Today Jeannine interviews Dr. Laura Petracek, Phd. 

Dr. Laura Petracek is a Clinical Psychologist, author, and speaker who has over thirty years of experience in the field of psychotherapy. 

Jeannine and Dr Petracek discuss her latest book, "The DBT Workbook for Alcohol and Drug Addiction." When recovering from addiction and managing a mental illness, it can feel like both have the ability to take over your life. By applying the principles of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) to your recovery program, this workbook equips you with the tools to regulate your emotions, develop self-management skills, reduce anxiety and stress, and feel yourself again.

DBT is a combination of CBT, mindfulness, and distress tolerance skills tailored to those who feel emotions very intensely. Exploring skills and strategies drawn from DBT that work in tandem with your recovery program, this book provides a new roadmap to reduce symptoms of emotional distress and to support your sobriety and mental health.

This ground-breaking workbook draws on the author’s clinical and lived experience of addiction recovery, bipolar disorder, and other mental health challenges.

Jeannine asks Laura for specific tools for regulating emotions in a heated moment, as well as tools to assist with urges or craving with behaviors one would like to change or quit.

https://www.laurapetracekphd.com/

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Today Jeannine and Narcan Nate interview Matt, creator of the popular IG and Facebook recovery platform, "A Life Recovered."

After a privileged childhood and upbringing, Matt went down a rabbit hole of drug use that led him to drop out of college and join the Navy. Eight years later, Matt left the Navy with an "other than honorable" discharge and an IV meth habit. Arrested TWICE by the same CHP officer, Matt finally found sobriety and his new life purpose as inspired by a therapist he had in his early recovery. 

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At 19, while playing professional hockey in Canada, Ryan Phillips was introduced to the beginning of the B.C marijuana boom, and that perked his interest because of the large sums of wealth that could be accumulated in a short time. Hockey fell to the wayside and Ryan took his networking skills and used them by forming a smuggling ring that generated millions of dollars a year. His luck ran out after losing many associates to murder and substance abuse, he landed himself in a Federal Detention Center for over 500 days. The charge was conspiracy to import 103 pounds of the banned plant. Ryan learned a lot while incarcerated, most importantly how important our freedom is.

Now a three time Ted talk speaker, film maker and recognized humanitarian, Ryan shares with us his story of the darker side of professional hockey, drug smuggling, criminal lifestyle and ultimately redemption and personal growth. 

Ryan's Ted Talks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xYCLV3oQcY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7u8to-6UG0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mX0i397C1Y

link to Body Anew detox:

https://www.amazon.com/MediNatura-BodyAnew-Cleanse-Oral-Drops/dp/B00TCBLACU

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Today Jeannine interviews Marci Hopkins, an award-winning TV Personality, host and creator of Wake Up with Marci, a Recovery Expert on Fox, CBS, NBC and ABC and the author of ‘Chaos to Clarity: Seeing The Signs and Breaking The Cycles’. Marci experienced sexual abuse and trauma at a young age, which contributed to ongoing alcohol abuse later in life. Even as her life progressed and she achieved what appeared to be a "perfect" life on the outside, on the inside, Marci was still struggling with the shame and self hatred she had developed over years of avoiding the trauma and abuse she had endured as a child and young adult. Sober now since October of 2015, Marci shares with Jeannine how the tools of recovery helped develop her spiritual life, opening her eyes and awareness to begin seeing divine signs and symbols as direction and guidance through her new life of sobriety.

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Today Jeannine and Nate interview Hannah Sward, author of "Strip: A Memoir." 'Born in the Bohemian seventies, Hannah was abandoned by her mother, and lived with her poet father on an island with no stores or cars. Kidnapped and molested by a stranger at age six, she grew up to be a stripper and prostitute with a taste for crystal meth - which seemed to be a sure fire way to lose weight - with stops along the way for silent gurus, sugar daddies, and drinking in the CVS bathroom before therapy sessions.' (from back cover of her book) Jeannine and Nate ask Hannah about her experience with sex work, recovery and managing triggers around weight gain in sobriety.

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