From the first time I got drunk, I knew that feeling would be a big part of my life for the years to come. It was the first time I felt comfortable in my own skin. Booze led to weed led to hard drugs. five years in, I wanted to stop. I went to meetings, rehab, therapy, and took meds and every suggestion I could get. As bad as I wanted to stop, I couldn't. After a few months sober, the pain inside would grow so unbearable, I turned back to substances--the one thing I knew would offer relief.
After 20+ relapses and over 30 hospitalizations, watching family and friends struggle with and die from addiction and mental health issues--I knew there had to be a better way. When I became a father and found myself slipping back into oblivion, failure was not option, I knew I had to find one....

The last time I started in sobriety, I stuck with the traditional route: therapy, meds, AA, IOP--but decided to go hard on my what I believed would make a lasting difference: whole person wellness.
Instead of focusing on NOT using a substance, I focused on building life that was so good drugs and alcohol were absolutely unneccessary. My journey led me to a life of spiritual development, personal development, career growth, and healing relationships. I saw that to really be free from addiction and the emotional pain that led me to it--I needed to tap into healing genius of nature within me, rebuild my entire outlook on life and myself, and orient my life around something much bigger than myself.
In the first month, I found that my suicidal thoughts had finally slipped away. In the first year, I lost 30 pounds and got promoted at work. In two years, I finished my associate's degree, entered remission from bipolar disorder, became the youngest homeowner in my family's history. I knew how many people--especially those enduring a lifetime of hardship--had difficulty breakthing through the early phases to experience the momentum and power of long-term sobriety. So, I put all these strategies in my book, Getting Started in Sobriety.
Life kept getting from there! However, I found that my healing had just begun. Lingering feelings of insecurity, anxiety, difficulty focusing, self-sabotage and relationship issues were STILL there to deal with. At lunch with one of my mentors I said, "I'm two years sober and thought this would all be gone by now." He laughed, leaned in and told me, "Devon--you're just getting started! Now that your brain has settled two years in, you're finally strong enough to deal all the other stuff you avoided during addiction."
While therapy and other conventional mental health modalities were helpful to an extent, it seemed like these were things people like me, "just had to deal with" forever. Again, I wasn't satisfied. I had to find a way to heal the "deep hurt," those core wounds that kept haunting me, even in sobriety.
Through thousands of hours of study on top of my clinical training, I developed the Life Flow Method to heal the underlying issues. It's a powerful combination of neurobiology, psychodynamics, existentialism, mindfulness, and therapeutic lifestyle changes to update limiting beliefs, soothe our inner-child with powerful self-love, and support our body with conditions it needs to repair our neural architecture and heal from the inside out. This method activates the healing genius of nature through lifestyle and mindset shifts that aligns our energy with purposeful contribution to others and transforms pain into power for the abundant life in recovery.
Whatever stage of the journey you are in, my personal mission is to offer space for you to access the strategies, skills, support to accelerate your healing journey to experience breakthrough and live the abundant, inspired life in the adventure of sobriety. Click below to start for free and, when you're ready, join the academy.

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