by Duane | Feb 7, 2019 | Addiction, Drug Addiction, Mental Health, Recovery
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...
by Duane | Jan 23, 2019 | Addiction, Addiction Recovery Groups, Porn Addiction, Recovery, Sex Addiction, Women Addiction
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...
by Duane | Dec 31, 2018 | Addiction, Mental Health, Recovery, Therapy
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...
by Duane | Dec 10, 2018 | Addiction, Mental Health, Porn Addiction, Recovery, Sex 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,...
by Duane | Nov 29, 2018 | 12-step, Addiction, Mental Health, Porn Addiction, Recovery, Sex Addiction
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...
by Duane | Nov 12, 2018 | Addiction, Anxiety, Betrayal Trauma, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Recovery, Trauma
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...
by Duane | Nov 1, 2018 | Addiction, Anxiety, Depression, Eating Disorders, Food Addiction, Grief & Loss, Mental Health, Recovery
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...
by Duane | Oct 18, 2018 | 12-step, Addiction, Addiction Recovery Groups, Drug Addiction, Mental Health, Recovery, Therapy
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...
by Duane | Oct 9, 2018 | Addiction, Couples, Drug Addiction, Mental Health, Porn Addiction, Recovery, Sex Addiction, Women Addiction
Our guest on this episode of The Addicted Mind podcast is Dr. Ken Adams, a therapist specializing in the area of parental enmeshment and its connection to compulsive behaviors such as porn and sex addiction. All families are defined by the balance of closeness and...
by Duane | Sep 26, 2018 | Addiction, Addiction Recovery Groups, Drug Addiction, Mental Health, Recovery, Therapy
Ricky Santiago, a specialist in adventure therapy, joined us for this episode of The Addicted Mind podcast. He uses specially planned and designed activities such as kayaking, snorkeling, and ropes courses in his adventure therapy sessions. Experiential therapy like...
