Deciding Who Gets to Be Human with Bex Gunn
Description
Bex Gunn considers herself a nomad. She’s lived in 8 different states and seems to be able to find herself at home in just about any social circle. Music, tattooing, and poetry are the hobbies she’s most passionate about. But her biggest purpose is helping people through the human experience, with love and kindness.
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Some of our fierce topics today:
[02:45 ] The hardest decision that I ever had to make was leaving my kids behind because I was in active addiction and I had to leave the state because I couldn't stop using.
[14:45 ] Therapy is what helped me. And the reason I think that is because everybody that I know who has a form of addiction has an underlying mental illness that's not being treated. And I think that's, where we're failing as a society is because we're looking at mental illness and addiction as two separate things.
[20:38 ] People who are incarcerated need some sort of advocate for their basic human rights - to be treated like human beings.
[00:25:52 ] They're breeding recidivism just to make money. And, I don't think they're doing it just inside the correctional system. I think it's inside the judicial system too, because every time you take an inmate from El Paso County jail, (yeah, I'm calling them out) - every time they take an inmate from El Paso County Jail over to the courthouse, they get $100.
[00:29:50 ] I mean, honestly, it's like our country has gotten so big and full of itself that we've decided who gets to be human beings and who doesn't. And that's really disappointing.
[00:35:30 ] Accountability is super important, and it took a long time for me to get to that point where I was like, oh, I did this. I'm responsible for that because the only thing I can control, the only emotions and behaviors I can control is me. And so, I need to make sure that I control that because, like you said, if I'm putting out like anger and negative energy and vibrations, that actually attracts those kind of vibrations towards you.
[00:40:45 ] And you're really only living half of a life. You're not unlocked because you're still holding stuff in for yourself and you gotta get rid of that. You gotta shed that part of your life so you can build a new one. I've lived like eight lives in this lifetime.
About Bex Gunn
Bex Gunn is a unique individual, rich with wisdom from life’s lessons. A conversation with her will open your eyes. Here’s one of my favorite Bex quotes, “music is what feelings sound like.”
Links mentioned in this episode:
Bex Gunn:
https://www.facebook.com/florasunshine
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