Dr. Brian Pennie

And I was saying yes to this, chasing, striving, you know, like the business model element of that.

And I realized if I say yes to that 7 or 8 out of 10, I'm saying no to my family who are 10 out of 10s.

So I'd say no to myself.

It was a 10 out of 10.

Like I was probably spending less time.

I was spending less time in nature.

I was spending less time doing breath work.

Spirituality.

When I talk about spirituality, it's connection, it's energy, it's peace, it's space, it's stillness.

I was spending less time in the spiritual realm of what I, nothing to do with religion, more spirituality in terms of awareness and space.

So I remember thinking, right, I need to create more space for this.

And through that journey, I've realized that when I struggled with pain,

people, our brains, our brains don't care about happiness.

They don't care about joy and stuff like that.

They care about survival.

And that leads to chasing pleasure and avoiding pain.

So what I realized was I was chasing pleasures with the business and stuff like that.

And I wasn't spending enough time on the important things.

So for me, when I was in addiction, I was

experiencing pain i was numbing myself to not feel that pain but i was disconnecting with my emotional world as a result i was emotionally disconnected from myself and when we're emotionally disconnected we're not connected with ourselves we can't connect with other people that intimacy just isn't there those emotions just aren't there because we're emotional beings