Unlock Your Best Life: Dr. Dustin on Fear, Purpose and The Hero's Journey/CJ Moneyway Show

I thank you for that because you just gave me confirmation.

Absolutely. No, that's, that's beautiful. Thanks for sharing and thanks for being vulnerable about that. That's the one thing that people have to do is, you know, get in, be vulnerable about themselves and say, hey, this isn't working for me anymore. This temporary pain relief, that's all it is, is just a temporary pain relief. It numbs down your consciousness, uh, and, and all you're doing is, is hiding and pushing away something inside of you that needs to be dealt with, and it's not going to go away. This isn't a broken arm, you know, it's not going to magically heal itself. Uh, psychological issues from childhood and, and any kind of abuse, things like that, is something that we've got to face ourselves. We got to get in there and be like, what is this anxiety? What is this fear that I'm having? And deal with it head-on without substances. And yeah, for me it was painful, man. I went through Whenever I stopped drinking— and this isn't to scare anybody off from, from becoming alcohol-free because it's the best thing I ever did in my life, uh, but whenever it first happened, I, I ripped that, you know, it's basically taking a Band-Aid away. And all this stuff from my childhood, my dad abandoning me and my mom, uh, being abusive, things like that started coming up. And I was like, oh, that's what I've been doing. I've been covering this up for years. And then to see it, and then, I mean, there was tears. There was therapy, there was, you know, uh, divorce. I mean, you name it, you go through the, the hero's journey is what I call it. It's whenever you really decide that you're gonna go through this and, and be at the end of the, the whole journey is the rainbow. There is that, that magical, beautiful life that is like every day I wake up and I'm like, man, I'm so happy I