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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.
58:39•16 Jul 2026
Practising "Now, Now": Meditation, Prayer and Staying Sober in the Moment
Episode Overview
- Treat alcoholism as a daily mental disease by acknowledging it and addressing it "right here, right now" rather than relying on yesterday’s recovery.
- Use meditation and breath to notice thoughts, let them go, and return attention to a higher power and the present moment.
- Practise the Third Step Prayer slowly, directing each line towards an inner "golden ball of energy" to deepen connection with a higher power.
- Replace self-talk and problem‑fixing with sharing perceived troubles with a higher power, allowing intuition and calm to arise.
- Aim for rightly relating to a higher power as a way of life, not a brief exercise, so self‑will becomes the exception rather than the norm.
“Recovery doesn’t happen by accident… it happens because I acknowledge what I’m up against and start treating it right here, right now.”
Curious about how others navigate their sobriety journey? This session of **Love Your Life, with Randy Mermell** brings you straight into a live recovery meeting where meditation, prayer, and honest sharing all centre on one theme: practising “now, now”. Randy starts by guiding a 20‑minute meditation that flows into the Third Step Prayer, inviting everyone to focus on a “golden ball of energy” in the chest and direct the prayer towards it.
Line by line, he links the prayer to everyday recovery, stressing that alcoholism is a disease of the mind: “an unsatisfiable, fault-finding, opinionated mind that’s always in a hurry, easily frustrated and can’t stand the word no.” He reminds the group that “recovery doesn’t happen by accident… it happens because I acknowledge what I’m up against and start treating it right here, right now.” From there, the meeting becomes a powerful mix of shares.
Mark describes finishing a triathlon furiously disappointed, instantly hunting for beer, and then finding a moment of surrender: “Just be in the moment. You’ve got everything you need right here, right now.” Others echo that same struggle: Eric talks about being “in self by default”, Steve faces his fear before a 10‑day silent retreat, and Rick explains how simply focusing on the present helps his “crazy brain” settle.
Several people highlight how meditation and daily readings (especially pages 60–63 of the Big Book) keep them connected to a higher power instead of their own restless thoughts. Denise, sharing after saying goodbye to a much‑loved dog, describes rightly relating as an “ongoing dialogue” with God that lets her act with mercy and grace, even in grief.
If you’re looking for practical spiritual tools, real-time examples of craving and surrender, and a gentle reminder that “this is home… right here, right now,” this meeting might be exactly the support you’ve been needing. How could practising “now, now” change the way you handle today?
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