The Mosaic Podcast: Ep 075 A Year of No Nonsense with Meredith Atwood

Ep 075 A Year of No Nonsense with Meredith Atwood

May 21, 2020

Meredith Atwood (@SwimBikeMom) is a former attorney, podcaster and speaker. She is the author of two books, the latest: The Year of No Nonsense. Host of the “The Same 24 Hours” podcast. Featured in The Boston Globe, New York Post, the Seattle Times. Contributing writer to Psychology Today and an advocate for sobriety.

“My purpose in this world is to seek no master purpose: rather, to do the work that is right in front of me, do it well and feel with my whole heart the direction I need to go.”

What you will hear on this podcast:

how calm she feels just listening to my voice after a very busy hectic day
growing up with helicopter parents
the way perspective changes as she grew up
the moment she no longer needed to impress her parents
healing emotions and true sobriety which only happened in the last month
emotional sobriety and being an addict
if 1 is good 10 is better
if you could heal your addiction what would that life look like
the messages we are told that bring us to addiction to try to feel better
the idea of emotional sobriety is the way of not always seeking that external hit to feel better.
finding the strength within yourself to find that peace.
the need for comfort and where does she now get that from
the addiction cycle to feel better: pain, need comfort; go get it; the relief followed by the crash and it starts all over again
constantly seeking to feel better and emotional sobriety of feeling peaceful inside and not needing to seeing it externally. I feel all of that and yet want to have something sweet to comfort me and the desire to have more of them
when you decide to become emotional sober, you become emotional sober
are you living a life in conflict to who you say you want to be. if you are you are probably addicted in some way to something that we need to take a look at
playing with ordinary and extraordinary
the cross between the expectation that we need to be extraordinary and find out purpose and the suffering that creates addicts
how pushing people to be extraordinary pushes people into addiction
what is a year of no nonsense mean?
when people say they want one thing but act as if they don’t want it
where being conscious plays in defining what we believe
what to do to rid yourself of nonsense
start with the truth.
a slap to the culture of positive vibes only
does perspective change truth?
dismantle the truth you think is true and find your real truth
the goal of her book, to remove the stigma of addiction
what has brought her the peace she now feels and what are the voices that hold us back
dream big and do things in the direction of the dream
one thing people could do right now