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Listen on Your Favorite app iTunes Spotify Stitcher Accountability is understanding that our life decisions impact us and everyone around us. In addiction recovery, accountability is untangling mental and emotional patterns that have been rooted within our innate nature for years or even decades. Establishing accountability in recovery takes time and patience.  In this weeks Recovery Coaching call the group helped Shelley. Nearing the end of her probation, she finds herself having reservations about using now that she's no longer accountable with drug testing. The group also helped Sonia. From a habitual marijuana habit to gaining sobriety, and now going back to school, she’s fearful she will fail and [...]

Listen on Your Favorite app iTunes Spotify Stitcher Sometimes we say or do things we regret. We feel guilt from our past, or feel guilt for not being where we’re supposed to be in our lives. We may also feel guilt for letting ourselves down, or feeling like a disappointment to others. Whatever the case may be, part of our life experience is to have positive emotions and negative ones and grow from them. In this week’s Omar Pinto Coaching podcast, the group helped Stephanie. Stuck on not being able to let go of guilt she has internalized for years, she feels guilty for not living up to expectations [...]

Listen on Your Favorite app iTunes Spotify Stitcher Do you believe in the power of your internal guidance system to keep you safe? It is important that you stop dwelling so much on the inner critic and instead focus on the progress you’ve made to get you where you are. In this episode of Omar Pinto Coaching, Travis shares about the lack of emotion he’s experiencing during his recovery journey. He explains how the prolonged dysfunction and trauma from his younger years impacted who he is today. Listen in to understand the power of believing in your higher power to keep you safe and take you where you want [...]

Listen on Your Favorite app iTunes Spotify Stitcher Do you have what it takes to set your own boundaries during your recovery process? For the recovery process to be successful, you have to set and embrace boundaries that will allow you to get better and find yourself. In this episode of Omar Pinto Coaching, Omar gets interviewed by Jess and Kate of the Seltzer Squad. He shares his journey through recovery, how he found his “why” to overcome addiction and the personal development work he committed to himself. Listen in to learn how you can approach the 12-step program and still find value in it without giving up. “If [...]

Listen on Your Favorite app iTunes Spotify Stitcher As we move from childhood to adulthood, we go through experiences, traumatic incidents, compare ourselves to others, and create insecurities around limiting belief systems. We begin to lose an initial state of love and joy that we were innately born with. Little by little, we lose our perspective and our purpose. Bogged down by work, relationships, and stressors, we can mistakenly try to find love and joy in a bottle, drug, food, shopping, or toxic relationship, and can find ourselves inhibited by patterns of thoughts and feelings we’re looking to escape.  So how do we separate ourselves from these thoughts and [...]

Listen on Your Favorite app iTunes Spotify Stitcher Most of us try to get through our day-to-day lives as conflict free as possible, but when it gets to the point of compromising our needs to make others happy, we can become resentful and unhappy in our own lives. In certain situations it can feel awkward to assert ourselves, and being caught in tense situations can dredge up painful memories and insecurities, left unable to stand up for ourselves. In this week’s Recovery Coaching call, the group helped Samantha. Feeling stuck in a job she no longer feels fulfilled in, she is having trouble standing up to her husband about [...]

Listen on Your Favorite app iTunes Spotify Stitcher Meet Jes and Kate of Seltzer Squad, a supportive space for those seeking and maintaining sobriety. Jes is a native New Yorker, dog-mom, and girl boss. Kate is a native of North Dakota, cat mom, a wannabe van lifer, and a forever freelancer. In this episode of Omar Pinto Coaching, Kate and Jes share their alcohol and drug addiction experiences and when they became sober. They describe their sobriety journey and why running a podcast has made them accountable. Listen in to learn the importance of taking life step by step and picking yourself up without condemnation after relapsing. “Relapse is [...]

Listen on Your Favorite app iTunes Spotify Stitcher It’s human nature to feel overwhelmed. Stress is a survival mechanism telling our bodies to take a break. When we experience stress, we can get caught in a negative thought pattern. These thoughts feed into belief systems that create guilt and frustration and low self-esteem which can cause us to revert back to old patterns and behavior. When we realize our parenting skills to ourselves have become skewed, our answers to why we continue to mitigate our own needs can be traced back to what we may not have received in childhood.  The process of learning how to reparent ourselves forces [...]