by Duane Osterlind | Mar 28, 2022 | Addiction, Addiction Treatment, Mental Health, Recovery, Therapy
On this episode of The Addicted Mind Podcast, Duane speaks with Justin Larson, the director of health systems for Thrive Peer Recovery, as he shares his story about his alcoholism and recovery. Justin was diagnosed with depression at the young age of eight. He was...
by Duane Osterlind | Mar 7, 2022 | Addiction, Addiction Treatment, Drug Addiction, Grief & Loss, Mental Health, Recovery, Therapy
On today’s episode, Duane speaks with Shahjehan Khan, a voiceover artist, actor, and musician based in Boston. He is the host of the King of the World podcast, which explores his life as a Pakistani American Muslim in the post-9/11 era, 20 years later. Shahjehan...
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...
by Duane Osterlind | Jan 24, 2022 | 12-step, Addiction, Addiction Recovery Groups, Addiction Treatment, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Recovery
On today’s episode of The Addicted Mind Podcast, Duane talks with Paul Schulte, the author of We Agnostics: How William James, Father of American Psychology, Advanced A Spiritual Solution to Addiction: How a Venerated Harvard Doctor Inspired the 12 Step...
by Duane Osterlind | Sep 7, 2021 | Blog
Living as a high-functioning alcoholic for 11 years, Charlie Gray’s plan was to keep his job, make some good money, and just drink his way through. This went on until, physically, he could no longer do so. The root cause behind his addictive behavior was his early...