156 What Are You Telling The Universe?156 What Are You Telling The Universe?
You're Sober! Now What?
Tamar Medford reflects on how mindset, gratitude and belief shape long-term recovery and the opportunities that appear. She ties together addiction history, codependency work, relationships and entrepreneurship to ask what your daily choices are telling the universe.
16:55•2 Dec 2021
What Are You Telling the Universe About Your Recovery?
Episode Overview
- What you focus on and talk about sends a clear message to the universe and shapes the opportunities that show up.
- Willingness to change everything after hitting a spiritual bottom can attract supportive people and situations in recovery.
- Working on codependency, even years into sobriety, can increase self-awareness and improve communication and emotional boundaries.
- Having one foot out the door in relationships often results in disconnection; committing fully and planning a shared future can transform them.
- Strong belief in your ability, paired with a purpose-driven mindset and daily gratitude, helps you move through roadblocks in sobriety and business.
“Two people with the same goal can do the exact same things, and it's the person with the belief in their ability to accomplish that goal that will accomplish it.”
Curious about how others navigate their sobriety journey? This episode centres on the simple but uncomfortable question: "What are you telling the universe?" Tamar Medford talks openly about how the energy, words and choices she put out during her addiction kept her stuck, and how changing that message has shaped her life in recovery. You’ll hear her contrast the days of house parties and constant drinking with the moment she hit a spiritual bottom and became willing to "change everything".
From there, she describes how new people, opportunities and situations showed up that matched her new intentions, especially as she stepped fully into entrepreneurship after leaving her corporate job. Tamar also shares candidly about working a 12-step programme for codependency nearly ten years into sobriety, noticing how her higher power "reveals things at just the right time" and gives her chances to practise healthier communication and protect her energy.
Her honesty about having "one foot out the door" in a long-term relationship, and how that mindset was basically telling the universe she wanted to be single, will likely hit home for anyone juggling love and recovery. At the heart of the conversation are three pillars: belief, mindset and purpose.
She quotes a mentor: "Two people with the same goal can do the exact same things, and it's the person with the belief in their ability to accomplish that goal that will accomplish it." From waking up in gratitude instead of doom and gloom, to setting boundaries around work so relationships can thrive, Tamar shows how small shifts in thinking can reshape long-term recovery.
If you’re sober and asking what’s next, this episode might nudge you to ask a new question: today, what are you really telling the universe?
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