If you're in the grip of a craving - whether it's for alcohol, a substance, gambling or any unwanted behaviour - this track is here to help you ride it out.
As the EMDR tones move from left to right, your brain begins to interrupt old wiring and make space for new, healthier patterns.

There’s no need to fight the craving - just press play, notice the sensations, and let the process do the work.
Each time you listen, the cravings become less intense and less frequent.

Use this track as a reset button it's just 8 minutes long.
You’re not failing - you’re rewiring.
Created and spoken by Dawn, hypnotherapist and coach.

EMDR Beats for Cravings & Urges

🕶️ TOUCHING TO THE NORTH is Lil Syn at his rawest — a chaotic, vulnerable journey through addiction, identity, and hope. Built on lo-fi trap, glitch-hop, vapor soul, boom bap, and cyber chill, it’s fractured yet fluid, manic yet uplifting.

💥 Jagged verses collide with hypnotic beats and atmospheric textures, capturing midnight breakdowns and quiet revelations. Lil Syn doesn’t just rap — he bleeds through the static and uplifts with every bar.

✨ For anyone clawing out of the dark, chasing their own fragments of light.


12 - Fragments of Light

Dr. Reedy reviews the book by Richard Bach, the author of Jonathon Livingston Seagull. Illusions is the allegory of a “Master Messiah” as he passes his wisdom on to Richard, the apprentice. The overarching message of the book is that we are accountable and responsibility for our own meaning, our own happiness. His telling illustrates that such a message is often rejected because we don’t want to take on the responsibility for our lives – we want to blame our unhappiness on our circumstances, on others.

Illusions, by Richard Bach (Book Review) - Ep 681

This guided hypnosis is designed to help you slow down, turn inward, and explore the real reasons behind addictive or compulsive behaviours. Whether it’s substances, gambling, shopping, porn, or other habits that feel hard to control, this session invites you to become curious - not judgmental - about your thoughts, feelings, and cravings.

By noticing urges without reacting, you can start to uncover the deeper needs these behaviours are trying to meet, and begin finding healthier, more fulfilling ways to care for yourself.

Best listened to in a quiet space where you can sit or lie down comfortably. You may choose to return to full awareness or drift into restful sleep at the end.


Get Curious - Hypnosis for Addiction, Compulsions, and Cravings

Everyone focuses on the addict’s recovery — the detox, the rehab, the meetings. But what about you?
The truth is, families are often left carrying the weight of addiction alone — drowning in fear, resentment, sleepless nights, and second-guessing every decision.
In this episode, we uncover the missing piece no one talks about: family recovery. You’ll learn why your healing isn’t optional, it’s essential — not just for your well-being, but for your loved one’s chances at lasting change.

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Episode 108: The Missing Piece in Addiction Recovery No One Talks About

Sitting with What’s There

For emotions, cravings, or any state of mind - a hypnosis to observe without judgment, and find calm in simply being.

This extended hypnosis meditation helps you gently sit with whatever arises - emotions, cravings, or thoughts - without labelling them as good or bad. Instead of resisting or struggling, you’ll learn to notice them as simple sensations that come and go, while reconnecting with the steady calm within you.

What you’ll experience:

A long, relaxing induction

Gentle hypnotic guidance to observe without labels

A practice of allowing thoughts and urges to pass naturally

Suggestions to strengthen your inner calm and self-trust

A flexible ending to drift into sleep, or return awake and refreshed

Ideal for anyone navigating recovery, managing urges, or seeking emotional balance.

Sitting With Whats There

🔻 Song Insight

Title: Was I the Last One
Artist: 4Me2BeFree

“Was I the Last One” is a cinematic, emotionally raw ballad exploring the ache of loving someone lost to addiction—and the even deeper pain of realizing you may have been the last to love them for real. The lyrics move through memory, regret, and that strange state of loving a person who’s already gone, even as they remain physically present. It’s about the way addiction stains everything: relationships, trust, self-worth, and time. Even as the song wrestles with anger, loss, and helplessness, it finds a kind of bittersweet closure in the knowledge that the love you gave was genuine—something the other person might never truly grasp. The song stands as a message to anyone who’s loved an addict: you’re not alone in your grief, your confusion, or your longing for peace.

🔻 Lyrics
Intro:
distorted phone ringing:, faint static:

Verse 1:
The power in my pain, aching in these veins  
Needle ruptures—as your stain takes hold  
Phone idles, it’s these moments that remain  
Stuck in like glue, nothing I say, nothing to do  

Pre-Chorus:
It’s you in what I lost  
Things you broke and tossed  
Every fiber of me  
Splinters—inside of you  

Chorus 1:
Vision blurred in my mind  
Parts I can no longer find  
Skin, eyes, and your lips  
Every part—I used to miss 

Refrain:
My moments slow to hours  
Days stretched, just waiting  
Now gone—it’s hollow our rings  

Verse 2:
The thing that scares me  
Was I the last one?  
I hope it’s not true  
to be the last to love you  

Interlude:
Is this what it’s like  
For the loved ones who fight?  
Tired words keep falling  
Tell me, how do I stall  
To fix these broken parts

Bridge Part 1:
Will I regret what I tried?  
Maybe I should have lied  
What did I do for you?  

Bridge Part 2:
If that phone rings, I'll know the truth  
The end has come, there’s nothing to do  
I will fall, and a part of me dies with you  
this pain inside—can’t... escape... this place

Hook / Chorus 2:
I have to focus on the pain  
Stay awake for all my mistakes  
It won’t solve this now  
No longer about us  

Refrain / Post-Chorus:
It’s only when sleep wakes me, and you can’t breathe  
I used to watch your chest rise and fall  
To think it could stop—with nothing at all  

Outro:
With every break and every pain  
And you, too, take this away  
But not the part that has to wait  
That I have to keep  
That I have to keep  

🔻 Personal Reflection

This song was written at the edge of loss, when you realize you’ve already grieved the relationship and are now preparing for the actual goodbye. I poured every ounce of love, regret, and helplessness into these lines—anger, sorrow, and the strange peace of finally letting go. Addiction doesn’t just take someone away; it makes you mourn them while they’re still breathing. For anyone loving an addict, it’s okay to feel the whole spectrum: love, hate, hope, and resignation. Your love was real. That’s what matters.

🔻 4Me2BeFree

As 4Me2BeFree, I create songs that turn pain into cinematic story—tracks for those who feel everything a little too deeply. “Was I the Last One” continues that mission: unfiltered emotions, hard truths, but always a glimmer of healing in the sound. My music exists to be both a mirror and a balm for anyone navigating the messiest corners of love and loss.

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Was I The Last One

Calling all Girls, Gays and Theys - A message from Gerry about this episode: 
Two of my favorite things in this world are smart comedy and great music. In my birthday month ("Virgo Season!") we're celebrating with 2 legit pioneers who've achieved ICON status in both worlds: the incredible Margaret Cho and the amazing DJ Larry Tee! 
Margaret tells Gerry how she remains grounded and shares her view on self-love, growth and awareness. 
*Fun Fact: Gerry appears in the beginning of Margaret's groundbreaking film, I'M THE ONE THAT I WANT, released 25 years ago this month. Catch Margaret Cho on her CHOLIGARCHY National Tour, coming soon to your city. margaretcho.com
A world class musician, producer and promoter who's worked with everyone from Charli XCX to Santigold to Scissor Sisters, DJ Larry Tee spills all the... well, tea about young life with RuPaul (and cowriting The Song), Michael Stipe and Lahoma Van Zandt, curating the Electroclash scene, Amanda Lepore's rap skills, and finding a new invigorating life via the 12 Step Recovery process. 
Larry also knows what *really* went down during those Party Monster years. (Ryan Murphy, please hit him up. Tell him Gerry sent you.) https://www.discogs.com/artist/60567-Larry-Tee
If you literally wanna hear Gerry gag, press play.

SHB EP 2.3: The Icon Episode with Margaret Cho and DJ Larry Tee

[Verse 1]
(Ooh)
(Ooh)
(Yeah)
See I was at a place you know I talked to people there
Yes, some, they told me so many advice, no
There was a little crazy little lady over there, I was sitting there so many days
She was sitting there three weeks, four weeks, I don't even know
She was crying out for God, you know, in the distance
In the moments I could talk to her, my music radiated inside her soul, yeah
I don't like this piece
[Verse 2]
(Oh no)
I was sitting there with a girl, my own for you now
My back here on the police and all the day
Jumping down, coming against the cars
I'm on my pants off and then I wasn't back there
I saw my feels inside my head
The doctors asked me, son, what did happen here?
I stopped telling them, I got locked into the vibe
Moment, God, are you taking my life?
So many pills they would got me addicted to
Yeah, I was off a diet, I've been so long
Yes, I was
I didn't even talk to her
Only when I even wear now
Then all the monsters that always seem to follow me
Seventeen, yeah, I know it's even not me
The music flow in the night
I'm addicted to so many things now
I was addicted to music, just the words I wrote
Yeah, my soul, God, I know I was on and on
Yeah, I passed and I didn't know how to read
He said in the distance, he told me he needed me, yeah
I sat to throw the guy
I sat there so many days, didn't know how to even feel
Man, I kissed him, yeah, I took a hold of two days
I had a feeling I had enough, I started throwing it up, yeah
You didn't even realize
I won't just to stay in everybody's life
I wanted to make me feel like every drug it gave me
I tried to fly, the sun is seizing within me
Won't cause it's faded in the courtyard of yesterday
I heard no music in the moment, Jesus, I
I looked up into the heavens, even not a cloud
Made a sound, I could always have seen light
No more music in my mind, I couldn't reach it
Like a song that's blocking every single feeling there
Yeah, I saw my girl crying last night
She was crying, yeah, yeah, you were
I started by, I just walked to her, didn't care
[Verse 3]
(Damn, it does have that, this is a beautiful song, yeah)
I saw her standing there, she was crying now
She's losing, yeah, children, yeah, I know now
I couldn't help her, but the medication depressed many in me
The song is gone, no colors could be found
It made me feel, yeah, I must have been found, yeah
But the difference is, I thought the pain
But it made me not give a shit about the freaking pain
The man in me, I just needed to feel
I needed to understand the people that were really real
That needed God, but I told him I know he would let me in there
For a little bit of longer, I know I got out
And private too early

monsters follow me

“Fallen Pines” is a country ballad carved out of raw honesty. It’s a story of battling addiction and mental illness, where some days are lost and others barely survived. The song sits heavy, like walking through a forest of broken trees — lonely, quiet, but stubbornly alive. This isn’t polished triumph; it’s survival set to music.

Fallen Pines(Reimagined)

My name is John. I have been a broadcaster for five years and have been writing music and poetry for twenty years. I didn’t even realize I could read and write until I discovered I have mirror-touch synesthesia. I perceive everything from right to left: my poetry, words, and compassion. My childhood was challenging, to put it mildly. However, God showed me a way to help others through the words I share. Every song I write serves as a ministry. By addressing various issues, I hope to assist those with troubled pasts find healing through my words. I am a pastor, and this is how I spread God’s message—by feeling the emotions around me and understanding the feelings of the people I encounter, because I have experienced similar struggles. God allows me to see you in ways that others cannot.

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"If it didn’t matter, it wouldn’t hurt. Pain is the gift of knowing you’re alive."

4Me2BeFree is more than music—it’s my story, my scars, and my survival. Every song is a piece of me, a raw melody of love, heartbreak, and resilience. I blend AI-generated vocals and instruments with real emotions, turning my experiences—especially from an LGBTQ+ perspective—into something that speaks to anyone who's ever felt lost, broken, or just searching for something real.

Breakup songs? Yeah, they hit different. Music carries us through the worst of it, and every generation finds their own anthems of love, loss, and getting back up. Heartache doesn’t care about age, gender, or where you come from—music connects us all.

I make music because I’ve been there. The pain, the anger, the hope—it's all in these songs. If something here hits home for you, let it. If you feel something, let me know. That’s the connection that keeps this alive.

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I don’t make music to be famous. I make it so no one feels as alone as I did.

For 40 years I’ve carried scars that never seemed to heal. My songs are pieces of that fight—pain, survival, and the long walk through fire. Every beat, every lyric, is a hand reaching back for the ones still trapped in the dark.

I’m AIBRY. A songwriter, a builder, a survivor. My music isn’t polished for the charts—it’s raw, unmasked, and honest. If it keeps even one person breathing through the night, then it’s done its job.

Danny Deaton, a Family Addiction Recovery expert, and his wife Emily offer a raw, honest, and deeply personal perspective on addiction, marriage, faith, and family life. Drawing from their own journeys through teenage pregnancy, adoption, drug addiction, and incarceration, they bring an authentic voice to these challenging topics. Together, they founded Living Proof Recovery Service, a program dedicated to supporting families affected by addiction, and The Living Proof Family Foundation, a nonprofit focused on providing crucial support and education to those struggling with addiction. They’ve built these organizations from the ground up, all while raising their three children together, which they consider their greatest success. This dynamic couple welcomes you into their world, sharing the highs, lows, and everything in between with open hearts and unwavering transparency. Tune in for a conversation that feels like family, where you’ll find hope, strength, and authenticity in every episode.
 
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