By Jim Jensen
The podcast currently has 4 episodes available.
In episode 48, I kick off my Women of Medical Cannabis podcast series with a candid, one-on-one, conversation with one of my all-time favorite people, Miss Teddi Jo Kohr.
Miss Teddi, as she likes to be called is a very unique, special, and colorful person both inside and out! She is impossible not to love.
I first met Miss Teddi several years ago when I was looking for people to create videos for a project that I was working on. Miss Teddi is an expert on the use of raw cannabis and so she created some amazing videos.
It was during this time that Miss Teddi went through a metamorphosis from a shy, insecure woman, fighting the many demons that robbed her of confidence, into an unstoppable force to be reckoned with.
And it all seem to happen in the blink of an eye. Miss Teddi is on a mission to educate and to share her love with everybody.
She is a gift to us all. If you have seen any of her videos or have visited her Facebook page then you already know what I’m talking about.
In this interview Miss Teddi share her story of abuse, drug-addiction, stroke, cancer and near-death experiences. Miss Teddi is very candid and vulnerable. She is undeniably human and beyond that a true survivor. Fasten your seat belt.
In this conversation Miss Teddi Talks about:High Sobriety embraces a revolutionary non-abstinence, harm-reduction, model for treatment where cannabis may be used as an exit drug from addiction as well as a treatment for many mental disorders.
February 1st, 2017 marks twenty years of abstinence from all intoxicating substances for Joe. While abstinence has proven to be the right direction for him, he doesn't believe it's the right thing for all people.
The High Sobriety TeamJoe's clinical training and experience have led him to believe that addiction treatment in its current form is inherently flawed and limited. Joe founded High Sobriety Treatment in 2017 as a response to the minimal choices for people who reject the idea that total abstinence in AA is the only valid path to recovery.
Joe has had a long career in helping people find their recovery. As a young man at USC, he treated his own depression with alcohol and avoidance.
Once sober, he returned to academia, studying clinical social work at Iona college and then he entered a masters program at the University of Illinois where his research was focused on college athletes with depression and alcohol abuse.
From there, Joe became a residential therapist at Promises in Malibu, California.
Returning to NYC, Joe founded Brooklyn’s Loft 107 Sober Living.
He also worked with the city and a community organization to establish the first recovery program in a NYC high school where he continues to serve as a board member.
Baffled by the lack of media coverage with an issue as dire as addiction, Joe founded TheFix.com which continues as the premiere source of news and information about addiction and recovery.
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In episode 13 I am very honored and excited to have as my guest Eloise Theisen MSN, RN, AGPCNP-BC, the founder of Green Health Consultants, a clinic dedicated to ensuring patients receive the qualified counseling they need to safely and effectively use cannabinoids to manage a health condition, treat an illness and reduce their intake of pharmaceuticals.
She and her team are compassionate, highly knowledgeable professionals that provide patients with phone, Skype, office and in-home counseling and individualized treatment plans developed in collaboration with dietitians and their patient's doctor.
Eloise started her career at John Muir Medical Center caring for patients suffering from a multitude of chronic conditions and from there worked her way up to management.
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Following that, her work with Aunt Zelda's and the American Cannabis Nurses Association gained her extensive knowledge of the Endocannabinoid system and how cannabis and cannibinoids can be used successfully to treat patients.
Eloise was a board director for the American Cannabis Nurses Association (2014-2016) where she helped develop a certification and credentialing training program for medical practitioners in cannabinoid therapeutics. She is also a member of the Americans for Safe Access Now and United Patients Group, working to help further legalize and destigmatize therapeutic cannabis therapy. She's a regular speaker at industry events and teaches classes at several universities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Eloise also provides education and training to other medical practitioners on the therapeutic potential of cannabis as a treatment option.
She has a Post Masters certification as an adult-Geratric nurse practitioner from University of Mass, Boston; an MSN in Nursing Administration from California State University; and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from San Francisco State University.
In episode nine, I have the honor of talking with Debbie Wilson PhD, a woman whose very life was saved by cannabis. She has been writing and sharing brain injury, epilepsy, and PTSD poems and prose for the past two decades.
Debbie is a 26 year survivor of multiple brain injuries which caused her to have severe epilepsy and post-traumatic stress disorder. She has clinically died multiple times and, as a result of consuming massive quantities of pharmaceuticals, she had literally lost everything…her health, her organs and her memory, and if it wasn't for her son, Cody, she would have been institutionalized.
Today Debbie is a brain injury and medical cannabis consultant with Noahs Ark Consulting and is successfully involved in a medical cannabis and epilepsy trials.
Debbie's story is tragic, heartbreaking, infuriating and ultimately inspirational and triumphant. It is my great honor to present to you this 2-part series in which Debbie shares her full, intimate story. This interview affected me very deeply. You need to hear this.
In Part I Debbie talks about:The podcast currently has 4 episodes available.