Beyond Risk & Back

Michael is one of BRAB's most popular guests! Back for his 3rd show, you will hear the straight talk on bi-polar and get the skills to navigate happiness with family members who live with it.

If you work with bi-polar personally, Michael is your new best friend.

Michael Pipich LMFT holds a Master of Science degree in clinical/community psychology from California State University, Fullerton, and a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology from Loyola Marymount University. He is a licensed marriage and family therapist (Colorado license MFT744), and he has treated a wide range of mental disorders and relationship problems in adults and adolescents for more than 30 years.

Michael is also a national speaker on bipolar disorder. His new book, Owning Bipolar: How Patients and Families Can Take Control of Bipolar Disorder (Citadel Press), is due for release in 2018. Michael is also known as an expert in many legal cases involving psychological treatment and the law and has taught several graduate-level psychology courses. He was selected as a collaborating investigator by the American Psychiatric Association, performing clinical field trials for the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5). He's been featured on radio and in print media on a variety of topics, and he is the host of Breakthrough with Michael Pipich on the VoiceAmerica Network.

Are kids acting up? Again? Despite all of your warnings, consequences, threats..."Didn't we discuss this? What were you thinking?!?"

Now you have to get your enlightened parenting hat on and do the right thing? Without sleep? Missing work...relationship struggles of your own? HOW do we do this?

Without compassion for everyone and everything in the room, INCLUDING YOURSELF, and moving past shame, what business do we have giving consequences? Where is the unconscious punishment coming from ...no..really?

Katherine Winter Sellery- Ted Talks, Books, Seminars, Websites...Katherine is a well-known speaker, coach trainer for parents all over the world. Listen in to her wisdom and step by step process of getting back to your heart. AMAZING EPISODE!

Darrin Miller, Clinical Director at Red Rock Recovery Center in Colorado discuss with Host Aaron Huey the challenges facing emerging adults (young adults) in recovery. Often labeled "Failure to Launch" programs, a heavy focus on living skills, job skills, and therapy while in recovery are important!

Mara is in recovery... so is her daughter.

Both of them work in the recovery field.

This is a fascinating story of dependency, sobriety, and a dedication to supporting the addict that still struggles.

Inspired by her own sobriety journey over the past 15 years, Mara Lehnert has combined her lifelong experience as a successful entrepreneur and business owner with her passion for helping other alcoholics and addicts find their way to a life of recovery. In 2005, under the training of the late and great interventionist Howie Madigan, Mara began her career as an interventionist and has since performed more than 900 interventions, with a 95% success rate. While doing interventions, Mara was also the director of Intervention Services for Harmony Foundation in Estes Park, Colorado, where she worked from 2005 to 2012. In 2011, spotting a much needed and missing niche — transitional living for alcoholics and addicts — Mara began working on a new model for slower integration back into the real world following treatment. In 2012, she founded Choice House Companies in Louisville, Colorado, for men. Within six months, the original house had become six recovery homes, and Ladies’ Choice House in Lafayette was born. In 2015, again recognizing another missing niche, Mara opened The Lookout Boulder, with the assistance from Colorado Rockies co-owner Charlie Monfort. The Lookout combined substance abuse and mental health treatment. The three divisions of Choice House companies regularly served an average of 30 clients at a time.

Five years later, on July 15th, 2017, Mara sold Choice House Companies to a new group, Choice Health Inc., to continue growing her legend while allowing her to go back to her core passion of interventions, consultations, and referral servicing as a primary focus.

Mara has presented at national conferences for the past 13 years on the Love First method of intervention, The Executive Addict, and Ethics for Sober Living. She also contributes greatly to the criminal justice system, working towards treating rather than criminalizing people suffering from substance use disorders. Mara has been a Boulder County resident for most of her life and resides in Lafayette near her two children.

In part 3 of our series with Dr. Hans Watson, Dr. Watson discusses how the family habits and "illnesses" show up in children's behavior.

Enabling. Co-dependance. Enmeshment.

Telling a parent whose child is suffering from the disease of addiction, that they are doing these things helps them...how? Would we tell a parent of a child with cancer this?

Dr. Weiss, 3 time guest on BRAB, crushes the paradigm with his groundbreaking new strategy PRODEPENDANCE and it is taking the recovery industry by storm.

Robert Weiss Ph.D., LCSW (CA LCSW 17610) is an expert in the treatment of adult intimacy disorders and related addictions, most notably sex, porn, and relationship addictions along with a co-occurring substance and sex addictions. A clinical sexologist and practicing psychotherapist, Dr. Rob frequently serves as a subject matter expert for major media outlets including CNN, HLN, MSNBC, OWN, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and NPR, among others.

Dr. Rob is the author of Prodependence: Moving Beyond Codependency, Out of the Doghouse, Sex Addiction 101, and Cruise Control, among other books. He blogs regularly for Psychology Today and Psych Central. His podcast, Sex, Love, & Addiction, is rated as a Top 10 Addiction Podcast. He also hosts a weekly live no-cost Webinar with Q&A on SexandRelationshipHealing.com.

A skilled clinical educator, Dr. Rob routinely provides training to therapists, hospitals, psychiatric organizations, and even the US military. Over the years, he has created and overseen nearly a dozen high-end addiction and mental health treatment facilities across the globe. For more information or to reach Dr. Rob, visit SeekingIntegrity.com. You can also follow him on Twitter (@RobWeissMSW), LinkedIn (Robert Weiss LCSW), and Facebook (Rob Weiss MSW).

Therapist Jill Krush LPC, NCC, CACIII, specializes in codependency, depression, anxiety, stress management, healing trauma, and substance abuse issues for individuals, couples, and families. She maintains a private practice in Boulder, Colorado.

She and Aaron discuss the system breakdown among families, how it affects the children, and what family recovery looks like.

Part 2 of my 3 part series with Dr. Hans Watson. We discuss Anxiety and Depression in such a way that we KNOW what helps, what hurts, and what happens next.

What is the job of the brain and how is it different when we have struggled with anxiety or depression?

Dr. Stephen Grinstead sits down with Aaron and talks frankly about children and their pain meds. The opioid crisis is in full swing, but children get injured. Dr. Grinstead gives parents a process to control the meds, the feelings and the response when a child wants "more".

Dr. Grinstead is an internationally recognized expert in preventing relapse related to addiction and chronic pain disorders and is the developer of the Addiction-Free Pain Management® System. He has been working with chronic pain management, substance use disorders, eating addiction and coexisting mental and personality disorders since 1984. He is also the author of Thank You Adversity for Another Test, Freedom from Suffering: A Journey of Hope as well as several other pain management books including Managing Pain and Coexisting Disorders, and the Addiction-Free Pain Management® Recovery Guide.

Dr. Grinstead has a Bachelors Degree in Behavioral Science, a Masters Degree in Counseling Psychology and a Doctorate in Addictive Disorders (Dr. AD). He is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, (LMFT) a past California Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor (CADC-II), and a current Advanced Relapse Prevention Specialist (ACRPS). He served on the faculty of UC Santa Cruz Extension Alcohol and Drug Studies Program and also taught at Santa Clara University, UC Berkeley Extension, and Stanford University Medical School and served on the faculty of University of Utah’s School on Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependencies as well as serving as an Adjunct Professor at Alliant University teaching Masters Level and Psy.D. Students the Treating the Addicted Family System course for the Marriage and Family Therapy track for five years.

Are teens nowadays just not able to handle what we could as teens? Are they too "fragile" and get depression and anxiety over things Gen Xers and Boomers just bootstrapped and handled?

Were we more resilient?

Dr. Hans Watson brings us through the life and psyche of a teen in this, Part 1 of a 3 part series. In this episode we confront not just the WHY, but HOW resiliency is created in the brain and tools to help our teens develop it.

Dr. Watson is a highly decorated, a combat-proven leader with advanced psychiatric training & experience. He has the necessary experience and skills to inspire & motivate groups, deliver world-class mental health training, improve leadership, identify the reasons for any organization’s performance, and execute expert psychiatric evaluations for the courts.

Part One of Three