SRC 011: Learning to Love and Forgive Yourself – Recovery Coaching
The SHAIR Recovery Podcast
Omar Pinto
4.8 • 561 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2020
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
With addiction comes lies, deceit, and betrayal. However, with recovery can come the looming after effects of guilt, shame, and regret. When we get sober, we must learn to love, forgive ourselves, and make peace with our past.
Acknowledging the mistakes we've made and moving forward is often easier said than done. Forgiving ourselves requires empathy, compassion, loving, and understanding. It also requires us to accept that forgiveness is a choice.
How to Forgive Yourself
In addition, many of us can hold onto our past mistakes that we feel are not forgivable. We live in fear of forgetting the hurt. Reliving and replaying these feelings over again, we re-traumatize ourselves. However, forgiving does not mean forgetting and staying in this pattern can get us stuck and create a risk for relapse. Learning to love and forgive ourselves is essential to our personal growth, sobriety, and success.
In this week's SHAIR Recovery Coaching call, the group helped Dustyn who is facing the wreckage of his past. Feeling shame, guilt, anger, and frustration, he's stuck in self-remorse and self-hatred from his past action in addiction. How do we learn to love and forgive ourselves? The group helps Dustyn put together a step-by-step action plan to begin the healing process of making peace with the past and most importantly, ourselves.
In this week's Recovery Coaching call, you'll learn:
- What a "win" journal is and how to create one
- Practical steps to take to begin forgiving ourselves
- How to begin to repair the damage of the past to reconstruct our life
- How to distinguish between our behavior and our true selves
For the show notes and links for this episode go to theshairpodcast.com/011.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Share Recovery Coaching Call, episode 11. |
| 0:09.0 | Getting sober is one thing. Staying sober is another. In recovery, the most important ingredient to long-term recovery, its community and connection. |
| 0:24.0 | Share is not only a recovery podcast. |
| 0:26.8 | It is a global sobriety network. |
| 0:31.2 | Join me each week as we connect with people from all over the world who will share with you their inspirational journey of recovery. |
| 0:35.5 | Welcome to the Share Podcast Recovery Network. |
| 0:45.5 | Hey, everybody. |
| 0:46.5 | Welcome to another episode of the Share Recovery Coaching Calls. |
| 0:50.0 | My name is Omar Pinto, the host of the Share podcast, and today we are going to be helping Dustin |
| 0:55.7 | learn how to love and forgive himself. So many of us try to make peace with the wreckage of our past. |
| 1:02.5 | And in early recovery, it is so difficult to let all those negative thoughts and emotions go. In many |
| 1:09.7 | cases, the guilt, shame, sadness, anger, |
| 1:13.1 | resentment, and self-loathing is so overwhelming. It seems impossible to think that you could ever |
| 1:20.1 | love and forgive yourself again. But you absolutely can. And on this episode, we're going to show |
| 1:26.9 | you exactly how. So let's dive into |
| 1:28.9 | this week's episode of the Share Recovery Coaching Calls, but first, a quick message from our |
| 1:33.6 | sponsors. |
| 1:35.0 | Hey, everybody, and welcome to another episode of the Share podcast. And before we dive into |
| 1:40.6 | this week's episode, I just want to remind all of our listeners the fastest and |
| 1:45.4 | easiest way to connect with me and to connect with the share recovery community. So there's |
| 1:50.4 | two websites that you can check out. The first one is the sharepodcast.com. Remember to spell |
| 1:57.6 | share S-H-A-I-R. And on the Share podcast is all the podcast episodes, |
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