12-23-2025 How Are Your Emotions?12-23-2025 How Are Your Emotions?
Levelheaded Talk
Dr. Andrea Vitz and Jon Leon Guerrero talk about emotional sobriety, linking daily emotions to behaviours and addictive patterns. They encourage honest self-check-ins and share how understanding emotional states can lead to resilience and meaningful change.
12:45•23 Dec 2025
How Are Your Emotions Really Doing?
Episode Overview
- Regularly check how you feel in different contexts—morning, work, home, and around specific people—to understand your emotional baseline.
- Notice behaviours you’re not proud of, such as jealousy, dishonesty or snapping at others, and use them as clues to the emotions driving them.
- Recognise that repeated emotional states can become a biochemical addiction, where you lose the power of choice over your reactions.
- Approach addiction and emotional struggles without shame; everyone has patterns that can be examined, understood and improved.
- Building emotional sobriety can lead to feeling lighter, more resilient, and fundamentally different in how you see yourself and your life.
“We define addiction at Lifted Academy as to lose the power of choice.”
Curious about how others manage their emotional state while staying alcohol-free? This episode of Levelheaded Talk zooms in on emotional sobriety as the missing link between how you feel, how you act, and how your relationships play out. Dr. Andrea Vitz and co-host Jon Leon Guerrero chat about “snuggling up to your brain” and giving it the same affection you’d give a loved one.
It’s a light-hearted way into a serious topic: how your daily emotions and behaviours might be quietly running the show. You’ll hear Dr. Vitz invite you to ask simple but confronting questions: How do you feel when you wake up? At work? Around certain people? Is fear, shame, anger, or anxiety your default setting for most of the day? From there, the conversation moves into behaviours as clues. If you’re snapping at people, being dishonest, jealous, or judgmental, Dr.
Vitz links these to what she calls “emotionally triggered behaviours” that come from emotional intoxication. She explains that emotions are chemicals, and repeated emotional states can become a kind of addiction: “We define addiction at Lifted Academy as to lose the power of choice.” The tone stays warm and non-judgemental. Both hosts insist that “we all have addiction” and that this is an invitation to look in the mirror rather than a reason for shame.
You’ll also hear a powerful story of a student who became “a fundamentally different person” after emotional sobriety training, describing her two biggest results as “enlightening and resilience”. This episode is ideal if you’re working on sobriety or any addiction, feel stuck in old emotional patterns, or just sense that your reactions don’t match the person you want to be.
It’s a gentle nudge to check in honestly with yourself and ask: how are your emotions really shaping your life today?
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