Latest Benzodiazepines Podcast Episodes
Searching for Resilience and Grit
SMART Recovery® Podcast - May 15, 2024 16:53 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsThe term "wellness" is thrown around in the context of many different things, including in the world of recovey from substance and behavioral disorders. It's meaning can be fuzzy and border on cliche. But when Randy Williams uses the word wellness he keeps it real. Williams is Founder of Wil...
Learning to Change My Thinking
SMART Recovery® Podcast - April 30, 2024 14:29 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsDeeAnna Nichols is a Certified Peer Support Specialist at ChangePoint Behavioral Health in Lewiston Idaho. Her recovery journey changed significantly when she discovered SMART in 2015. After trying to attend a SMART meeting and finding no one there that day, DeeAnna decided to take the training ...
Taking Back Our Power of Choice
SMART Recovery® Podcast - April 23, 2024 13:30 - 49 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsMichael Marcum is a licensed professional counselor at the VA, and a former Army sniper. By his own admission he changed "countries, continents, and careers" to try and escape the reality of his substance misuse which plagued him for decades. After multiple stints in rehab and other pathways to ...
Meeting People as Individuals
SMART Recovery® Podcast - March 06, 2024 16:31 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsThe Utah Support Advocates for Recovery Awareness (USARA) is a statewide nonprofit agency that focuses on connection between people in recovery and the wider world. By sharing their lived experience, USARA staff educates, advocates, and inspires individuals and communities to live more hopeful l...
Because Recovery is Not One Size Fits All
SMART Recovery® Podcast - February 19, 2024 22:38 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsThe Minnesota Recovery Options Act has recently been introduced as a means to require courts to provide a secular alternative for individuals ordered to participate in substance use treatment and as a way to provide information and resources to counselors about secular recovery. Alison Gill is...
Holding Hope For Your Wellness
SMART Recovery® Podcast - January 30, 2024 14:52 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsCompassion fatigue is real. It refers to circumstances where caregivers, professional or volunteer, become mentally, emotionally, and physically exhausted and start to wear down. It can produce a downward spiral and lead to individual caregivers leaving the work that still means so much to them...
Peer Recovery Coaches in Action
SMART Recovery® Podcast - January 04, 2024 13:44 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsIncluding lived experience in a recovery ecosystem often adds an effective dimension of support for those trying to make changes in their lives. The field of peer recovery coaching has been growing nationwide and many states now offer certification programs. In Utah, the Utah Support Advocates...
Getting Treatment for Compulsive Gambling
SMART Recovery® Podcast - December 11, 2023 14:01 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsBilly Hoffman works with compulsive gamblers as a certfied counselor. His lived experience and clinical skills combine to provide hope for those who have reached a critical point in their negative spiral of financial and emotional consequences. In this podcast Billy points out that despite com...
What is Mindfulness-Based Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy?
SMART Recovery® Podcast - November 17, 2023 15:56 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsSMART Recovery is based on cognitive tools rooted in addressing how we think and react to life circumstances. For therapist Bruce Burleson, combining the cognitive aspects of behavior management with staying present in the moment is a recipe for successful treatment of addictions and compulsive...
Making the Decision for Myself
SMART Recovery® Podcast - November 07, 2023 13:52 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsJan Folk was a high powered businesswoman for years, battling sexism in the male-dominated insurance industry. At the same time she was struggling with alcohol-use disorder and kept ending up in crisis. After a couple of attempts to stop drinking she finally realized that the only way she wa...
Activate Happy
SMART Recovery® Podcast - October 16, 2023 14:20 - 31 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsKeith Johnston is the Founder and Executive Director of Running2bwell, a nonprofit organization that helps those struggling with mental health and/or addiction issues become more physically and socially active. He decided to start the effort after a friend lost his son to heroin addiction and he...
Figuring Out My Relationship To Alcohol
SMART Recovery® Podcast - September 28, 2023 17:59 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsJonathan Hunt-Glassman struggled with drinking too much for years, and tried many ways of changing his relationship to alcohol. But it wasn't until a doctor suggested he try medication that things got better. Based on his experience, he decided to start a company, Oar Health, which offers a way ...
Sober Not Boring
SMART Recovery® Podcast - September 18, 2023 16:51 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsCourtney Anderson insists on having plenty of fun in life. After she quit drinking, she wasn't quite sure what that really meant or how to make it happen. Now 11 years later, Courtney not only continues to have fun in life, she coaches others about how to make the most of their new sober lives. ...
Hope is Real: National Recovery Month 2023
SMART Recovery® Podcast - September 05, 2023 13:20 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsSeptember is National Recovery Month and we welcome Keegan Wicks to the podcast. Keegan is the National Advocacy and Outreach Manager for Faces & Voices of Recovery (FAVOR) a national nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington D.C. Keegan has worked in the recovery field for 10 years ...
SMART's Family & Friends Program: Navigating Life with Compassion
SMART Recovery® Podcast - August 28, 2023 13:23 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsBesides being SRUSA's Executive Director, Pete Rubinas is a SMART Family & Friends meeting facilitator. He says he reaps many benefits by joining with others to share experiences and work on developing positive responses to challenging circumstances. SMART Family and Friends meetings are avai...
Contingency Management Works!
SMART Recovery® Podcast - July 26, 2023 13:24 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsDr. Steven Proctor is the founder and principal consultant of PRO Health Group and a Senior Program Director for Thriving Mind South Florida. He is also a Licensed Clinical Psychologist who has studied and written about Contingency Management programs, most notably in his Annals of Medicine arti...
Healing From The Skies
SMART Recovery® Podcast - July 03, 2023 15:04 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsTammah Watts is a licensed therapist, certified outdoor guide, and SMART Recovery facilitator in San Diego. Her active lifestyle came to a screeching halt after an unexpected health condition left her homebound. Discouraged and in despair, one day she was surprised by a moving encounter with a s...
Episode 46: An Interview with Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring
Benzodiazepine Awareness with Geraldine Burns - June 29, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsIn this episode I have a very frank interview with Dr. Josef Witt-Doerring. Dr. Witt-Doerring is a psychiatrist and former FDA medical officer/pharmaceutical physician who now treats patients with drug injuries. If you're interested in what he has to say you can find out more about him ...
Stay Curious
SMART Recovery® Podcast - June 13, 2023 16:31 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsDr. Allison Beck is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Clinical Psychologist based in the School of Psychology, University of Wollongong in Australia. Her recent work includes research on the effects of online SMART Recovery meetings during the pandemic in Australia. It turns out that many indi...
A Reddit Community for SMARTies
SMART Recovery® Podcast - June 01, 2023 13:59 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsCarolyn Straub moderates a thriving online community for those interested in SMART on the social media platform Reddit. She enjoys helping others engage around how much SMART's tools and resources help those seeking recovery from addiction. In this podcast, Carolyn also shares her personal jou...
Inform, Educate, Advocate...Repeat!
SMART Recovery® Podcast - May 22, 2023 14:40 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsThe Greater Cleveland Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI GC) has spent years providing education and advocacy on behalf of individuals and families affected by mental health conditions. Increasingly, substance use disorders co-occur in many persons, making treatment more co...
Episode 45: Austin - Disabled to Becoming a Nurse
Benzodiazepine Awareness with Geraldine Burns - May 15, 2023 00:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsThis was one episode I wanted to do for a while, but due to computer problems back in September of 2021 and then both of our lives getting hectic, I’m just now getting back to doing this unbelievable story which I feel will give so many hope of a full recovery. When I interviewed Teryn...
We're All Recovering From Something
SMART Recovery® Podcast - May 11, 2023 20:38 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsKillian Noe and Dr. Ruby Takushi co-founded the first Recovery Cafe in Seattle in 2004, envisioning a healing space for people who have experienced trauma like homelessness, substance use disorder, addiction and other mental health challenges. Today there are more than 60 cafes that work togethe...
Selling Hope To The Hopeless
SMART Recovery® Podcast - April 07, 2023 12:26 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsMichael Werner is a chemist by background and a philosopher by disposition. He was also the President of the American Humanist Association at the time they were looking for a secular recovery alternative to highlight, and that was how he eventually learned about and fell in love with SMART. Mi...
The Magic is in the Tools
SMART Recovery® Podcast - April 05, 2023 15:45 - 38 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsDave Howard is a SMART Facilitator in Poway California. He spent years going to 12-Step recovery meetings before finding SMART. Now he is convinced that what SMART offers can help anyone seeking recovery no matter what perspective they bring to the table. In this podcast Dave talks about his a...
How to Choose the Appropriate Opioid: An Interview with Dr. Heath McAnally
Compass Opioid Stewardship Expert Spotlight - March 28, 2023 17:02 - 1 hourDr. Don Stader, MD, and Dr. Rachael Duncan, PharmD, sit down to chat with Dr. Heath McAnally, MD, to discuss the nuances between different opioid agents and how to choose between them to match your patient's needs. Tune in as we review the biological pain pathways and how the mu and kappa recept...
When You Know, You Know
SMART Recovery® Podcast - March 20, 2023 19:09 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsNonie Sims has facilitated SMART meetings for 14 years in Tucson Arizona. Nonie knew that SMART Recovery was the right fit for her in the first 10 minutes of her first meeting. Now she spends her time making sure others get a chance to see if it's the right recovery pathway for them too.
Planting Community, Growing Recovery
SMART Recovery® Podcast - March 03, 2023 14:30 - 22 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsJay Phillips is the Executive Director and Board President of Seed Sower, Inc., a provider of housing and other support services for women recovering from substance use disorders in West Virginia. In this podcast Jay talks about his awakening to the great need for recovery services, the decisi...
Episode 44: RECAP SHOW 2022
Benzodiazepine Awareness with Geraldine Burns - March 02, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 77 ratingsIt's been six months since we did our last podcast, so in this episode I'll talk about how the past year has gone for me, we check in with Lisa on her very slow symptom guided taper. We talk to Mellie who is fully recovered now, and we talk with Jim Thompson who we have been following ...
Sticking Together Means We Grow
SMART Recovery® Podcast - February 23, 2023 17:10 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 66 ratingsNewly minted SMART Recovery facilitator Tracy Gryp and her mentor Rick Kuplinski share their personal SMART journey and how they created better lives for themselves through the program. In the spirit of paying it forward, they now work together to bring the best support group meetings possible t...
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