Acorn to Oak Tree with Herb K.

Episode 167 November 17, 2024 00:36:22
Acorn to Oak Tree with Herb K.
Emotional Sobriety: The Next Step in Recovery
Acorn to Oak Tree with Herb K.

Nov 17 2024 | 00:36:22

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Show Notes

Four of us take stock of our personal arcs towards greater emotional sobriety. Happiness, as Herb Kaighan frames it, isn’t a product of the work we do. It’s a byproduct of our relationships with a life of meaning and purpose, as well as our contributions to humanity. Thom advises self-compassion coupled with personal responsibility - so that we’re keeping ourselves accountable but through a language of love instead of hate. Allen underlines the fact that emotional sobriety isn’t something we arrive at passively. We need to foreground it to bring it into being.

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