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Designing Your Great Life
A weekly discussion by pioneer coach, Jason Wittman, MPS, LAADC, CATC-IV, exploring the Gettin’ On Living parts of recovery. With over 50 years of coaching and recovery counseling experience, Jason will be sharing much of what has contributed to the success of his clients. Some of the topics will be enhancing self-esteem/love, developing better relationships, greater self-confidence, helpful hints to sustain recovery over a lifetime, and many other of those living skills that were never learned early in life due to being way too high, way too early. After the first 9 episodes, he started a new series, ”Speaking on Recovery,” one-on-one discussions between Jason and his guests, who have extensive knowledge of the recovery process, will pick a topic related to recovery and have an in-depth discussion. He has authored a book, “Designing Your Great Life! ~ Time-Tested Prescriptions for a Life Worth Living” He also published a weeklyish newsletter on the ”getting on living” parts of recovery. You can subscribe at Hpps://411Jason.com His private practice is at http://Stage2Recovery.com email at jason@s4mm.com
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Dec 24, 2024
Dec 24, 2024
14 min
Jason Wittman discusses the emotional implications of holiday music, particularly focusing on the song 'Santa Claus is Coming to Town.' He critiques the message it sends to children about suppressing their feelings and emphasizes the importance of emotional expression for both children and adults. Drawing from his experiences as a therapist, he highlights the detrimental effects of not allowing oneself to cry and encourages listeners to embrace their emotions, especially during the holiday season.
keywords: emotional expression, holiday music, mental health, therapy, feelings, childhood, coping mechanisms, Santa Claus, crying, emotional well-being
Nov 14, 2024
Nov 14, 2024
23 min
Host Jason Wittman, MPS, and Gary Pratt discuss their thoughts about God from two different religious perspectives and their extensive 12-Step experience.
Nov 14, 2024
Nov 14, 2024
9 min
Jason Wittman describes the mindset that allows him to enjoy zero anxiety ahead of a critical national election.
Nov 14, 2024
Nov 14, 2024
8 min
In this episode, Jason explains how his method of dealing with anxiety absolutely applies to working through the potential anxiety of worrying about the repercussions of the election outcome.
Jun 15, 2023
Jun 15, 2023
4 min
The frame that we view our experience of life greatly influences how we deal with life on life;'s terms. This discussion explains the possible ways of viewing life and the outcomes of those choices. It also discusses a 12 step interpretation and considerations.
Mar 9, 2023
Mar 9, 2023
3 min
I am explaining the difference between Imposter Syndrome and low self-confidence.
Dec 18, 2022
Dec 18, 2022
55 min
This is a recording of a lecture I presented to the annual conference of CAADE, one of the two top organizations in the CA. The topic is What is the Root Cause of Addictions and what to do about them
Sep 29, 2022
Sep 29, 2022
6 min
This is my take on the Pandemic and how to think about it. This was first published to my website on 15 August 2020. I subsequently took my own advice and wrote and published my latest book. “Designing Your Great Life! ~ Time-Tested Prescriptions for a Life Worth Living”