Hey everyone, welcome to the Dr. Josh Axe Show where each and every week I explore the science and principles of how to grow in body, mind, spirit, and take your life to the next level.

On today's episode, I'm going to be diving deep into how to experience a breakthrough in your life and how to stop sitting on the sidelines and start living out your best life story.

Now, this is important in your health. I'm going to share with you a friend of mine who

lost, actually he weighed 400 pounds. He lost 200 pounds in how he did that. And also how

other people have experienced breakthroughs in their relationships, their mental health,

again, their physical health, their career, and more

in today's episode and a personal story as well.

But let me start off here asking you a question.

Have you ever felt like life is just unfair,

or like the cards are stacked against you,

or the world is against you?

Well, if you felt that way,

oftentimes we get to the point where we start acting like

we're a victim. And what happens is if you put yourself in that position where you allow yourself

to play the victim or have a victim mentality, it sabotages every area of your life. And I want to

share with you, I felt that way at one point in my life. A couple

years ago when I was diagnosed with a spinal infection and told I might never walk again,

I was in the position where I felt like a victim. And I mold around for a few days. And one of the

things I realized when I was in that state of feeling bad for myself was this isn't serving me.

It's not making my life better. It's not making the life of those around me better.

And so I decided that I wanted to build and have a better life story.

What I started doing was watching people who got these diagnoses like they would never walk

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