2021-01-01 New Years Day Meditation2021-01-01 New Years Day Meditation
Love Your Life, with Randy Mermell
Randy Mermell is an international coach, speaker, and podcaster. Randy helps people live happy and purposeful lives. Drawing from his own experience from 20 years of happy marriage, raising two daughters, and his success as an entrepreneur, he has helped others get through all types of professional and personal challenges, including love, marriage, children, jobs, and finding passion in everything we do. With over 28 years of sobriety, and success in his own life overcoming low self-esteem, addictions to alcohol, drugs, cigarettes, and coffee Randy draws on his real-life experience to lead meditation and recovery retreats internationally.
1:50:44•1 Feb 2022
Every Day Is New Year’s Day: Randy Mermell’s Guided Sobriety Meditation
Episode Overview
- Treat each day like New Year’s Day by consciously reconnecting with a higher power and the 12 steps.
- Use the St Francis prayer as a practical meditation, picturing how peace, forgiveness, harmony and truth would actually look in your daily life.
- Shift from being a taker to being a giver, trusting that in giving you receive the satisfaction and excitement the alcoholic mind can never secure by taking.
- Recognise that resentment and judgement harm you most; forgiveness starts by seeing others’ harmful behaviour as sickness rather than personal attack.
- Notice the stories and meanings your mind adds to events, and be willing to question core beliefs instead of treating them as facts.
“Every day for an alcoholic with alcoholism is New Year’s Day. Every day is a new beginning.”
What drives someone to seek a life without alcohol? For Randy Mermell, it’s a daily decision to treat every day like New Year’s Day – a fresh start, grounded in a conscious relationship with a higher power and the 12 steps. This New Year’s Day session centres on a guided meditation through the St Francis prayer, often called the 11th step prayer.
Randy gently walks everyone line by line – from “Make me a channel of thy peace” through forgiveness, harmony, faith, hope and joy – asking them to picture their own lives as if they truly lived those words. It’s less about reciting a prayer, more about watching “the movie” of your life and seeing where love, faith and honesty could actually show up today.
You’ll hear people in early and long-term sobriety share honestly about fear, boredom, grief and that “alcoholic hoover” of the mind that sucks them back into old thinking. Luke checks in from a boat in the Indian Ocean, realising how much better he feels when he shows interest in others instead of chasing paradise as a fix.
Mary B worries that a sober life might be dull, and Randy answers bluntly that alcoholism is an “unsatisfiable, fault‑finding, opinionated mind” – and that the real excitement now comes from becoming a giver rather than a taker. Questions about suffering, starving millions and unfairness spark a key theme: Randy keeps bringing it back to free will, personal responsibility, and becoming part of the solution rather than staying stuck in abstract outrage.
Other speakers, like Nan, Phoebe and Colin, talk about emotional sobriety, core beliefs and the strange relief of saying “I don’t know” instead of trying to control life. If you’re in recovery, curious about spiritual growth, or just tired of your own head, this session offers a calm, practical way to reset and treat today like a brand‑new start. What might your day look like if you really acted as a channel of peace?
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