blame in our game” vibe

-The daily practices and rituals both Seano and Michael do to “Take Back” their minds

-Seano’s work and relationship with Mike Tyson, genocide survivors in Rwanda, child soldiers in northern Uganda, and much, much more.

Next, Michael leads a guided meditation on waking up to your Super Soulful Self.

Learn more about Shell Avenue Venice here: https://www.shellvenice.com/, connect with Seano on IG, and check out his podcast, The Seano Show, wherever you get your podcasts.

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0:00.0	Forgiveness is the key because, as you know, better than anybody, if you're focused on such
0:05.0	you're a bad person and this, you know, you know the old saying, get out the cross, we need the wood.
0:09.4	Right, right.
0:09.9	I'm going to get out the cross when you need the wood, brother, okay?
0:11.8	Right, right, right.
0:12.1	The light can't reach you.
0:13.4	Right.
0:13.6	And addiction is a spiritual malady.
0:15.1	Right.
0:16.1	Yeah. And, you know, and so 12 steps is such a beautiful process because the most important thing it does is, what's your part? You got to take responsibility for your actions. Right, right. And what I came up on my own, people are like, well, Sino, you know, what about the people that kidnapped you? Like you must, and what I learned, rab was this, shame on them for tree me that way.
0:38.3	And shame on me for staying that way.
0:41.2	That's beautiful.
0:42.5	And nobody can blow my light out, Michael,
0:44.5	unless I give them permission.
0:45.3	I want to stop right there.
0:46.1	Okay.
0:46.8	Because this is deep.
0:48.6	Shame on the person who did wrong to you.
0:50.8	That's right.
0:51.5	Shame on them.
0:52.1	But if you stay the same.
0:53.2	Shame on me.
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