Embodied Recovery - Empowered Living Series

Decision Maker

What separates a peaceful mind from a struggling one? It is rarely circumstances, but rather the attitudes, judgments, and perceptions we practice. In this week's teaching, Michael and Greg explore decision-making through psychological, emotional, and spiritual lenses, examining the difference between choices driven by old, less-than-healthy strategies for getting our needs met and choices rooted in the principles and practices of recovery.
Together with participants, they sit with some honest questions: Do we have any real capacity to influence the attitude we carry into the day? Why do some people live in an abiding state of gratitude while others remain stuck in cycles of depression, anxiety, and frustration? The answer they explore is both simple and demanding; it comes down to the practices we commit to, and the place within the mind from which our decisions are made.
This episode is an invitation to consider the choices in front of you today, and to ask: what would it look like to engage this day differently than the choices that have led to greater difficulty?

Body of Bliss

Episode 11 from our Empowered Living Teaching Series entitled, "Body of Bliss". Join us as we explore the human drive to seek bliss and the deeper forces that shape how and why we pursue it. In this teaching, Body of Bliss, we examine how the desire for pleasurable experiences can either support genuine connection to self and others or become a reactive escape from discomfort and challenge. Learn how developing a stable foundation of awareness and responsibility creates the conditions for lasting joy, rather than relying on external people, places, or things to “make us” feel better.

Projection Makes Perception

Episode 10 from our Empowered Living Teaching Series entitled, "Projection Makes Perception".
This teaching explores a simple but life-changing truth: we don’t experience reality as it is, we experience it as we are. In this teaching, we unpack how unexamined beliefs, unresolved wounds, and emotional habits quietly shape the way we interpret other people, relationships, and life itself. What we assume we are “seeing” is often a projection of our inner world.
Listeners are invited to slow down, notice their reactions, and begin reclaiming personal responsibility for perception. By learning to recognize projection in real time, we open the door to clearer seeing, deeper compassion, and more authentic connection. This episode offers a grounded, experiential framework for moving out of distortion and into a more truthful, embodied way of relating to ourselves and others.

The Persistence of Personality

Episode 9 from our Empowered Living Teaching Series entitled, "Persistence of Personality". Join us as we explore our subconscious drives to avoid change and fight to stay the same. Learn about the cognitive distortions that serve as mechanisms for staying in denial and avoiding truths that are painful to acknowledge.

Habit Energy

Episode 8 from our Empowered Living Teaching Series entitled, "Habit Energy". Join us as we explore the thoughts, words, and deeds that make up the habits which drive our destiny.

Living In The Light of Truth

In this powerful episode of the Embodied Recovery Podcast, Michael and Greg explore what it means to Live in the Light of Truth. In the seventh teaching from their Empowered Living Teaching Series, we embark on a courageous journey of aligning your life with your deepest values, confronting self-deception, and embracing radical honesty as a path to freedom. Drawing from spiritual wisdom, clinical insight, and personal experience, this episode invites listeners to examine the stories they tell themselves, uncover the hidden fears that shape behavior, and take inspired steps toward a more authentic, soul-aligned life. Whether you’re in recovery, in transition, or simply seeking greater clarity, this conversation offers guidance and encouragement for those ready to let go of illusion and live with integrity, purpose, and presence.

Exploring Emotional Alchemy: A Journey to Authentic Living

In this episode of the Embodied Recovery Podcast, co-founders Michael and Greg delve into the sixth core teaching from their Empowered Living Teaching Series, titled "Emotional Alchemy." This teaching is part of a collaborative effort with their nonprofit, Melos, aimed at exploring human recovery and personal growth. Michael and Greg discuss the challenges of resisting emotional experiences and the impact of childhood conditioning on adult emotional expression. They emphasize the importance of mindfulness and emotional literacy as tools for healing. By understanding and integrating our full range of emotions, listeners can discover new possibilities for joy and spontaneous living. Join them as they navigate through the complexities of emotional repression and reactivity, offering insights and strategies for achieving emotional balance and living authentically. This episode encourages listeners to embrace their inner feelings, facilitating a recovery not just from addiction but towards realizing their true selves.   About Embodied Recovery

Exploring Emotional Alchemy - 6

Episode 6 of Embodied Recovery's "Empowered Living Series" explores the development and transformative power of emotional Alchemy. Why does one repress certain emotions? Are our emotional reactions to people, events, things possible to manage? As humans are inherent emotional beings, our truest power is therefore derived by becoming aware, accepting and regulating our emotions for goodness and living in alignment with our true selves.  Listen in as Embodied Recovery's founders Greg Vorst and Mike Nolan speak during a recent community teaching workshop.   About Embodied Recovery  

The Farmer and the Cow (denial to surrender)

Episode 1 - “The Farmer and the Cow”
The beginning of personal growth and change for the better begins with recognizing denial,(cow) entering into compliance, surrendering and finally embracing guidance, (farmer) and finding our highest selves in charge. 


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Self-care into Self Actualization - 5

Episode 5 of Embodied Recovery's "Empowered Living Teaching Series" defines the concepts of Self-care into true Self Actualization. Tapping into the highest planes of self-awareness.   Listen in as Embodied Recovery's founders Greg Vorst and Mike Nolan speak during a recent community teaching workshop.   Visit: Embodied Recovery web page