Dr. Richard Louis Miller
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first heard Jul 2026
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That's how it is.
If you have a certain part of your body that's vulnerable, you injured your right elbow,
You have to learn for the rest of your life not to bang your right elbow, because if you do, it's going to hurt like all hell, and that's going to be with you forever.
These things are the same.
If you have an impulse control disorder, it means you're doing things outside to change your inside.
You're going to have to be vigilant.
By vigilant, I mean awake, aware.
watching what you're doing, noticing.
It's not a strenuous activity, but it's an all the time activity because otherwise we're liable to reach in terms of the drinker, we're liable to reach for that bottle rather than deal with our emotions in a different way.
And of course, part of what I teach in my work is how to deal with those emotions in other ways.
In other words, if I'm asking the bottle of alcohol to do X, Y, and Z, emotional pain, trauma, forget memories, take away the fact that I'm scared about my job, whatever it is,
Then I asked the question, how can we solve the same issue in three other ways instead of drinking, coking, heroining, or whatever?
In other words, what are the sober alternatives that we can have a great life having and not feel that we're being cheated because we're not getting our drug of choice?
People feel, oh, you know, you're taking away my fun or my painkiller or my whatever it is.
You're taking something from me.
And I believe if you take something from somebody, you should give them something back in return to fill the space.
And that's what the tools are.
Marcus Aurelius, 2,000 years ago, philosopher, emperor of all of Rome, he said...
Our feelings, our feelings are ours to create and they are not guided by external events.
What that means is we can choose to feel, feel on a feeling basis
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