Peter W. Guess - PodCast Radio - Cape Town

Refer: My Bipolar Story - Experiences, Insights, Symptoms & Treatment of Bipolar Mood Disorder (BMD) - text version in progress.

This is my story, by Peter Winston Guess, Cape Town, South Africa.

Dated: 9 October 2021 (podcast done on Thurs, 7 Oct 2021)

For more info: 

Living with Bipolar & Depression

www.LivingWithBipolar-Depression.weebly.com and 

My original website: www.LivingBipolar.webs.com

Several years ago I started a website titled Addiction Online Lifeline. I never thought it will one day become a Podcast station as well. I've included the link below.

The Addiction Online Lifeline Podcast focuses on:

Website: www.AddictionOnlineLifeline.weebly.com [AOL]

Podcast segment: The Gift of Addictions - A walk through pain into healing

Will it really help? Yes, I want it to! This message of "The Gift of Addiction" or "The Gift of a Mental Illness" has, over the past 20 years [since 2000] played a significant role in my own recovery and health - to the point that now publicly, I have a very wide reach to many countries and over 60,000 visits.

This podcast series is based on a Family programme I designed a few years ago. It was requested by an Outpatient Treatment Centre in Cape town. They wanted to orientate family and friends of the addict to get information and insight to help themselves and the person in recovery (during and after treatment). I designed a presentation and wrote a workbook which became the backbone to these podcasts. My book based on the workshop entitled: You Can't Live In The Dark - How to help a loved one with an addiction - is pending publication. 

IMPORTANT: Email me to put you on the notification list for the launch: [email protected]

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Introduction - This is my story… 

SECTION ONE 

2. Understanding Addiction 

The Disease Concept

The Causes Of Addiction

A Theoretical Model: The Three Circles Of Causality 

High Risk Factors 

SECTION TWO 

3. Understanding Recovery - The ABC's of 12 step programmes 

4. Guidelines for Intervention 

5. Guidelines for Family Recovery 

- Picking up your life

- Detaching with love

- Setting Boundaries (including an initial phase of ad hoc testing - for substance abuse disorders)

- Tough Love & Consequences 

SECTION THREE 

6. Concluding Thoughts 

7. Where To From Here? 

REFERENCES, RESOURCES AND RECOVERY TOOLS

Thank you for reading. If you have questions, views and any feedback, please contact me

Peter Guess

WhatsApp +27 65 229 3040

Join me on Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/quitsmoking90 and www.facebook.com/addictioninterventiontreatmentservices

The New Leader - Work, Consciousness & Life. We will cover themes such as: Life Balance; Spiritual Principles In Leadership; Mastering Yourself; Being A Coach; Using Technology For The New World Of Work; The  Leader As Warrior; Self-Knowledge and The Enneagram; Self-Knowledge and The Jungian Types and much more

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Hi! My name is Peter Guess. After 20 odd years of smoking, I failed unforgettable times to quit. I'm now over 18 months clean today 15 March 2021 (updated).

Note: If it is time for you to Quit, and you need help then WhatsApp +27 65 229 3040 or email: [email protected] | Join me on my Facebook and WhatsApp support group:

www.facebook.com/groups/quitsmoking90. and www.facebook.com/addictioninterventiontreatmentservices.

This first episode of 7 short podcasts came from conversations I recorded during an Online Counselling session May 2020.

These 7 audios will help you to kick-start your quit process. You may already have begun your journey - even just in your head or already quit for a day or more. Or you are a "veteran relapser", desperate to stop and you need help to break this pattern.

The topics: readiness to quit, reasons for starting and stopping, motivation, the dynamics of smoking and addiction to nicotine - and more snippets of tips and advice from my own and others experience.

This episode focuses mainly on quitting smoking to become nicotine free. However, I firstly tap into my personal experience as a smoker in recovery for over 200 days, off all nicotine (and related products) and over 36 years in addiction counselling and addiction recovery work. This included rehab's, step-down facilities, half-way houses, outpatient centres and community education.

The Global Covid Crisis brought many acute realities. Tobacco ban. Black market costs to acquire cigarettes. Discovering the reality of the intensity and depth of the addiction to smoking and nicotine. The added reality is facing the relapse history and intense craving, so now fearing relapsing as soon as cigarettes or nicotine products become available. Then there are unexpected, subtle and horrible symptoms of withdrawal from nicotine and related smoking behaviour.