GTO Freedom for Humans

In the puzzle of life, I hope there are always missing pieces!

Let's talk about FOOD! It is possible to have a balanced, harmonious relationship with food that supports your health and well-being. It takes love, acceptance, compassion...and practice, practice, practice!

Your body is your first, best and last partner in this life. No one knows you better than your body. It is your closest friend, ally, confidant, collaborator and mirror. It is the two of you who live this life now and will leave this life together just as you entered it. If you do not yet love your body, it’s never too late to start. https://www.giraffetangooctopus.com/post/your-body https://www.cnn.com/2014/10/16/health/dying-regret-body-hate/index.html

Appearance standards are unrealistic, ever-changing, and most importantly..made up! They take on the importance we give them and are only true if we believe them. Learn eight daily practices for uncoupling your self-worth from the way you look and freeing yourself to focus on matters that matter!

Join me and special guest Dr. Dravon James for a lively discussion of how to wrangle those unhelpful thought patterns, uncover their source, get to the heart of you, and discover your superpower! Knowing and using your superpower will center you, bring purpose into your life, and elevate your day-to-day happiness!

Join us for a story of family, faith, and forgiveness. Ken Guidroz discusses how he coped with his son's challenging journey through prison. He shares how he discovered hope and transformation through letters between father and son following a tragic accident. Lessons, gifts, and gratitude can be found even amidst life's most challenging trials.

Karen Johansen is spry, active, vivacious, social, and fully engaged in life. She has accepted and navigated life's challenges with positivity, optimism, and gratitude. Join us for stories of life, love, loss, friends, family, and football! Karen shares her philosophy and the secrets to living well and happy at every age.

Gratitude has the power to lift, shift, heal, restore, and change our perspective. Join us for seven days of prompts, affirmations, and practices to help you manifest gratitude in your life.

The colder months are on the horizon and the subsequent “Winter Blues” are following close behind. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, Millions of Americans have reported experiencing symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder (more commonly referred to as seasonal depression). Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) is strongly correlated to a dysregulation in mood, sleep patterns, and energy levels. In a time when anxiety and depression have already been skyrocketing due to social, political, and economic unrest, it’s more important than ever to take preventative measures to protect our mental health from a seasonal decline. Thankfully, reducing stress, depression, and burnout is possible if given the right tools. In this episode, Dr. Hammer shares the GAIN Method to combat negative thoughts and rewire the brain with daily practice. It may be even easier than you think to strengthen your resilience, thrive all winter long, and meet your mental health goals!

Did you know that most couples get engaged during the holidays? According to BBC Future, 40% of proposals in the U.S. take place in the 2 ½ months between Thanksgiving and Valentine’s Day. With 40-50% of marriages ending in divorce, we need to make sure we are making these bonds for the right reasons to ensure they will last. Being intentional about when and why we choose to pop the question plays a big role. On this show, Dr. Frieda Birnbaum shares ways to avoid the social trap of the holiday season that might cloud your judgment when it comes to your relationship.

We imagine what it will feel like to be a certain age. Then, we are that age, and it feels nothing like we thought it would. Join me as I mark another trip around the sun and share some observations and learnings about life, love, and birthdays.

Farrah Fawcett: friend, artist, advocate, angel. Her fierce courage, grace and vulnerability as she faced and documented her journey with anal cancer was critical in saving my life. Her legacy, through the Farrah Fawcett Foundation led by best friend, advocate and CEO Alana Stewart, continues to impact the lives of those affected by HPV-related cancers by providing important funding for research, patient assistance and awareness. Join me and very special guest Alana Stewart as we celebrate Farrah, friendship and The Foundation. Farrah and Alana are true angels among us.

What if we stopped focusing and commenting on other people's appearance? There's a case to be made that we would all feel lighter, freer, and more accepting of ourselves and each other.

Your challenges can provide unique opportunities for immersive practice. The work we do to develop unconditional love, acceptance and compassion for ourselves requires practice. It is very much like learning another language. In order to become fluent, daily practice, and ultimately periods of immersion, are necessary. Challenges, obstacles, and adversity typically trigger unhelpful narratives, uncomfortable emotions, and self-destructive behavior patterns. That is until we shift our perspective to one where we view the mountain that lies before as as an opportunity to learn how to climb it and to develop the strength, confidence and muscle memory to climb the next one.

Do you have a friendship village? Or, like many humans, are you feeling lonely, isolated, disconnected, and without close friendships that would enhance your life and support your health and well-being? Florence Ann Romano provides insight into the pandemic effect on the Friendship Recession. She offers tips for readying yourself to welcome new friends into your life, suggestions for where you might find them, and guidance on the qualities to look for to build a balanced, supportive community at every stage of life.

We are live today with Bob Gardner, The Freedom Specialist! For the past 15 years, Bob has been incorporating multiple tools and knowledge gained from his years of martial arts, breathwork, functional psychology, deep tissue release, and numerous other healing modalities to help thousands of people permanently put an end to depression, anxiety & addiction by identifying and healing what's at the core of these issues. We don’t have to be permanently saddled with these diagnoses, conditions, and labels. They can be left behind for good, and we can live free. Freedom is where it’s at! Learn more about Bob and The Freedom Specialist at www.thefreedomspecialist.com.

Letting go of the expectation of a forever partner/spouse, a forever career, a forever home, a forever friend, a forever anything...can free you up to experience, enjoy, and be present for the life you are living right now. It can untether you from the pressure to make something work that isn't for you or to stay somewhere that you no longer belong. It can release you to move on when it's time to move on and to relinquish the idea that an ending is a failure. It is the beginning of something new, and you can approach it with awe, wonder, and curiosity. When we let go of forever, we don't start over, we just start!

I only did what everyone else wanted, not what I wanted is the biggest regret expressed by the dying, according to an end-of-life chaplain. In this discussion of The Art of Allowing, Jamie Lerner describes the joy and freedom of living your life without having a point of view (judgment) about what anyone else is saying or doing, how to connect with your true knowing, and the opportunity to create unconditional relationships that enhance your life. I left this conversation with a greater sense of peace and connection to myself and the reassurance that only I know what is right for me. I can't stop thinking about it. Thank you, Jamie!

Anesthesia creates an insensitivity to pain. When it wears off, if the source of the pain is still active, we hurt. Anesthesia behaviors are designed to do something very similar; to alleviate our suffering. Unfortunately, some anesthesia behaviors create suffering and consequences of their own. And they are not necessarily things we want to abstain from, so we are left to dance with the devil; think food, money, sex, watching TV and engaging with social media. Learn how to spot your anesthesia behaviors, determine their impact, follow the breadcrumbs to the underlying cause of your suffering, and heal it at the source.

Are you struggling with binge eating? It might seem like binge eating is about food. Dr. Nina dispels this myth and explains why diets fail and why nighttime eating is problematic for many of us. She shares how to recognize the motivations for emotional eating and practical steps to stop the madness. True liberation is possible!

We are overcome with hot flashes, wake up in a pool of sweat (if we even sleep), have anxiety, brain fog, irritability, and changes to our body size and shape. And yet, we are expected to continue in silence and act as if. As if this hostile takeover isn't affecting our partnerships, familial relationships, friendships, work life, and self-worth. Let's talk about it, support each other, educate the people in our lives, and treat ourselves compassionately!

Many of us are unprepared for the changes in our bodies and sexual health as we navigate our menopause journey. Join me for a candid discussion of practical strategies to sustain and regain a fulfilling and pleasurable sex life during menopause and beyond.

In this episode, I introduce self-acceptance as the basis for a loving, supportive, compassionate journey through menopause. Yes, the symptoms are pesky, uncomfortable, and disruptive. There are a variety of tools and strategies to manage them. But, the foundational element of unconditional self-acceptance is often left out of the equation, sparking unnecessary suffering and rejection of ourselves during this natural and freeing transition to the next phase of our lives. I'm twelve years into menopause, and compassion is vital!

Identify your life purposes, live them, and organize your life around them by developing daily practices to support your life purpose choices. This may sound like a tall order! And, it would be if the goal was to live your life purposes so that you could reach the brass ring. But there is no brass ring, no finish line, no summit. There is practice, practice practice. Through practice we live our life purpose choices each day, with an awareness of the next right thing and then the next right thing after that. Join me and special guest Eric Maisel as we discuss the Kirist approach to life's toughest questions, and the ways in which daily practice and using creative tools and strategies to manage our tricky human minds can set us on our individual path to living with purpose.

In the third installment of our travel series, I tell the story of my arrival on the beautiful Maltese island of Gozo and my first few days of life here in a brand new place.

What is your dream? I carried the dream of living abroad for well over a decade. I visited a new country each year, always wondering if it might be my place. I thought it would be my retirement life. I felt I had to have all the money, check all the boxes, figure everything out, and not sacrifice anything I'd worked for to live this vastly different life. In 2022 I spent a month in Malta. It turned out the time was now. I don't have all the money. I haven't figured everything out. All the boxes are not checked. I have sacrificed. And my dream is now my reality.

Leaving Rio de Janeiro felt like being ripped away from something I loved. As the rain pelted the taxi on the way to the airport, the driver played We Are the World, and I wept. It changed me forever and began a love of travel, many adventures to come, and the inception of a dream. On this show, I share my experiences, what I learned about myself, and what led me to realize my dream and live part of my life abroad.

Do you remember when you were a kid, and it could be as simple as this? You meet someone, feel connected, want to be friends, ask them, and just like that...you become friends. Maybe for months, years, and decades to come! Cultivating the intimacy that only resides within a friendship, navigating conflict, and making new friends can enrich human life from our earliest memories to our final days. Join me and special guest, relationship psychologist Dr. Don Azevedo, as we discuss the importance of friendships in our lives.

You are planning to stick with your new practice. You've made a deal with yourself. And then you break the agreement. Confused? Frustrated? You're not alone. We often look outside of ourselves for the answers. If we create the perfect structure, schedule, discipline, and environment, we will finally shape the right circumstances for our new practice to be sustainable and integrate naturally into our lives so we don't have to try so dang hard! But what if the answer is on the inside? And what if we could understand our internal roadblocks, see them on the horizon, and breeze right through them? Let's find out!

You really want to stop, start or change something. Why is it so hard to begin? We often look outside of ourselves for the answers. Maybe if we create the perfect structure, schedule, discipline, and environment, we will finally shape the right circumstances for our new practice. But what if the answer is on the inside? And what if we could understand our internal roadblocks, see them on the horizon, and breeze right through them? Let's find out!

Join me this week as I document five days of a new morning practice. New practices benefit from being designed specifically for you, bite-sized, incremental, consistent, adjustable, and detached from a preconceived outcome. The practice is the point, and the results are part of the great adventure of life!

What we feed gets bigger. That applies to the conditioned voice of self-doubt, self-criticism, self-hate, fear...you get the idea. The good news is that we are not our conditioned thoughts. We can notice them, and if they feed the imagined negative version of us or life, we can shift our attention to starve and shrink them. This frees us up to feed the voice of compassion, love, and acceptance. We can bring ourselves back to the life that is happening right now, where everything is as it's meant to be, and there is nothing wrong with us and nothing wrong with life.

“What do you believe about White men?” This one question asked discerningly during an executive diversity training with counselor, coach, and consultant, Dr. Bre Haizlip, served as a life-defining catalyst for my personal evolution and positive social change. On this episode, Dr. Bre shares how creating a personal “Blissipline” that allows us to feel through the intersection of our Four Root Identities – race (see), gender (create), sexuality (love), and self-sovereignty (power) – can set us on a path to evolve beyond the performances that limit our humanness.

Every human experiences fear. Fear is a powerful and convincing emotional experience. When you are afraid of the dark, light can chase away the demons. But if there is nothing to fear in the light, is there anything to fear in the dark? Fear shouts (and sometimes whispers) its self-importance and demands that attention be paid and that it be heard above all else. It feels VERY REAL. But fear's arrival indicates an investigation is in order. What you find may surprise you!

Your narrative is your story. How you tell your story affects how you view yourself and your life. Learn how to identify unhelpful narratives and shine a light on the compassionate truth so you can free yourself from limiting beliefs and embrace unlimited opportunities!

Are you a sensitive person who absorbs the emotions of others? Do you have highly tuned senses, strong intuition, and a huge heart? Do you sometimes give too much? Congratulations, you are probably an empath! Learn strategies for protecting your energy and living a lighter, freer, empathic life.

This week we explore gaining comfort with discomfort so that we can investigate the source and determine whether to stick with it or quit it!

Release your past. Own your present. Trust your future.

Feeling stuck? So was C.K. Collins. Join us this week to learn ideas for a way back to your own happiness by swiping right for yourself. After experiencing a significant loss over five years ago, Kelly was searching for her new life, her new joy, and a new love. She chose to do the hard work to heal and found a new path to empowerment. She chose to swipe right for herself (and she did some dating too). Her book and coaching program is about swiping right for yourself, your new life, your hopes, and your dreams. She shares stories from her personal journey and ten special friends who shared their hearts and time to create a guide that Kelly describes as the moon reflecting the love light of others.

We learn early in life that we need to live up to and perform to certain standards in order to be considered smart, successful, attractive and valuable. Many of us spend much of our lives building and serving what feels like ourselves, but is actually our image. Our idealized image. And with the sharing of our lives online, the idealized image has become more and more curated. We browse social media platforms, taking in these storybook creations and wonder why we don’t measure up, or alternately, are relieved to feel superior if only for a moment. But, what happens when the idealized image is deconstructed and abandoned and the real self is fed, watered, nurtured, accepted and let loose into the world?!? Honesty, vulnerability, hijinks, hilarity, trust, connection, friendship…the possibilities are endless. No curating needed. Love yourself. Free yourself. Be yourself.

Appearance standards are unrealistic, ever-changing, and most importantly..made up! They take on the importance we give them and are only true if we believe them. Learn eight daily practices for uncoupling your self-worth from the way you look and freeing yourself to focus on matters that matter!

The most common question by humans interested in cultivating self-love is, How do I get there? Tune in for a summary of practical approaches that you can use NOW to help ease your suffering and allow you to live in the freedom of self-acceptance.

Does your Inner Critic have a lot to say? You’re not alone! Your Inner Critic takes its job seriously and shows up to remind you that you’re not good enough, you didn’t do it right, you should have said something different, you need to do better, be better and work harder. When you dream of a different life, a new career, moving to another country, or chasing a dream it steps in to tell you that it is simply too difficult, impractical and that you should just keep your head down and stay the course. It doesn’t want you to get any crazy ideas about accepting yourself unconditionally because the power it wields will be wrested away from it and once that happens, the possibilities are endless…for YOU, not for IT. Join me for the launch of GTO Freedom for Humans with my very special guest, Roland Williams: friend, colleague, addiction specialist and all-around wonderful human. We will talk about the mission of the show, to spread the word about the transformational healing power of unconditional self-love. We’ll discuss the Inner Critic’s origin and its role in addiction, relapse, and recovery, and offer tips and practices for freeing yourself from its influence.

Tunnels are useful. They get us from point A to point B when there is no other way or when going the long way around might cause us to lose our bearings or give up our journey. In this episode, Kirsten explores the concept of tunnels in our lives. While dark and surrounded by pressure, they have a beginning and an end. If we proceed, we will always, eventually, come back out into the light. And, yes, insomnia is no exception!

Karen Johansen is spry, active, vivacious, social, and fully engaged in life. She has accepted and navigated life's challenges with positivity, optimism, and gratitude. Join us for stories of life, love, loss, friends, family, and football! Karen shares her philosophy and the secrets to living well and happy at every age.

The most common question by humans interested in cultivating self-love is, How do I get there? Tune in for a summary of practical approaches that you can use NOW to help ease your suffering and allow you to live in the freedom of self-acceptance.

Worthiness: the quality of being good enough and deserving attention and respect. From whom? From YOU! Special Guest Meadow DeVor, renowned inquiry teacher and life coach, shows us how to plot a practical course to worthiness through learning and practice in The Worthy Project. In her most recent book, The Worthy Mind, Meadow guides us to delve deeper into the origins of our unworthy story so we can embrace ourselves wholly, come home to our true selves, and unleash our unlimited potential! Join us for this vital discussion of welcoming worthiness into your life.

The most common question by humans who are interested in cultivating self-love is How do I get there? Tune in for a summary of practical approaches that you can use NOW to alleviate your suffering and allow you to live in the freedom of self-acceptance.

Farrah Fawcett: friend, artist, advocate, angel. Her fierce courage, grace and vulnerability as she faced and documented her journey with anal cancer was critical in saving my life. Her legacy, through the Farrah Fawcett Foundation led by best friend, advocate and CEO Alana Stewart, continues to impact the lives of those affected by HPV-related cancers by providing important funding for research, patient assistance and awareness. Join me and very special guest Alana Stewart as we celebrate Farrah, friendship and The Foundation. Farrah and Alana are true angels among us.

What does it really mean to awaken the divine feminine? Growing up in a hypermasculine culture can result in the denial of our feminine spirit as we try to integrate and compete with men (and each other!) for our place in the world. This doesn’t just disempower us, it shows up in our our bodies. By awakening the divine feminine, we experience the embodiment of courage, vulnerability, passion and spaciousness. We become The Goddess.

The most common question by humans who are interested in cultivating self-love is How do I get there? Tune in for a summary of practical approaches that you can use NOW to alleviate your suffering and allow you to live in the freedom of self-acceptance.

Your skills. Your abilities. Your education. Your job. Your career. Your business. Your passion. Your calling. Your dreams. The desire to engage in work that is joyful, purposeful and provides you a living is shared by us all. If your work does not exactly bring you joy and seems far from your purpose, you are in good company. Let's talk about the long and winding road of work, and how to strike out on the path that is right for you.

Anesthesia creates an insensitivity to pain. When it wears off, if the source of the pain is still active, we hurt. Anesthesia behaviors are designed to do something very similar; to alleviate our suffering. Unfortunately, some anesthesia behaviors create suffering and consequences of their own. And they are not necessarily things we want to abstain from, so we are left to dance with the devil; think food, money, sex, watching TV and engaging with social media. Learn how to spot your anesthesia behaviors, determine their impact, follow the breadcrumbs to the underlying cause of your suffering, and heal it at the source.

When we hold a resentment, we are re-feeling and re-experiencing a wound caused by treatment that feels unjust, unfair, and just plain awful! Along with this repetitive wounding, humans tend to create a narrative that gives credence to the emotions brought on by the resentment. This makes resentments quite sticky! They can stick to us for days, months, years and decades. But, resentments are poison, a silent insidious killer of joy, freedom and happiness. Learn how to prevent new resentments from forming and release the ones you've been holding...even the WHOPPERS!

Identify your life purposes, live them, and organize your life around them by developing daily practices to support your life purpose choices. This may sound like a tall order! And, it would be if the goal was to live your life purposes so that you could reach the brass ring. But there is no brass ring, no finish line, no summit. There is practice, practice practice. Through practice we live our life purpose choices each day, with an awareness of the next right thing and then the next right thing after that. Join me and special guest Eric Maisel as we discuss the Kirist approach to life's toughest questions, and the ways in which daily practice and using creative tools and strategies to manage our tricky human minds can set us on our individual path to living with purpose.

Regardless of what you were taught to believe...There is Nothing Wrong with You-Cheri Huber Cheri Huber's amazing, profound and essential guide to going beyond self-hate and accepting ourselves exactly as we are came into my life like when I needed a lifeline. I was suffering. I felt hollow and empty and grief-stricken. I didn't recognize myself anymore. I reached for Cheri's book, purchased at the suggestion of a therapist, who thankfully saw me before I could see myself. Everything changed for me that day. Everything. It was right there in those pages. By clearing learned conditioning, finding compassion and self-acceptance, and undertaking the necessary awareness work, rebirth is possible. I clung to this as I did the work, wondering what a rebirth might feel like...and then it happened. I was reborn into love, acceptance, compassion...and freedom

Let's talk about FOOD! It is possible to have a balanced, harmonious relationship with food that supports your health and well-being. It takes love, acceptance, compassion...and practice, practice, practice!

Your body is your first, best and last partner in this life. No one knows you better than your body. It is your closest friend, ally, confidant, collaborator and mirror. It is the two of you who live this life now and will leave this life together just as you entered it. If you do not yet love your body, it’s never too late to start. https://www.giraffetangooctopus.com/post/your-body https://www.cnn.com/2014/10/16/health/dying-regret-body-hate/index.html

Your challenges can provide unique opportunities for immersive practice. The work we do to develop unconditional love, acceptance and compassion for ourselves requires practice. It is very much like learning another language. In order to become fluent, daily practice, and ultimately periods of immersion, are necessary. Challenges, obstacles, and adversity typically trigger unhelpful narratives, uncomfortable emotions, and self-destructive behavior patterns. That is until we shift our perspective to one where we view the mountain that lies before as as an opportunity to learn how to climb it and to develop the strength, confidence and muscle memory to climb the next one.

“What do you believe about White men?” This one question asked discerningly during an executive diversity training with counselor, coach, and consultant, Dr. Bre Haizlip, served as a life-defining catalyst for my personal evolution and positive social change. On this episode, Dr. Bre shares how creating a personal “Blissipline” that allows us to feel through the intersection of our Four Root Identities – race (see), gender (create), sexuality (love), and self-sovereignty (power) – can set us on a path to evolve beyond the performances that limit our humanness.

Do you hurt when others hurt? Do you feel sympathy and concern for the misfortunes and suffering of others? Are you compelled to use your gifts to help lift others up and clear a path for healing and opportunity? You are compassionate. Your ability to show compassion for other beings allows you to care for others and to be cared for when your turn comes around. But, compassion is not drawn from an endless well. It is possible to give so much that your well runs dry and you experience at best, compassion fatigue, and at worst the loss of your own well-being and potentially our life. Rest and rejuvenation can prop you back up, but if you do not turn your compassion toward yourself, you are likely to be drawn into the same cycle of giving to exhaustion. Filling yourself first and giving of the excess is often the opposite of what we are taught, to give first and subsist on what is left. Cultivating and practicing unconditional compassion for yourself, can disrupt this pattern and ultimately protect your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health by shoring you up first. You can then give freely and joyously of what remains.

Do you hurt when others hurt? Do you feel sympathy and concern for the misfortunes and suffering of others? Are you compelled to use your gifts to help lift others up and clear a path for healing and opportunity? You are compassionate. Your ability to show compassion for other beings allows you to care for others and to be cared for when your turn comes around. But, compassion is not drawn from an endless well. It is possible to give so much that your well runs dry and you experience at best, compassion fatigue, and at worst the loss of your own well-being and potentially our life. Rest and rejuvenation can prop you back up, but if you do not turn your compassion toward yourself, you are likely to be drawn into the same cycle of giving to exhaustion. Filling yourself first and giving of the excess is often the opposite of what we are taught, to give first and subsist on what is left. Cultivating and practicing unconditional compassion for yourself, can disrupt this pattern and ultimately protect your mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health by shoring you up first. You can then give freely and joyously of what remains.

Preschool, kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, high school. For many of us, these are a given. The process by which we are educated, socialized and prepared to participate in society as productive, employable adults. We are schooled. So, what happens when children are unschooled? What happens when they are given the freedom to sleep when they are tired, direct their own learning, spend time on whatever interests them, and to play as much as they choose? What happens when play, curiosity, solitude and self-regulation are prioritized in the same way paying attention in class, test scores and completed assignments are for the schooled? Join me for a fascinating glimpse into one family’s experience with the practice unschooling. I came away thinking... it’s not just for kids!

We learn early in life that we need to live up to and perform to certain standards in order to be considered smart, successful, attractive and valuable. Many of us spend much of our lives building and serving what feels like ourselves, but is actually our image. Our idealized image. And with the sharing of our lives online, the idealized image has become more and more curated. We browse social media platforms, taking in these storybook creations and wonder why we don’t measure up, or alternately, are relieved to feel superior if only for a moment. But, what happens when the idealized image is deconstructed and abandoned and the real self is fed, watered, nurtured, accepted and let loose into the world?!? Honesty, vulnerability, hijinks, hilarity, trust, connection, friendship…the possibilities are endless. No curating needed. Love yourself. Free yourself. Be yourself.

Does your Inner Critic have a lot to say? You’re not alone! Your Inner Critic takes its job seriously and shows up to remind you that you’re not good enough, you didn’t do it right, you should have said something different, you need to do better, be better and work harder. When you dream of a different life, a new career, moving to another country, or chasing a dream it steps in to tell you that it is simply too difficult, impractical and that you should just keep your head down and stay the course. It doesn’t want you to get any crazy ideas about accepting yourself unconditionally because the power it wields will be wrested away from it and once that happens, the possibilities are endless…for YOU, not for IT. Join me for the launch of GTO Freedom for Humans with my very special guest, Roland Williams: friend, colleague, addiction specialist and all-around wonderful human. We will talk about the mission of the show, to spread the word about the transformational healing power of unconditional self-love. We’ll discuss the Inner Critic’s origin and its role in addiction, relapse, and recovery, and offer tips and practices for freeing yourself from its influence.