Russell Brand REVEALS The 3 Steps To RECOVERY & OVERCOMING ADDICTION | Commune
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I was on my bottom with nothing left, completely broken, wife gone, living in an abandoned vehicle in a friend's yard. 12 steps and two and a half years later I'm happier than I ever knew I could. I sponsor others, and Russel is absolutely right that you have to WORK the program, but if you do you can finally know peace and contentment. True acceptance and surrender are crucial. You have always belonged, always were worthy, but it was your thinking that kept it from you. Changing thinking patterns seem daunting, especially at first, but it is absolutely possible.
Wow mate absolutely fantastic achievement. Most people who read this comment will never truly understand what you have been through and how hard it is. I fully understand as I suffer from compulsive behaviour and feel like I will never overcome it. Your storey gives me strength. All the best x
Congratulations on your sobriety God bless you brother and stay strong
I'm excited for you. I can feel the freedom in your words.
Congratulations! You are a success. 🌟
"Bring the body, and the mind will follow". Nobody "thinks" their way sober, rather it's ACTION that changes us. Congratulations on your three years!
Please pray for me guys I need to get of methodone and get my life back together, pray that I get the funds to get to detox center so I can get my life back together, I have a little boy and I can not be a good dad while I'm taking methodone. I am so ready to change. God bless everyone
You WILL get off methadone, you ARE on your way to getting your life back together.
Went to my 1st N/A mtg today. First time in 20 years. I now have the detox to look forward to..but for the 5000th time. Wish me luck
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Its the 5000th time youve dedicated and shown up for yourself! Thats a serious achievment!
As someone struggliong to I have to ask are you good today?
I'm drunk and stoned and praying for help as I watch this. God bless all my fellow addicts.
You’re right on time. Keep watching, engaging, and know that there is a better way out there if you want it. I’m 17 months sober and wake up all the time amazed that things have gotten this much better than they were. Asking for help was the best thing I’ve ever done. Be well.
I wish you well
@@georgettegabriel839 Thank you! Two weeks today without alcohol!
I’m in the same boat as u Marie. I wish us both success. The good news is there’s only one direction after rock bottom…
I have found it really difficult to accept I need help and I am now powerless. My ego really believed I could beat my addiction because I really believed I could not trust anyone, let alone a power greater than me that I cannot see or even understand. Now I have nothing left I have no choice but to let go of my ego. My ego always seems stronger than me and will find any way to trick me. I now realise this is a battle I don’t need to have. I think after watching this I have realised I need to stop battling with myself and trying to control everything around me because I just can’t do this anymore.
Just started my 12 steps. This is the hardest battle i have ever fought
waking up every day as an addict is the hardest battle, this is the beginning of freedom
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9 days clean today!
How you doing now ?
I love you
@@PaulaWhetzel I love you.
Always so unbelievably eloquent 🙏🏻
Russel brand has such a beautiful way of describing recovery and serenity in life. Can't get enough 41 days clean today
Thank Russel! Clear understanding that is practical in any belief system! We all need to wake up daily!!
Please KEEP talking about addiction. Your way of communicating reaches me. I hope and pray that you get this message. I need your point of view. All addictions like you talk about in this video.... I hope whoever reads these comments gives this to you.
Johann Hari wrote that the heart of addiction is disconnection. That really resonated for me. Russell is brilliant and there's still no one like Melody Beattie.
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I accepted Jesus Christ into my life today I'm am saved. Work the steps get success.... Thank you for this
It wasn't Jesus, Allah or Buddah that got you clean..It was yourself..
That was incredible!!! I’m back in the rooms 17 years clean…
Relapsed…. I’m 20 days clean today… I love how authentically Russel broke it down addict style.
Thanks for sharing ….
How amazing that you are 17 years clean. That's incredible work - Lets make it for life this time!
Great job! It is not easy to come back. Refer to AA PG. 70, "suppose we fall short".. I think it's an incredible view on relapse. 💕
Addict style. That is well stated. I have my own history with codeine. One day recently a good friend who was a child in the war in Bosnia told me that her older sister is an addict. I won't say what brutal trauma she experienced but you can imagine. I kept trying to get her to have her sister 'contact this doctor I know who can help her' (mine) but she refused to accept it. To her it is black and white and her sister should 'take NOTHING'. I know that the more she approaches her sister like that, the more her sister will hide from her and that will just disconnect her even further. It's so important to be able to tell someone the truth and for them to accept you as you are right now before you can move toward changing anything.
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Relapse is a part of recovery. Don't sell yourself short
Not to boost your ego dear Russel : ) but to simply acknowledge the brilliant Light shining thru your being - deeply grateful that you’re sharing from your experience, offering your insights & wisdom, and particularly pointing out that addiction comes in many less obvious forms.
I tried many times to change..not until I surrendered and followed the suggestions did I experience sustained recovery. 31 years later I am in a profession now where I help those still suffering. RECOVERY IS POSSIBLE ❤. I am living proof ❤. Don't think, don't drink/use and make a meeting. WE recover ❤
I've been in recovery and sober for 15 years, this was just Amazing and so spot on.!!!!!
2 years sober and counting. The 12 steps have been the key. I really appreciate Russell and these videos. Thank you for making them. One day at a time
Good job on the 2 years!
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Amen! 👏🏼👏🏼
I’ve had issues with addiction for a long time. This video has been suprisingly pivotal for me. The way Russel constructs his thoughts is absolutely amazing 💯👍🏼
Thank you, I am going to make these work sheets change my life
In the fight right now brother. Even though I feel like crap it feels great to be doing something about it. Best of luck to all of you in the fight also!
hang in there bro whats your poison?
I don't have years of drug misuse but I created an addiction taking my ex-husband's codeine because I was so overwhelmed by everyone around me and their needs and demands on me that I honestly think I almost deliberately created an addiction in order to force myself to seek support. I am very lucky to have great doctors but the real work is the underlying issues/feelings/everything. I thought I was slowly getting at least the start of re-connecting with myself and my own life. One day my mother said: 'You have to do it for you.' I am still stuck there. No drugs but this has been a very bumpy journey and it's really only just begun. Johann Hari wrote that the heart of addiction is disconnection. That basically says it all for me. I need to find a good therapist. I don't think I can get very far just on my own. But you are right, it feels right, if not always great, to know that I am doing something about it. Best to you!
Beautiful. Thank you. I have spent the past couple years so discouraged I turned to drugs and alcohol. I’m ready to change and I have hope.
Thank you so much for this course. The 12 step program has saved my life. But only after you spoke about it. You are needed at this time. I wish every eye could see you ……. Shelagh
I've just joined the Commune app. I'm in urgent need of serious intervention. I'm ruining my life and I'm really hoping I can learn from wise people such as Russell.. Thank you
How’s the app and program treating you 5 months in?
Can you give us your seven month update?
I myself stayed clean 11 mo last year, returned 3 to using, and now have 7 again. This was exactly what I needed to refocus myself into recovery. Thank you russell!
I wish you the best of luck xx
Russell, I'm trying to explain to my family what you've saying. I was in the US military. I know life can change at a moments notice ❤
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I'm 7 years clean, my wife is 6 years clean. I've been held hostage, lost my son to the ministry, lost the cars, the house, the money, the business, my wife left to a life on the street where she spent 18 months escaping extreme domestic and gang violence. She ended up pregnant and clawed her way out, she had to escape for two now. we spent 5 years apart healing in recovery. we've been back together for 2 years now and after losing all, today, we closed on a home. I run this podcast full time thanks to a bunch of great organizations in my community. I have a life I never saw coming. its possible. It's an epic adventure. We can recover.
I really like this man. I have a phone addiction I won't to overcome. I'm sick and tired of it, taking all my time and attention. Thank you Russell
Same. I have a distraction/entertainment addiction and am eager to surrender and release to live a fuller life. How’s yours going?
12-step program changed my life, thank you, R.B., for your willingness to explain this in your brilliant way.❤xo
This coming Wednesday April 12, 2023 I have been sober 42 years thanks to Alcoholic Anonymous and 12 steps and the people in Alcoholic Anonymous thank you and the..God of my understanding!
Thank you Russell, I'm over 10 years clean and sober. We can live a recoved life!
Better then any advice I have gotten in patient and or from therapy or drs. I’m going to be sober and take my mental health meds. This eccentric man’s personality and advice seems to be the guru that finally clicks with me. Be well people.
Be well to you too! Thanks for reaching out!
Meds???
You're unreal with your transparency and rock bottom stories.... Helps all of us feel we're not alone or have a il less work to do x thank you for your mission to pay your recovery forward, you legend!
You break the program down so I can relate to it. And your book does the same. Thank you.
Dude..been following you for your authentic content for like about year with out knowing your bad boy past life that lead to your spiritual awakening!!!
you have changed my shut down idea of the twelve step programme .. from a position of fear and being sceptical, to a thank you. and acceptance. that is a massive achievement the walls and barriers are high! thank you for your wisdom, humour and insight ,, they have pretty much glued me together in the past few days.
You are amazing Russell
Thanks for using your platform to help millions of others!🙏❤
When ever I feel a pang of neediness like an empty hole that needs filling from something or some idea . I take it a step further in my mind and say to myself " is this thing or that thought really going to fill the hole, it never has before . Then I say to myself , " it comes from with in , not from the outside." Whatever is outside will not work, it will only leave me feeling worse and delayed. I then have to stop the chitter chatter of my mind and step back , look at the present moment , and know that everything is now and now is good . And Voila' the hole is gone ! I can breath a sigh of relief and go on about the business of life ... It's all about catching yourself in unconscious thought and snapping your self out of it by becoming present ...
Russell understanding of the 12 steps is the best way to understand, just like me to get over that barrier and start to try to get better. He puts it in terms the majority of people can understand and I love that. I take Russell's clear explanation of the steps and it helps me understand the 12 steps more when I go to meetings. If you cant have a laugh at yourself once in a while then what's the point. Thank you sir for pointing out your difficulties, I know it helps many.
A good lesson for everyone on the planet. Chemical addiction or not.
Agreed
What's up everybody I'm Dee watching this made me wanna say sumthin um I'm 10 months in my recovery I relapsed twice at the end of it but I feel good I'm thirsty for knowledge of this whole experience yeah man it's a good feeling now I can see clearly and I no it's gone get better and better day by day the best is yet to come ya dig easy I'm out y'all one 😘
Great podcast!!!! I realized that I am addicted to food, although I am known to be a very "disciplined person", I tend to soothe myself with food especially when I feel unhappy without completely being aware of that state of mind. Could you please address emotional eating? so many women are suffering from it.
Russell you are an absolute legend a modern day saviour. Thanks for your guidance with my recovery 🙏
Russell Brand saved my life.
Amazing Russell, I’m 18 months clean through the twelve step program, your knowledge, wisdom and the way you speak of the process of recovery is quite frankly phenomenal. The issue is not the substance, external but the internal issue, the malady of not being at peace with oneself, I would love to hear you talking about the ongoing steps, ie 4 etc, I’m recently discovering after 20 years of drugs misuse that I have a thinking disease, your interpretation of the 12 step program is breathtaking. Much love to you.
Yes i also have a thinking disease i over think everything which ends up in confusion and a great deal of pain
Hi, have you read Johann Hari? I think the book is Chasing the Scream. Anyway, my mother read it first and sent me a quote. It basically comes down to the heart of addiction is disconnection. A 'thinking disease' is a great way of expressing...what's going on with us. Me too anyway. I have never been a drinker, don't smoke grass and always used herbal medicines. My bad marriage created a situation where one day I took two of my ex-husband's codeine tabs, which he had in a large box for migraines, and for the first time in forever I suddenly felt like I could manage all the competing demands pulling me in every direction. I never used for years but I knew from the start that I didn't take them for any headache! In a way I am fortunate in that I almost think I did this deliberately to force myself to get support and help. I have a great doctor and now take Suboxone. The problem is, the underlying issues are still there. I am slowly learning self-care, regaining my voice and trying to believe in my life again. Russell is brilliant. I bought his book but he is so great to watch and hear directly. Best wishes to you. Keep reaching out and stay connected.
I’d like to undue mayhem. I’m rural not bc I want to be. I’m scraping together so I can move towards my son. Seems that Blackrock has other plans. You seem so solid and articulate I want to listen. I’d really like to know how you bc who you are so interesting and confident yet not so overwhelming the narcissist you claim to be.
I really enjoyed this. Lots of identification. Step 3 was tough for me. I didn't wanna go. He described it perfectly
I love the 12 step program! I use the principle on other problems in my life like sugar! Thank you Russell for all your involvement in community education.
Thank you for putting this on . I am so grateful for this . I will watch this several times. 😊
Freedom...ty...these times make it difficult to attend our much needed meetings..this platform is helpful and inspiring..keep it coming..feels like I'm sitting in the rooms ..hearing the real. Filling up my cup..passing it on....grateful 12stepper..New Zealand.. hi my names waiana and I am an addict...blessings....
ALBERT ALCOHOLIC ( AE ENTERVENTION season 11 finale is my proof of unmanageable) going on 13 years sober and a goof ball not taking 90% of life serious ive finally understood my higher power who Einstein calls entropy , realizing the relapses ive faced is do to me pushing back and placing expectations on a universe that is against order is my doom unless i grasp fast ,he will let you push for awhile but will allways win , like working out you have to spend your majority of time and energy putting things in order and the moment you take a break my God continues doing what it does and it will take twice as much energy and frustration that a addict like me cant cope with unless doing repetitious work that keeps you and mind busy the moment you take a break my god pushes back like entropy does and it gets stronger with the expantion of the universe ( thermodynamics) which isnt slowing down , ever hear old people say there was no divorce in my day obsolutly correct entropy was at a all time low now all time high , on my journey to get a relationship with my higher power it thanks to AA I got the concept and has changed my life finaly i understand god is just doing what was he wasmeant, its how old ideas die new ones merge the visible matter which cant get out of hand would so i let him do the disorder and dont put expectations on the little things that go wrong , help others to raise endorfans and sadly our obsession cant be stopped unless you go to meetings 7 days AA, work and familly one break from trying to place order is all that is needed for my god to make sure the 2nd law of our universe isnt broke he does his job and i thank him on a daily bases for all us that hes not twice as fast you would decay twice as fast and knowing by watching other it gets harder and harder god doesnt mean to do this but he needs you to understand his place so you dont think its just you its happening to , i have data proof ive manage to grapgh the measure of my higher power entropy (others equations )and when overdose death rates matched the data (well enough) , it would take decades to find the right numbers (proper process )and having a(fight club mentality) locking the sickness in , (I worked for my rehabilitation for 5 years the one i graduated from and won't get into politics) thanks to the path AA has provided i was able to understand and have a understanding relationship and finaly felt that HAAAHA moment ive learned from ( Acceptance key) 13 years sober in which my best friend my father and sponser both died wife cheated on me so add divorce , it all made since to me so i didnt die ,marriage cant work its no ones fault , its my higher power putting things in disorder ( I had a mental breakdown for a couple days but thats a healthy response a safty switch thanks to evolution , I didn't injure my brain) ........ oh to top it all off I can't even read a tape measure proof im wired through data side and the amount of time it took to grasp all this like quantum theory and my favorite philosophy was 13 years hints how I kept busy , just today my mom flipped the breaker for the last time to the point of crying even when it was me having to go way outside in snow to fix it and understanding my higher power it let me calmly think of a reason why, so today i jumped up in joy like i won money cause, i got to prove my theory (opinion), the microwave was older it was drawing more power than the new one so after swapping em out it fixed everything so i silently thank my higher power for showing me my place doing so gave me patients to work on my world issues and finally being able to consol a normal person my mom on mother's day who im very grateful for the fact she doesn't have to worry about a disease that will kill her and I was enough to do the trick
ONLY THING THAT COMES EASY IS ENTROPY
MY NAMES ALBERT (human) and ATHIEST WHOS HIGHER POWER THAT EINSTEIN CHOOSED TO CALL ENTROPE,I LOVE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU AND REMEMBER " EVERY WAR IS A CIVIL WAR"
Its very soothing to know that even famous people can come down and be upfront about addiction explained through your own experience thank you I sobered up from the worst point In my life but i did it one day without anyone's help I just quit ...
Wow. Inspiring and brave. I’m working on that right now. I’ll succeed one day then the next I backslide. But I get back up and remember why I choose to overcome myself.
You are terrific Russell! And dont worry mate even thou you only have 1,453 views, I know you you will be as big a RUclipsr as me one day! ha but serious, you have helped me so much to put the bottle down
58000 lol
The joy I get from hearing you say smoking crack with your beautiful accent. 🥰 Thank you for your service Russell
Thats an odd comment 😂
Only true addict understand ❤
The ability to enlighten and explain this information is unreal it is so easily grasped having been thru the 12 steps without truly understanding was a failure I’m sure it was simply presented by someone who did not understand the steps themselves I learned so much from Russell just now I feel like I have an understanding of the first 3 steps that will be instrumental in the successful use of the 12 steps to stopping one day at a time
I love the way you put 12 step in a different perspective. I didn’t relate initially but your videos have truly inspired me to change and get better
So bizarre because I was thinking ‘Russell is the conduit for the modern expression of an old teaching’. Absolutely incredible.
First of all thank you for your thoughtfulness in creating this video. Lastly I just love your voice and humor. I could listen to you talk all day.
I feel like I need to watch this every morning. My insanity and amneasia is much stronger willed than i ever knew. Ive done the complete 12 step programme twice. It changed some impulsive and dangerous behaviours that I didnt even think was a problem. I have bpd and I thought it didnt completely work for me because that disorder is rare in the population. My sponsor was stumped because lord did i try i told her every little shady thing id done. she had to take it to her own sponsor because I was following it to a tee. When she said do you believe in god I was like yes. I apologised to every person that she put on the list without any argument. Funnily when I apologised to my teacher, english a level, i was shocked because he was the only person out of 32 who asked me if he had ever hurt me. Out of tose 32 only one person didnt forgive me and a couple took the piss out of it or asked me to make ammends by running around the block naked, I guess i thought i had a personality transformation and I really did partially but I justified it in my mind that the world was against me and thats just the way it goes, The concept of a higher power being of service to me is a revelation because I have been trying to serve god but all thats happening is im trying to absolve myself of sin without trying hard enough. I see now that this programme is for every single day and if your not reminding yourself that there is another way the amnesia takes over in your sleep. You wake up a blank canvas ready to do the same old shit because i cant control change. Hopefully day by day this will start to stick in my head. I dont even know why it hasnt because ive been here before. Maybe it is just a willingness to be lead by something smarter. Stop trying to lead myself blind with amnesia. russell, I doubt you will see this but what causes the amnesia. Thats wgat gets me every time.
You are awesome!
Thank you so much for what you are doing. You are an example of courage and honesty. May you be happy healthy and joyful 🙏
You are a warrior ❤
It's beautiful that I can see beyond the garbage and Sabotaged life I was walking in, where caos and calamity consume, but, now I found a way to clear house. ❤ Xx
Thank you Russell for sharing your story. My niece is seeking treatment for recovery and the system does not make it easy for people with no income caused by addiction. Keep doing what you do!!!
How much parents love their children and children love their parents? Have you watched the film “Lorenzo’s oil” starring Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon as the parents of a child sick with a rare incurable brain disease who research and work incessantly to find a cure to save their son’s life? That never happened with addiction, the so called “family disease”. Not only parents and children of addicts, likewise psychologists, psychiatrists and rest of humanity, didn’t research the affliction, when just reading the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous (which the mainstream of addiction recovery programs are based on) and being honest to want to understand is enough to understand that addiction is the psychology of a liar, but silence the truth that would save their so called “loved ones”. Are you queuing in the crowded comforting lies or alone in the unpleasant truths? Do you believe addiction is an incurable brain disease that affects young healthy criminals that has never been found or detected by any biological or other means? Humanity are dying deceived deceiving living a lie because parents don’t teach their children to be honest because are not honest themselves. The truth is addiction is the tormented psychology of an unforgiving liar, drugs don’t cause addiction and only liars get hooked and only honesty gets freedom. The tragedy of addiction is children who revenge a childhood hurt, or trauma, against their parents learning from example becoming victims of themselves so as to conceal the hatred to hurt others, advertising themselves as victims stealing attention. In life like in psychology events and behaviours happen for a reason. Addiction runs in families because psychologies, behaviours, beliefs and else are transmitted from parents to children, like father like son, because humanity don’t think for oneself, otherwise there would be agreement on the truth. Hate, lie, hurt, ignorance comes from hate, lie, hurt, ignorance and addiction appears in bad families of parents who hurt their children. I am a recovering addict, a fool who knows that is a fool, a wise man. I don’t know much but i know what i know. The truth is stagnated among liars and when the unpublishable truth is published mortality rates would collapse provoking humanity’s addiction recovery, a burst of psychology, guilt, shame that was bottled up, desensitised, ignored in active addiction. The war, nightmare of living a lie would end because would be proven that you are like i impossibility possible miracle God.
AA and NA meetings are Free thank goodness
Yes, my mother is a doctor (retired now) who spent several decades in the ER/Trauma Unit of St Luke's Hospital in Harlem, NYC. Every so often she send me an article that she has read somewhere about people being placed in jail with no help with withdrawal or anything. She gets outraged by the inhumanity of it, the degradation of how people are treated. This idea that addiction, which is really a lot of unmet human need and disconnection, responds to a punishing, judging attitude...I think that attitude is one of our world's most common addictions. It's a perfectionism and a denial of our greatest dread and fear: our own humanity and vulnerability. The fact that you accept your niece and her need for support is ENORMOUS. She is fortunate to have you.
I'm pleased to say my niece recently reached on year sober, AA & NA meetings helped, she was denied by one assessment agency for inpatient & referred to take soboxin, I took her somewhere else and they got her in to treatment. It's not easy, but I feel blessed. Thank you all for your support!!!
one year
Best Hour and 12 minutes and 25 seconds of In the Moment ever/ Better than any Movie I have ever Watched...Will Watch this Over Many Times for it Cleanses the Doors of Addiction to the Path of the Infinite ^
I finally understand what path i have to take to heal, thank you russel. Im still looking for a mentor but i know that path to healing is helping others
Brilliant love the way you you articulate the process of Recovery top shelf Russell
Russell. I'm a harm reductionist and my inner dialogues judged my path, and therefore yours. Thank you for pointing me in a direction towards honesty, hope, oneness and wisdom
Same here..never get real drunk and usually no more than 2 beers a day. Less as time goes on. I'm not where I want to be. But thank God I'm not where I used to be.😊
@@Andrea-HeIsKingThats still 12 beers a week..
@@baldersn4474 not every day. 2-4 / week. But go ahead and think whatever you want. Does not effect me. The 12 step model would have me in a grave,jail or insane,rather than think a person can go from addicted to moderate. It's called " program" for a reason.
Proud of you man,,,helping others ❤ 👏
Heya I just wanted to say that I've never read a full book cover to cover ever, honestly swear to god reading is just not me as hard as I've tried to kid my self, I'm a reader😂😅. I picked up a copy of your book recovery today, started browsing it on the bus and train even read it walking home.now I'm on page 27 , and in No hurry to put it down. Thank you Russell honestly thank you.
Hit rock bottom
When my husband died in my arms with no warning. Came out after 2 years. But fell back into that selfish shit . I realize that if you are not practicing, meditating , etc. and staying in present moment. You will never stay stable. It’s tough but it’s a skill. Practice is the key. You have to love yourself enough though and THATS the battle of all battles !
You are brilliant Russell! I could listen to you al day.
Thank you for what you do❤
My first A & A meeting tonight .
Wish me well !!@
How did it go?
Hope you are still sober
I think most of people have some sort of addiction...some openly with drugs some with exercise music or whatever. It is a painful experience to look at ourselves and overcome or get out of the picture we all think we are. Our essence it is there. There is hope and it is worth it. Don't abandon yourself! You are worth it, loved and capable of great things.💖love thyself!
What a man! I love how he tries to cater fir everyone and not project his own beliefs, and finally someone who mentions consumerism. I will however say my experience of asking for help is different. I admitted my problem and asked for help, no one would accept I an alcoholic. When I went through thr process..I rang the samaritans, the doctor and drinkline and they made me feel worse, not better. Luckily I reached out when I was in a better position mentally, but if I'd rang on my lowest day I think that might have pusher me over the edge.thank god for Russel Brand!
From the bottom of my heart thankyou . I am going to my first meeting in days .
This video REALLY helped me a lot. Bless you, man. The way you explained step three really helped me break through.
So gud to no thers a way out of the dark my friend
Russell🤞and anyone else who may read this:
It's one of the cliches that have been uttered throughout the decades in the rooms, but in case you haven't heard it, your step 2 could be paraphrased: "Nothing changes if nothing changes. If you always do what you've always done, You'll always get what you always got." (Also, my second personal favorite: "In order to get comfortable👍, first you have to be UNcomfortable🖕.")
I love the work that you are doing in the area of additions. I work with young people in a mental health facility and have looked for something that I can use to help my patients to start the process of changing their addictive behavior and your videos have provided the key to opening the door and starting the conversation of making change. You are a god send.
That's great. I can see how young people (all people) would really feel open to Russell.
Hi Russell, the name is Chris C and I get clean all the time and for substantial amounts of time but a relapse always throws that life altering wrench in there and I am back at ground zero. After many programs etc , I am going through every thing with a fine tooth comb to see what I missed. A piece of my recovery puzzle is missing and without it I can't UNFUCK myself.
Love you way to teach , share all your addictions experience.
Thank You for being you brother.
RB IS A MESSANGER OF A POWER GREATER THAN HUMANS...
just starting the 12 steps for addiction and anorexia and this video has been crazy helpful, as so much of russell's content has been
Thanks for sharing this knowledge and helping the world heal a bit more. Btw, as a non-native English speaker I notice Russell's speaking is more comprehensible when he speaks with less glottal stops.
Once again, thanks you Mr. Brand, youre my brand of wisdom. Pun intended.
Energy is a force that cannot be seen by the eye but can be detected by technological devices and can be felt by humans. For meditation experts or yogis , Energy is a vehicle for the soul ( spirit ) through which we can enter the universe and can also fight in the universe.
I am a sugar addict and I am glad I found this video. Coupled with my Spiritual I am presence I am on the road to success 💙💙💙 blessings to everyone on the road of recovering their best version of themselves!!!
My problem is i stop for months and years at a time but then i grow careless and think ag well i can stop at any time and i think to my self let me juat do it and that attitude get me in to trouble because i forget this saying 1 is to much and there after a 1000 not enough if you smoke the chances of relapseing in to other forms of addition and the old ones is almost certain. Besides.every time i relapse for a while is difficult to hear the voice of my Father and i don't feel that special kind of constant fellowships with him i hate it for that reason and it takes my boldness away from me to help those around me because my state of mind is not in harmony with my Father i feel embarrassed to represent the one i love and so boldly confess. Does anyone have it the same as me? If i look at how boldly you speak your truth Russell i can see you are not just talking it but you are living it. 🙏🙏
I def get that I'm the same way
Good luck from 5 months later. Hope they were good months.
Think most of us are in the same boat!
@@awsomeguy1278 i am sick of it though its not a fact of just being sober or just living a life of sobriety if i relapse it affects every aspect of my life. This cycle has repeatedly manifest in my life over the last 20 years numerous times. I will simply say as Pall did oh wretched me who will save me from this body with its lustful behavior? My the Creator help us to fully awaken and set us free from our lust for pleasure..
Trauma gets stored in the body and it wants to re-live the emotional experience to heal it fully. Figure out where in ur body this trauma is and work on that chakra area (most of us is 2nd/3rd chakra) to relase the emotion or get the energy unstuck. I am speaking from my own wobbly experience and not at all from a place of mastery. Joe dispenza helps with this stuff.
Also, maybe sit with yourself and ask why you keep repeating the cycle, what do you gain, how is this helping you, what else can you learn, is this your most divine path? Also, go easy on yourself- you can't get it wrong, you're just learning this whole life thing as a newborn placed in a foreign land... you're doing great, you've made no mistakes!
Thanks buddy. So much to think about. I love deep conversations and you provide me with this so thanks! I’m on day 10 of my second go round. This time it’s for me. This time I go deep. Can’t afford the full course but I will go to meetings and see what comes in n. 🙏♥️✨ NZ
How’s it going?
Let us save the world while saving ourselves
It's soothing to listen to Brand's style of communication. While realizing that a need to finance the work that goes into creating content, the bombardment of advertising for snake oil self-help programs are unfortunate. I worked for someone who was unable to stop himself from signing up for one-after-another "achieve your potential" high-cost programs...he destroyed his business and sowed so much damage to his family. Those ads are a portal to a new rabbit hole of addiction. Wish those ads weren't interrupting his good message. Allowing different kinds of ads would be better. There's a universe of Anthony Robbins-style pyramid schemes out there. It's shameful to be capitalizing on people's desperation.
Agree. The book says “for fun and for free”
I can't believe this is free
Today is day 36, most days i feel good. Most days i feel in control.
Today i feel very down and depressed. I will still do my best but my best is going to be a bit less than on my good days. I am ok with that.
I will choose my words carefully
I will not make assumptions
I will not take anything personal
I will always do my best, with the understanding that my best will change from day to day. I will be ok with that.
Its important to remember that just because i am getting sober doesnt mean i will always be bright and shiney feeling.
I will have days that are quite hard. I actually will welcome those days as they will help me in the future.
I just need topush forward and be the man i need to be for myself my children and my family.
I love you all, no matter where your at in your journey, no matter who you are as a person, no matter your situation.
Please know there is light at the end of the tunnel. Most days i can see it. Today its not as bright as usual.
I know it will be brighter tomorrow. I want each and everyone of you to know that you are loved beyond what youll ever know❤
I'm starting again with a new approach to steps 1, 2 and 3. I'm in a desperate place in my soul. Detoxing from alcohol.... not violently-like other times, ( no tremors ). But the reality has set in.
Under pressure to keep my apartment, land a new job, improve my You Tube channel ....my way of functioning; using alcohol as a creative and emotional crutch, isn't working anymore.
Coping with a soulless society that grows excessively more false by the hour, while everything gets more expensive, not to mention artificial... and the fentanyl all around my neighborhood... It's like living in the middle of an apacolyptic vacuum that wants to suck me in to my own suicide. The devaluation of life; ranging from endless QR codes, to the doom-loop of media hysteria. My form of escape and coping tool isn't working anymore and my last chance to change is now.
I want to live, really live.... not simply exist. And for the most part, that's what I've been doing, but the alcohol has to go... Life is what I want.
I felt like this was me speaking every single word. You are not alone✨
I’m sorry but Russell is inintentionally funny 😂😂😂😂 glad he got clean though!
Oh if only it was just a substance issue..its not its a inside job..self discovery..painfull at times uplifting at others..we have alot to be thankfull for in Russell but more in each other.❤
The Big Book Alcoholics Anonymous has the original 12 steps. Don't cut your self short, go to the original map. I haven't seen anyone disappointed that finishes the original real 12 steps. In fact they are blown aways at the new life.... so much distortion in real recovery today. Best read the real instructions in the. Book and do as they did and get what the got.
Thanks for sharing.
you gave me hope today russel. thank you
This gives me so much to think about, thank you.
LOVE THIS LOVE THIS
Absolutely love and respect this man. What a magnificent highly intelligent great example of a man ❤
Thanks and much love from Argentina. Super powerful message
He is fantastic 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I can understand applying the 12 steps or addiction doctrine to nearly anything and I am not against that coz I realise that behavioral problems can be a severe addiction but not all addictions are equal. There is a distinction between many of them.
Oh my goodness! Thank you Russell! ❤️
Yoooooooooo Russel B! Hey Scro?! Dude.... I'm finally off the Fetty! AKA fentanyl! I'm conscious! I'm aware! I'm present and in the moment! Keeping spreading the great news my colonial cousin! Much love!