# How To Stop Letting Your Past Control You | Dr. Paul Conti Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-adversity-advantage-with-doug-bopst-1209565/how-to-stop-letting-your-past-control-you-dr-paul-conti Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-adversity-advantage-with-doug-bopst-1209565/how-to-stop-letting-your-past-control-you-dr-paul-conti.md Podcast: [The Adversity Advantage with Doug Bopst](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-adversity-advantage-with-doug-bopst-1209565) Published: 2026-07-02T05:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/47G541/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/BTGDG6661167864.mp3 Audio file: https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/chrt.fm/track/47G541/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/433/claritaspod.com/measure/traffic.megaphone.fm/BTGDG6661167864.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-adversity-advantage-with-doug-bopst-1209565/episodes/how-to-stop-letting-your-past-control-you-dr-paul-conti Duration seconds: 3306 ## Resource Dr. Paul Conti is a board-certified psychiatrist, author, and educator known for his work on trauma, addiction, self-understanding, and mental health. Today on the show we discuss why your mind creates limiting beliefs to protect you, how childhood lessons become subconscious patterns, why your inner critic is actually trying to keep you safe, how addiction becomes short-term relief for deeper pain, why labels like “addict” can keep people trapped, and how to rebuild your life one small empowered step at a time and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-adversity-advantage-with-doug-bopst-1209565/episodes/how-to-stop-letting-your-past-control-you-dr-paul-conti/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-adversity-advantage-with-doug-bopst-1209565/how-to-stop-letting-your-past-control-you-dr-paul-conti.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.