Step 9 & Emotional Freedom | Dr. Allen Berger Copy

“We are going to know a new freedom and a new happiness.” What does that promise from Step Nine really mean? And what happens when our emotional well-being still depends on life going the way we expect? In this Recovery Reimagined workshop, Dr. Allen Berger explores emotional sobriety and the search for emotional freedom. Allen looks at the expectations and emotional dependencies that can keep us feeling stuck, even after the acting out has stopped. He discusses the unwritten rules we carry into relationships, our tendency to take reality personally, and the challenge of staying connected to others without losing ourselves. He also explores why acknowledging our patterns may be an important part of changing them. Throughout the conversation, Allen invites us to consider a different kind of freedom, one that doesn't depend on controlling the people and circumstances around us. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 00:00 Introduction and the Ninth Step Promises 00:53 What is emotional freedom? 04:08 Recovery as a quest for freedom 05:20 The emotional prison 06:41 When life doesn't meet our expectations 10:53 How we lose ourselves 15:20 Relationships and emotional dependency 20:44 Expressing needs without blame 22:14 Becoming honest with ourselves 25:05 Allen's revised book and workbook 🎙️ FEATURING DR. ALLEN BERGER Dr. Allen Berger is an author and psychologist whose work explores emotional sobriety, recovery, and personal growth. In this workshop, Allen also mentions the revised and expanded Twelve Essential Insights for Emotional Sobriety and its companion workbook: https://www.emotionalsobriety.info/st... 🔗 https://www.emotionalsobriety.info ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ RESOURCES & WAYS TO CONNECT 📅 Join us live https://link.recovery-reimagined.org/... 🕊️ Support Our Work* https://link.recovery-reimagined.org/... 💌 Join Our Newsletter https://link.recovery-reimagined.org/... 📢 WhatsApp Channel https://link.recovery-reimagined.org/... 📽️ On-Demand Workshops https://link.recovery-reimagined.org/... *Contributions help us keep open community workshops and public resources accessible, support the people who make this work possible, and allow these conversations to reach people beyond the live event. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💛 ABOUT RECOVERY REIMAGINED Recovery Reimagined is an online educational nonprofit bringing people together through thoughtful conversations, community, practical tools, and different perspectives on recovery. Our content is educational and recovery-supportive. It is intended to complement, not replace, professional mental health care, therapy, treatment or an individual's existing recovery program. Guest presenters contribute independently, and their participation does not create a therapeutic or clinical relationship with viewers. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #RecoveryReimagined #EmotionalFreedom #AllenBerger #AddictionRecovery #RecoveryConversations #EmotionalSobriety #StepNine ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ DISCLAIMER Recovery Reimagined shares educational and recovery-supportive content. Our videos are intended to complement, not replace, professional mental health care, therapy, treatment or your existing recovery program. Guest presenters share their own perspectives and expertise, and viewing this content does not create a therapeutic or clinical relationship with Recovery Reimagined or a presenter.