Family Addiction Coaching
29 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsStories from families supporting a loved one with addiction. Each episode provides insight into a family's real life experience; what is useful, available, and what will improve the journey. Also addresses harm reduction, useful for those not interested in recovery or treatment. Clients discuss how our Coaching Services have impacted their recovery journey. Based on Motivational Interviewing, and Community Reinforcement And Family Training, which has a 70% success rate in bringing people with addiction into treatment.
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Ep22 How To Take Your Power Back When A Loved One Struggles With Addiction
March 22, 2024 23:00 - 22 minutes - 15.8 MBAre you feeling paralyzed, frustrated, and hopeless due to a loved one's addiction? Patrick Doyle and Laurie MacDougall discuss the REST (Resources, Education, Support, Together) groups, a free program where families experience transformative recovery. Families use REST to find new strategies and skills to communicate with their loved ones. They also address the misconception of enabling and the importance of timing and setting boundaries. Through the power of community, families let go of g...
Ep21 Mom Uses Coaching To Set Boundaries Helping Daughter And Herself
November 08, 2023 01:00 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBHave you financially supported a child with addiction for years and then reached a point where you wanted to change but could not? Have you wondered if your support is holding your child back rather than helping them move forward? Have you wondered if professional coaching might be more useful for changing your behavior, than psychotherapy? This strong resourceful loving mom had tried everything but found herself unable to take care of herself while supporting her daughter with addiction....
Ep20 Addiction Impacts Friends Also
September 11, 2022 22:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBWhile families are often in a position to encourage a loved one to get treatment, they are generally sidelined with inadequate inaccurate information, support and resources. Though many persons with addiction do not have healthy families to lean upon, the minimal support available is largely devoted to parents of young people with addiction. Close friends, partners, and chosen families can also serve as valuable recovery capital that can give people motivation to sustain the ongoing effort...
E19 Son And Father's Recovery Journeys
July 13, 2022 23:00 - 1 hour - 47.2 MBGuest Interviewer extraordinaire Amanda guides the conversation as son and father describe the pursuit of addiction recovery as a family. We hear many stories from persons recovering, and a few stories of families recovering from the impact of addiction. For the first time the two join together to describe their mutual struggles; showing the power of compassion, kindness, and mutual support. Michael's recovery journey has been anything but orthodox; which fits his personality, and gives hop...
E18 Parent Peer Support: OPLM's Casie Fariello
June 20, 2022 23:00 - 48 minutes - 33 MBToday’s guest is the remarkable Ms. Casie Fariello, the Co-Founder and CEO of an exciting online parent support organization called Other Parents Like Me; or OPLM. We’ll be talking about the impact of parenting a child with addiction; and how Casie found her path to recovery from that impact. She credits Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) for her decision to welcome her son home, to recover as a family. This compelling story about peer family support provides hope that fa...
E17 Find Help For Addiction
June 07, 2022 22:00 - 22 minutes - 15.2 MBThe third of my Pro Tips series gives you sixteen little-known practical steps you can take TODAY to Find Help For Addiction. Did you know that many states have a 24hr hotline at 211 that will give you soon intake appointments for treatment? That having a medical professional calling an ER in advance will get you better care? That patients usually do best when they are allowed to decide on treatment they wish to pursue; or not? That you can get a same-day appointment with your primary care ...
E16 How To Talk About Addiction
February 03, 2022 23:00 - 16 minutes - 11.4 MBPeople can accomplish amazing things when they feel loved. I address a listener question, "Episode 15 had great tips on recognizing addiction, but once you recognize it, how do you talk to a loved one about your concerns?" CRAFT: Community Reinforcement and Family Training, has a 70% success rate for encouraging a loved one with addiction into treatment. What’s unique about my family coaching is that the family learns more effective approaches towards addiction. With a little help, family ...
E15 How To Recognize Addiction
January 18, 2022 00:00 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBFar and away the most asked question I get is, "How do I know if my loved one has a substance use problem?" Through listening to this episode you will become an expert in identifying addiction. You will also start to learn how you can positively influence a person to become interested in health and recovery, and maybe even treatment. My last episode of Pro Tips for navigating the treatment industry drew a lot of positive feedback. Here you will get nuts and bolts advice so you'll know what ...
Ep 14 Harm Reduction Family Coaching
August 29, 2021 21:00 - 26 minutes - 17.9 MBIf your loved one has a substance use disorder and is not interested in reducing use, maintaining abstinence, or in pursuing treatment, this episode will help. Today’s guest has used my coaching support for several years to help her family help her son manage his addiction. Though he had no interest in abstinence or in treatment, she was unwilling to withdraw her love and support, and refused to let him hit a rock hard bottom. Harm Reduction encourages us to take all steps possible to prom...
Ep 13 Pro Tips On Families Navigating Treatment
August 03, 2021 20:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBIf your loved one is struggling with addiction and you're struggling with the process, this episode will help. Patrick Doyle chats with a friend in recovery and shares his pro tips on evaluating treatment centers, navigating rehab barriers, the do's and dont's of being a supportive family member, and the importance of self-care. Research shows that truly involving families improves outcomes; yet most families are blocked out. Programs hide behind "privacy" and won't talk with families; unle...
Ep 13 Pro Tips On Families Navigating Treatment
August 03, 2021 20:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBIf your loved one is struggling with addiction and you're struggling with the process, this episode will help. Patrick Doyle chats with a friend in recovery and shares his pro tips on evaluating treatment centers, navigating rehab barriers, the do's and dont's of being a supportive family member, and the importance of self-care. Research shows that truly involving families improves outcomes; yet most families are blocked out. Programs hide behind "privacy" and won't talk with families; unle...
Episode 12 : Laurie MacDougall, Family Recovery Coach, Helps Families Heal
July 08, 2021 22:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBThis episode describes how families with addiction can benefit from the services of Family Recovery Coach Laurie MacDougall. Through her weekly online support groups, you can learn: 1. Steps you can take TODAY, to reduce your loved one’s substance use 2. How you can engage a person into treatment 3. How to improve your quality of emotional, physical, and relationship life Unlike much of the traditional help for families, these are not just empty promises. Laurie uses CRAFT, a...
Episode 11: Medical Providers And Family Addiction Recovery
May 31, 2021 22:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBThis episode courtesy of Talk2MeDoc Podcast's creator Dr. Andrew Tisser, who discusses how career stress on medical providers can lead to mental health and substance use issues. The value of peers in these professions reaching out to each other cannot be overestimated. Helping families and chosen families through the Community Reinforcement And Family Training method shows a 70% success rate bringing a loved one with addiction into treatment. When possible, family involvement in addiction...
Episode 11: Medical Providers Help Family Addiction Recovery
May 31, 2021 22:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBThis episode courtesy of Talk2MeDoc Podcast's creator Dr. Andrew Tisser, who discusses how career stress on medical providers can lead to mental health and substance use issues. The value of peers in these professions reaching out to each other cannot be overestimated. Helping families and chosen families through the Community Reinforcement And Family Training method shows a 70% success rate bringing a loved one with addiction into treatment. When possible, family involvement in addiction...
Episode 10: "Nobody's Perfect"; Amanda's Parents
April 22, 2021 23:00 - 36 minutes - 25.4 MBLynette, mother of Amanda featured in Episode 3, describes how she and her husband supported their daughter who had developed an opioid use disorder. Upon first learning of Amanda's arrest and heroin addiction, Lynette gave her the perfect response: "Nobody's perfect." Amanda's parents intuitively practiced Harm Reduction to help keep her as safe as possible; her father installed deadbolt locks and steel window security bars for her safety. They never gave up on her. And it worked. When Aman...
Episode 9: We Used Family Addiction Coaching To Help Our Family
October 16, 2020 00:00 - 45 minutes - 31.2 MBA married couple, Joe and Lynn, describes how they decided to use my coaching; and exactly how their 3 generational family was helped to enter their own recovery. Family recovery was then able to support Joe's fifty year old sister Jennifer who ultimately starting making decisions promoting her health and recovery from severe life-threatening alcohol use. "We have our Patrick Doyle-isms; you were like a lifeline! It's such a relief." Sign up for the newsletter today at https://familyaddic...
All Lives Can't Matter Until Black Lives Matter
June 11, 2020 00:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBWe need to give Black persons with addiction tools for coping with the daily traumatic impact of racism; which if it existed, would be known as trauma-informed dual diagnosis care specific to racism. However it does not exist; no treatment programs are offering this. Like all other institutions in America, the Addiction Treatment Industry reflects the built-in racism of society; and to most Whites it remains hidden. If Black persons with addiction even trust the programs with overwhelmingly...
Episode 8: All Lives Can't Matter Until Black Lives Matter
June 11, 2020 00:00 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBWe need to give Black persons with addiction tools for coping with the daily traumatic impact of racism; which if it existed, would be known as trauma-informed dual diagnosis care specific to racism. However it does not exist; no treatment programs are offering this. Like all other institutions in America, the Addiction Treatment Industry reflects the built-in racism of society; and to most Whites it remains hidden. If Black persons with addiction even trust the programs with overwhelmingly...
Episode 7: COVID-19’s Impact On Families With Addiction
April 20, 2020 23:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBFamily Addiction Recovery innovators Dr. Dominique Simon-Levine, Patrick Doyle, and Amanda S. share expert observations on the public health emergency’s impact on families and persons with addiction. Dominique is waiving the subscription fee and offering free access to her first-of-its-kind family communication skill-building online program www.alliesinrecovery.net. Patrick describes how a client used his coaching services to find a quality residential treatment program and convinced her sp...
Episode 7: COVID-19’s Impact On Families With Addiction
April 20, 2020 23:00 - 32 minutes - 22.4 MBFamily Addiction Recovery innovators Dr. Dominique Simon-Levine, Patrick Doyle, and Amanda S. share expert observations on the public health emergency’s impact on families and persons with addiction. Dominique is waiving the subscription fee and offering free access to her first-of-its-kind family communication skill-building online program www.alliesinrecovery.net. Patrick describes how a client used his coaching services to find a quality residential treatment program and convinced her sp...
Episode 6: Mary Uses Patrick's Coaching To Help Anya Recover From Addiction
March 08, 2020 21:00 - 35 minutes - 24.2 MBFamily Addiction Coaching client Mary describes how Patrick Doyle's coaching services helped her help her adult daughter gain health and recovery. While Anya now has eight years of sustained recovery, it was a challenging journey. Even being a highly trained medical professional, it was difficult for Mary to find accurate information about addiction and effective treatment options. Due to judgement and the stigma placed on families with addiction, it was even more difficult for her to ask...
Episode 4: Health Professionals In Recovery on Family's value to and need for recovery.
February 10, 2020 01:00 - 1 hour - 64.2 MBMuch appreciation to HPIR Podcast's Sean Fogler and Bill Kinkle sharing their series' 'Episode 8: The Untapped Resource: Family with Patrick Doyle'. From HPIR site: 'Join our hosts as we chat with our good friend Patrick Doyle from Family Addiction Coaching as we discuss the role of the family in a person's recovery. Often the family is excluded from treatment and viewed either as "co-dependent" or "enabling"; therefore, seen as a liability. However, many health professionals who struggle w...
Episode 5: How Family Addiction Coaching Helps; with Sean Fogler and Bill Kinkle.
February 10, 2020 01:00 - 23 minutes - 16.3 MBHear exactly how our professional Coaching for families with addiction can help the recovery process for both families and their loved ones with addiction. Patrick Doyle's teenage depression and wish that his family could have gotten professional help, gave him the mission to help families recover. Our hosts share their lived experience and describe how this type of help for their families would have been so useful to their own recovery journeys. Decide whether this service may be of use ...
Episode 3: Amanda S @RebelEclectic's Family Helps Her Achieve Recovery
October 12, 2019 01:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBWe take a different approach as Episode 3 looks at Family Recovery through the eyes of a daughter with both addiction and chronic pain illnesses. Through her advocacy work on Twitter as @RebelEclectic, Amanda S is widely respected as a person bringing both patient communities together by identifying common ground. Now you can hear an inspirational story of how she gained health and recovery largely through the loving family that never gave up on her. Sign up for the newsletter today at htt...
Episode 3: Amanda S @RebelEclectic's Family Helps Her Achieve Recovery
October 12, 2019 01:00 - 1 hour - 56.3 MBWe take a different approach as Episode 3 looks at Family Recovery through the eyes of a daughter with both addiction and chronic pain illnesses. Through her advocacy work on Twitter as @RebelEclectic, Amanda S is widely respected as a person bringing both patient communities together by identifying common ground. Now you can hear an inspirational story of how she gained health and recovery largely through the loving family that never gave up on her.
Episode 2: Our Coaching Services Helped Meghan's Family Recover
October 11, 2019 19:00 - 1 hour - 78.8 MBA client describes how she used our coaching services to help her family recover from the impact of a loved one's addiction. Cross-country phone-based family meetings, and live immediate guidance when needed; because addiction crises don't follow a schedule. Families too need health and recovery, and our unique on-demand availability can make a difference. Sign up for the newsletter today at https://familyaddictioncoach.com/.
Episode 1: Trish Kinkle's Family Recovery From Bill Kinkle's Opioid Addiction
October 09, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 70.9 MBAn inspirational story of true love and personal courage triumphing over heroin addiction and an unscrupulous treatment industry. Trish Kinkle describes the impact of addiction, and the family's recovery from husband Bill Kinkle's life-threatening opioid use disorder. While Bill received treatment from over thirty residential programs, he and the Kinkle family found recovery despite the overwhelmingly harmful treatment received from professionals. Hear Trish report how she was shut complet...
Episode 1: Trish Kinkle's Sustained Family Recovery From Husband's Addiction Illness
October 09, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 70.9 MBAn inspirational story of true love; Trish Kinkle describes the impact of addiction on the family, and the family's sustained recovery from serious opioid addiction illness.
Episode 1: Trish Kinkle's Family Recovery From Bill Kinkle's Opioid Addiction
October 09, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 70.9 MBAn inspirational story of true love and personal courage triumphing over heroin addiction and an unscrupulous treatment industry. Trish Kinkle describes the impact of addiction, and the family's recovery from husband Bill Kinkle's life-threatening opioid use disorder. While Bill received treatment from over thirty residential programs, he and the Kinkle family found recovery despite the overwhelmingly harmful treatment received from professionals. Hear Trish report how she was shut complet...