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Listen on Your Favorite app iTunes Spotify Stitcher Most of us have experienced some form of trauma in our lifetime, which can be a one-time event such as a car accident, or repeated trauma that occurs for months or years. However for many, trauma is deeply rooted in childhood events. While throughout life we become physically and psychologically vulnerable, those who have experienced trauma can equate being emotionally vulnerable as a threat to our safety and security. Holding tightly onto control, the fear of emotional exposure brings up feelings that we may not be willing to face. In this week’s Omar Pinto Coaching Podcast, the group helped Sara. She [...]

Listen on Your Favorite app iTunes Spotify Stitcher Some of us who have rigid standards and don’t adapt well to change can throw around the word “control freak”. Where does this behavior stem from? The idea of being in control means you can set benchmarks, tasks, objectives and unrealistic expectations of yourself. However, with unrealistic expectations comes the idea of striving for perfection, and what closely follows behind is failure.  In this week’s Omar Pinto Coaching Podcast, the group helped Tori. Struggling with letting go of her perfectionistic ways; her unrealistic expectations of herself have created opportunities to fail and not accept responsibility. By playing the role of the [...]

Listen on Your Favorite app iTunes Spotify Stitcher Addiction is a family disease, and each person in the family is affected. When someone struggles with substance use disorder the equilibrium of the entire family is thrown off. Anger turns into hurt, which can turn into bitterness, and broken promises turn into lies.. But what happens when the person becomes sober and begins to see the miracles of recovery? In this week’s Omar Pinto Coaching Podcast, the group helped Kellie. After a period of sobriety, Kellie relapsed during a family event and has yet to address the behavior between herself and her family. With a riff between herself and her [...]

Listen on Your Favorite app iTunes Spotify Stitcher Why is it that so many of us on the path of recovery find ourselves reverting back to old ways without even realizing how we got there, ultimately not fulfilling our purpose. The chaos can be comfortable, self-destruction can be familiar, and it’s what we know. In addiction, we may have felt that our negative consequences were justified by our bad behavior. We deserved the misery. We deserved the pain. We deserved to be miserable, alone, and afraid.  When we enter the world of recovery, we don’t just stop thinking this way. It takes time. When we get overwhelmed with life [...]

Listen on Your Favorite app iTunes Spotify Stitcher If you’ve suffered from addiction, trauma, or have been hurt and betrayed, an automatic and natural response to feel bitter, distrust, anger, or resentment. However, when we hold onto the negativity, hurts and fail to heal, they can manifest in other areas of our life, keeping us stuck and providing secondary gains to benefit us or protect us in some way. In this week’s Omar Pinto Coaching Podcast, the group helped Kris. With 13 days sober, Kris is resentful and bitter towards her husband, and believes they have grown apart. With trust issues from childhood trauma, the group helps Kris discover [...]

Listen on Your Favorite app iTunes Spotify Stitcher What would happen if you stopped carrying the weight of the guilt and shame of your past?  Would you feel happier, self-sabotage less? Would you allow yourself to be joyful with no expectations?  For those who have experienced hurt, betrayal, and loss, there’s a deep understanding of what it means to have your joy taken from you in a split second. When you allow yourself to feel joy, the aftereffects of these events create a foreboding sense of unease, irritation, unworthiness, and anger out of fear the other shoe is going to drop or something bad may happen.  In this week’s [...]

Listen on Your Favorite app iTunes Spotify Stitcher Do you struggle with self-judgment and feeling responsible for other people’s successes or failures? It is important to understand that you can only do the work for yourself and guide others to follow you to the light. In this episode of Omar Pinto Coaching, Leo shares his struggles with self-judgment about other people’s failures and successes. The group also helps Shannon who shares her struggles with personal and family issues and how they’re impacting her life. Listen in to learn the importance of listening to your intuition to understand everything you need to about yourself and managing expectations of others around [...]

Listen on Your Favorite app iTunes Spotify Stitcher It’s normal to care about what others think and worry about how our decisions will impact them, but once we allow the fear of disappointment to take over, we’re simply hitting our own head against the wall.  Somewhere along the way, we’ve seemed to glorify this fear to mean that we care. However, the fear of disappointing others can be a powerful negative emotion that can eat away at our happiness, our passions, and even create resentment. In this week’s Recovery Coaching Call, the group helped Corey. Going back to work after time unemployed, she’s taken a new job that requires [...]

Listen on Your Favorite app iTunes Spotify Stitcher Do you often feel the need for acknowledgment and acceptance from the people you love? It is sometimes better to accept that it may never happen and that you have to heal and start finding that acceptance within yourself.  In this episode of Omar Pinto Coaching, Omar has a coaching session and primarily speaks with Carrie, who has a toxic and hurt relationship with her father. Carrie shares the type of relationship she’s had with her dad over the years and processes where her hurt feelings are coming from.  Listen in to learn the importance of forgiving yourself from the way [...]

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 [...]