Latest Alcohol rehab Podcast Episodes
Mini Series 11 - The Four Agreements
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - July 12, 2024 08:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this podcast, we discuss the Four Agreements, a Buddhist-inspired way of thinking that can readily apply to anyone who aspires to live a spiritual life, free of the self-imposed burdens of addiction or alcoholism. We discuss the Four Agreements as follows: The First agreement: Be impeccable...
Mini Series 11 - Toxic Shame
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - July 05, 2024 08:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this podcast, we discuss the power of toxic shame and its effect on the children in the family, including an addict or alcoholic. We learn that: Shame is known as a master emotion, overpowering ordinary, healthy feelings such as sadness or joy. Toxic shame is a debilitating feeling of wort...
Mini Series 11 - The Power of Now
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - June 28, 2024 08:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this podcast, we discuss the power of living in the now, of living in the moment as a means of attaining peace of mind for anyone living with the stress of an addict or alcoholic in the family. We discuss the following: Think about this day as the most important day of your life. Realise t...
Mini Series 11 - The Ripple Effect of Addiction
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - June 21, 2024 08:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this podcast, we discuss the ripple effect of addiction on the family. We discuss the following: Hitting bottom is a family affair. Everything is not just fine. Addiction is not a choice. Detachment and inaction are two different things.
Mini Series 11 - Shame & Social Disapproval
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - June 14, 2024 08:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this podcast, we continue to explode the myths surrounding addiction. Example myths include: The shame and social disapproval associated with addiction. Stereotypes that perpetuate the myth. Addiction only happens to certain kinds of people. Addiction is a choice. Kids should just say N...
Mini Series 11 - A Quick Q&A on Addiction Myths
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - June 07, 2024 08:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this podcast, we do a quick Q&A on the myths of addiction and address other questions posed by our readers and listeners. These questions revolve around: The myth that addiction is a question of moral character. Why some people refuse to get help. Whether treatment works. Why people thin...
Mini Series 11 - A Story About Tim
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - May 31, 2024 08:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThis podcast, is a story about a man named Tim and it demonstrates the power of perseverance. We learn that: Tim overcame a suicide attempt on the eve of his admission of powerlessness over his addiction. He saw his Stage 4 cancer lifted by the miracle of modern medicine, and his own determin...
Mini Series 11 - Incurable, Progressive, Fatal
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - May 24, 2024 08:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this podcast, we discuss the deadly consequences of addiction and alcoholism: We learn that: Alcoholism and addiction are incurable and progressive, and often fatal if ignored. There is a serious undercounting of the societal costs in life and injury due to alcoholism, while there is bette...
Mini Series 11 - Not Reacting The Same Old Way
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - May 17, 2024 08:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this podcast, we discuss new ways of thinking and behavior that help with moving the alcoholic/addict toward treatment. We learn that: Family members need to unlearn their conditioned way of reacting to their beloved alcoholic or addict. The new way asks the family member to take a softer ...
Mini Series 10 - Wherever You Go, There You Are
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - May 10, 2024 08:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this podcast, we discuss the impossibility of escaping the here and now. We learn that: 1. It’s common for people to be constantly thinking about something other than the reality of the present. 2. There is a huge difference between planning for the future and living there. 3. There is u...
Mini Series 10 - Don't Believe Everything You Think
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - May 03, 2024 08:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this podcast, we examine why the truth is so elusive for family members of alcoholics and addicts. We discuss how people who have an addict or alcoholic in the family: 1. Deny the very existence of the disease. 2. Become too ashamed to admit the truth to themselves. 3. Ultimately ne...
Mini Series 10 - The Hidden Ally
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - April 26, 2024 08:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsYou’ve probably heard the term “enabler”. It’s one that’s often charged with judgment and stigma. That’s because one feels accused of aiding and abetting addictive behaviour and it doesn’t feel at all fair because you do what you do out of love. More than a role, enabling is a dynamic that arise...
Mini Series 10 - What We Do For Love
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - April 19, 2024 08:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsLove has this wonderful ripple effect, emanating its warmth and power from you to your family and well beyond, and it seems miraculous in its infinite ability to heal. Think for a moment about unconditional love: loving someone regardless of what they look like, what they do for a living, how m...
Mini Series 10 - Their Brains are Different Now
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - April 12, 2024 08:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhen you are talking to a full-blown alcoholic or addict or one who is both - and the list of cross-addicted people is growing – you might not be too surprised to learn that they speak an entirely different language than you do. An example: an addict is confronted by his mum who says that he ha...
Mini Series 10 - Learning to Love Yourself is a Big Deal
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - April 05, 2024 08:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsA well-known actress, comedienne and TV producer was once asked what made the essential difference in her highly successful life. For those old enough to remember Lucille Ball, she answered as follows: “All my young life, I was told I was a no-good show-off. My self-esteem hovered just above z...
Mini Series 9 - You Can Prevent Addiction
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - March 29, 2024 08:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIt’s never too late to act, whether your loved one is now at the stage where an intervention is necessary, or you have a younger child who might fall prey to an addictive disorder and want to keep that kid safe. But you are not sure how. Shatterproof is an organisation 100% dedicated to prevent...
Mini Series 9 - You, Too Could Be addicted and Not Know It
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - March 22, 2024 08:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsA friend said to me the other day that she feels like everything we do is becoming pathological. We eat a lot, so we’re a candidate for Overeaters Anonymous. We have sex with more than one person, we should join Sex Addicts Anonymous. We got drunk, so we should join AA. If I choose to call an a...
Mini Series 9 - Pass me the Fentanyl, Please
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - March 15, 2024 08:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsThere is still little understanding of the power of the substance fentanyl. Let’s start with some inconvenient facts. Drug overdoses claim more lives than breast cancer, gun violence or car accidents. Combined. They are the #1 cause of accidental death in the United States. According to the CDC...
Mini Series 9 - Addiction Sucks Oxygen
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - March 08, 2024 08:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsVery recently, my ex-fiancé called me in a panic and sobbed that her son, my stepson really, was a raging addict and she didn’t know what to do. He and his wife have a two-year-old son who deserves better, while my stepson – let’s call him Jimmy – is snorting and smoking and injecting who knows ...
Mini Series 9 - The Wake Up Call
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - March 01, 2024 08:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIt can happen at any time. The bell might ring, the alarm might sound, the light might flash any time of day or night. We might be half asleep or we might have our shoulder to the wheel, pushing with all our might. Awakenings happen all the time, to people all over this earth. For the purposes ...
Mini Series 9 - Hate the Disease, But Love Yourself
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - February 23, 2024 08:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsYou would be amazed at the negative self-talk I hear when the family of a drug abuser or alcoholic starts answering pointed questions. “Do you feel as if “this” is your fault?” Most say that they feel at least partly to blame “if only…” which suggests that they believed that they had any contro...
Mini Series 8 - Signs of a sick relationship
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - February 16, 2024 08:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhether we like it or not, we are all susceptible to co-dependency - the need to control another person in our life. In this podcast, we offer the following insights on the various aspects of co-dependency, especially important when addressing what happens in families who are experiencing addic...
Mini Series 8 - You can't will this away
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - February 09, 2024 08:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhether we like it or not, we are all susceptible to co-dependency - the need to control another person in our life. In this podcast, we offer the following insights on the various aspects of co-dependency, especially important when addressing what happens in families who are experiencing addic...
Mini Series 8 - No one is immune
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - February 02, 2024 08:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhether we like it or not, we are all susceptible to co-dependency - the need to control another person in our life. In this podcast, we offer the following insights on the various aspects of co-dependency, especially important when addressing what happens in families who are experiencing addic...
Mini Series 8 - I'm only OK if you're OK
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - January 26, 2024 08:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhether we like it or not, we are all susceptible to co-dependency - the need to control another person in our life. In this podcast, we offer the following insights on the various aspects of co-dependency, especially important when addressing what happens in families who are experiencing addic...
Mini Series 8 - The illusion of control
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - January 19, 2024 08:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhether we like it or not, we are all susceptible to co-dependency - the need to control another person in our life. In this podcast, we offer the following insights on the various aspects of co-dependency, especially important when addressing what happens in families who are experiencing addic...
Mini Series 8 - Co-dependency - We've all got it
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - January 12, 2024 08:00 - 4 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsWhether we like it or not, we are all susceptible to co-dependency - the need to control another person in our life. In this podcast, we offer the following insights on the various aspects of co-dependency, especially important when addressing what happens in families who are experiencing addic...
Mini Series 7 - Do recovering people have to go to meetings their entire life?
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - January 05, 2024 08:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this podcast, the producer of our podcast series, Tony, asks the following question: Do recovering people have to go to meetings their entire life? One way to look at the question is: "You have to go to meetings until you want to go to meetings and then you don't have to go to them anymore"...
Mini Series 7 - What freedoms are allowed in treatment?
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - December 29, 2023 08:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this podcast, the producer of our podcast series, Tony, asks the following question: What freedoms are allowed in treatment? Treatment programs require a balancing of structure and the right level of freedom, so as not to signal license to behave irresponsibly. The freedoms that are allowe...
Mini Series 7 - Why is my loved one like this?
Busting Addiction and Its Myths - December 22, 2023 08:00 - 3 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn this podcast, the producer of our podcast series, Tony, asks the following question: Why is my loved one like this? Addiction often isn't recognised until it's too late to prevent it from taking hold. By the time it rears its ugly head, it has already caused confusion and anxiety. Family m...
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