by Duane Osterlind | May 31, 2021 | Addiction, Addiction Recovery Groups, Addiction Treatment, Drug Addiction, Recovery, Therapy
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...
by Duane Osterlind | Apr 19, 2021 | Addiction, Addiction Recovery Groups, Addiction Treatment, Depression, Grief & Loss, Mindfulness, Recovery, Trauma
You’ve probably heard of someone who’s suffered from chronic pain, gone to doctors, ran all the tests necessary, and surprisingly, none of the doctors could actually diagnose the problem. Andrew Hahn, Founder of Life Centered Therapy, joins today’s episode to...
by Duane Osterlind | Mar 18, 2021 | Addiction, Addiction Recovery Groups, Addiction Treatment, Drug Addiction, Recovery
When we’ve had trauma in our life, we can get really disconnected from our emotions. We don’t know how to express them or how to use them. Often, we turn to the only thing that we think will work: a substance or behavior that helps us escape or avoid those emotions....
by Duane Osterlind | Jan 14, 2021 | Addiction, Addiction Recovery Groups, Addiction Treatment, Drug Addiction
On today’s episode of The Addicted Mind Podcast, Duane speaks with mother and son, Laura and Tom Boldt, authors of Unraveled, A Mother and Son Story of Addiction and Redemption. They talk about their story of recovery and how they worked together to get recovery. They...
by Duane | Nov 13, 2020 | 12-step, Addiction, Addiction Recovery Groups, Addiction Treatment, Anxiety, Betrayal Trauma, Couples, Depression, Drug Addiction, Eating Disorders, Food Addiction, Gambling Addiction, Grief & Loss, LGBTQ, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Porn Addiction, PTSD, Recovery, Sex Addiction, Therapy, Trauma
On today’s episode of The Addicted Mind Podcast, Duane talks to author, speaker, and teacher Jenna Riemersma about internal family systems, or IFS. Jenna describes how IFS can help to transform your feelings about addictions and past trauma. Jenna talks about how IFS...
by Duane | Oct 31, 2020 | 12-step, Addiction, Addiction Recovery Groups, Addiction Treatment, Bisexuality, Drug Addiction, LGBTQ, Recovery, Sexuality, Therapy
On today’s episode of The Addicted Mind Podcast, Duane talks to hip-hop artist Chris Hamilton (aka “ILL TONE”) about the struggle of addiction and the joy of recovery. He struggled with social anxiety and wrestling with his sexual identity while amongst conservatives...