Thriving After Addiction: Using Yoga And Meditation To Recover From Addiction, Shame, Anxiety, Codependency And More

Switching Addictions It’s so common for us in recover to switch around addictions. We swap food for sex, for alcohol, for pot, for codependency, and the list goes on and on. We do this as a way to cope. It becomes our patterning and sometimes it feels like we are just straight-up insane. But if we remember we are not ... Read More

Adrenal Fatigue & Exhaustion Sign up for Erin’s program by July 1st and pay only $129 for 12 weeks. http://tinylink.in/Thriving12weeks Adrenal exhaustion and fatigue is something I have dealt with in varying levels for the last 10 years of my life. I have been bed ridden. I have also recovered from this malady like a phoenix rising from the ashes. ... Read More

Sign up for Erin’s program by July 1st and pay only $129 for 12 weeks. http://tinylink.in/Thriving12weeks

Thriving After Addiction 12-week Online Program Begins July 5th Live Coaching, Thursdays 11:30AM EST Includes: Access to private FB support group Weekly coaching sessions Q&A Sessions Check out thrivingafteraddiction.com for more details. Podcast not good enough Either not good enough on a basic human being level or what I do is not good enough It’s amazing how I can run ... Read More

Thriving After Addiction 12-week Online Program Begins July 5th Live Coaching, Thursdays 11:30AM EST Includes: Access to private FB support group Weekly coaching sessions Q&A Sessions Click here to sign up! Or, check out thrivingafteraddiction.com/program for more details!

Removing Destructive Beliefs So often we have unquestioned destructive beliefs in our minds that run us on autopilot from the background. Mine were: Under pressure I crumble I can’t handle it We had a roller derby game this past weekend where I was called upon to be captain. After navigating some destructive beliefs that just wore me down, I did ... Read More

Savoring Life and Recommitting to Recovery With her life is going well, or if it seems everything is going wrong, we can get caught up in the mind. We are caught up in the mind you miss out on the saddle sensations from our body, and thus we miss out on intimacy. This big messages, but from the world around ... Read More

Thriving After Addiction My addiction was a curse! I wasted my life! So on and so forth. I like to think of my addiction as having made me into a warrior. The pain I had to travel through and all of the life lessons I had to learn to travel through and dissolve it made me a better person. I ... Read More

Procrastination and Boredom Cover up emotions we have resistance and under that resistance is the real feeling we are avoiding It could be something like, What if I do it wrong? What if she/he doesn’t like it? Strategies: Ask yourself why you’re resisting so much. I mean, really, whats so bad about it? Check in with how you feel when ... Read More

Emotional Journeying Being able to journey through our emotions rather than resist them is huge factor in how we will face the world. If we stay stuck in emotions and clench down on them our world can become very dark. Learning how to soften and expand them rather than clench down can help us release and get past them in ... Read More

Body Dysmorphia Body dysmorphia is an extreme fixation on a part or the whole of the body with a belief that it needs to hidden or drastically changed. How the mind can have a pattern of what should be and this creates tension. When we apply this to the body we create a resistance to what is and what should ... Read More

Love and Family Healing I believe that healing within the family is such a wonderful opportunity for growth in recovery. You can do this with or without them. My brother came to visit! Lack of communication with my brother over the past year triggered some pain in me left over from my sensei. The believe was something like this” I ... Read More

Authenticity Learning to Process Emotion – Allowing and Accepting vs. Resisting Meditation Mantra: “Accept and Allow.” Accept and allow whatever is true for you in the moment to flow through you, releasing resistance along the way. Accepting and allowing yourself to feel emotion is often the missing step in treatment that will ultimately make your recovery a long term success. ... Read More

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Control Erin’s book comes out June 1st! Be sure to get on her mailing list by subscribing to the newsletter: www.thrivingafteraddiction.com/free-gift Control is such a demand of the ego. I want something and if I don’t get it I’m going to be sad or mad. Control was a the the root of my eating disorder nd my addictions. I wanted ... Read More

Freedom       Being able to back away from any situation and recognize if it’s true or not.       Not being sucked in as often to illusion and if I am, not staying there as long.        It’s challenging to navigate your belief systems. There’s comfort in staying with them and sometimes a sadness that ... Read More

Speaking your truth. The practice of Tantra and energy Speaking your truth so freeing. When I first came to Yoga the first two Ethics of yoga are non-harm, and truthfulness. I worked on this first two steps so hard for years, and they are still the baseline of when I return to. I recently had an experience with friends where ... Read More

Healing the Past 2 spots left in Erin’s retreat! Www.thrivingafteraddiction.com/retreats Until the wounds of past are healed, we are going to have a hard time having a balanced and loving relationship with ourself and others. Sometimes we blame still and there can be good reason for that. Sometimes the past seems so traumatic and painful, we fear we will sink ... Read More

Patience and Consistency 2 spots left in Erin’s retreat! Www.thrivingafteraddiction.com/retreats Free live streaming on the Thriving After Addiction Facebook page of my Sunday Beach Yoga classes and dharma talks Patience in the process of transformation When we lack patience we miss out on the present Cultivating patience for ourselves, others, our relationships with other, how our work evolves. Owning multiple ... Read More

Releasing Control 3 spaces left for Erin’s retreat! Www.thrvingafteraddiction.com/retreats The path of recovery so different than what we think it should be I wanted to lay out the steps, I wanted to follow each one as it should be and that the particular order I decided was best. I wanted to control it, but that’s what got me into trouble ... Read More