by Duane Osterlind | Feb 10, 2025 | Addiction, Addiction, Love Addiction, Love Addiction, Relationships and Addiction, Sex Addiction, Sexuality, Toxic Relationships, 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 Osterlind | Feb 5, 2025 | Addiction, Addiction Awareness, Easy Steps, Happiness, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Shame, Shame, TAM+, Therapy, Tips
What if the walls you built to protect yourself have become your prison? In this powerful episode of The Addicted Mind Plus, hosts Duane and Eric explore how sharing our authentic stories can break the chains of shame in recovery. They dive into why many people get...
by Duane Osterlind | Jan 13, 2025 | Addiction, Addiction Awareness, Drug Addiction, e-cigarettes, Health, Medical Treatment, Mental Health, nicotine, psychosis, Recovery, Teens, Therapy, vaping
Join us as we welcome Dr. Bonnie Halpern-Felsher from Stanford University, an esteemed expert in adolescent health, who brings her wealth of knowledge to our conversation on the Addicted Mind Podcast. We focus on the heightened sensitivity of the adolescent brain to...
by Duane Osterlind | Jan 7, 2025 | Addiction, Addiction, Addiction Treatment, opioids, Recovery, Therapy
Decima Davis once believed she had found a miracle in Kratom—a natural supplement that seemed to promise relief from her battles with opioid withdrawal. She wasn’t alone in her hope; many, like Decima, were drawn to Kratom during the opioid crisis, fooled by its...
by Duane Osterlind | Dec 29, 2024 | Addiction Treatment, EMDR, Therapy
On this episode of The Addicted Mind podcast, my guest is Kay Simmeth, a Marriage and Family Therapist certified in EMDR. Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is a type of bilateral stimulation that activates both sides of the body and both sides of the...
