by Duane | Nov 21, 2019 | Addiction, Addiction Treatment, Grief & Loss, Mental Health
Today’s guest is Dr. Sonya Lott, a licensed psychologist with advanced training from Columbia University’s Center for Complicated Grief. Sonya runs a private practice in Pennsylvania and she hosts the Reflections on Multicultural Competence Podcast. She is...
by Duane | Nov 14, 2019 | 12-step, Addiction, Addiction Recovery Groups, Addiction Treatment, Drug Addiction, Recovery
Today, Erin Miller shares her story of losing her son, Chad, to heroin addiction. She talks very frankly about her painful process of grief and loss, and she explains how she’s managed to find meaning and purpose in what she’s been through, by using...
by Duane | Nov 7, 2019 | 12-step, Addiction, Addiction Recovery Groups, Addiction Treatment, Food Addiction, Recovery
In this episode, Mike Collins talks to us about sugar addiction. Mike is the chairman of the Food Addiction Institute, a non-profit which has been around since 2005. Their stated goal is to get chronic sugar use elevated to a substance use disorder. Mike found...
by Duane | Oct 9, 2019 | 12-step, Addiction, Addiction Recovery Groups, Depression, Drug Addiction, Mental Health, Porn Addiction, Recovery, Sex Addiction, Trauma
Our guest on this episode of The Addicted Mind podcast is Eli Nash, founder of the Mic Drop public speaking training program whose purpose is to help people articulate their stories. Eli has recently gained recognition from his TEDx video about escaping his porn...
by Duane | Sep 23, 2019 | 12-step, Addiction, Addiction Treatment, Drug Addiction, Food Addiction, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Recovery, Sex Addiction, Trauma, Women Addiction
Dr. Ellie Katz has spent the past 35 years working in the area of addiction treatment, using her holistic approach and real talk with compassion to work with her clients. She joins us on this episode of the Addicted Mind podcast to discuss her experiences and...
by Duane | Sep 2, 2019 | Addiction, Addiction Treatment, Drug Addiction, Food Addiction, Grief & Loss, Mental Health, Mindfulness, PTSD, Recovery, Therapy, Trauma
Our guest on this episode of The Addicted Mind podcast is Leslie Cole, an addiction medicine physician at a clinic outside of Nashville, Tennessee, and author of the book “Quit Pain Pills.” Leslie spent the first 20 years of her medical career as an internist. The...
by Duane | Aug 14, 2019 | 12-step, Addiction, Addiction Recovery Groups, Addiction Treatment, Drug Addiction, Mental Health, Recovery, Therapy
Cynthia Schmit is an advocate for medication-assisted treatment of addictions who would love to see healthcare providers informing their patients of all of the options for treating their addictions. On this episode of The Addicted Mind podcast, Cynthia talks with us...
by Duane | Jul 20, 2019 | Addiction Treatment, Anxiety, Depression, Grief & Loss, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Recovery, Therapy
On this episode of The Addicted Mind podcast, Duane interviews Dr. Ursula Whiteside, a clinician, researcher, and trainer in the area of suicide prevention. Ursula struggled with her suicidal thoughts throughout her life, and in 1999, she moved to Washington state to...
by Duane | Jul 6, 2019 | 12-step, Addiction, Addiction Recovery Groups, Addiction Treatment, Drug Addiction, Grief & Loss, Mental Health, Recovery, Teens, Therapy, Women Addiction
Our guest on this episode of the Addicted Mind podcast is Maureen Cavanagh, author, and founder of Magnolia New Beginnings. Maureen’s family had a long history of addiction, but since she was not personally prone to addiction, she thought that she knew the formula to...
by Duane | Jun 20, 2019 | Addiction, Depression, Drug Addiction, Grief & Loss, Mental Health, PTSD, Recovery, Therapy
Our guest on this episode of The Addicted Mind podcast is Tim Sitt, a clinician at the Freedom to Move Group who shares Duane’s appreciation of Virginia Satir’s work. Virginia Satir was cutting-edge in the 1960s when she moved away from the “traditional”...