In this episode of Breaking My Addictions, Clive, Matt and Dom explore what happens when you stop fighting your addictions and start redirecting your attention instead. Because it turns out the two might be more connected than most recovery programmes acknowledge. They get into the reticular activating system — the part of your brain that filters what you notice. Buy a red car and suddenly red cars are everywhere. Start looking for things going right and the world quietly obliges. Start feeding yourself a diet of outrage, war and anxiety and watch your baseline happiness quietly collapse. They explore: <ul><li>Why forty six percent of waking hours are spent thinking about something other than what we are actually doing and why that is linked to unhappiness</li><li>How the news, social media and algorithms are not designed to help you grow. They are designed to bring you back</li><li>Why addiction might be a cheat sheet for the dissolution of self that meditation spends years trying to reach</li><li>The difference between people who focus on problems and people who focus on solutions — and why that one difference changes everything</li><li>What happens when you stop doing things for outcomes and start doing them because you value them</li><li>How improving your mental diet, your physical condition, your attention span and your relationships lets addictions melt away rather than having to be fought</li></ul> Clive's closing thought is the one to carry with you. When you can live openly and honestly and expose yourself to the world, you claim sovereignty over yourself. And you would not trade that back. Raw, unscripted and genuinely thought-provoking. Join the community: breakingmyaddictions.comMy Sober Addiction: mysoberaddiction.com Join the Breaking My Addictions WhatsApp community: breakingmyaddictions.comMy Sober Addiction: mysoberaddiction.comFree books from the series: qrioustherapy.com

In this episode of Breaking My Addictions, Clive, Matt and Dom explore what happens when you stop fighting your addictions and start redirecting your attention instead. Because it turns out the two might be more connected than most recovery programmes acknowledge.They get into the reticular activating system — the part of your brain that filters what you notice. Buy a red car and suddenly red cars are everywhere. Start looking for things going right and the world quietly obliges. Start feeding yourself a diet of outrage, war and anxiety and watch your baseline happiness quietly collapse.They explore:Why forty six percent of waking hours are spent thinking about something other than what we are actually doing and why that is linked to unhappinessHow the news, social media and algorithms are not designed to help you grow. They are designed to bring you backWhy addiction might be a cheat sheet for the dissolution of self that meditation spends years trying to reachThe difference between people who focus on problems and people who focus on solutions — and why that one difference changes everythingWhat happens when you stop doing things for outcomes and start doing them because you value themHow improving your mental diet, your physical condition, your attention span and your relationships lets addictions melt away rather than having to be foughtClive's closing thought is the one to carry with you. When you can live openly and honestly and expose yourself to the world, you claim sovereignty over yourself. And you would not trade that back.Raw, unscripted and genuinely thought-provoking.Join the community: breakingmyaddictions.comMy Sober Addiction: mysoberaddiction.comJoin the Breaking My Addictions WhatsApp community: breakingmyaddictions.comMy Sober Addiction: mysoberaddiction.comFree books from the series: qrioustherapy.com

Breaking My Addictions

Addictions And Your Where Attention Goes, Energy Flows

What are you most frightened of? Not the surface answer. The real one.In this episode Clive admits on air that one of his deepest fears is not being real. That the simulation question genuinely scares him. That he has gone there in his head and had to find a way to lay it to rest. That kind of honesty sets the tone for a conversation that goes somewhere most addiction podcasts never reach.Matt talks about finding opioids at exactly the moment his world fell apart and how that felt like sitting in the middle of everything going wrong and simply not caring anymore. Not healing. Not coping. Just not caring. And why that was so appealing. Dom asks the question nobody asks. Why do we live lives we need to escape from? And whether the substances we reach for were always meant to raise consciousness rather than dull it.Somewhere in the middle of all of that something shifts. A man with crushed legs runs up the CN Tower. A coffee cup says life begins where fear ends. And Clive notices that when a project finishes there is a gap, and what you choose to put in that gap might be everything. This one goes deep. But it comes back up. Join the community at <a href="breakingmyaddictions.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">breakingmyaddictions.com</a> and <a href="mysoberaddiction.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">mysoberaddiction.com</a>

What are you most frightened of? Not the surface answer. The real one.In this episode Clive admits on air that one of his deepest fears is not being real. That the simulation question genuinely scares him. That he has gone there in his head and had to find a way to lay it to rest. That kind of honesty sets the tone for a conversation that goes somewhere most addiction podcasts never reach.Matt talks about finding opioids at exactly the moment his world fell apart and how that felt like sitting in the middle of everything going wrong and simply not caring anymore. Not healing. Not coping. Just not caring. And why that was so appealing.Dom asks the question nobody asks. Why do we live lives we need to escape from? And whether the substances we reach for were always meant to raise consciousness rather than dull it.Somewhere in the middle of all of that something shifts. A man with crushed legs runs up the CN Tower. A coffee cup says life begins where fear ends. And Clive notices that when a project finishes there is a gap, and what you choose to put in that gap might be everything.This one goes deep. But it comes back up.Join the community at breakingmyaddictions.com and mysoberaddiction.com

Why Our Joys and Fears May Control Our Addictions

What happens when you leave the cage but still carry it inside you? Clive, Matt and Dom explore what genuine community actually looks like versus the communities addiction builds around itself. From the ant mill that keeps circling until it dies, to a Sufi story about the one person who made it back to the classroom, to a thirty day experiment living exactly how society tells you to live and feeling the anxiety crawl in by day eighteen. Clive talks about the podcast itself as a piton hammered into the rock face each Wednesday. However crazy the week gets, he can come back to the point where he sounded fairly sane. That is what community does. Not rescue. Not fixing. Just a handhold. Plus the disease debate handled honestly, why the WhatsApp group might be the most important thing any of them have built, and why belonging is not a nice-to-have but the actual medicine. Join the community at <a href="breakingmyaddictions.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">breakingmyaddictions.com</a> and <a href="mysoberaddiction.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">mysoberaddiction.com</a> or visit <a href="Qrioutherapy.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Qrioutherapy.com</a>

What happens when you leave the cage but still carry it inside you?Clive, Matt and Dom explore what genuine community actually looks like versus the communities addiction builds around itself. From the ant mill that keeps circling until it dies, to a Sufi story about the one person who made it back to the classroom, to a thirty day experiment living exactly how society tells you to live and feeling the anxiety crawl in by day eighteen.Clive talks about the podcast itself as a piton hammered into the rock face each Wednesday. However crazy the week gets, he can come back to the point where he sounded fairly sane. That is what community does. Not rescue. Not fixing. Just a handhold.Plus the disease debate handled honestly, why the WhatsApp group might be the most important thing any of them have built, and why belonging is not a nice-to-have but the actual medicine.Join the community at breakingmyaddictions.com and mysoberaddiction.com or visit Qrioutherapy.com

Building a Life Beyond Addiction - Beyond the Rats Nest

And more importantly, are we? Clive ran up a hill to watch a solar eclipse this week and ended up explaining his entire life's work to his neighbours. That's about as good a cold open as any podcast could ask for. This week Clive, Matt and Dom talk about children, theirs, ours, and the child still running the show inside every adult in the room. From Dom's daughter doing exactly what he raised her to do and refusing to apologise for it, to Matt's forgiveness conversation with his kids after years of active addiction, to Clive's realisation that the biggest changes in the people around him happened when he changed himself and stopped trying to change them. The episode plays out with Are the Kids Okay? A four part original song suite written and produced by Clive, available now on QriousTherapy.com Join the community at breakingmyaddictions.com and mysoberaddiction.com

And more importantly, are we?Clive ran up a hill to watch a solar eclipse this week and ended up explaining his entire life's work to his neighbours. That's about as good a cold open as any podcast could ask for.This week Clive, Matt and Dom talk about children, theirs, ours, and the child still running the show inside every adult in the room. From Dom's daughter doing exactly what he raised her to do and refusing to apologise for it, to Matt's forgiveness conversation with his kids after years of active addiction, to Clive's realisation that the biggest changes in the people around him happened when he changed himself and stopped trying to change them.The episode plays out with Are the Kids Okay? A four part original song suite written and produced by Clive, available now on QriousTherapy.comJoin the community at breakingmyaddictions.com and mysoberaddiction.com

Are the Kids Okay?

What if you stopped fighting the addiction and just started building something better instead? Clive opens this episode with something quietly remarkable. In the last ten weeks he finished a book, rebuilt his business, started running again, spent more time with his kids, sorted the house and the garden. And somewhere in the middle of all of that the old addictions quietly melted away. No willpower. No white knuckling. Just construction. Clive, Matt and Dom explore what it actually means to build a life worth living, the psychology of purpose, why people with a calling have measurably lower rates of addiction and depression, what retirees arriving at the finish line of a prescribed life can teach us about meaning, and why the butterfly you grab with force is the one you lose. The episode features the story of Meekie, a 19 year old fashion designer, songwriter and poet from Lagos, Nigeria, and member of the Breaking My Addictions community. His words became songs. His songs ended up in Clive's new book The Impossible Knot, publishing next week. His story is what this episode is really about. You can support his journey and follow his story at T2LU.com The episode plays out with All I Do Is Listen, a song built from Meekie's own words, made into music by The Department of Qrious Threads. The Impossible Knot, a free book about the situations effort cannot fix and what to do instead, publishes next week at QriousTherapy.com QriousTherapy.com is a free, ad-free platform where people share what actually helped. Videos, podcasts, poems, articles and more across channels covering addiction, mental health, creativity and self discovery. No accounts. No agenda. Just humans sharing what worked. Join the community at breakingmyaddictions.com and mysoberaddiction.com

What if you stopped fighting the addiction and just started building something better instead?Clive opens this episode with something quietly remarkable. In the last ten weeks he finished a book, rebuilt his business, started running again, spent more time with his kids, sorted the house and the garden. And somewhere in the middle of all of that the old addictions quietly melted away. No willpower. No white knuckling. Just construction.Clive, Matt and Dom explore what it actually means to build a life worth living, the psychology of purpose, why people with a calling have measurably lower rates of addiction and depression, what retirees arriving at the finish line of a prescribed life can teach us about meaning, and why the butterfly you grab with force is the one you lose.The episode features the story of Meekie, a 19 year old fashion designer, songwriter and poet from Lagos, Nigeria, and member of the Breaking My Addictions community. His words became songs. His songs ended up in Clive's new book The Impossible Knot, publishing next week. His story is what this episode is really about. You can support his journey and follow his story at T2LU.comThe episode plays out with All I Do Is Listen, a song built from Meekie's own words, made into music by The Department of Qrious Threads.The Impossible Knot, a free book about the situations effort cannot fix and what to do instead, publishes next week at QriousTherapy.comQriousTherapy.com is a free, ad-free platform where people share what actually helped. Videos, podcasts, poems, articles and more across channels covering addiction, mental health, creativity and self discovery. No accounts. No agenda. Just humans sharing what worked.Join the community at breakingmyaddictions.com and mysoberaddiction.com

Build It and the Addiction Leaves

Your environment shapes your addiction before you ever make a single choice. Where you grew up, how close together the buildings were, whether your parents had enough, what your peers were doing, the rats nest gets into the wiring before you're old enough to know it's happening. But what happens when you leave the cage? Does the rats nest leave with you? And what about the modern rats nest you invite straight into your home every time you open your phone? Clive, Matt and Dom explore city versus rural addiction patterns, social media as a chosen environment, why intelligent people are often most vulnerable, and whether the WhatsApp community they've built is itself a form of Rat Park connection and social medication.. Featuring a real story about a girl who got out and never looked back, a Ferrari in a Walmart car park, and one line about a ten hour something that will make you laugh and think simultaneously. Join the community at <a href="breakingmyaddictions.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">breakingmyaddictions.com</a> and <a href="mysoberaddiction.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">mysoberaddiction.com</a> and for resources visit <a href="qrioustherapy.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">qrioustherapy.com</a>

Your environment shapes your addiction before you ever make a single choice. Where you grew up, how close together the buildings were, whether your parents had enough, what your peers were doing, the rats nest gets into the wiring before you're old enough to know it's happening.But what happens when you leave the cage? Does the rats nest leave with you? And what about the modern rats nest you invite straight into your home every time you open your phone?Clive, Matt and Dom explore city versus rural addiction patterns, social media as a chosen environment, why intelligent people are often most vulnerable, and whether the WhatsApp community they've built is itself a form of Rat Park connection and social medication..Featuring a real story about a girl who got out and never looked back, a Ferrari in a Walmart car park, and one line about a ten hour something that will make you laugh and think simultaneously.Join the community at breakingmyaddictions.com and mysoberaddiction.com and for resources visit qrioustherapy.com

Can You Take the Rats Nest Out of the Boy?

What if the peace you found in your addiction was actually a spiritual experience just with the wrong directions? Clive, Matt and Dom go somewhere most recovery podcasts won't touch. From Matt's near death experience in a formless void that didn't match his religious programming, to the Catholic church abuse figures in France, to whether complete abstinence is a realistic or even healthy expectation, this is an honest, curious and at times uncomfortable conversation about religion, shame, spirituality and what we're all actually searching for underneath the addiction. Carl Jung told one of AA's founders that alcoholism was a spiritual thirst at the wrong address. William James wrote in 1882 that substances give temporary access to states that feel genuinely transcendent. Gabor Maté's whole later work goes there too. This episode asks the same question they were all circling, what were you actually chasing? The episode closes with an original song written from the themes of the conversation, a therapeutic piece that walks through the confusion of being human, the systems that fragment us, and what it might feel like to finally choose your own direction. For more tools, therapeutic content and the Sonic Alchemy songwriting experience visit qrioustherapy.com Join the community at breakingmyaddictions.com and mysoberaddiction.com

What if the peace you found in your addiction was actually a spiritual experience just with the wrong directions?Clive, Matt and Dom go somewhere most recovery podcasts won't touch. From Matt's near death experience in a formless void that didn't match his religious programming, to the Catholic church abuse figures in France, to whether complete abstinence is a realistic or even healthy expectation, this is an honest, curious and at times uncomfortable conversation about religion, shame, spirituality and what we're all actually searching for underneath the addiction.Carl Jung told one of AA's founders that alcoholism was a spiritual thirst at the wrong address. William James wrote in 1882 that substances give temporary access to states that feel genuinely transcendent. Gabor Maté's whole later work goes there too. This episode asks the same question they were all circling, what were you actually chasing?The episode closes with an original song written from the themes of the conversation, a therapeutic piece that walks through the confusion of being human, the systems that fragment us, and what it might feel like to finally choose your own direction.For more tools, therapeutic content and the Sonic Alchemy songwriting experience visit qrioustherapy.comJoin the community at breakingmyaddictions.com and mysoberaddiction.com

Addiction, Gods & Peace

What if your addictions aren't weaknesses? What if they're given to you by design. In this episode of Breaking My Addictions, Clive, Matt and Dom go deeper into the mental diet conversation - moving from the family dynamics of last week into the media, advertising and algorithmic machinery that shapes what we think and what we reach for when we're not okay. They explore how soap operas quietly hand people identities to inhabit. How laugh tracks train you when to feel. How a trillion dollar advertising industry doesn't sell you products, but sells a version of yourself that needs them. What if we lowered people's baseline dopamine through fear-based media, meaningless work, corrupt politics and a consumer treadmill that promises everything and delivers nothing? Raw, unscripted and harder to dismiss than it should be. Join the community: <a href="breakingmyaddictions.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">breakingmyaddictions.com</a>Mental diet tools and resources: <a href="qrioustherapy.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">qrioustherapy.com</a>Ready to level up? <a href="time2levelup.co.uk" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">time2levelup.co.uk</a>

What if your addictions aren't weaknesses? What if they're given to you by design. In this episode of Breaking My Addictions, Clive, Matt and Dom go deeper into the mental diet conversation - moving from the family dynamics of last week into the media, advertising and algorithmic machinery that shapes what we think and what we reach for when we're not okay.They explore how soap operas quietly hand people identities to inhabit. How laugh tracks train you when to feel. How a trillion dollar advertising industry doesn't sell you products, but sells a version of yourself that needs them.What if we lowered people's baseline dopamine through fear-based media, meaningless work, corrupt politics and a consumer treadmill that promises everything and delivers nothing?Raw, unscripted and harder to dismiss than it should be.Join the community: breakingmyaddictions.comMental diet tools and resources: qrioustherapy.comReady to level up? time2levelup.co.uk

Who Stole Your Dopamine (& Sold It Back to You)

What if the biggest protective factor against addiction isn't willpower, therapy, or even sobriety, but family? Not necessarily the one you were born into. In this episode Clive, Matt and Dom explore one of the most overlooked threads in addiction recovery - the role of family, belonging and the need to be part of something. Matt shares candidly how his family's decision to stop enabling him and let him crash and burn was both the hardest and the most loving thing they ever did. And how when he crawled back, they were ready. They explore what happens when the family you grew up in isn't the one that heals you - and how addicts often build their own family from scratch, dysfunctional as it might be. Sometimes that's the first place they've ever felt they belonged. The conversation moves into the language of recovery, why being told to repeatedly declare "I am an alcoholic" might be doing more harm than good, and why the granularity of how we describe ourselves matters more than most treatment programmes acknowledge. Raw, unscripted and genuinely thought-provoking. Join the WhatsApp community: <a href="breakingmyaddictions.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">breakingmyaddictions.com</a> My Sober Addiction: <a href="mysoberaddiction.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">mysoberaddiction.com</a>

What if the biggest protective factor against addiction isn't willpower, therapy, or even sobriety, but family? Not necessarily the one you were born into.In this episode Clive, Matt and Dom explore one of the most overlooked threads in addiction recovery - the role of family, belonging and the need to be part of something. Matt shares candidly how his family's decision to stop enabling him and let him crash and burn was both the hardest and the most loving thing they ever did. And how when he crawled back, they were ready.They explore what happens when the family you grew up in isn't the one that heals you - and how addicts often build their own family from scratch, dysfunctional as it might be. Sometimes that's the first place they've ever felt they belonged.The conversation moves into the language of recovery, why being told to repeatedly declare "I am an alcoholic" might be doing more harm than good, and why the granularity of how we describe ourselves matters more than most treatment programmes acknowledge.Raw, unscripted and genuinely thought-provoking.Join the WhatsApp community: breakingmyaddictions.comMy Sober Addiction: mysoberaddiction.com

The Family You Were Given, The Family You Choose & Why It Changes Everything About Addiction

What if calling addiction a disease is actually making it harder to recover from? In this episode Clive, Matt and Dom tackle one of the most contested questions in recovery - is addiction a disease or a choice? And why does the answer matter? Matt shares the raw reality of going on complete autopilot - making the conscious decision not to use, then finding himself calling his dealer anyway without knowing how it happened. Is that a disease? Or is it something else entirely? Clive draws the distinction between disease and dis-ease - the idea that addiction isn't a broken brain but an off-centre life reaching for the quickest way back to balance. Dom traces the surprising origins of the disease model and asks whether we were ever meant to stay stuck. Together they explore the rat park experiment, the role of environment and poverty in addiction, the autopilot analogy, and why focusing on making life better might be more powerful than any label we put on the behaviour. This is not a clinical podcast. It is three people who have lived it, thought about it, and found their own way through - talking honestly about what actually worked. If you have ever felt like addiction was something happening to you rather than something you were doing, this conversation might shift something. Join the Breaking My Addictions WhatsApp community at <a href="breakingmyaddictions.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">breakingmyaddictions.com</a> - a free peer support space focused on moving forward, not staying stuck.

What if calling addiction a disease is actually making it harder to recover from?In this episode Clive, Matt and Dom tackle one of the most contested questions in recovery - is addiction a disease or a choice? And why does the answer matter?Matt shares the raw reality of going on complete autopilot - making the conscious decision not to use, then finding himself calling his dealer anyway without knowing how it happened. Is that a disease? Or is it something else entirely?Clive draws the distinction between disease and dis-ease - the idea that addiction isn't a broken brain but an off-centre life reaching for the quickest way back to balance. Dom traces the surprising origins of the disease model and asks whether we were ever meant to stay stuck.Together they explore the rat park experiment, the role of environment and poverty in addiction, the autopilot analogy, and why focusing on making life better might be more powerful than any label we put on the behaviour.This is not a clinical podcast. It is three people who have lived it, thought about it, and found their own way through - talking honestly about what actually worked.If you have ever felt like addiction was something happening to you rather than something you were doing, this conversation might shift something.Join the Breaking My Addictions WhatsApp community at breakingmyaddictions.com - a free peer support space focused on moving forward, not staying stuck.

Is Addiction a Disease? (Or Just our Minds Fighting Dis-ease?)

What if, your addiction isn't your enemy, but a message you haven't read yet? Clive, Matt and Dom go beyond willpower and war metaphors to ask a harder question, what pain was your addiction solving? From opioids to alcohol to the subtle addictions of scrolling and escapism, this is an honest, unscripted conversation about shame, identity, culture and what it actually takes to change. Clive runs breakingmyaddictions.com, Matt runs mysoberaddiction.com, and together with Dom they host the Breaking My Addictions WhatsApp community, a free peer support group with a simple but powerful focus. Not on the addiction itself, but on building a life so rich and purposeful that the addiction gradually becomes less important.If you've ever beaten yourself up for falling back, this one's for you. Search Breaking My Addictions on WhatsApp to join the community, or find us at breakingmyaddictions.com and mysoberaddiction.com

What if, your addiction isn't your enemy, but a message you haven't read yet?Clive, Matt and Dom go beyond willpower and war metaphors to ask a harder question, what pain was your addiction solving? From opioids to alcohol to the subtle addictions of scrolling and escapism, this is an honest, unscripted conversation about shame, identity, culture and what it actually takes to change.Clive runs breakingmyaddictions.com, Matt runs mysoberaddiction.com, and together with Dom they host the Breaking My Addictions WhatsApp community, a free peer support group with a simple but powerful focus. Not on the addiction itself, but on building a life so rich and purposeful that the addiction gradually becomes less important.If you've ever beaten yourself up for falling back, this one's for you.Search Breaking My Addictions on WhatsApp to join the community, or find us at breakingmyaddictions.com and mysoberaddiction.com

What Is Your Addiction Trying To Tell You?

JD Tremblay - naturopathic practitioner, former military, ultra-endurance athlete and one of only three people in the world to complete the Epic Decker - talks candidly about porn addiction, identity shift, and building a system that works. What does it take to go from hiding in a basement at 12 years old watching inappropriate TV content, to completing 10 back-to-back Ironman races and building a global men's wellbeing academy? JD Tremblay doesn't come with a coaching badge or a polished origin story. He comes with a decade of military service, a degree in biomedical engineering, a system he built because he had to, and years of lived proof that it works.In this episode of Breaking My Addictions, Clive Wilson sits down with JD to explore the fine line between addiction and obsession, how ultra-endurance sport nearly replaced one compulsion with another, and what actually broke the cycle - identity, not willpower. They discuss:<ul><li>How porn addiction starts young and why it stays hidden</li><li>The RISE framework JD developed for pattern recognition and identity shift</li><li>Why swapping one dopamine hit for another isn't recovery</li><li>The role of community, faith, and purpose in long-term change</li><li>The Hungry Warrior Academy and their work across five countries</li></ul> Guest: JD Tremblay - Director of High Performance, Hungry Warrior Academy Website: <a href="hungrywarrioracademy.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">hungrywarrioracademy.com</a> | <a href="hungerformore.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">hungerformore.com</a>

JD Tremblay - naturopathic practitioner, former military, ultra-endurance athlete and one of only three people in the world to complete the Epic Decker - talks candidly about porn addiction, identity shift, and building a system that works.What does it take to go from hiding in a basement at 12 years old watching inappropriate TV content, to completing 10 back-to-back Ironman races and building a global men's wellbeing academy?JD Tremblay doesn't come with a coaching badge or a polished origin story. He comes with a decade of military service, a degree in biomedical engineering, a system he built because he had to, and years of lived proof that it works.In this episode of Breaking My Addictions, Clive Wilson sits down with JD to explore the fine line between addiction and obsession, how ultra-endurance sport nearly replaced one compulsion with another, and what actually broke the cycle - identity, not willpower.They discuss:How porn addiction starts young and why it stays hiddenThe RISE framework JD developed for pattern recognition and identity shiftWhy swapping one dopamine hit for another isn't recoveryThe role of community, faith, and purpose in long-term changeThe Hungry Warrior Academy and their work across five countriesGuest: JD Tremblay - Director of High Performance, Hungry Warrior Academy Website: hungrywarrioracademy.com | hungerformore.com

From Enjoyment Addiction to Ultra-Endurance: JD Tremblay on Breaking Patterns and Building Men

In this episode of <a href="https://breakingmyaddictions.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Breaking My Addictions</a>, Clive is joined by Matt and Dom for an honest conversation about thinking, overthinking, and what happens when our minds get overloaded by constant information, news feeds, algorithms, and doom-scrolling. We explore how mental noise quietly feeds anxiety, distraction, and old coping patterns, and how easy it is to confuse being “informed” with being overwhelmed. The conversation touches on mental diet, attention, self-regulation, creativity, and simple ways of noticing when our thinking is helping us live well, and when it is quietly working against us.This is not a how-to guide or a set of fixes. It is a grounded, human conversation about noticing our own mental habits, learning when to step back, and finding steadier ways to relate to our thoughts in a noisy world. No gurus. No perfect answers. Just real talk about living with more clarity and less mental clutter.

In this episode of Breaking My Addictions, Clive is joined by Matt and Dom for an honest conversation about thinking, overthinking, and what happens when our minds get overloaded by constant information, news feeds, algorithms, and doom-scrolling.We explore how mental noise quietly feeds anxiety, distraction, and old coping patterns, and how easy it is to confuse being “informed” with being overwhelmed. The conversation touches on mental diet, attention, self-regulation, creativity, and simple ways of noticing when our thinking is helping us live well, and when it is quietly working against us.This is not a how-to guide or a set of fixes. It is a grounded, human conversation about noticing our own mental habits, learning when to step back, and finding steadier ways to relate to our thoughts in a noisy world.No gurus. No perfect answers. Just real talk about living with more clarity and less mental clutter.

Thinking About Thinking: Escaping Mental Overload

This episode offers a profound exploration of inner growth, acceptance, and the journey towards a more fulfilling and purposeful life with counsellor and healer Andrew Dettman, who shares his personal journey of overcoming addiction and finding spiritual connection. He delves into the significance of diction resolution therapy (DRT) and how it can help individuals navigate their addiction patterns and executive function breakdowns. Andrew also discusses the power of connecting with one's inner being, embracing paradoxes, and finding balance in the midst of life's challenges. Tune in to explore the wisdom of Sufi teachings, the transformative potential of conscious contact, and the path to healing through self-discovery and connection with others.

This episode offers a profound exploration of inner growth, acceptance, and the journey towards a more fulfilling and purposeful life with counsellor and healer Andrew Dettman, who shares his personal journey of overcoming addiction and finding spiritual connection. He delves into the significance of diction resolution therapy (DRT) and how it can help individuals navigate their addiction patterns and executive function breakdowns. Andrew also discusses the power of connecting with one's inner being, embracing paradoxes, and finding balance in the midst of life's challenges. Tune in to explore the wisdom of Sufi teachings, the transformative potential of conscious contact, and the path to healing through self-discovery and connection with others. 

Healing Addiction and Embracing Wisdom with Counsellor Andrew Dettman, Dom and Clive

Join Clive and Dominic as they explore the power of fasting, meditation, and neuroplasticity to rewire your brain and break free from destructive habits. Discover practical tools, inspiring stories, and expert insights to transform your relationship with cravings and create lasting change. Whether you're struggling with sugar, alcohol, smoking, or other dependencies, this podcast provides support and guidance for your journey to a more balanced and fulfilling life. Visit <a href="BreakingMyAddictions.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(250, 250, 250); color: var(--text-info);">BreakingMyAddictions.com</a> for more.

Join Clive and Dominic as they explore the power of fasting, meditation, and neuroplasticity to rewire your brain and break free from destructive habits. Discover practical tools, inspiring stories, and expert insights to transform your relationship with cravings and create lasting change. Whether you're struggling with sugar, alcohol, smoking, or other dependencies, this podcast provides support and guidance for your journey to a more balanced and fulfilling life. Visit BreakingMyAddictions.com for more.

Breaking Free from the Addiction Loop with Clive and Dom

Helping you create a life where your addictions start to fade.

Helping you create a life where your addictions start to fade.

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