When Things Fall Apart: Letting Go of the Good/Bad Paradigm in Recovery

• The Ego’s Sneaky Traps: Why the ego finds clever, subtle ways to criticize your progress under the guise of "keeping you safe," no matter how much clean time you have.
• The Illusion of External Judgment: Why what we think others feel about us is actually a mirror of our own internal core beliefs.
• The "Magnet" Effect: How we subconsciously attract people who treat us exactly how we secretly view ourselves.
• Dismantling "Good vs. Bad": Why labeling your daily actions as strictly good or bad keeps you trapped in a cycle of restriction and self-punishment.
• The Golden Shifting Question: Moving away from "Is this good or bad?" and learning to ask, "Is this behavior actually serving me?"

"If you want to know what you believe, look at what you have. If you have somebody coming at you, part of it is their stuff, and part of it is the fact that you’ve got that magnetization to whatever that energy is." — Kevin Kline

• Book Featured: When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön
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