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Ditch Your Ego and Discover Greater Connection

Ditch Your Ego and Discover Greater Connection

In our third episode of the Carnivores Anonymous Vegan Cooking and Food Psychology show, we learned how to make a fiber and vitamin packed sweet potato bowl while we learned from Dr. Marilyn about the psychology of personal change.

The twelve-step Carnivores Anonymous recovery program follows a time-tested method of kicking addictions of all kinds by helping us quit animal products and experience optimal health and peace of mind. In the first step, we found relief by admitting that we needed help with our lifestyle. In step 2, we found comfort in accepting that there are things greater than ourselves that we can find strength in — no matter what that might be. In step 3, we decide to commit ourselves to that higher purpose which gives us the courage and determination to stand up for our health, animals, and the planet by going vegan for good.

This might sound daunting, but all one truly needs is willingness to try! This commitment requires understanding the ego, and how it thinks it knows the best way to do everything. The ego resists learning a more successful strategy than the one it has been using, because that means admitting it is not all-powerful on its own.

Humility through surrender to a principle greater than ourselves — whether it's an ideological mission, inspiring figure, religion, or our values — has the potential to liberate us from addiction to unhealthy animal products. Instead of listening to the fears of the ego, we suggest befriending the process of surrendering.

The decision to surrender to a higher power, however we define that term, doesn’t mean giving up free will or individuality. It simply means not having to do it all by ourselves.

Watch the replay of the show for more on step 3 of the Carnivores Anonymous program, as well as surprising health benefits of sweet potatoes, including several research studies correlating them to liver cancer prevention.  

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