Ego Is the Enemy | How Self-Centeredness Drives Relapse — and What Beats It
The thing that almost killed me and the thing keeping me sober are the same voice: ego.
In this solo episode I break down ego the way it actually shows up in recovery — not the loudmouth cliché, but the quiet self-centeredness underneath it. Ego has two faces that trade shifts: the top of the seesaw ("I've got this, the rules don't apply to me") and the bottom ("I'm the worst, nobody's been through what I've been through"). Grandiosity and self-pity are the same lie wearing different clothes — the lie that I'm the center of the story.
I get into how ego keeps us sick: it's the bouncer at the…
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