Read to Lead Podcast Twelve Steps to Unscrewing Your Screwed-Up Life with Ian Morgan Cron – Episode 565 (M05)
May 27, 2025
Ian Morgan Cron, a best-selling author and Enneagram teacher, shares transformative insights from his latest book. He delves into the twelve steps for personal growth, emphasizing that addiction encompasses broader human experiences. The conversation highlights the importance of vulnerability, self-examination, and humility in healing. Cron encourages embracing one's imperfections and making amends as vital steps towards emotional relief and deeper connections. Listeners are invited on a journey of spiritual awakening and the pursuit of happiness rooted in introspection.
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Broad Addiction Definition
- Addiction extends beyond substances to behaviors like workaholism and people-pleasing.
- Everyone uses external fixes to numb internal pain, making addiction a universal human issue.
Powerlessness Enables Power
- Admitting powerlessness is liberating, opening us to spiritual awakening.
- Acknowledging lack of control paradoxically empowers us to live with clarity and hope.
Hope through Trust and Humility
- Step two shifts despair to hope through trust in a higher power.
- Humility to surrender control eases the heavy burden of playing God.
