# 34 - From addiction to therapy and loving all of who we are with Psychotherapist Ralph De La Rosa

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Ralph De La Rosa is a human I've wanted to connect with for a while. Many of my closest friends love him and his work. Ralph and I had a passionate, meaningful, and heart centered conversation around his healing journey. 

It's not a simple one. Ralph struggled with drug addiction for many years after growing up with lots of challenges. After becoming nearly homeless, he moved to NYC with $400 in his pocket. 

Since then, he's become a psychotherapist, an incredible meditation teacher, life coach, and healer himself. And one of the things I love about him is how honest he is about his struggles, AND what WE can all do ourselves to shift our relationship to our own hearts and minds to transform our own challenges and vulnerabilities so they become our greatest strengths.

On the episode we talk about: 

• How there's nothing wrong with your wounds, they are the doorway into your greatest gifts 
• How goals can be attainable if we show up for them on a daily bases
• Just because you're spiritual and practicing in a community, you can still have very unhealthy tendencies 
• How if we allow others to help us, amazing things can happen 
• Impermanence and how anything can change in a moments notice 
• IS there a god? If so, how does he manifest in the world? 
• Death being a great teacher and awakener 
• The benefits of Meditation ​

Listen full through, it's one of my favorite episodes ever and cracked my heart wide open! To find Ralph and work with him and his many offerings go here.  

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