Acknowledge that you have the power to free yourself from self-sabotaging behaviors that don't serve you. Dear Friends,
Spiritual teacher and healer Leah Guy is speaking to us about her DailyOM course, Heal Your Soul by Letting Go of Emotional Addiction. Like any kind of codependent behavior, emotional addiction can have a tight grip over our lives, but sometimes we are not consciously aware of its hold and impact. Leah gently and expertly guides you through a process of healing from this so you can truly flourish.
Course OverviewIn this liberating course, intuitive healer and author Leah Guy, teaches how to free ourselves from negative, repetitive patterns and harmful habits. With mindfulness techniques and expert guidance, you'll learn how to create healthy practices that are rooted in self-love to cope with difficult experiences. By the end, you'll embrace a new sense of freedom and ease, regardless of what life throws at you.
- Receive a new lesson every day for 1 week (total of 7 lessons).
- Have lifetime access to the course for reference whenever you want.
- Select the amount you can afford, and get the same course as everyone.
- If you are not 100% satisfied, you may request a refund.
How much do you want to pay?$19$35$55
This is the total amount for all 7 lessons
Interview With Leah Guy DailyOM: How is emotional addiction different from other addictions?
Leah Guy: Emotional addiction has a lot of similarities to other addictions in that we have a "go-to" to deal with life's difficulties. The main difference is that we become attached to certain feeling sensations to cope or to confirm different fears or insecurities that we carry. I will note, many of the other addictions that are essentially coping strategies and self-sabotaging behaviors are most often a result of our emotional addictions. In essence, emotional addiction is usually triggered by a pain response that, although we cognitively do not want to experience, we become so accustomed to feeling that we crave it as an unhealthy strategy in our effort to deal with the world. These experiences also confirm certain negative beliefs we have about our sense of self.
DailyOM: What are some examples of emotional addiction that you help students with in this course?
LG: Oftentimes we become addicted to pain. While it is true we can become addicted to the highs or rushes in life, often even that pattern is connected to our core wounds. I realize that being dependent on pain sounds counterintuitive, as most of us want to be happy and healthy. But when we have established negative beliefs about ourselves (or the world) at younger ages in an effort to defend or protect the parts that were wounded, we continue a pattern of beliefs and behaviors that perpetuates our negative beliefs about self, or our lives. These can be something like "I'm not good enough" or "waiting for the other shoe to drop" or "I'm not loveable" and those stem from past experiences as younger people when we were neglected, bullied, shamed, or made to feel inferior. The baseline that was formed is very powerful and becomes part of our emotional and energetic imprint that establishes itself as a perceived truth in our whole-body systems. Even when we want something different for ourselves, the negative beliefs or painful memories create a repetitive cycle. It is the pain that we want to avoid, but also the pain we are protecting, and in that protective coping strategy we inflict more pain on ourselves by continuing to create scenarios or experiences that leave us feeling unlovable, alone, different or not good enough.
DailyOM: How can you tell if you are an emotional addict? How does it show up in your life?
LG: The easiest way to tell if you are an emotional addict is to recognize the repetitive or familiar feelings that follow us in various relationships or circumstances. Sometimes this happens more in our personal relationships, other times we notice the feelings at our jobs. We often hear people say they are attracting the same kind of person or dynamic. That would be a signal that there is a habitual pattern within us that needs attention. Similarly, in our friendships or at our jobs, if we continually have difficulty with authority, jealousy, inferiority, conflict of a repetitive nature, the pattern is often at play. In sharing part of my story, I have had an emotional addiction to loneliness. There was a deep feeling of loneliness that, although I do not like it, felt like home. That pattern would show up in relationships of all sorts, and the way I perpetuated the cycle was by finding fault in others or keeping certain people at a safe distance. Then when I felt "safe" I didn't experience the pain, but I felt the loneliness. So, you can see how we self-perpetuate the cycles and unknowingly create a reality that is feeding the pain, not feeding the healthy connections that we truly desire.
It is uncomfortable to take responsibility for these situations, but we have to look at why we are either inviting in people with similar traits of others who caused pain for us in the past, or how we sabotage situations with assumptions, actions, or reactions that come from our own lack of confidence. We do this because we are looking for the "hit," or the confirmation that our limited and false beliefs about ourselves are true. Unfortunately, these negative beliefs feel so real that we often do not know how to be if we do not have these difficult feelings. That is why I wrote the course, to help people create a new reality for themselves.
DailyOM: Let's say a person is in a relationship with someone who has past traumas or unresolved issues, would this course be good for him or her?
LG: Yes, this would be a good course for someone in a relationship with another who has a lot of past traumas, but we have to remember this course isn't about understanding the other person, it is about understanding ourselves. The truth is that if we find ourselves in those relationships, we have to look at the parts of us that are unresolved. Those parts of us are seeking a fix or a hit. Often that looks like seeking validation outside of ourselves, trying to fix others, codependency, guilt, or shame that is resonating with the difficult pattern of the other. It is very easy to just look at the other person and the problems they have or the behavior they bring, and harder to recognize that relationships serve as a mirror to a point. If we stay in unhealthy situations, we reflect poor health within us in some capacity.
DailyOM: How have you laid out this course? What kinds of homework and practices can students expect?
LG: The course is seven days and laid out in a way to help us understand what emotional addiction is, where it is showing up in our lives, and then offering practical ways that we can care for ourselves to break that habitual cycle. Every day of the course there is a video and text to offer support and the ability to relate to the content. The homework assignments are reflective and sometimes challenging in the way that they ask us to go deeper within, beyond the excuses, beyond the rational mind and ego and into the subconscious and our inner child or younger self so we can actually learn how to make a difference in our own lives. The course asks us to take a different perspective into our healing, and to acknowledge that we are likely contributing to our own unhappiness due to fear of some sort. It is not easy to change, but that is part of life's evolution and our growth and is the most natural part of living.
So, the practices and homework help us to put into practice the work we are reading or viewing. One of my favorite days of the course is about self-discipline as a form of self-love. We are a society that wants ease and freedom, and discipline has become a word more associated with rigidity. However, self-discipline is a critical step of re-parenting and can be one of the highest forms of self-love. Not only that, but the practicing of self-discipline helps us remember our strength, and to build our self-esteem and trust in self. It is really hard to make life-long and positive changes when we don't trust ourselves. One can expect to apply the homework lessons each and every day, and return to them as often as possible, to support a new belief and dynamic in their mind, subconscious, emotional body, and energy field.
DailyOM: What is one of the biggest takeaways you hope students will learn?
LG: I truly hope the course is transformative for anyone who steps up to the challenge. If that transformation is simply showing up with a curious mind to watch the videos each day, that is superb, I call that a win. It is a brave thing to commit to self-care and healing, and we need to honor where we are and not judge the process or our progress.
For those who are in a place to go a bit deeper, I want the course to help a person bring their focus back to themselves and take a look at the parts that still need attention and find inspiration and truth in the teachings. If we can access our true selves and attach to hope with the possibility of change, that is brilliant and a major part of the healing process. And beyond that, for those who want to take responsibility and finally heal some of their difficult patterns that play out in their lives, my greatest hope is that this course will be a catalyst to freedom.
How Does It Work?Starting today, you will receive a new lesson every day for 1 week (total of 7 lessons). Each lesson is yours to keep and you'll be able to refer back to it whenever you want. And if you miss a lesson or are too busy to get to it that day, each lesson will conveniently remain in your account so you won't have to search for it when you're ready to get back to it.
Free GiftAs a free gift, when you sign up for this course, you will also receive the award-winning DailyOM inspiration newsletter which gives you daily inspirational thoughts for a happy, healthy and fulfilling day. We will also let you know about other courses and offers from DailyOM and Leah Guy that we think you might be interested in.
Get Started NowWe are offering this course with the option of selecting how much you want to pay. No matter how much you pay, you'll be getting the same course as everybody else. We simply trust that people are honest and will support the author of the course with whatever they can afford. And if you are not 100% satisfied, we will refund your money.
How much do you want to pay?$19$35$55
This is the total amount for all 7 lessons
Healing from emotional addiction is a powerful way to rediscover your true self and purpose. It frees you to go forward with renewed hope and to live your life fully. Until next time.
Be well,
DailyOM
