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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.
34:50•22 Oct 2026
Nothing Right, Nothing Wrong: Showing Up for Sobriety on the Off Days
Episode Overview
- Alcoholism is described as a mental condition that must be treated every day through spiritual and practical action.
- Showing up for commitments, especially on days you don’t feel like it, is presented as a key part of ongoing sobriety.
- Simple practices like prayer, meditation, box breathing, and daily reading are used to bring the mind back to the present.
- Deliberately noticing small positive interactions and blessings helps counter negativity and restlessness.
- Rigorous self-honesty and working with newcomers are framed as powerful ways to grow and maintain recovery.
“There’s nothing right. There’s nothing wrong going on in my life right now… I’m just going to accept that I have it right now and continue on with my day.”
What are the common struggles and victories in addiction recovery? This meeting-style episode of *Love Your Life, with Randy Mermell* drops you right into a live international 12-step gathering, where honesty, humour, and spiritual practice meet real-life sobriety. Randy opens by admitting he feels “a little melancholy today” even though “there’s nothing right, and there’s nothing wrong” happening.
He describes alcoholism as “a disease that centres in my mind and talks to me in my own voice… an unsatisfiable, fault-finding, opinionated mind,” and shows how he treats it daily with prayer, meditation, reading, and most of all, showing up even when he doesn’t want to. The tone is relaxed and conversational, yet very real.
You’ll hear group members share how they handle emotional ups and downs, from Marlon’s “indescribable” peace in his tenth year of sobriety to Caroline’s willingness to accept a flat day without making it dramatic. Annie offers a practical “box breathing” technique and talks about deliberately noticing small kindnesses – a stranger in a lift, a shop assistant’s smile – as a kind of gratitude practice.
Others, like Steve and Doug, talk about step work, daily inventories, and how ego and self quietly try to reclaim control. David injects some light humour while stressing “rigorous self-honesty” and the power of helping newcomers as a shortcut to strong recovery. This episode suits anyone in 12-step recovery, those curious about spiritual approaches to alcoholism, or anyone wrestling with an overactive mind.
It’s less polished sermon and more honest kitchen-table chat: people showing up, doing the work, and reminding each other that “just showing up” can be enough for today. If your mind’s telling you to skip your programme today, why not ask yourself: what might happen if you showed up anyway?
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