Overcoming Addiction in the Restaurant Industry with Mickey Bakst
Being in the restaurant industry, serving alcohol is such a big part of it. It’s intended to create an experience, just like the food, music, and the interior of the space. But if you're struggling with alcohol or drugs, it would be such a hard industry to be in...
Your Way Out of Pain: Microdosed Mindfulness with Janet Fouts
Mindfulness – everybody hears about it and they have all kinds of ideas of what mindfulness is. A lot of times, they think it's this really complicated thing and that you really have to do the whole kung fu thing to be mindful. But you don't have to. Once mindfulness...
Productive Intuition – Paying Attention to the Subtle with AdaPia d’Errico
We've all had different levels and types of trauma. What connects all of us as humans is trauma. The conditioning and stories we grew up with as well as being told who we should be and how to please were all essentially traumatic. What is an Intuitive Space? The...
Neurosurgery and Poetry with Paul Kaloostian
As a neurosurgeon for 17 years now, Dr. Paul Kaloostian has dealt with thousands of cases of people with neurological conditions. Seeing the need for awareness of mental health, he has written some poetry books to make it easier for the world to understand what it’s...
Healing Through Authentic Human Connection with Peer Recovery Specialists
People going through addiction recovery deal with feelings of shame, guilt, and unworthiness that no one else can understand unless they’ve gone through a similar situation. However, if someone comes to them at their level, they can automatically pull some of that...
3 Helpful Tips for Relationships Made Easy with Abby Medcalf
When you’re in addiction recovery, you need to understand that the opposite of addiction isn't sobriety – it's connection. Therefore, you can be happily married or in a happy relationship (if you're not married) even if your partner won't do anything. It's all about...
Funky Brain with Dennis Berry: Living by the HOW Approach
What most people don't realize about addiction, whether it’s to alcohol, drugs, shopping, overeating, or porn, is that it’s not the core of the problem. The addicted person just uses it to cope with their real problem: their addicted mind or funky brain. For recovery...
Love without Martinis with Chantal Jauvin: From the Perspective of a Partner of Someone Struggling with Substance Abuse
When a partner has a substance use disorder, there's a lot of mistrust. There's a lot of lying and hiding which damages the intimacy, connection, and faith in the relationship. Afterward, all of that has to be repaired. When you’re in recovery and in a relationship,...
When Crisis Strikes with Dr. Jennifer Love: 5 Steps to Heal from Chronic Stress
Do you think you’re suffering from chronic stress but you just don’t want to acknowledge it? We have many different stressors in life. The human alarm is in the brain but we are wired to ignore it because we're wired for fight or flight. Humans evolved but, like...
Healing Beyond Recovery with Mike Govoni
Addiction is a response to pain and trauma. Reaching out and making yourself vulnerable is challenging when you've been traumatized. You may not trust people and you may not trust the process. Worse, if you can’t heal from the trauma that resides within your...
