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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...
131 Relationships Made Easy with Abby Medcalf
On today’s episode of The Addicted Mind Podcast, Duane talks with relationship maven Abby Medcalf. Abby is a psychologist, author, podcast host, and a TEDx speaker. Abby is the author of the #1 Amazon best-selling book, Be Happily Married: Even If Your Partner Won't...
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,...
130 Funky Brain with Dennis Berry
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...
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...
Episode 60 Helping Our Young People Recovery Schools with Andrew Finch and Michael Durchslag
On this episode of The Addicted Mind podcast, Duane is joined by two practitioners in and advocates for recovery high schools. Michael Durchslag leads PEASE Academy in Minneapolis and Andy Finch is an academic researcher in the field of recovery schools at Vanderbilt...
Episode 59 – Never Binge Again with Glenn Livingston
On this episode of The Addicted Mind podcast, we are joined by Glenn Livingston, a psychologist, marketing consultant, and former binge eater. Glenn’s issues with food began during his childhood and continued progressing through adolescence until he developed very...
Episode 58 – Teens, Vaping & Nicotine Addiction with Laura Kelly
Our guest on this episode of the Addicted Mind podcast is Laura Kelly, health reporter for the Washington Times. In early January 2017, Laura wrote an article for the Times about the increasing rate of teen nicotine addiction due to e-cigarettes and vaping. Over the...
Episode 57 – Addicted To Love with Lacy Bentley
Our guest on this episode of the Addicted Mind podcast is Lacy Bentley, a recovery mentor, and coach in the areas of love and sex addictions for women. At age 13, Lacy found herself consuming erotic novels and pornographic anime called hentai. She didn’t realize it...
Episode 56 – Opiates & Medical Cannabis with Peter Grinspoon
On this episode of The Addicted Mind podcast, we are joined by Peter Grinspoon, a primary care physician in the Boston area who is an advocate of medical cannabis. During medical school, Peter and a few of his classmates decided to try a sample of Vicodin to see if...
Episode 55 – Joshua’s Recovery Story Porn Addiction
Our guest on this episode of the Addicted Mind podcast is Joshua Shea, who joins us to tell his story of addictions to alcohol and pornography and the past 4 years of recovery. Joshua was first introduced to porn around age 11 and alcohol at age 15, and looking back,...
Episode 54 Building A Culture Of Support – Group Therapy with Mari Lee
Our guest on this episode of The Addicted Mind podcast is Mari Lee, a licensed marriage and family and certified sex addiction therapist supervisor, consultant, coach, speaker, author, and founder of Growth Counseling Services in Glendora, CA. Mari is a firm believer...
Episode 53 – The Body Remembers – Somatic Experiencing with Suzie Wolfer
On this episode of The Addicted Mind podcast, our guest is Suzie Wolfer, LCSW, SEP a therapist specializing in Somatic Experiencing®, a powerful system of healing trauma and addiction at it’s core and for completing trauma, so that it’s let go of you. Somatic means...
Episode 52 – Fat Shame & The Obesity Epidemic with Michael Hobbes
On this episode of The Addicted Mind, we are joined by Michael Hobbes, a writer for The Huffington Post and co-host of the You’re Wrong About… podcast. Michael wrote an article entitled “Everything You Know About Obesity is Wrong” for HuffPost in September 2018 which...
Episode 51 – Practical Recovery & SMART Recovery with Tom Horvath
On this episode of the Addicted Mind podcast, our guest is Tom Horvath, founder of Practical Recovery and co-founder of Smart Recovery. Smart Recovery is a non-12-step approach to addictive behavior problems that provides an alternative to programs like Alcoholics...
