If you’ve ever felt that you’re off-track or off path because of where you are, how you’re feeling, or because you feel what you’re doing isn’t good enough, or spiritual enough, then do we have the show for you!
Today we'll be talking with Chris Grosso, author of the best-selling book The Indie Spiritualist: A No BS Exploration of Spirituality and his latest book Everything Mind: What I've Learned About Hard Knocks, Spiritual Awakening, and the Mind-Blowing Truth of It All
And that in a sense is what we’ll talk about today…how everything is part of our path, the good, the bad, and the really, really ugly.
We’ll talk about getting through the tough times, finding our way, practicing non-judgment, particularly toward ourselves, righting the ship, and making peace with wherever we are.
That plus we’ll talk about punk rock, tattoos, ron burgundy, and skateboarding have to do with anything.
Questions and Topics Include:

How everything is part of our path.
What Chris’s life looked like when he was 16
How Chris got involved with drugs and alcohol
How Chris became an addict.
How he learned he had a disease of addiction
How he continued to relapse, and why...
How being an introvert hurt him in his recovery
How Chris began a spiritual journey while in his recovery phases
What helped Chris begin to finally turn things around.
How death-row inmate Jarvis J. Master’s book Finding Freedom helped rekindle his spark and gave him hope
How to keep self-talk under control.
Exercise from Thich Nhat Hanh for overcoming Negative Self Talk
How Chris began cultivating compassion when negative self-talk would come up
How Chris learned to sit with negative thoughts and emotions
A second Thich Nhat Hanh practice for negative thoughts
What is Loving Kindness to Chris?
An amazing Loving Kindness Tatoo.
What Thich Nhat Hanh means by ‘no love, no lotus’
How to be loving and kind to yourself AND to others
How taking care of the environment helps one feel better
When you’re feeling bad or depressed a guaranteed way to feel better is to do something for someone else
What the Medicine Buddha is and how it may have helped his dog Abby
How Chris took his Boddhisatva vow
The Medicine Buddha healing (and rebirth) mantra
What does Everything mind mean, and why did he write this book?
How everything is part of our spiritual path – everything.
How we’re all one and what that means for us.
Words of wisdom and compassion for parents with a child stuck in addiction.
Why parents need to take care of themselves even when a loved-one is struggling.
A beautiful loving-kindness guided meditation

Chris Grosso, The Indie Spiritualist, Shares How You Can Overcome Anything, Transform Your Life, Heal Addiction, Depression, Alcoholism, Anxiety & More. Plus Thich Nhat Hanh Practices & Guided Meditation. Spirituality | Buddhism | Health | Self-Help
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