My first 12 step meeting was horrendous! But I've been gratefully recovered for years.

I'll never forget how horrific my first 12 step meeting was.

And how no one prepared me for what to expect, or that there were actual things you should not do or say during a meeting!

After this experience, which I share on this short video, I now have gone on and counseled hundreds of people on the very best way to attend any and all 12 step meetings.

Here we go!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9rPj9qPcn8

I believe 12 step meetings can be a great part of recovery, but know there are many more things we all need to be doing regularly to be happy and recovered for life.

Twenty years ago we created a holistic recovery system that works for all addictions.

More information at www.davidessel.com

1 0n 1 Addiction Recovery: Success, right now.

Of the millions of people who are currently struggling with addictions, to food, alcohol, drugs, smoking, sex, spending and more, the way out may be to simply begin, a holistic 1 on 1 program that treats the full person, not just a part of them.

For many, 12 step meetings, while helpful, are not enough. They need a personalized approach, that takes into consideration their unique experiences and backgrounds when it come to recovery from addiction.

Whether you live in Miami or Fort Myers Florida, Seattle, or New York City, you can recover through a holistic program in person or even over the phone!

People need 1 on 1 education, support and motivation. They need someone who can answer their individual questions, privately, immediately, to help them get on track to living a healthy, productive life. Free, of guilt and shame.

Watch this brief video to see why so many people are recovering, 1 on 1 with an addiction recovery professional.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-0S6mfQ5Sw

Yes, help is available right now, in a 1 on 1 private, confidential program, to finally help you break the addictive cycle.

For the past 20 years, we have offered a unique holistic recovery approach, that works.

For more information, please visit www.davidessel.com or call 941 266 7676.

Love, david

1 on 1 Addiction Recovery Program in Miami

If you live in the Miami area, and desire to finally release an addiction to alcohol, drugs, smoking, co-dependency, sex, negative thinking or more, there is now a program available in South Florida designed to help you recover, 1 on 1, in a holistic way.

For the past 20 years, we have helped thousands of people to finally be free of their addiction, in the privacy of one of our offices in either Miami or Fort Myers, as well as via teleconference and skype.

Many people feel uncomfortable going to meetings or a treatment center, and at first want to learn how to recover privately.

Enjoy the short video to get an idea of the uniqueness of this program.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qViBPneXBq8

We help you with sobriety, recovery as well as an aftercare program.

Don't wait another day, call us now at 941.266.7676, or visit www.davidessel.com for more information.

Freedom from addictions is possible with our program, today.

Love, david http://www.davidessel.com

Addictions: A Path to God ?

Every addiction known to man, is an absolute pathway to God, to the Divine experience here on earth.

Whether we are talking about alcohol, sex, co-dependency, drugs, gambling, smoking or more, each person who takes the step to get into recovery has the unique opportunity to use this as a path to experience Divine Union.

As amazing as this might sound, or as ridiculous as this sounds it is the absolute truth.

Enjoy this short video to see what I mean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Pg-z4vIiY

Slow down, relish the chance to use your addiction recovery as a way to become one with God.

ove, david http://www.davidessel.com

Addiction Recovery Workshop: Aug. 13, SW Florida

New Holistic Addiction Recovery Training

Helps Professionals and Family Caretakers

(Link to course video embedded below)

(Fort Myers, FL) – August 2, 2011 – Professionals and family caretakers now have a chance to learn a new approach to recovery treatment. David Essel, a Holistic Addiction Recovery Coach, has developed an approach to help people achieve radical recovery treatment. Like many parents, teachers, ministers, doctors, nurses, spouses and life coaches, Essel was frustrated with the lack of success with much of the current addiction recovery model. He formulated a method to enable professionals and caregivers to offer an alternative chance to help clients and loved ones who seek treatment.

Essel will lead The Holistic Addiction Recovery Certification workshop will be held on August 13^th and 14^th. The program offers a new and proactive approach which is gaining acceptance and momentum across the U.S.

Most of us are aware that millions of people struggle with addictions across the U.S., with various therapies reporting recovery success. However, according to statistics, the average addiction recovery program in America offers a low 10% or fewer success rate of patient treatment results beyond the first year. Successful treatment, therefore, must produce considerable improvement beyond the early stage of remission.

Randy, a client of Essel’s Holistic Addiction Recovery Program, recalls when his life was spinning out of control. Financially at rock bottom, addicted to using drugs and alcohol for more than 38 years, he found himself in the middle of a divorce, obsessed and dependent on prescription medications. This forced him to make the decision to seek alternative professional help. Frustrated with traditional approaches, Randy decided to utilize the services of Essel’s program.

During his 30-day program, Randy pushed through the realities of his life struggles, unmasked his shame, and made discoveries that he never envisioned he could do. Most importantly, he changed his inner self, to affect his outer life.

Essel said, “The traditional model of recovery must improve client recovery by focusing on ways to increase the probability of recovery. Each program is customized because I am working with their individual issues. We use traditional and holistic modalities in order to address the root cause of the addictive behavioral issues.” Essel finds that his clients are able to remain committed to their customized program to re-establish new ways of being and living, releasing their old patterns of addictive behavior.

Essel’s Holistic Addiction Recovery Coaching Certification Program is based on traditional and non-traditional addiction recovery methods. His goal is to share this knowledge and practical methods with addiction recovery professionals, as well as friends and family care takers for those seeking recovery assistance. The program has given new hope and successfully helped addiction recovery clients achieve lasting change.

Essel’s informational video reviews how he takes the best of all recovery programs, and combines them into his certification workshop. Watch it on YouTube, here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf4UHWnON90

The program includes life coaching, nutritional adjustments and supplementation, exercise, behavioral change techniques, accountability procedures, aftercare implementation and journaling. Additional focus on a holistic lifestyle change approach includes components such as an association to a spiritual path, meditation, prayer, acupuncture, aromatherapy, emotional recovery, forgiveness activities, and healing of addiction causes by family, environment and peer relationships.

Detailed program pre-requisites for Essel’s program are found at www.LifeCoachUniverse.com. The next session of Holistic Addiction Recovery Level 1 will be held August 13^th and 14^th, from noon to 6pm each day. Training will take place at Fitness on the Move, 13010 Metro Pkwy, in Fort Myers. To register, call 941-266-7676. The $850 registration fee includes manual, Essel’s meditation audio CD and Spirituality audio CD. Participants must complete home study assignments within 30-days of completing the in class program in order to receive their certificate. For details about the program, please visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uf4UHWnON90

David Essel is a Master Life, Business and Addiction Recovery Coach and All Faiths Minister. He is the author of “Slow Down: The Fastest Way to Get Everything You Want” (Hay House) and “Heaven On Earth: God Speaks Through The Heart of A Young Monk (Living Now)”. His professional coaching programs reach clients in the U.S. and internationally. He offers Life Coach Certification programs and other seminars throughwww.LifeCoachUniverse.com, with offices in Fort Myers and Miami Florida.

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Holistic Addiction Recovery Office, Fort Myers, Fl.

For the past 20 years we have helped thousands of people recover from addictions to substances, thoughts and behaviors, and we are excited to share that we are expanding our holistically based recovery program in our office in Fort Myers Florida.

We offer help to people who struggle with addictions to alcohol, food, drugs, sex/fantasy, negative thinking and so much more, through our holistic, mind, body approach that includes exercise, nutritional supplementation, relaxation techniques, deep emotional recovery, understanding addiction and recovery principles, spirituality and more.

Watch this short exercise to get an idea about what we do in our Fort Myers and Miami offices, as well as with people across the USA via teleconference.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9H5OB2rJ9k

Slow down, and allow us to help you recover in an open, non threatening environment.

For more information, please also visit www.davidessel.com

Love, david

"VICTIMS" Never Heal. Important information.

One of the most important topics that we could ever cover comes from an old true, saying....victims never heal.

EVER. EVER. EVER.

And sadly, many of us who are "victims" in life, to a former or current lover, our genetics, the economy or even an abusive family upbringing, may not even realize the victim role we have been playing for years.

Watch this short video to see what I mean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEhj70lwyOQ

The good news? Once we do the work to release the victim mentality, we can heal faster than a speeding bullet. =)

Slow down.

Love, david http://www.davidessel.com

"Victims" Never Heal. Important information.

One of the most important topics that we could ever cover comes from an old true, saying....victims never heal.

EVER. EVER. EVER.

And sadly, many of us who are "victims" in life, to a former or current lover, our gentetics, the economy or even an abusive family upbringing, may not even realize the victim role we have been playing for years.

Watch this short video to see what I mean.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEhj70lwyOQ

The good news? Once we do the work to release the victim mentality, we can heal faster than a speeding bullet. =)

Slow down.

Love, david http://www.davidessel.com

12 Step Support Groups: Benefits and challenges

For many of us in recovery from addictions to negative thinking, spending, sex, codependency, alcohol, smoking or drugs, 12 step support groups have offered us a way to find support and companionship when we felt all alone.

along with these benefits however, there lies challenges within these meetings that must be discussed so that on going healing can happen.

Watch this short video, to see what we are talking about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3beSV-RHxDk

Slow down, and discover the truth to long term health, recovery and happiness.

Love, david http://www.davidessel.com

Recovery slip up: What to do?

So, you've just messed up your recovery program, you had a slip. Maybe it was a drink, a cigarette ....a spending spree......a walk back into drug use. Maybe you ate in secrecy again, or vomited up your last meal.

The question now is, what do you do? and, what do you do with the quilt associated with a slip up?

Watch, we can begin to help you with this short video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmGo5pngRus

Taking action today is the key to getting back on track.

Slow down, to heal.

Love, peace, David. http://www.davidessel.com

The Biggest, silent, addiction today?

What do you think the biggest addiction facing the world today is? When we think of the word addiction, most of us go right to alcohol, or smoking, or drugs.

Yet, there is a bigger one, that is hidden amongst most of us, and unless you're around someone who is in treatment for it, you don't even consider it an addiction.

Watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAL5l2pLHRw

This addiction, kills more relationships, and stunts the potential of most of us in our attempt to live a peaceful life. Drama surrounds us, when we refuse to get help for this problem.

Slow down, love yourself enough, to ask for help.

Love, peace, david. http://www.davidessel.com

Addictions: An Absolute Pathway to God

The fact that addictions are a path to God, to experiencing the divine, comes as a shock to many. Shocking or not, it is the truth!

Watch this brief video, to get the real facts about addictions, and why so many people struggle with them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Pg-z4vIiY

Slow down, share this blog with as many people as possible, to add reason to addiction. Then, we can follow a path to be free, in recovery, and live to our highest potential.

love, peace, david www.davidessel.com

Success through Surrender

In a recent seminar a man raised his hand and asked why he had not reached a higher level of financial success, after all of the long hours, countless phone calls, and numerous networking events he went to weekly? " I bulldog my way through every week, and have been on this intense schedule for several years, but still find myself in the same income level! What do I need to do now?"

The answer I give to each client is the same...... the path to success is often found by doing the exact opposite in some ways than what we are doing right now.

In other words, surrender your "bulldog mentality", and replace it with confidence and a joyful approach to your work.

To the wife or husband who has been working hard to change their partner into a more positive thinker, surrender your approach. Just sit and be with them, regardless how challenging at first this might be.

To the person struggling with alcohol or nicotine, surrender the fight to stay sober, quit "white knuckling" it, quite forcing yourself every day past the drink, past the cigarette, and surrender to the cravings. Yes, just sit with them.

When we surrender to any situation, we are not giving up, but rather progressing forward, with a new mindset. Twelve step groups have mastered the art of surrender for people who are struggling with food, or any form of addiction, obsession.Find one in your area today.

Keep your positive mindset, set your goals, do the work each day, but with an attitude of acceptance to what is, surrender to what is........and watch your world, your income, your body, your life change for the better.

Slow down.

Love, peace, David Essel www.talkdavid.com