November 20, 2023

Recovery Brings Love & Light with Muhannah Kakish | Episode 372

1 hour 29 minutes

In this edition of The Way Out I’m honored and humbled to bring you my interview with Certified peer recovery specialist, Certified Peer specialist, forensic peer support specialist, Host of the Rise up Hour at WFNU Frogtown Radio, WRAP One facilitator, person in long term recovery, and my friend and brother in Recovery Muhannah Kakish. Muhannah sincerely, openly, and unflinchingly delivers us his journey to and through Recovery to this point and his accompanying message that Recovery from substance use disorder and compulsive gambling is possible and totally and utterly worth it. An additional word of warning, this episode contains discussions of sexual violence, self-harm and suicide. If you or a loved one are experiencing a mental health crisis, please call or text 988. One of the most instructive elements of Muhannah’s story is his experience with compulsive gambling after being in Recovery from substance use disorder for a considerable length of time. Many of us have or may encounter a problem with another substance or behavior, whether that be a substance use disorder with any variety of substances or a behavior like problem gambling. My own recovery has been a process by which I first eliminated alcohol and other mood-altering substances, then, and not right away, I eliminated nicotine, then, and also not

right away, I reckoned with my unhealthy relationship with food and the evolution

will surely continue as others surface or resurface. It can be extremely difficult to address these, especially if we are in Recovery already from something else as feelings of shame can arise as we feel like we’re not being honest and authentic in our Recovery. Muhanna’s Recovery journey is proof positive there need be no shame in experiencing secondary, cooccurring, or subsequent dependencies and that when we address them as they present themselves we can experience greater freedom, greater love of ourselves and others and bask in and radiate increasingly brighter light so listen up.

Contact Muhannah:

[email protected]

Minnesota Alliance on Problem Gambling:

https://mnapg.org/

WFNU Frogtown Radio:

https://wfnu.org/

Rise up Hour:

https://spinitron.com/WFNU/pl/18014248/Rise-Up-Hour-with-Muhannah-Kakish?layout=1

Mankind Project:

https://mkpusa.org/

Recovery literature (quit-lit) recommendation: Twelve Steps

and Twelve Traditions - https://www.aa.org/twelve-steps-twelve-traditions

Best piece of Recovery advice: Forgive yourself

Calum Scott - Dancing on My Own: https://youtu.be/q31tGyBJhRY?si=JkB5jTTSDEmpCd-_

Don’t forget to check out “The Way Out Playlist” available

only on Spotify. Curated by all our wonderful guests on the podcast!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6HNQyyjlFBrDbOUADgw1Sz

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