Catlin Lorito joins Casey Scott and Dr. Matt Woolley this week to share her recovery journey that started initially with battling depression and anxiety following the divorce of her parents, how she found comfort in being with friends with the "stoner" crowd, and her descent into chaos after she started abusing alcohol and partying. 

We also dive into Catlin's decision to fall into heavy marijuana use once the pandemic began to take over the country to cope with the anxiety she was experiencing, how her marijuana use slowly pushed her to the brink of suicide, and her decision to pursue recovery through Pinnacle Recovery here in Utah.

Lastly, Catlin shares how her life has changed after starting her road to recovery and the impact that Fit To Recover has had on her living a life of sobriety.

To learn more about Fit To Recovery, you can visit their website here: https://www.fit2recover.org/

Dr. Matt Woolley is solo this week while Casey Scott is out on a business trip and we dive into inspirational stories of recovery, the nine factors associated with the state of flow, and how achieving flow can lead to deeper concentration and lasting accomplishments in and out of recovery.

You can learn more about Faces and Voices of Recovery at https://facesandvoicesofrecovery.org/

You can also find the books talked about in this week's episode below:

Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Savannah Eley (Service Coordinator at StepOne Service Castleview Hospital) joins Casey Scott and Dr. Matt Woolley to talk about her experience with feeling segregated from a community that was predominantly religious growing up in Carbon County in Utah, her experience with abusing prescription medicine to help combat postpartum depression that she was experiencing following the birth of her first child, and how she and her ex-husband started losing homes and cars due to spending her money on drugs.

Savannah also shares how her family was torn apart by drugs, some of her lowest lows throughout her addiction, and the moment that pushed her over the edge and led to her finally finding sobriety after years of abuse.

We also dive into the work that she's doing to help provide resources for rural communities that are seeking treatment and what her sobriety looks like five years after the dark days of her addiction.

You can learn more about Castleview by visiting their website https://www.castleviewhospital.net/ or you can go to https://www.curetheconversation.org/ to find resources in your area.

Jordan Lee (Director Of Marketing And Business Development for Deer Hollow Recovery) joins Casey Scott and Dr. Matt Woolley to share his experience with getting expelled from school in middle school for possession of drugs, selling drugs as a teenager instead of attending school, and his dark reality of being a lonely, homeless teenager addicted to hard drugs.

Jordan also opens up about his decision to pursue recovery after struggling with addiction as a teenager, being introduced to the idea of religion, and becoming addicted to pain medication while on a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

We then dive into Jordan's interactions with the Mexican drug cartel while buying and selling pain medication, the events in his life that pushed him towards a lifetime of recovery, as well as his introduction to Deer Hollow Recovery.

To learn more about Deer Hollow Recovery you can visit deerhollowrecovery.com.

In this bonus episode, Casey Scott talks with Aubri Devashrayee (Media Coordinator of Tobacco Prevention and Control Program for the Utah Department of Health and Human Services) about the dangers of tobacco and the reality that so many people face while being addicted to nicotine.

Aubri also shares great resources that WayToQuit.org provide for those looking to quit their smoking habit, as well as why vaping has become such an addiction for our youth, and why we need to start a conversation with our children about the dangers of vaping.

To learn more about different ways to quit smoking tobacco, you can visit Way To Quit or you can also learn more about the dangers of vaping at See Through The Vape.

In this week's episode, Casey Scott is flying solo and opens up about being told "I'm proud of you" as well as sharing some messages from some of our listeners.

He also talks about why it's important to accept that you're an addict in order to hold yourself accountable and the joy of focusing on doing the next right thing.

Yvonne Rodgers joins Casey Scott and Dr. Matt Woolley to share how a tumultuous relationship with an ex-husband created a tense atmosphere for her family throughout the years, adapting to the reality that her son had become addicted to meth, and experiencing firsthand domestic abuse that would ultimately leave her permanently disabled in her right arm.

Yvonne also opens up about being held at gunpoint by a former husband and her mission for raising awareness surrounding domestic abuse.

If you or someone you know may be in an abusive relationship you can call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or you can contact the Utah Domestic Violence Coalition: Utah's confidential statewide, 24-hour domestic violence hotline at 1-800-897-LINK (5465).

Shay Mitchell joins Casey Scott and Dr. Matt Woolley to share her recovery journey that started early on in her childhood with a father who suffered from addiction, how she began to develop anxiety from unaddressed traumatic experiences growing up, and the relief she felt from the moment she tried alcohol for the first time.

Shay also opens up about how her addiction began to flourish throughout various moments in her life during her early twenties, her decision to use alcohol as a bandaid for postpartum depression following the birth of her second child, and how the COVID-19 pandemic sent her to the deepest depths into her addiction.

We also dive into Shay's admission to the fact that she was an alcohol addict, building connections with other people living in recovery that helped support her own sobriety, and the steps that she's taking to secure recovery in her own life.

To learn more about Shay, you can find her on Instagram @ShaySober or on the web at shaysober.com.

Casey Scott and Dr. Matt Woolley talk about some of our favorite episodes throughout the past couple of years, a letter that came in for Casey, and optimism's role in recovery.

Then we dive into the three P's to defeat cognitive distortions, how optimism creates the seen for motivation and change, and the path to learning to be optimistic.

You can find all of the resources talked about during the show below:

Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change
Positivity: Optimism, Resilience, Confidence and Motivation
Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation
Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life
Authentic Happiness

Corey Markisich (Executive Director of Wasatch Recovery) joins Casey Scott and Dr. Matt Woolley to open up about how anxiety affected his childhood, experimenting with Oxycontin in high school with his friends, and how abusing pain medication led to getting arrested for participating in a major drug ring.

Then Ryan Decker (Marketing Director of Wasatch Recovery) joins the show to talk about his family's history with mental illness and addiction, how being introduced to weed and alcohol in high school evolved into spending $400 a day on pain medication over the course of a decade, and how addressing trauma at Wasatch Recovery turned into finding his passion for recovery.

Lastly, we dive into how Wasatch Recovery is making an impact in the world of recovery throughout the state.

To learn more about Corey and Ryan or Wasatch Recovery, you can visit https://wasatchrecovery.com/