One of the quieter questions in early recovery is also one of the heaviest: who am I, underneath all of this? Grif Palmer joined the Positive Recovery MD podcast to talk about how that question gets answered over time.
Get to Know Our Guest, Grif Palmer
Grif Palmer is a coach, speaker, and mentor with over 35 years of entrepreneurial and technology executive experience. He has worked extensively in sober coaching, family recovery, and grief facilitation. His background includes a psychology major from the University of Texas, and he is guided by the philosophy that genuine growth emerges from adversity.
Recovery Is a Lifelong Journey, Not a Final Destination
Recovery is not a single moment of clarity. Rather than treating recovery as a finish line, the real beauty of recovery is found in the ongoing nature of the journey. It involves spiritual fitness, learning presence, and continuous evolution.
The focus shifts from chasing perfection toward embracing growth as a lifelong process that you carry with you rather than race toward. Recovery is not the end of something. It is the beginning of a new way of moving through the world.
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How to Find Yourself: Discovering Humility in the Hardest Places
Humility develops through life's most challenging moments rather than being awarded outright. Adversity, grief, and loss of control become catalysts for transformation. These experiences reshape priorities and soften ego's grip, creating space for connection and empathy.
Difficult seasons often reveal our strongest selves, which makes them invitations to release control and listen to what life is trying to teach us. The version of you on the other side of that work is rarely the version you started with.
Reconnect With the Real You: Mind, Body, and Spirit
Addiction often creates disconnection from the complete self. You can end up living entirely in your head while ignoring what your body or spirit is trying to say. Breathwork, movement, and mindful presence are tools for reconnection.
Creating intentional space for clarity is how you start to build a life that feels authentic and grounded, moving beyond mere survival toward thriving recovery. The work of finding yourself is not about becoming someone new. It is about getting back to who you already were, before the noise.
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