Just Feel Good with Best Selling Author Andrew KapJust Feel Good with Best Selling Author Andrew Kap
Recovery Recharged with Ellen Stewart Pushy Broad from the Bronx
How would you like to know the secret to living the life you have always wanted? Best selling author, Andrew Kap's, new book, Just Feel Good, promises to share just that! It even says so on the cover! You can't miss this show!
55:23•12 Apr 2023
Just Feel Good: Andrew Kap’s Simple Rituals for a Better Life
Episode Overview
- Feeling good first is presented as the starting point for positive change, rather than a reward after goals are achieved.
- Short, simple practices like the gratitude blitz can be done in a few minutes a day to gently retrain the brain towards positivity.
- Spoken gratitude and recorded messages are highlighted as powerful tools for reinforcing good feelings and awareness.
- Smiling intentionally is discussed as a physical cue that can trigger the brain to release feel-good chemicals.
- Letting go of rigid timelines for results is framed as vital, with an emphasis on patience and trusting that better outcomes may be on the way.
“We've been taught backwards our entire life... we've been taught that you have to get the thing in order to feel good, whereas I've discovered that, no, you feel good and then you get the thing.”
Ever wondered what it takes to just feel good, no matter what's going on around you? This episode of Recovery Recharged brings best-selling author Andrew Kap back for another conversation with host Ellen Stewart, the Pushy Broad from the Bronx, about his compact new book, *Just Feel Good: The Secret to the Life You've Always Wanted*. You'll get a clear sense of the episode’s style straight away: relaxed, humorous, and very practical.
Ellen keeps things grounded in everyday life and recovery coaching, while Andrew breaks big ideas into simple actions that busy people can actually do. His core message is that feeling good comes first, not last: "We've been taught backwards our entire life...
we've been taught that you have to get the thing in order to feel good, whereas I've discovered that, no, you feel good and then you get the thing." The episode is aimed at people in recovery, self-improvement fans, and anyone who feels sceptical about the law of attraction but is still curious about feeling better.
Andrew explains why he wrote a short, highly "giftable" book that avoids terms like "law of attraction" and "manifestation", yet keeps the same practical essence: brief daily rituals that lift mood and gradually shift thinking. You’ll hear about simple tools such as the "gratitude blitz", good-news gratitude, smile-based techniques, and Andrew’s "miracle mantra" that touches different areas of life in one go.
Ellen links these practices to recovery work, pointing out how tiny daily choices start to retrain the brain towards noticing and appreciating good moments. The tone stays light, but the message is serious: you don’t have to wait for a perfect job, partner, or bank balance before you allow yourself to feel good. So, what small feel-good ritual could you try for just five minutes today?
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