by Duane | Sep 20, 2018 | 12-step, Addiction, Addiction Recovery Groups, Anxiety, Drug Addiction, Eating Disorders, Food Addiction, Gambling Addiction, Mental Health, Recovery, Therapy
On this episode of The Addicted Mind podcast, our guest is Anne Fletcher, author of 8 books including “Sober for Good” and “Inside Rehab.” Anne felt the need to write “Inside Rehab” after consulting with several experts, one of which posited that people usually spend...
by Duane | Jul 5, 2018 | 12-step, Addiction, Addiction Recovery Groups, Couples, Drug Addiction, Mental Health, Sex Addiction, Therapy
Our guest on this episode of the Addicted Mind podcast is Jack Bloomfield, a specialist in the ARISE model of interventions. This model is an alternative to the “traditional” form of confrontational interventions created in the 1960s by Dr. Johnson. In this...
by Duane | Jun 20, 2018 | 12-step, Addiction, Addiction Recovery Groups, Sex Addiction
Our guest on this episode of the Addicted Mind podcast is Amy Smith, founder of the Worth Recovery podcast, which has grown into a community of mutual support. Amy began her recovery journey in 2011 when she realized that her multiple failed “relationships” were a...
by Duane | May 9, 2018 | 12-step, Addiction, Couples, Drug Addiction, Mental Health, Porn Addiction, Recovery, Sex Addiction
On this episode of The Addicted Mind podcast, we are joined by Robert Weiss, a digital-age intimacy and relationship expert and author of several insightful books on the topic (links below). Rob’s non-alarmist approach to the impacts of our digital age on intimacy and...
by Duane | Apr 4, 2018 | 12-step, Addiction, Addiction Recovery Groups, Gambling Addiction, Grief & Loss, Mental Health, PTSD, Therapy
Our guest on this episode of the Addicted Mind podcast is Dr. Louise Stanger, a clinician, interventionist, author, and trainer specializing in the grief and loss experienced by the family members of an individual who dies of an opioid overdose. Since nearly all...
by Duane | Mar 28, 2018 | 12-step, Addiction, Addiction Recovery Groups, Depression, Drug Addiction, Gambling Addiction, Mental Health, Recovery
Our guest on this episode of the Addicted Mind podcast is Colleen Koncilja, a counselor based in the Chicago area who specializes in gambling addictions. Shortly after a casino riverboat became a permanent fixture just blocks away from her practice’s office in Elgin,...
