Carrie Wilkens, PhD, is cofounder and clinical director of the Center for Motivation and Change (CMC). She is coauthor of The Parent’s 20 Minute Guide to Change: A Guide for Parents About How to Help their Children Change their Substance Use, The Partner’s 20 Minute Guide: A Guide for Partners About How to Help their Loved One Change their Substance Use, Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change, and The Beyond Addiction Workbook for Family and Friends: Evidence-Based Skills to Help a Loved One Make Positive Change. The CMC: Foundation for Change website is cmcffc.org.

Carrie shares that loved ones can support people struggling with substance use with compassion and positive strategies that can help motivate them to change, without enabling or codependency. She describes when substance use may be a problem and that there are a million ways to heal.

New Thinking Allowed CoHost, Emmy Vadnais, OTR/L, is an intuitive healer and health coach based in St. Paul, Minnesota. She is the author of Intuitive Development: How to Trust Your Inner Knowing for Guidance With Relationships, Health, and Spirituality. Her website is https://emmyvadnais.com/

(Recorded on December 16, 2022)

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