by Duane Osterlind | Mar 3, 2022 | Addiction, Addiction Treatment, Grief & Loss, Recovery
The stigma of addiction is so bad that people who are struggling with it choose to hide it. However, addiction is not the real problem, but rather the symptom of all these underlying hurts, pains, and suffering. Today’s episode is a replay of an interview with...
by Duane Osterlind | Mar 1, 2022 | Blog
Recovery is tricky. With alcoholism, for instance, people assume that if you remove the alcohol because alcohol is the problem, then you should get better. But people in the first 30 days of recovery don’t get better, they get worse. Addiction is referred...
by Duane Osterlind | Feb 28, 2022 | Addiction, Betrayal Trauma, Grief & Loss, Mental Health, PTSD, Recovery, Teens, Therapy, Trauma
A lot of people are oblivious to recurring issues they encounter in life when those are actually the result of some unresolved childhood trauma manifesting in different ways. Whether it’s addiction, alcoholism, a toxic romantic relationship, a dysfunctional family,...
by Duane Osterlind | Feb 22, 2022 | Blog
Recovery doesn’t stop once you leave the doors of the treatment facility. Rather, you have to work on living a recovery lifestyle. It’s beyond attending AA meetings or saying no to parties. It’s about being mindful and choosing to be intentional in how you want...
by Duane Osterlind | Feb 21, 2022 | Addiction, Addiction Treatment, Grief & Loss, Mental Health, Recovery, Therapy, Trauma
On today’s episode of The Addicted Mind Podcast, Duane speaks with Constance Scharff, co-author of Rock to Recovery: Music as a Catalyst for Human Transformation, and author of the award-winning poetry book, Meeting God at Midnight. They talk about other things you...
by Duane Osterlind | Feb 15, 2022 | Blog
How do you develop the tools to attain recovery? Serge Prengel, the author of The Proactive Twelve Steps for Mindful Recovery, believes that while everyone is different, change will start to manifest itself through the power of a mindful pause. He also introduces this...
by Duane Osterlind | Feb 14, 2022 | Addiction, Addiction Recovery Groups, Addiction Treatment, Drug Addiction, Grief & Loss, Mental Health, Recovery, Therapy, Trauma
On this episode of The Addicted Mind Podcast, Duane speaks with Tricia Parido, an international master addictions coach and a recovery lifestyle enthusiast. Passionate about helping people attain sober lifestyles so they can live free and fulfilled, Tricia established...
by Duane Osterlind | Feb 8, 2022 | Blog
The zero-tolerance that the system has put in place on their war on drugs is an antithesis of the help people need. When really, the goal is to get people in life, not just in a consistent loop of use. According to Dr. Benjamin Boyce, author of Dr. Junkie: One...
by Duane Osterlind | Feb 7, 2022 | 12-step, Addiction, Addiction Treatment, Grief & Loss, Mental Health, Recovery, Therapy, Trauma
On this episode of The Addicted Mind Podcast, Duane speaks with Serge Prengel, the author of The Proactive Twelve Steps for Mindful Recovery. They dive deep into the process of change and this concept of the virtuous cycle that creates a positive feedback loop in our...
by Duane Osterlind | Feb 1, 2022 | Blog
What is the universality of the human condition? In his book, We Agnostics, Paul Schulte explains that a lot of work in Buddhism, Hinduism, Catholicism, Protestantism, Transcendentalism, Sufism, and Islam are all the same thing. This underlines the crisis of...
