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The Rich Roll Podcast

Tommy Rosen On Life Beyond Addiction

The Rich Roll Podcast

Rich Roll

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Society & Culture

4.812.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2017

⏱️ 150 minutes

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Summary

“If you have ever had one single thought that you wanted something more for your life, please heed that thought. I believe it is the voice of your own heart asking you to become whole again.” Tommy Rosen Addiction doesn't discriminate. It doesn't care how smart you are or how much money you have. Left unchecked, it will destroy your career, decimate your relationships, asphyxiate your aspirations and ultimately bankrupt your soul until you are but a shell of a human being — totally lost, devoid of hope and utterly alone. I've been there. Tommy Rosen has been there too. By the grace of a power greater than ourselves, both Tommy and I found a way out. A solution for sobriety that slowly pieced us back together, made us whole and gave our lives purpose. That solution is the focus of today's conversation. With over twenty-four years of continuous sobriety, Tommy is an addiction recovery expert who has spent the last two decades immersed in yoga, recovery and wellness. He is the author of Recovery 2.0: Move Beyond Addiction and Upgrade Your Life&*, and the founder and host of the Recovery 2.0: Beyond Addiction Online Conference. In addition, he holds certifications in both Kundalini and Hatha Yoga and leads Recovery 2.0 retreats and workshops internationally and presents regularly at yoga conferences and festivals. This is a conversation about Tommy's remarkable path to recovery. It's an intense and at times profound discourse on the ravages of addiction and alcoholism. And it's a master class on the healing journey to becoming whole through the lens of Tommy's expertise, which is utilizing yoga and meditation to empower people to free themselves from the prison of addiction and ultimately build purposeful, fulfilling lives. If you are suffering from some form of addiction, this episode is a must listen. Even if you're not an addict, I encourage you to embrace this conversation as a means to better understand the affliction, as chances are you probably know someone in need of help, I sincerely hope you enjoy this powerful exchange. Peace + Plants, Rich Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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0:00.0

Addiction hits you on four levels. It hits you at the level of mind, the level of body,

0:06.6

the level of spirit, so your spiritual connection. And also it messes up your

0:12.8

relationship with time. If you want to recover from addiction, therefore you've

0:17.6

got to address it at all four of those levels. So people who are scientifically

0:24.2

minded or medically minded or who need proof and white papers and peer-reviewed

0:30.3

science have to understand that you're dealing with something that attacks the

0:34.9

human being at every level of their being. Some of those levels cannot be

0:38.6

measured. So how can we convince people that actually the solution is to stop

0:45.0

looking for escape hatches and to sit still long enough to develop a real

0:49.7

and true relationship with yourself? A real and true comfort with yourself.

0:54.4

That's Tommy Rosen, this week on the RetroL podcast.

1:08.9

The RetroL podcast. Hey everybody how you guys doing? What's happened? My name is

1:14.9

Rich Ritroll. I'm your host, welcome or welcome back to my podcast. I'm

1:19.5

coming at you guys today from Portland. I'm here for an event called the World

1:23.4

Domination Summit. It's this incredible conference put on by Chris Gilebo who's

1:28.5

former podcast guest and author, a really amazing guy. After we did our podcast

1:34.3

in, it was about a year ago, he invited me to come here and speak and I'm just

1:38.1

I'm touched and honored to be here. And I love this city. It's best when the

1:42.6

weather is great, which it is right now. I went out for a really cool run this

1:46.5

morning and I appreciate all the shout outs and the halos and the high fives

1:50.2

that I got this morning when I was out on my run. It never ceases to amaze me.

1:54.1

When I travel, running into or encountering fans of the podcast. So if you see

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