This episode rounds out the 3 part mini-series of doubt, validation, and confidence. Confidence is broken down into situational confidence and general confidence. In my attempt to define what those two are and how I'm recognizing them in my life, the episode goes off the rails (as is becoming the norm) eventually circling back to how I'm using both situational and general confidence to reach my ultimate goal: Peace of Mind.

This episode focuses on the next step after doubt, validation. In this episode (I've been talking about myself in these descriptions in the third person and it's coming off weird, so I'm changing it) I discuss my attempt to move from using external validation to internal validation to center myself in my experience of life, and more specifically how I can orient myself in sobriety to know I'm on the right path even when it doesn't feel that way. Gratitude emerges as one of the main elements of internal validation as I work towards confidence and ultimately inner peace.

In what has become a 3 part series, validation serves as the second step in the doubt-validation-confidence progression. And now with a bit of a backlog of episodes I'll be releasing validation and confidence at the same time to finish off this little mini-series.

This episode focuses on the nature of doubt, specifically doubt as it pertains to positive and negative states. Carp also discusses truth vs facts and how those things inform his perspective.

With the focus on perspective there is also an exercise on how to challenge your perspectives so that you may realize that your "reality tunnel", as Robert Anton Wilson calls them, are created by your experience, but then end up limiting your experience as you live in tighter and tighter tunnels.

This is a useful episode for dealing with the feelings of positive momentum slowing during recovery and how to confront your doubt when your progress no longer feels good, but you know you're doing good, so you must stay on the path.