Self Made & Sober

Bestselling author Darren Littlejohn dropped out of school in the eighth grade in order to “pursue drugs and alcohol as a full-time endeavor.” After a long, rough road to sobriety, he earned a BA in Psychology from California State University, Long Beach, and has completed all coursework but the final theses for the MA Pre-Doctoral Research Program. In his personal journey, he studied Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, later integrating all of his life experience, beliefs, credentials and true passion into his work. As part of the journey he founded “Compassionate Recovery” and wrote “The 12-Step Buddhist” as well as many other books.  02:17 – Early onset learning and social challenges led to him to “actively teach his brain how to hijack the reward system” 06:15 – The lessons he learned in recovery were ‘mind blowing’ which led to his spiritual awakening 11:20 – Pushing his academic life aside he decided to move to Texas to pursue a career as a Jazz musician which led to his experimentation with psychedelics which le