TRIGGERED! When you use whatever you can to escape reality
Inner Work: A Spiritual Growth Podcast
Josephine Hardman
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Have you found yourself reaching for whatever it is you can - a substance, experience, behavior, or whatever else - to escape the present moment?
Yup, I've done that too. Many times!
This episode of TRIGGERED! is, in many ways, a continuation of my episode on addictions and compulsive behavior. But this time we're focusing on the impulse to "check out", to not be here, to not be in your body, to escape reality. Join me for a discussion of:
- where the impulse to check out or escape comes from (and how it relates to being highly sensitive)
- why and how this impulse drives us to engage in self-destructive or harmful behaviors
- why it's important to NOT demonize or punish yourself for wanting to escape
- recognizing that your addictions and attachments to the things, substances, and behaviors you use to check out are not happening in a vacuum; there are entire industries invested in keeping you addicted (and how touching into your sacred anger about this can help in breaking those attachments)
To connect with me directly, please head over to www.josephinehardman.com or write to me@josephinehardman.com
Thank you for tuning in! May your path be smoothed by the grace of compassion, understanding, and kindness towards yourself.
Music & editing by G. Demers
Inner Work 2021 All Rights Reserved
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Inner Work, a spiritual growth podcast. |
| 0:06.3 | I'm your host, Josephine Hartman. |
| 0:08.7 | I'm an intuitive healer and certified Akashik Records reader and teacher, |
| 0:13.7 | driven by the purpose of helping others become more powerful by reconnecting to the healer within. |
| 0:19.9 | To explore my work or connect with me, you can visit josephinehardman.com. |
| 0:25.1 | If you feel called to support the podcast, please leave a rating or review on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:30.8 | I so appreciate your presence here, and I'm honored to serve as a guide or companion on your path for a little while. |
| 0:38.3 | Now, on to the episode. |
| 0:44.3 | Do you sometimes find yourself using whatever it is you can, whatever you can reach for, |
| 0:50.3 | whether that's alcohol or food, or or Netflix or shopping or working too much |
| 0:58.5 | or taking care of others too much to try to escape reality. |
| 1:04.3 | This episode of Triggered is in a lot of ways a continuation to an expansion of my previous triggered episode on addiction and |
| 1:14.1 | compulsive behaviors. |
| 1:16.8 | I want to return briefly to my own personal story with food and sugar addiction, which |
| 1:23.4 | has been for me a lifelong pattern, a battle, a teacher, a challenge, a blessing, |
| 1:31.3 | and many other things. I especially want to talk to you about this. Right now, this overall |
| 1:38.3 | pattern of using whatever substances or behaviors we can to check out from reality because I am on day |
| 1:46.4 | number 10 of a complete sugar detox or I should say more accurately a lifestyle |
| 1:53.9 | transformation because I quit sugar cold turkey and my plan is really not to go |
| 1:59.9 | back to it just because for me the gradual approach |
| 2:05.3 | the moderation approach the eat only fruit and natural sugars approach although those are |
| 2:14.3 | sometimes really helpful for a lot of people, for me, they have never worked |
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