In this episode of the “What’s the value of addiction?” Podcast I’m joined by my great friend Nikolett Erdelyi.

Nikolett is an Access Consciousness facilitator, author and speaker living in Budapest, Hungary. Nikolett found the tools of Access & changed her life completely; from struggling with alcoholism, depression & financial stress to building a successful business from scratch, reaching & inspiring hundreds of people in Hungary & worldwide.

In this episode we have a candid conversation about addiction and how alcohol & drugs gave us both a false sense of relaxation, that in actuality was an escape from the intensity of the world & our awareness of it.

We talk about how drinking every day, doing drugs every weekend & being constantly hungover was considered normal and how the awareness of it as addiction & self-abuse came years later.

We also discuss the shift from depression to creation and regaining a sense of creativity & lust for life thanks to the tools of Access Consciousness. And we vulnerably chat about how still to this day life isn’t perfect and how the rollercoaster of living takes us on unexpected twists & turns as everything’s changing all the time.

We chat about the constant search for more and how there’s no right way to do anything; only the question “what would I like to create today?”. And how creation can come from relaxation & space instead of push & force.

Key takeaways;
•⁠ ⁠Instead of telling your life what you want to do with it let your life speak and tell you what it wants to do with you.
•⁠ ⁠It’s OK not to be OK.
•⁠ ⁠The sense of peace & space can feel uncomfortable & wrong - but that’s actually the space that you can create your life from.
•⁠ ⁠If you feel lost, are you actually lost or are you aware of the world?
•⁠ ⁠Ask every day; What can I change? What can I choose from here? What can I do different?

RESOURCES & LINKS
“Let Your Life Speak” book by Parker J. Palmer
https://nikolett.com/hu/
https://www.instagram.com/_n_i_k_o_l_e_t_t_
www.brendonwatt.com
www.accessconsciousness.com