Healing as a Family: The Road to Addiction Recovery
A lot of families are sending their young adults to luxury-based treatment centers that aren’t necessarily therapeutic. This doesn't mean they need to be in a punitive environment. They just need to be in an environment where they engage in life and start adopting...
164 Pulling Yourself Out of the Vortex of Childhood Trauma with Michael Anthony
On today’s episode of The Addicted Mind, Duane speaks with Michael Anthony, author of Think Unbroken: Understanding and Overcoming Childhood Trauma. When you have a history of childhood trauma, there are things that you just have to unlearn and reframe. But to do...
163 Healing as a Family with Chris Howard
On today’s episode, Duane speaks with Chris Howard, the founder of Ethos Recovery, a long-term recovery house for men. He’s also the founder of Lifestyle Interventions where he offers family intervention mentoring. Chris shares his journey of addiction and...
Healing Intergenerational Trauma with Wendy Adamson
How do you heal from addiction and alcoholism that you created? You may impact others through your addiction but you can also impact them through your recovery and healing. Wendy Adamson, the author of Mother Load and Incorrigible, explains the role of...
Transferring Your Grit From Addiction to Your Recovery with Mike Grant
When you're in recovery, building grit is so important because you've got to weather some difficult things. According to Mike Grant, author of (Re)Making A Sandwich: An Addiction Case Study, grit is a transferable skill that you can bring from addiction to...
122 Miracles of Recovery with Harriet Hunter
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....
121 Actions in Recovery with Wanja Joy
Hiding--many addicts do it. It’s what keeps them locked in prisons of guilt and shame. It’s how they convince even themselves that they don’t have a problem. It’s the very thing that prevents them from getting the help that they so desperately need. Today’s guest,...
120 Down The Rabbit Hole with Kate Russell
Addiction is often the result of pain in our early years of life. Whether it’s passed down through genetics or an attempt to escape the pain, many addicts can point to a hard childhood as the source of their addiction. This is why it’s so important to recognize our...
119 Killer Graces with Steve Melen
When we go through extreme pain, it’s easy to feel like we’re all alone. We doubt that anybody has felt the level of pain that we are currently experiencing. Life begins to feel hopeless and we start believing that there is just no reason to carry on. However, there...
118 The Potential of Nontraditional Medicine in Addiction Treatment
Ever seen or heard of people who would come in for addiction treatment over and over again – like they almost always come in for the same problem with the same sense of empowerment? You could throw as many drugs at them or do all kinds of physical interventions but...
117 It Will Never Happen to Me with Claudia Black
Children who grow up in an addictive home internalize a lot of toxic shame where they lose the ability to believe in their own worth and value. For some people, it has never been instilled in them, to begin with. But there is an emotional connection between the addict...
116 The Addicted Child with Richard Capriola
A lot of times, parents out there have kids struggling with addiction and they don’t know what to do or how to notice it. Unfortunately, adolescent addiction is oftentimes written off by a lot of parents because they think what they see as some crazy teenage...
115 FIX: Indiana State Museum Exhibit on the Opioid Crisis with Cathy Ferree
Substance abuse disorder is something that people don't always discuss, and what you don't know, is where you can go awry. On today’s episode of The Addicted Mind Podcast, Duane talks to Cathy Ferree, the CEO of the Indiana State Museum, about their exhibit called...
114 The History of Opium with John Halpern & David Blistein
Opium has been around but what many people don't realize is how much it has shaped society and culture. The United States has spent over $1 trillion on drug enforcement since President Nixon declared a war on drugs. And by any measure, that crisis has become worse....
113 Unraveled with Laura and Tom Boldt
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 each share how their recovery impacts each other, and how they were able to do it. It is a great story of hope, compassion, and gratitude for the life they’ve created in recovery together – as a family.
