This Life #YOULIVE with Dr. Drew

Simonetta Lien joins Dr. Drew and Shelly Sprague to discuss her life as a model, fashion influencer, writer, social worker and founder of The Wishwall Foundation, which allows people from across the world to post their deepest wish or desire on the website’s “Wishwall.”  She tells how it came about, and created an Amazon TV show that turns wishes into incredible dreams come true. Ranked Top 100 Fashion Influencer and Millennial Activist, this woman gets things done. Find her on Instagram and Twitter: @simonettalein Top 100 Fashion Influencer-Author-Official of @yec and thewishwall.org. #YOULIVE

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Happy Mothers make happy kids. Celebrity Rehab's Addiction Specialist Shelly Sprague returns as co-host toad up with Teen Mom OG Mother of two Amber Portwood, on this Mother's Day 2019!  The topic today is spousal abuse and how Amber overcame addiction and anger management issues after turning herself in and using the prison system as a way out.  She is thriving today as a motivational speaker, and continues to still live in the limelight of the Teen Mom Franchise as a sober adult.  Drew's wife Susan talks about her difficult history of spousal abuse. Go to drdrew.com for more on this topic.

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Marquis - Actor - Musician - SiriusXM host Michael Des Barres joins This Life to talk Glam Rock and touring in the 70's, growing up in English Boarding schools, performing for over a billion people at Live Aid,  and how he's been able to maintain sobriety for over 30 years. #YOULIVE

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Award winning author of Beautiful Boy, David Sheff, talks with Dr. Drew about his book (now in movie form) and the exciting experience being in the celebrity spotlight.  He updates us about his son, Nic (36 and sober for nine years), with whom he creates educational books for parents and their kids.  Drew and David talk about the experience of fathering an addict and the personal challenges he’s faced along the way. #YOULIVE

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Author / podcast host of Old School Patriot, Lt. Col (Ret.) Allen B West is a conservative, combat veteran, and former Member of the US Congress. Bob, Drew and the Colonel chat about the problems with media, raising kids today and the difference between a 26 year old of 1836 and present day Millennials coping skills. Bob and Drew get in a fight over history, and and move on to talk about the current veteran issue of PTSD, Opiates and suicide and how the to address this problem.     

 

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Pamela Des Barres, famous groupie and best-selling author of “I’m With The Band,” has toured and been intimate with the best of them.  Des Barres, a familiar face on the Sunset Strip in the 1960s, befriended and dated multiple rock stars, including Mick Jagger, Keith Moon, Jimmy Page, Jim Morrison and Waylon Jennings, to name a few.  Pamela was also a live-in governess for Frank Zappa's children! In 1977, Pamela married Michael Des Barres of the bands Detective, Silverhead. Pamela was known for her beauty, her captivating personality, and openness to loving any and all rock stars and their music. Bob and Drew relive her life story and listen as she talks candidly about Jim Morrison and her feelings about Elvis Presley. Go to PamelaDesBarres.com for her latest projects. #YOULIVE 

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Gaby Juergens, a phenomenal woman of amazing dedication to military families. As a recent stage 3 cancer survivor, she is an advocate for military families working to change a law that leaves former military spouses like herself vulnerable to loss of benefits after a breakup after 27 years of marriage. Inspired by her life as a military daughter and wife, Gaby founded Homefront Girl, a line of products that pays tribute to "the other half of the Brave," (military spouses and children). She shares her life story and intimate details of her survival. #YOULIVE

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Dr. Drew and co-host Simone Bienne (a psychosocial and relationship therapist) chat with Dr. Jonathan N. Stea, a clinical psychologist who recently published two articles about cannabis use and mental health in Scientific American.  He’s here to answer all of your questions about CBD and THC, including: Does cannabis addiction really exist?  Does cannabis calm anxiety or make it worse?  Is there a placebo effect with cannabis and healing? What is the one thing that determines if using cannabis becomes harmful to you? #YOULIVE @jonathanstea

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After losing his left leg to cancer at age eight, Zach Gowan went on to become the first one-legged professional wrestler in history.  At nineteen, he signed a three-year contract with the World Wrestling Entertainment and was featured prominently on their television program, Smackdown!  Formerly addicted to drugs and alcohol, he recently celebrated nine years of sobriety, and describes his immediate love of alcohol as a kid and how it evolved.  Then, as a treat, therapist Simone Bienne stops by to help answer some email questions with Dr. Drew and Bob Forrest. #YOULIVE  This episode is sponsored by Select CBD.

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Photographer, filmmaker Mike Carano returns to talk about life after losing his sister Nicki in a freak accident three years ago.  Devastated by the loss of the person who held his somewhat dysfunctional family together, Mike relies on humor to deal with his own mental issues and to get through life one day at a time. This episode is sponsored by Select CBD.

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