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Welcome to our brand new show on LA Talk Radio hosted by Eric McCoy and Paxton Dickerson. Let us start to learn how to think for ourselves.

“What were you thinking,” is an open discussion on topics related to seeing the world differently, thinking for ourselves, and self-improvement within substance abuse and mental illness. With real current news within the world, we will make you laugh, cry, and help you open your minds to ideas of becoming the real you. We are raw, honest, and nonjudgmental individuals seeking your insight and perspectives. We want to know what you were thinking.

There was no interest, desire, or pursuit of getting clean and sober until I decided for myself that this was the best thing for me. Unless we teach people the ability to think for themselves, inspire an interest to value ourselves, encourage and develop passions that intrigue us, and empower control that is internal while rejecting demands of others that don’t hold true with our interests, nothing will change.

No government wants this freedom in such a clear fashion as I have defined because control is the foundation of authority. Our educational system teaches through minimization and forced curriculums designed to control thought and maintain control.

Since much of the recovery community doesn’t teach the principles of making good decisions for themselves, we can understand the vulnerability and danger behind the power of not thinking for one self. If I am always with someone who can make good decisions for me, never am presented with drugs or alcohol, and never have a desire to use drugs and alcohol; my sobriety will most likely be safe.

Will I always have someone present when I find a bindle of methamphetamine on the ground at a gas station? Will a thought, craving, or desire to use be eradicated from my existence? Not likely. With all my personal experience, clients I have worked with, and many friends in recovery; the thought to use will periodically present itself and for that moment, we may be alone to decide our course of action.

Paxton Dickerson and Eric McCoy discuss happiness and ideas of where we can find it. Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness says not all will find it. Are we looking in the wrong places? I have found that it can only be found within us and not from anything or anyone externally. Appreciation, gratitude, helping others, the choices I make, and finding freedom are those areas that I have looked for. Happiness Is What We Are Looking For.

“What were you thinking,” is an open discussion on topics related to seeing the world differently, thinking for ourselves, and self-improvement within substance abuse and mental illness. With real current news within the world, we will make you laugh, cry, and help you open your minds to ideas of becoming the real you. We are raw, honest, and nonjudgmental individuals seeking your insight and perspectives. We want to know what you were thinking.

A powerful episode on power of words and where can we find happiness. I don't have to do anything but everything I do, I can choose to or get to do those things. Can you be in pain, but still happy.? Where does come from within you?

Fear is the greatest destroyer of happiness and with the prevalence of hate in this country; no doubt misery seems to rain. If you throw the words love and hate together; you always get a negative. I love to hate or hate to love. “What were you thinking,” is an open discussion on topics related to seeing the world differently, thinking for ourselves, and self-improvement within substance abuse and mental illness. With real current news within the world, we will make you laugh, cry, and help you open your minds to ideas of becoming the real you. We are raw, honest, and nonjudgmental individuals seeking your insight and perspectives. We want to know what you were thinking

Episode 3: What Were You Thinking. Controlling our happiness. Power in Words Check out our other podcasts at www.highwhileclean.org

Jodi Barber, the producer of "Overtaken" joins Eric McCoy to discuss the epidemic we are dealing with by irresponsible doctors. Eric McCoy did an undercover investigation with a doctor as some audio of the appointment is shared. Are Doctors looking out for our best interest? Do they care about your health or is it just business? What were you thinking? Episode 4: What Were You Thinking With Jodi Barber and Medication Epidemic

Eric and Mirella McCoy discuss the power of addiction moving away from it being a weakness. With what seems like nothing bad when I started methamphetamine, the destruction it led to was far from what I had planned. The suffering that endures has a silver lining and hope is out there.

Please check out this powerful episode and things you can do to overcome and find the real power within you. Episode 5: What Were You Thinking? Real Power Behind Addiction

Mirella and Eric McCoy discuss childhood sexual abuse. Mirella experienced this as a child and we discuss ideas on how to prevent instead of just catch which is the ways our current laws are set. Identifying symptoms that we can see in children and helping them expose this atrocity.

Mirella and Eric McCoy discuss what we can do to help empower our children. What power do we have over our kids and what does healthy communication look like? Teaching our children to think for themselves and making healthy decisions instead of us making decisions for them. “What were you thinking,” is an open discussion on topics related to seeing the world differently, thinking for ourselves, and self-improvement within substance abuse and mental illness. With real current news within the world, we will make you laugh, cry, and help you open your minds to ideas of becoming the real you. We are raw, honest, and nonjudgmental individuals seeking your insight and perspectives. We want to know what you were thinking

Mirella and Eric McCoy discuss laughter, as defined by Norman Cousins as the "Best Medicine," and who laughed himself well. What are the therapeutic benefits and yes, I forcibly laugh to get that beautiful, natural high.

Mirella and Eric McCoy discuss the ability to possessing Self-Acceptance and a healthy World View, Problem-Centered, Autonomous, Enjoying Solitude and Privacy, Philosophical Sense of Humor, Spontaneous, and Fully Enjoying the Journey, Not Just the Destination. Why do we care what others think, and can I care more about our view of yourself rather than how others view us. We want to know "what were you thinking?"

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