Eddie: Re-directing Fear into Faith and Deepening Relationship with a Higher Power to Overcome Family Patterns of Dysfunction

The Fear Addict Podcast

Eddie comes to the table to talk about his experience growing up with what he believed was an "idyllic" childhood in his Italian/Irish family. What came to the fore in the conversation with Josh and Mark is his realization that while his father did the best he could with what he had, there was a generational response to alcoholism in his past, that created a legacy of unconscious co-dependency. While his middle-class family presented well to the outside world, there was unexpressed fear in the household of "losing it all" financially, which Eddie internalized and created coping skills around, that lasted well into adulthood. This broke open a bigger conservation for the guys about relationships with their fathers and how that gets interpreted into roles we play as men in relationships, jobs, perfectionism, distorted beliefs, etc. But Eddie's recovery journey helped him develop a powerful relationship with a power greater than himself (spoiler alert- his H.P. has an affinity for fighting the good fight on a galactic scale) that evolves to this day and became a source of confidence and self-esteem that he felt was lacking for so long. The guys share their journeys of seeking a way out of the loop of making dysfunctional people, or relationships their higher power and the freedom and self-love that new perspective offers.