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Have you ever felt lost,
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untethered, searching for something more?
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Welcome to Angelic Footprints, where the spirit
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meets the road on a journey to self healing and
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rediscovery. I'm Dagmar, your host,
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psychic medium and seasoned traveler.
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Each week we'll explore the world of angels and
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personal transformation. We're going to dive into
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Foreign.
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Hello and welcome everybody to today's episode
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of the Angelic Footprints Podcast.
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I have a special guest with me today and his name is Dr.
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Rob Kelly, Ph.D. who is a sought
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after recovery expert who believes in treating the
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causes of addiction and not the symptoms.
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Dr. Kelly has appeared on such shows as the Doctors
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Eye Opener, Good Morning Texas and Ken 5
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Morning News. A frequent contributor to
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radio and print interviews including the Jim Bohannon
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show, miracles in recovery, USA Today,
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and he has participated in McLean Hospital's Harvard
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Medical School study on the stigma associated
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with mental illness. He has lectured on addiction and
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trauma at high profile universities, national conferences,
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treatment facilities, public schools, churches,
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business organizations and hospitals.
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Dr. Kelly shares his personal highs and lows as
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he struggled and overcame crippling alcoholism in
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the November 2019 release of the book
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Daddy, Daddy, Please Stop Drinking.
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Dr. Rob it's such a pleasure to have you here.
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Welcome. Would you like to tell us a little bit about yourself?
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Thank you, Dagmar. Hey guys, My name is Dr. Rob Kelly. I'm over in San
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Antonio, Texas, though as you can tell by my accent,
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I'm originally from Manchester in England, arrived in
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Texas about 19 years ago. I came over here for two weeks for
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a conference and decided never to go back again.
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So we created the Rob Kelly Group. We specialize
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in childhood trauma, depression, ptsd,
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memory loss, addiction,
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alcoholism, and anything to do with sight
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without medication is what we really do.
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We've got five offices around the world. We've got, well,
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maybe six San Antonio, Dallas, Texas,
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Manchester, London, Switzerland and Spain.
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So we do pretty good. We've helped over 10,000
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patients is what I've been through over a 25, 30 year
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period. And I'm really happy to be there today.
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Oh, wonderful, Dr. Robb, thank you for telling us about
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that. And I do hope that our listeners will connect
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with something that you say here today and do get in touch with you.
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But for now I want to talk about your angelic experience
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that you mentioned to me that you had in Manchester.
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Would you like to tell our listeners about that, please? So first of all,
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I've got to say, guys, I wouldn't tell this story for about 20 years.
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Cause I thought people might think I'm crazy. But I'm homeless. I've lost
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everything. I've lost my children, I've lost my wife, my houses,
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my cars, my license to practice. Everything's gone.
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And I'm sat on the streets homeless for 14 months. Two suicide,
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seven suicide attempts. And on two occasions it worked.
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And I died on the streets of Manchester. And he brought me back to life.
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I hated those paramedics for that. I just didn't want to live.
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So one morning around 2 or 3 o'clock and so good being on
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an English show because you know what I'm talking about. Back end,
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Manchester, they got the offices, got the factories,
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nobody there. Middle of the night, pouring down with
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rain. I'm stumbling around because I'm just coming out
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of another alcoholic stupor. And I dropped down
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to my hands and knees and for some or no reason I started crying like
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a baby. That cry that comes from the stomach, you know, the aching
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stomach and sobbing and sobbing. Now the interesting thing about
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this whole deal is I wasn't crying because
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I'd lost my children or my wife, blah, blah, blah.
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I was crying because the first time in my life I realized I couldn't stop
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drinking. I looked up to the sky and I
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said, if there is a God. Because I didn't believe in God, because I'm molested
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by my priest. If there's a God up there, I can't do this on my
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own anymore. About 30 seconds later, a guy
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walked around the corner. He had a little Bible in his hand.
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He'd missed his last bus home from a Bible study.
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And he'd taken a walk and a shortcut that he'd never taken before.
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So he's been walking an hour, came upon me, told me he
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was a Christian, recovering alcoholic. Took me back to his house. I bathed
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for the first time in a year, shaved all that stuff and
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I sat down, we have coffee and was talking about stuff. And he said,
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hey, here's the deal. You can stay here for as long as you like,
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Rob, but you've got to come to these AA meetings with me.
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I cannot have you drinking in my house. Well, I didn't really want to go,
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but I went because I could stay there. But while
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I was there, this is when it all started to change. While I was there,
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sure enough, the old guys just was doing the same old moan
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stories. But this guy said, manage John, and I'm a recovered alcoholic.
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And I remember looking at Derek and saying, what did he just say? He said,
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recovered. So now I'm a little angry at this guy because
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we know we can't recover from that stuff. But he talked amazing.
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He spoke out the book we have there. He spoke about God.
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And after the meeting, I went over to him and I said, hey, Joe,
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my name's Rob, Will you sponsor me? And he said no. And then we paused
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for a second and I was waiting the ground to open up and swallow me.
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I was so embarrassed. He said, I will be a spiritual advisor
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for 12 weeks. So every Wednesday I would leave Derek till six,
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walk to his house, got there for about five to seven,
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couldn't go up until seven o'clock. That's one of the things.
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Stayed till eight. Halfway through a conversation, one minute to eight,
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we stood up, he walked me to the door, he bid me a good night
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and closed the door. I did that for 12 times. And I knew that when
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I came out of his house for the last time, he told me my life
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would change. I kind of believed him, even though I was on a blocked mattress
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in Derek's basement. And sure enough, the next day I
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was offered a part time job, which later turned into a full time job that
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week. So after about two weeks, I get my pay packet,
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which as you know, back in the day was cash staple to an envelope.
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That's how long ago it was. And I went to the gas station,
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the petrol station, and I bought John a little teddy bear,
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probably about 4 inches high. That's all I could afford. And a card,
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and I wrote one to the card and I got all my stuff and I
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walked back to that man's house and I'm so excited to tell him
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I've got a job. I've been working with people like me, you know,
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making, making sure that I'm giving them help for alcoholism and drug
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addiction. And I went up to their apartment, I'm so excited,
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and knocked on the door and there was no answer. So I knocked
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more and the woman on the right hand side came out and says, can I
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help you? I said, yeah, Where's, Where's John? Has he moved? And she
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said, john who? I said, john, your neighbor. I've only been
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here a couple of months. I've never seen anybody in that apartment. I'm sorry.
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She closed the door. I went to the left hand neighbor and knocked on there.
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Big guy came to the door. What do you want? So where's John relocated
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to? He said, john who? I said, your neighbor, John.
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He went on to tell me that that apartment was derelict and
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if I was to walk through the door, I'd fall two or three flights
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down and probably kill myself. So I'm thinking these guys
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are crazy because the stuff he's taught me, John, is mind blowing about
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life, philosophy, God. So the next day I went back to the
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meeting where I'd met John. And as I walked through the door,
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the chairman was like, robert, awesome to see you. And I
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was like, thank God for that. I thought I was going insane.
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I said, does John still come here? He said, john who? I said,
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the guy who was over near the cuff machine asked him will he sponsor
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me? He said, no, I'll be script that John. And he said,
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rob, we thought you were praying or talking to yourself.
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So we left you alone. There was nobody there. Rob, you were speaking to yourself.
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We've never found that man, but he's one of the reasons
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we have a 98% where the nearest one to us is 9%.
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And we have been going strong and healing people
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after that day. And now we're over in America doing the same. And when I
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got wealthy, I got the best private detective agency
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in Manchester. Nobody could find it. Nobody has ever heard of.
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Wow. Well, I've got to tell you, that story
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gives me absolutely crazy goosebumps
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and it's just so amazing. Thank you
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so much for sharing that amazing story with
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all of us. And I have absolutely no
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doubt that you had some divine intervention.
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Do you believe that to have been your angel? Only by the
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way, because what's happened since then is about 25,
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30 times where again I'm putting, you know, I went in for a back
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pain, they overdosed me. I dared, somebody woke me up. They're not supposed to be
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there. I mean, I got cancer in esophagus.
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They call my parents and down for the final X ray. The cancer
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disappeared. I mean, it's all this stuff that's been happening to me most of my
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life since that day. So it has to be some kind of angel.
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I 100% agree that it is. Too many things has happened
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in my life for it not to be. Well, you're absolutely meant
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still to be here. I have no doubt about that whatsoever.
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Can you tell us a little bit? I mean, you've already mentioned how that has
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changed your life, but what would you say would be the biggest
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influence that that has had on your life? First of all,
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I messed my first life up. You know, my children were taken from me,
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ages 1 and 3. The last thing my daughter said to me was,
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daddy, daddy, please stop drinking. As the authorities marched him off down the path.
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I got to realize that we get two lives in one lifetime. People who
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go through what I've been through. So why don't we take chances in
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the second lifetime? And that's what I've done. I mean,
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I don't say no to anything. I push the envelope.
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I take risks, calculated risks. And it's this kind
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of attitude dogma that I have today. I signed an office lease in Dallas
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a couple of years ago for a million dollars. People thought I was insane.
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How do you sleep at night, Dr. Robbie? You must be. How do. What's the
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worst can happen? What can they do to me that I haven't already
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done to myself? I mean, one, you're gonna take the office of me, big deal,
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I'll get another office. So it's that not caring what
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people think about me, that's the number one fear that
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everybody has. And secondly, I truly believe
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that I can do anything we want. So we go from homeless here
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to being the most successful addiction doctor here, who works with a
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list, celebrities, actors, movie stars. We give 25% of our
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earnings back to charity. Back into addiction houses is almost.
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Well, it's humanly impossible, I think. But once I had that spiritual awakening,
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I believe I can do anything. And now we're just going into studies
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of Alzheimer's and dementia. So we've had a couple of patients
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that we've trialled and tested with a 13% recall
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of short term memory where everybody else has failed. So we're excited.
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It's still exciting times. Well, yes. I'm never going to retire,
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Douglas. Well, I actually don't know what that word
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means. It has no meaning to me whatsoever. But I
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love your story. I love the way that you're helping people.
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And that's obviously part of the divine plan.
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Dr. Rob, would you like to share a way that
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people get in touch with you and maybe they can contact you through
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any books or messages that you might like to share
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with the group? Of course, yeah. So My name is Dr.
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Rob Kelly. R O B B K-E-L-L L Y.com is
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the website. Jump on. Follow us on all platforms. Just put Dr.
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Rob Kelly two Bs. Remember, in any search engine up.
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I'll pop. Come and chat, come and say hello. You know, if you need anything,
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message us. We just want to be here as an example
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to anybody that's struggling. And you have to believe that if you are struggling,
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A, it's temporary and B, you were meant for
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better things. That's just the bottom line.
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Yeah, I would definitely agree. Now, you mentioned a book
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earlier. Would you like to share details of that with our listeners?
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Yeah. And so it's called Daddy, Daddy, Please Stop Drinking.
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So let me tell you real quick about it. That's my daughter there. You can't
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see it guys, but Dagma can see it. And that's me wasted on a visit
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when I assaulted my wife with a knife one night. Cause she
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wouldn't let me face drinking. I caught her three times.
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She was taken to hospital. I fled to Spain because there was a murder
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charge out on me or attempted murder. But she lived, came back,
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took the children and I got them back the next day from my attorney,
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he'd been to court. I took them into the living room, put me in front
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of the tv. I walked into the kitchen. I'd been sober for three days and
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I thought it wouldn't be a great idea, just have one drink to celebrate the
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kids coming back. Two days later I went, the police kicked the door down.
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over the place. And the children had been fed or changed nappies,
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I can naturally say nappies instead of diapers.
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So the police kept the door down and they kicked me away. They served me
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with unfit father papers. I stumbled to the door, mom had
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Charlie, my eldest, and mother in law had my youngest.
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And they walked down the path. I'm there, they're there, the police are there,
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there's child services, child protection services, there's about 10 people.
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And as they walked away, I'm sobbing. Even one of the police officers
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was sobbing. And my daughter turned around and she said, daddy,
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Daddy, please don't go. And then further down the path she turned on again
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and said, daddy, Daddy, please get better. And as they got to the wrought
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iron gate, they opened it and she turned around one more time and says,
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daddy, Daddy, please stop drinking. That's where the title of the book
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comes from. So it's a story from, you know, I grew up on council Estate.
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I worked the doors. I didn't manage to go to college,
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went to Oxford University through freemason
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friends. But I gotta tell you guys, after 30 years
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of my daughter being estranged from me,
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she sent me a message on Facebook four years ago in
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the middle of the night here. And it said, dad. You call me
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dad, Dagmar, after 30 years, I have that framed
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on my wall. I want to see you. I've got something to tell you
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and show you. And the next few hours we have people around
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us for that stuff. Next few hours we're on a plane back to England and
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we get there, they stayed in the hotel, walked around to
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her house. I was so scared before I knocked on the door, she opened
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it, we held each other, we cried, we laughed for a few minutes.
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She took me by my hand, she walked me into her living room and she
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handed me my three month old granddaughter. That girl is
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my lead therapist in my Manchester office today. So that's
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what the book's about. Wow. You've actually
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totally left me speechless and I'm astounded.
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So it's such an amazing, amazing story.
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And you know, everything has a connection, doesn't it?
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Everything that we whether goes around comes around, doesn't it?
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And I'm so glad that you got to reconnect with your daughter
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and with your granddaughter. Dr. Rob,
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what would be your final messages to our listeners
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today? If you had a message that you would like to share,
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what would that be? There was a guy that went
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to the Golden Gate Bridge over here, threw himself off and
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suicide. They police pulled him out the water, went back to his house for
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next of Kent. He lived on his own. Found a note on the kitchen table.
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It read, I'm going to walk to the Golden Gate Bridge, throw myself off and
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commit suicide. Unless on the way there,
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which was an hour's walk, somebody smiles at me, somebody nods,
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somebody says good morning. If that happens, I will stop right there,
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turn around and I'll try again tomorrow. Question I'm going to leave
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you with guys. How many people have you passed today
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who's headed to the Colgate Bridge? That's a very
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deep message. Thank you. Thank you for sharing that.
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And maybe we all need to remember a little bit about that
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little bit of kindness, you know, whether it is a smile,
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whether it is a nod, whether it, whether it is helping your neighbor. Can we
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all do that for each other? Dr. Rob, it's been such a pleasure
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to have you on the program for all our listeners.
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I do hope you get in touch with Dr. Rob,
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there's bound to be a beautiful message there for you
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in some way, and perhaps that he even can help
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you. So I do hope that you've got something very special from
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today's show. In the meantime, if you found this
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Foreign.
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Hello and welcome everybody to today's episode
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of the Angelic Footprints Podcast.
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I have a special guest with me today and his name is Dr.
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Rob Kelly, Ph.D. who is a sought
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after recovery expert who believes in treating the
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causes of addiction and not the symptoms.
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Dr. Kelly has appeared on such shows as the Doctors
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Eye Opener, Good Morning Texas and Ken 5
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Morning News. A frequent contributor to
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radio and print interviews including the Jim Bohannon
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show, miracles in recovery, USA Today,
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and he has participated in McLean Hospital's Harvard
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Medical School study on the stigma associated
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with mental illness. He has lectured on addiction and
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trauma at high profile universities, national conferences,
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treatment facilities, public schools, churches,
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business organizations and hospitals.
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Dr. Kelly shares his personal highs and lows as
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he struggled and overcame crippling alcoholism in
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the November 2019 release of the book
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Daddy, Daddy, Please Stop Drinking.
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Dr. Rob it's such a pleasure to have you here.
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Welcome. Would you like to tell us a little bit about yourself?
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Thank you, Dagmar. Hey guys, My name is Dr. Rob Kelly. I'm over in San
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Antonio, Texas, though as you can tell by my accent,
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I'm originally from Manchester in England, arrived in
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Texas about 19 years ago. I came over here for two weeks for
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a conference and decided never to go back again.
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So we created the Rob Kelly Group. We specialize
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in childhood trauma, depression, ptsd,
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memory loss, addiction,
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alcoholism, and anything to do with sight
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without medication is what we really do.
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We've got five offices around the world. We've got, well,
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maybe six San Antonio, Dallas, Texas,
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Manchester, London, Switzerland and Spain.
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So we do pretty good. We've helped over 10,000
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patients is what I've been through over a 25, 30 year
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period. And I'm really happy to be there today.
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Oh, wonderful, Dr. Robb, thank you for telling us about
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that. And I do hope that our listeners will connect
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with something that you say here today and do get in touch with you.
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But for now I want to talk about your angelic experience
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that you mentioned to me that you had in Manchester.
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Would you like to tell our listeners about that, please? So first of all,
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I've got to say, guys, I wouldn't tell this story for about 20 years.
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Cause I thought people might think I'm crazy. But I'm homeless. I've lost
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everything. I've lost my children, I've lost my wife, my houses,
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my cars, my license to practice. Everything's gone.
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And I'm sat on the streets homeless for 14 months. Two suicide,
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seven suicide attempts. And on two occasions it worked.
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And I died on the streets of Manchester. And he brought me back to life.
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I hated those paramedics for that. I just didn't want to live.
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So one morning around 2 or 3 o'clock and so good being on
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an English show because you know what I'm talking about. Back end,
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Manchester, they got the offices, got the factories,
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nobody there. Middle of the night, pouring down with
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rain. I'm stumbling around because I'm just coming out
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of another alcoholic stupor. And I dropped down
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to my hands and knees and for some or no reason I started crying like
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a baby. That cry that comes from the stomach, you know, the aching
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stomach and sobbing and sobbing. Now the interesting thing about
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this whole deal is I wasn't crying because
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I'd lost my children or my wife, blah, blah, blah.
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I was crying because the first time in my life I realized I couldn't stop
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drinking. I looked up to the sky and I
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said, if there is a God. Because I didn't believe in God, because I'm molested
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by my priest. If there's a God up there, I can't do this on my
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own anymore. About 30 seconds later, a guy
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walked around the corner. He had a little Bible in his hand.
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He'd missed his last bus home from a Bible study.
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So he's been walking an hour, came upon me, told me he
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was a Christian, recovering alcoholic. Took me back to his house. I bathed
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for the first time in a year, shaved all that stuff and
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I sat down, we have coffee and was talking about stuff. And he said,
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hey, here's the deal. You can stay here for as long as you like,
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Rob, but you've got to come to these AA meetings with me.
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I cannot have you drinking in my house. Well, I didn't really want to go,
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but I went because I could stay there. But while
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I was there, this is when it all started to change. While I was there,
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sure enough, the old guys just was doing the same old moan
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stories. But this guy said, manage John, and I'm a recovered alcoholic.
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And I remember looking at Derek and saying, what did he just say? He said,
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recovered. So now I'm a little angry at this guy because
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we know we can't recover from that stuff. But he talked amazing.
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He spoke out the book we have there. He spoke about God.
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And after the meeting, I went over to him and I said, hey, Joe,
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my name's Rob, Will you sponsor me? And he said no. And then we paused
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for a second and I was waiting the ground to open up and swallow me.
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I was so embarrassed. He said, I will be a spiritual advisor
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for 12 weeks. So every Wednesday I would leave Derek till six,
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walk to his house, got there for about five to seven,
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couldn't go up until seven o'clock. That's one of the things.
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Stayed till eight. Halfway through a conversation, one minute to eight,
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we stood up, he walked me to the door, he bid me a good night
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and closed the door. I did that for 12 times. And I knew that when
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I came out of his house for the last time, he told me my life
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would change. I kind of believed him, even though I was on a blocked mattress
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in Derek's basement. And sure enough, the next day I
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was offered a part time job, which later turned into a full time job that
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week. So after about two weeks, I get my pay packet,
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which as you know, back in the day was cash staple to an envelope.
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That's how long ago it was. And I went to the gas station,
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the petrol station, and I bought John a little teddy bear,
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probably about 4 inches high. That's all I could afford. And a card,
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and I wrote one to the card and I got all my stuff and I
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walked back to that man's house and I'm so excited to tell him
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I've got a job. I've been working with people like me, you know,
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making, making sure that I'm giving them help for alcoholism and drug
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addiction. And I went up to their apartment, I'm so excited,
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and knocked on the door and there was no answer. So I knocked
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more and the woman on the right hand side came out and says, can I
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help you? I said, yeah, Where's, Where's John? Has he moved? And she
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said, john who? I said, john, your neighbor. I've only been
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here a couple of months. I've never seen anybody in that apartment. I'm sorry.
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She closed the door. I went to the left hand neighbor and knocked on there.
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Big guy came to the door. What do you want? So where's John relocated
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to? He said, john who? I said, your neighbor, John.
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He went on to tell me that that apartment was derelict and
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if I was to walk through the door, I'd fall two or three flights
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down and probably kill myself. So I'm thinking these guys
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are crazy because the stuff he's taught me, John, is mind blowing about
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life, philosophy, God. So the next day I went back to the
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meeting where I'd met John. And as I walked through the door,
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the chairman was like, robert, awesome to see you. And I
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was like, thank God for that. I thought I was going insane.
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I said, does John still come here? He said, john who? I said,
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the guy who was over near the cuff machine asked him will he sponsor
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me? He said, no, I'll be script that John. And he said,
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rob, we thought you were praying or talking to yourself.
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So we left you alone. There was nobody there. Rob, you were speaking to yourself.
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We've never found that man, but he's one of the reasons
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we have a 98% where the nearest one to us is 9%.
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And we have been going strong and healing people
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after that day. And now we're over in America doing the same. And when I
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got wealthy, I got the best private detective agency
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in Manchester. Nobody could find it. Nobody has ever heard of.
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Wow. Well, I've got to tell you, that story
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gives me absolutely crazy goosebumps
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and it's just so amazing. Thank you
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so much for sharing that amazing story with
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all of us. And I have absolutely no
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doubt that you had some divine intervention.
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Do you believe that to have been your angel? Only by the
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way, because what's happened since then is about 25,
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30 times where again I'm putting, you know, I went in for a back
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pain, they overdosed me. I dared, somebody woke me up. They're not supposed to be
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there. I mean, I got cancer in esophagus.
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They call my parents and down for the final X ray. The cancer
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disappeared. I mean, it's all this stuff that's been happening to me most of my
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life since that day. So it has to be some kind of angel.
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I 100% agree that it is. Too many things has happened
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in my life for it not to be. Well, you're absolutely meant
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still to be here. I have no doubt about that whatsoever.
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Can you tell us a little bit? I mean, you've already mentioned how that has
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changed your life, but what would you say would be the biggest
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influence that that has had on your life? First of all,
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I messed my first life up. You know, my children were taken from me,
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ages 1 and 3. The last thing my daughter said to me was,
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daddy, daddy, please stop drinking. As the authorities marched him off down the path.
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I got to realize that we get two lives in one lifetime. People who
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go through what I've been through. So why don't we take chances in
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the second lifetime? And that's what I've done. I mean,
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I don't say no to anything. I push the envelope.
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I take risks, calculated risks. And it's this kind
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of attitude dogma that I have today. I signed an office lease in Dallas
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a couple of years ago for a million dollars. People thought I was insane.
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How do you sleep at night, Dr. Robbie? You must be. How do. What's the
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worst can happen? What can they do to me that I haven't already
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done to myself? I mean, one, you're gonna take the office of me, big deal,
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I'll get another office. So it's that not caring what
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people think about me, that's the number one fear that
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everybody has. And secondly, I truly believe
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that I can do anything we want. So we go from homeless here
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to being the most successful addiction doctor here, who works with a
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list, celebrities, actors, movie stars. We give 25% of our
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earnings back to charity. Back into addiction houses is almost.
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Well, it's humanly impossible, I think. But once I had that spiritual awakening,
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I believe I can do anything. And now we're just going into studies
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of Alzheimer's and dementia. So we've had a couple of patients
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that we've trialled and tested with a 13% recall
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of short term memory where everybody else has failed. So we're excited.
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It's still exciting times. Well, yes. I'm never going to retire,
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Douglas. Well, I actually don't know what that word
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means. It has no meaning to me whatsoever. But I
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love your story. I love the way that you're helping people.
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And that's obviously part of the divine plan.
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Dr. Rob, would you like to share a way that
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people get in touch with you and maybe they can contact you through
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any books or messages that you might like to share
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with the group? Of course, yeah. So My name is Dr.
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Rob Kelly. R O B B K-E-L-L L Y.com is
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the website. Jump on. Follow us on all platforms. Just put Dr.
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Rob Kelly two Bs. Remember, in any search engine up.
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I'll pop. Come and chat, come and say hello. You know, if you need anything,
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message us. We just want to be here as an example
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to anybody that's struggling. And you have to believe that if you are struggling,
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A, it's temporary and B, you were meant for
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better things. That's just the bottom line.
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Yeah, I would definitely agree. Now, you mentioned a book
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earlier. Would you like to share details of that with our listeners?
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Yeah. And so it's called Daddy, Daddy, Please Stop Drinking.
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So let me tell you real quick about it. That's my daughter there. You can't
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see it guys, but Dagma can see it. And that's me wasted on a visit
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when I assaulted my wife with a knife one night. Cause she
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wouldn't let me face drinking. I caught her three times.
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She was taken to hospital. I fled to Spain because there was a murder
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charge out on me or attempted murder. But she lived, came back,
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took the children and I got them back the next day from my attorney,
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he'd been to court. I took them into the living room, put me in front
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of the tv. I walked into the kitchen. I'd been sober for three days and
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I thought it wouldn't be a great idea, just have one drink to celebrate the
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kids coming back. Two days later I went, the police kicked the door down.
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And I'd been in a stupor for two or three days with bottles all
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over the place. And the children had been fed or changed nappies,
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I can naturally say nappies instead of diapers.
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So the police kept the door down and they kicked me away. They served me
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with unfit father papers. I stumbled to the door, mom had
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Charlie, my eldest, and mother in law had my youngest.
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And they walked down the path. I'm there, they're there, the police are there,
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there's child services, child protection services, there's about 10 people.
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And as they walked away, I'm sobbing. Even one of the police officers
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was sobbing. And my daughter turned around and she said, daddy,
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Daddy, please don't go. And then further down the path she turned on again
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and said, daddy, Daddy, please get better. And as they got to the wrought
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iron gate, they opened it and she turned around one more time and says,
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daddy, Daddy, please stop drinking. That's where the title of the book
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comes from. So it's a story from, you know, I grew up on council Estate.
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I worked the doors. I didn't manage to go to college,
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went to Oxford University through freemason
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friends. But I gotta tell you guys, after 30 years
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of my daughter being estranged from me,
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she sent me a message on Facebook four years ago in
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the middle of the night here. And it said, dad. You call me
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dad, Dagmar, after 30 years, I have that framed
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on my wall. I want to see you. I've got something to tell you
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and show you. And the next few hours we have people around
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us for that stuff. Next few hours we're on a plane back to England and
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we get there, they stayed in the hotel, walked around to
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her house. I was so scared before I knocked on the door, she opened
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it, we held each other, we cried, we laughed for a few minutes.
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She took me by my hand, she walked me into her living room and she
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handed me my three month old granddaughter. That girl is
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my lead therapist in my Manchester office today. So that's
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what the book's about. Wow. You've actually
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totally left me speechless and I'm astounded.
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So it's such an amazing, amazing story.
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And you know, everything has a connection, doesn't it?
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Everything that we whether goes around comes around, doesn't it?
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And I'm so glad that you got to reconnect with your daughter
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and with your granddaughter. Dr. Rob,
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what would be your final messages to our listeners
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today? If you had a message that you would like to share,
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what would that be? There was a guy that went
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to the Golden Gate Bridge over here, threw himself off and
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suicide. They police pulled him out the water, went back to his house for
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next of Kent. He lived on his own. Found a note on the kitchen table.
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It read, I'm going to walk to the Golden Gate Bridge, throw myself off and
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commit suicide. Unless on the way there,
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which was an hour's walk, somebody smiles at me, somebody nods,
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somebody says good morning. If that happens, I will stop right there,
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turn around and I'll try again tomorrow. Question I'm going to leave
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you with guys. How many people have you passed today
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who's headed to the Colgate Bridge? That's a very
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deep message. Thank you. Thank you for sharing that.
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And maybe we all need to remember a little bit about that
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little bit of kindness, you know, whether it is a smile,
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whether it is a nod, whether it, whether it is helping your neighbor. Can we
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all do that for each other? Dr. Rob, it's been such a pleasure
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to have you on the program for all our listeners.
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I do hope you get in touch with Dr. Rob,
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there's bound to be a beautiful message there for you
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in some way, and perhaps that he even can help
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you. So I do hope that you've got something very special from
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today's show. In the meantime, if you found this
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