Family Addiction Recovery Podcast

Episode six features the Hedin brothers whose journey began when they were each using substances in their mother’s basement. They both were able to go through treatment and today have years of long-term sobriety. Bryan is the Executive Director of our Residential center and Jameson the Clinical Director of the Outpatient program.

Join Rick and Christine Dixon for a very tender episode regarding addiction, pornography, sex addiction, related themes and the power of Step 3 to find long-term success from the most shaming of addictions. Guests Terry and Lindsay Allred open up of how pornography and addiction has impacted former relationships and how recovery is strengthening their current marriage. Mark Kastleman, a counselor specializing in sex and pornography addiction, shares some of his best tools to help couples find long-term success and how he beat his own 32 year addiction to pornography. Terry and Lindsay facilitate an online Couple's Recovery Group for Renaissance Ranch Addiction Treatment Centers on Thursday evenings at 6:30 MST. This class is provided at no charge and open to the public. Go to renaissanceranch.com for the family education schedule. Topics include: addiction, pornography, adoption, betrayal, rejection, faith, and the anchor of faith and trusting in God and the spiritual solutions of Step Three. Rick and Christine also invite you to join them in their upcoming webinar and free online Family Addiction Education Classes. To learn more please visit us at https://renaissanceranch.net/welcome-to-family-members/

Imagine having a reunion three years post treatment with a son, mother, father, and one of the clinicians that helped this family through the addiction recovery process. Join hosts Christine and Rick Dixon as they unite Kael, LCSW, with the Nielson family, Sam, Heidi and Chris. Sam’s struggle with addiction and choice to go into treatment brought the opportunity for his parents to also find help and healing for themselves. Listen to the unfolding of the Nielson’s story and how codependency can sometimes play a bigger part in the cycle of addiction than is sometimes acknowledged or realized. Today Heidi and Chris are facilitating a family education group at Renaissance Ranch and are excited to be able to give back and help other families who are seeking help. It has been said that the foundation of recovery is spiritual and the solutions that worked for this family in finding long-term recovery bring hope and insights into the power of Step Two: Come to believe that the power of God can restore us to sanity.

Join Christy and Rick as they discuss the most important step in recovery: Step One. Recognizing we are powerless over addiction and how our lives are becoming unmanageable helps us to find the humility to finally seek help for ourselves or an addicted loved one. Guests Dave Belt and Lane Porter share their recovery journey and what their family members did and didn’t do that impacted their addiction. Lane, now a licensed mental health counselor, shares his professional expertise as an “intake specialist” of how to help those who have a loved one suffering with addiction become willing to seek help. Topics include: addiction, codependency, recovery, consequences, boundaries, ideas to help an addicted loved one desire recovery, and Christ-centered recovery principles and practices.

Rick and Christy discuss their boys addiction from their view and explain what gave them a shift in their perspective as they themselves started working their own recovery. This episode is vulnerable and real. Enjoy

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Episode 1- Part 1 of 2

Rick and Christine Dixon, along with their two sons, Preston and Tyson introduce the mission and purpose of the Podcast. They discuss how the listener will hear the perspectives from both the addicts and their family members. In this first Podcast, Preston and Tyson share their perspective on what happened while in their addiction and discuss as a family what they went through and how the healing took place. This show is raw and vulnerable and was created to give insight and hope that recovery is real. Stay tuned for episode 2 where Rick and Christy will share their perspective on what transpired in the pursuit of untangling the addiction web their family was caught in. Hear Rick and Christy recall how they went about not only helping their sons, but also learning that the number one thing they could do to help heal the family was to work their own recovery program. Rick and Christine also invite you to join them in their upcoming webinar and free online Family Addiction Education Classes. To learn more please visit us at https://www.renaissanceranchutah.com/family-addiciton-education