SAFE RECOVERY

10 top questions to ask when you or a loved one goes to inpatient rehab and sober living.  Wendy McEntyre

Public Safety Advocate Facebook.com/Wendy.McEntyre.5 www.JarrodsLaw.Org and my dear friend will join Monica RIchardson for a 30 min show on questions to ask when deciding on a rehab - IOP or Sober Living. We will break down what is Sober Living - IOP Inpatinet and What the heck is a non medical detox and who regualtes these places - or better yet - who doesnt regualte them - and why not? Over drug testing is a scam .

Join host -Monica Richardson  to discuss how to deprogram from AA and its thinking- From Chapter 5 from the Big Book of AA, the preamble, and the 12 traditions which are read at every meeting. Over and over again you listen to something that was written by one man in 1935- published in 1939. There were only 100 members. So why in 2019 are the same things read as if they are gospel? Are the things read the truth? Why do people just accept what is read as fact- when its not. Even the Catholic Church and Buddhism has updated their books over the past 50 years. Why doesn't AA ? Does AA think they are that special? Join us for a deep discussion about the how and whys of the AA Big Book readings. Monica Richardson a long time member left AA after 36 years in May of 2011. She knows how to deprogram.

Jim Breslo creator of The Hidden Truth Show joins Monica Richardson - host, creator of Podcast Safe Recovery and Filmmaker of The 13th Step discuss Jim's show on his deep dives into AA, The Las Vegas shooter, The Transgender Movement  and the failure of the Bullet Train in California  and much more.

Jim is a former civil rights attorney, public company president, and radio broadcaster.  He hosted the Jim Breslo Show late nights on KRLA 870 AM in Los Angeles and Casino Talk with Louie Anderson weekends on 97.1 Free FM in Los Angeles. Currently, he is host of the Hidden Truth Show and founder of RealKast, a new media company.  He has appeared as a legal expert on CNN, Fox, CRTV, KNX, KABC, KFI, and KRLA.   He recently gained acclaim for landing the first ever sit down interviews with Bruce Paddock, brother of the Las Vegas shooter, and Sophia Hutchins, the transgender partner of Caitlyn Jenner, on his Hidden Truth Show.

He was a partner at the international law firm Seyfarth Shaw, defending companies and individuals against alleged civil rights violations.  He left the firm to become President of Diamond Game, a publicly traded gaming company which provides lottery machines and tickets to numerous state lotteries in the US and Canada. Jim is the author of 12 patented inventions in the gaming space.

Jim graduated cum laude from the University of California, Irvine (where he was the voice of the Anteater basketball team and host of Freedom of Voice talk show on KUCI-FM), and received his law degree from Northwestern University, serving as an editor of the Law Review.

A show about the Addiction Treatment Industry- facts about how dangerous most  rehabs and sober livings can be - They are engaged in  the body brokering, illegal drug testing, insurance fraud and much more. With expert Danielle and host Monica Richardson we cover the basics in part 1.

Every day in California someone checks into a Sober Living. Some think they are going to get "treatment" . Some know all that is happening there is a bed and a roof over ones head. But if you are a vulnerable man or woman , some darker trades are happening below the surface. Sex Exploitation, trading sex for rent, and abusing power of AA "time" . Both Straight and gay persons are effected.  Join Monica RIchardson and Patrick Gavin Church for an indepth one hour interview.

In 2010, with seven years of struggle-free sobriety, Teresa knew that the traditional path of getting and living sober was not helping enough people. She auditioned for the Oprah Winfrey Network to create a show traveling the country to learn and share how others got and lived in recovery without twelve steps and alcoholics anonymous. Oprah didn’t call, but that didn’t stop her.

Teresa had hopped on her pink cloud and rode out of the rooms of alcoholics anonymous to save her sobriety and knew there had to be something she could do to help others.

In 2012, she founded Pink Cloud Coaching and started promoting, advocating, and coaching women to break free from the need to misuse alcohol without identifying as an alcoholic and become inspired to go after life-sober instead.

She has since published Wholly Sober – How I Stopped Thinking About Drinking and Started Loving My Life and ready to release her second book, The Primed Drinker in which she explores the idea that the current path of recovery is creating alcohol”ism” – a belief system that hinders more than it helps.

Today with over fifteen years of sobriety and has helped thousands of women through coaching, writing, speaking, and social media, Teresa is thrilled with the emerging scientific evidence that supports her philosophy and her work. https://www.pinkcloudcoaching.com/

Part 2 of rehab series on what to look for when sending a loved one to rehab or going there yourself.Daniel and Monica Richardson explore the pitfalls and dangers of 98 % of all rehab in the USA , and the UK . Make sure the rehab  is in a Commercial Zoned location .  Has a Doctor and nurse on location 24/7 if you need a detox from alcohol or Benzos.  ASK if it is based on 12 step or AA based. Stay away from AA / 12 step based rehabs. AA is based on 1935 religious conversion ideology. ASK FOR SMART RECOVERY, MAT and HARM Reduction  with CBT and Trained PhD's or MFCC so that you and your loved ones are treated by professionals and not ex addicts .

Maia Szalavitz is the author of the New York Times bestseller, Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction, which is widely recognized as an important advance in thinking about the nature of addiction and how to cope with it, personally and politically. Her book, Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids was the first to expose the damage caused by the “tough love” business that dominates adolescent addiction treatment. She has written for numerous publications from High Times to the New York Times, including TIME, the Washington Post, the Guardian, VICE, Scientific American, and the Atlantic— and she is author or co-author of five other books. With Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD, she co-wrote the classic work on child trauma, The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog and also Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential— And Endangered. She has won awards from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Drug Policy Alliance, the American Psychological Association and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology for her 30 years of groundbreaking writing on addiction, drug policy and neuroscience.

A  one hour show  with Monica Richardson and ex AA members calling in to tell us how and why they left. How were they treated. Why did they leave. Did they lose some freinds? Is life Better. Do we drink or not drink now. How can we change rehab riddled with 12 step "ism". How can we get Science and MAT to help those addicted and get religious ideolgy from 1935 out of treatment in america.  How can we get Hollywood to tell a non AA addiction story?

Join Host and Filmmaker Monica Richardson for a one hour show . Monica and an ex stepper Steve will talk about what  its like to leave AA after decades.