This week Caitlin is talking with Glynis Burkhalter, Program Director at Ray of Hope, to learn about their Youth Addiction Treatment Programs. If you would like to learn more about Ray of Hope and how to access their programs you can visit their website at https://www.rayofhope.net/. To inquire about their Youth Addiction Treatment Program, you can reach out by email at [email protected] or call 519-743-6206.

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In this week’s episode Brenda catches up with Kevin as he gives an update on his 2.5 years of sobriety from alcohol and opioids. He speaks to his recovery journey, important milestones, the impact of COVID-19 on addictions, and his recommendation of different supports and other insights.

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Caitlin continues the conversation on addictions in her interview with Dr. Rick Csieknik, Professor at King’s University College. In this episode Dr. Rick shares how to assist someone with an addiction, how to take care of yourself while supporting someone else with an addiction, steps to minimize substance abuse, community support for people supporting someone with an addiction and other insights.

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In this week’s podcast, Caitlin interviews Dr. Rick Csiernik, Professor at King’s University College School of Social Work. He shares his knowledge about how one can recognize that they have an addiction, various ways to seek out support, treatment options, ways to overcome obstacles and stigma in the community and other insights.

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Today's episode is a short excerpt from the "Viewing Addictions Through a Holistic Lens" Workshop that was held in February by King's University College Professor of Social Work, Dr. Rick Csiernik. In this segment Dr. Rick explains why people have addictions by taking us through what a psychoactive drug is, what dependency is and what it means to have an addiction. If you would like to hear more from Dr. Csiernik about addictions, please sign up for our upcoming conference on Wednesday March 3rd, 2021.

Also, check out his book Just Say Know: A Counsellor's Guide to Psychoactive Drugs.

In this week’s episode, Brenda interviews Marilyn Clarke, an Artist Therapist Candidate and Registered Psychotherapist (qualifying) from the Delton Glebe Counselling Centre. Tune in to this enlightening discussion as she shares her perspective on hope during the pandemic, how to cultivate it, the importance of hope, resources on hope, the use of creativity and other insights.

In this week's episode, Caitlin interviews Laura, an employee at the working centre. She shares with us her definition of hope, the role of hope at work during the pandemic, maintaining hope, how she instills hope into others and other insights.

In this week's episode, Caitlin interviews George, a Hot Deli Clerk at Zehrs. He shares with us his definition of hope, how his work environment at the grocery store has changed throughout the pandemic, maintaining hope while working, how he instills hope in customers and other

To start off this new season on hope, I will be joined by my co-host Caitlin, who is a Program Coordinator with DCO. In this week’s episode we interviewed a few staff from the Delton Glebe Counselling Centre, Elma Plant the Intake Coordinator, Brad Wilton a Registered Psychotherapist, and Arielle Bush an Art Therapist. Tune in to this enlightening discussion as they each give us their perspective on hope, and how we can use hope to get us through the COVID-19 pandemic.