Why Intervention Podcast

Christopher and Danny talk about what we can do to support our loved ones when they're in treatment. What's next? Check it out in this episode!

The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and interviews people who have gone through recovery.

Links and Resources from this Episode

• https://whyintervention.com/
• https://twitter.com/whyintervention
• https://www.facebook.com/whyintervention/?ref=br_rs

Show Notes

• The experience of being in treatment - 2:55
• When someone is going to treatment - 4:30
• What treatment needs to look like - 9:28
• What do we need to be prepared for - 10:24
• Sending someone to treatment - 12:53
• What actions to take - 25:16
• Changes taking place everywhere - 26:25
• One of the benefits of having an interventionist - 37:47
• The emotional regulation takes time - 42:42
• Being concerned for your loved one - 53:55
• Things to avoid coming out of treatment - 59:44
• The gradual process of recovery - 1:06:00

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Christopher talks with Eric Paskin, Founder and Managing Partner of Restore Health and Wellness, which is one of the premier addiction rehabilitation facilities located in Los Angeles, California. It delivers residential therapeutic services, in an alcohol and drug-free environment, to adult men and women, ages 18 and older.

The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and interviews people who have gone through recovery.

Links and Resources from this Episode

• https://whyintervention.com/
• https://twitter.com/whyintervention
• https://www.facebook.com/whyintervention/?ref=br_rs
• Connect with Eric Paskin
• https://www.restorecenterla.com/

Show Notes

• It's always a good time to have a child - 3:10
• Focus on work - 6:10
• Being homeless - 7:00
• The business of addiction treatment - 11:15
• His definition of recovery - 15:30
• It's really easy when you're in treatment - 18:10
• Drugs saved his life - 37:52
• What recovery is - 38:45
• Intervention is a long process - 41:35
• Getting sober is hard work - 43:08
• One of the real gifts of recovery - 46:27
• Gratitude lists - 48:05
• Quality over quantity - 49:09

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Chris and Danny share a unique, detailed perspective on the various ways your loved one's addiction makes you feel guilty, why it's so important to free yourself from guilt, and how to stay off the emotional roller coaster ride for good.

The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and interviews people who have gone through recovery.

Links and Resources from this Episode

• https://whyintervention.com/
• https://twitter.com/whyintervention
• https://www.facebook.com/whyintervention/?ref=br_rs

Show Notes

• What they have seen regarding guilt - 2:11
• Parents feel guilty - 5:28
• What to do to not feel guilt - 7:16
• Are you expecting to solve addiction? - 13:43
• This is bigger than you - 20:28
• Feeling guilty about mistakes made - 34:31
• How powerful is a recovery story - 44:31
• You need to take ownership for the mistakes that you have made - 50:16
• Your loved one that struggles with addiction may be in pain - 51:08
• Addiction is not your fault as a parent - 54:46

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Michael Wilson CIP, President of Baystate Recovery Services, Creator of the Family Focused Intervention Model, and Author of Loving Lions: A Guide for Families Struggling with Addiction, sits down with Chris to discuss impressive new ways to help your addicted loved one.

The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and interviews people who have gone through recovery.

Links and Resources from this Episode

• https://whyintervention.com/
• https://twitter.com/whyintervention
• https://www.facebook.com/whyintervention/?ref=br_rs
• Connect with Michael Wilson
• https://baystaterecovery.com
• https://www.lovinglions.com/
• [email protected]

Show Notes

• Having a passion to work with families - 1:42
• Helping a loved one - 5:24
• People do not know what they need - 6:27
• An intervention as an opportunity - 7:40
• Going to detox and stop using drugs - 15:41
• Offering an opportunity for hope - 22:45
• Working with your loved one for 90 days - 26:56
• Focusing on the addicted loved one - 30:27
• Modifying the intervention process - 36:17
• Working in a business where not everybody survives - 49:21
• Having access to people that can help your loved one - 57:00

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How, when, and why your loved one became addicted… this is the topic that Chris and Danny will talk about today. They share their perspective on this important topic.

The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and interviews people who have gone through recovery.

Links and Resources from this Episode

• https://whyintervention.com/
• https://twitter.com/whyintervention
• https://www.facebook.com/whyintervention/?ref=br_rs Show Notes
• Discovering your life's purpose - 3:25
• Getting ready to go out - 7:01
• People that end with an addiction - 11:02
• How, when and why - 15:16
• What you're going to hear in the first three meetings - 20:18
• Handling a difficult situation - 24:07
• Miraculous transformations that take place - 25:22
• Having different types of conversations - 27:34
• Chris and Danny giving their experience - 31:24
• How people with addictions become addicts - 36:02
• His solution for every single problem in his life - 41:15
• What enables alcohol and drugs - 44:32
• Families that blame themselves - 49:19
• Who do we need to call for help - 58:02

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Angela shares her experience with helping families and her personal story of recovery from alcoholism.

The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and interviews people who have gone through recovery.

Links and Resources from this Episode

• https://whyintervention.com/
• https://twitter.com/whyintervention
• https://www.facebook.com/whyintervention/?ref=br_rs
• Connect with Angela Pugh
• https://www.angelapugh.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-pugh/
• https://www.angelapugh.com/instagram.com/angela_pugh_

Show Notes

• How she describes alcoholism - 1:02
• Not being stronger than the alcoholism - 1:49
• When an intervention is appropriate - 5:49
• Intervention is strategy - 6:31
• Intervention means "step in" - 8:20
• Get somebody involved in a treatment process - 9:36
• A chronic alcoholic - 15:27
• Not having issues before - 17.28
• What made her stop after the accident - 17:50
• Going home after the accident - 25:04
• "Drinking one last time" - 27:17
• The first meeting she went through - 31:04
• Hating the person she had become - 40:45
• Her intervention business - 52:02
• Where's the challenge? - 56:31

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Chris and Danny discuss the one problem families need to solve- the real problem of "I don't have a problem."

The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and interviews people who have gone through recovery.

Links and Resources from this Episode

• https://whyintervention.com/
• https://twitter.com/whyintervention
• https://www.facebook.com/whyintervention/?ref=br_rs
• https://www.samhsa.gov/data/report/2019-nsduh-annual-national-report

Show Notes

• Convincing yourself that you do not have a problem - 2:15
• Not believing that you have a problem - 5:33
• The U.S. drug policy - 9:18
• The big statistic families need to know - 14:13
• One of three families are impacted by addiction - 17:08
• Why addicts and alcoholics die - 19:12
• Dealing with an addict or alcoholic - 24:09
• The problem that intervention solves - 26:00
• Starting to get back control - 35:07
• It needs to be a "family-centered approach" - 42:21
• We need a different approach - 43:39
• The frustration that families feel much of the time - 53:11

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Dr. Adena is a pharmacist, researcher, and mother. She shares her professional experience as well as her personal story with helping an addicted loved one with other disorders.

The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and interviews people who have gone through recovery.

Links and Resources from this Episode

• https://whyintervention.com/
• https://twitter.com/whyintervention
• https://www.facebook.com/whyintervention/?ref=br_rs
• Connect with Dr. Adena
• [email protected]
• https://drugfreemovement.com/
• https://drugfree.org/
• https://motivationandchange.com/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-adena-pharmacist-93136537/

Show Notes

• Dr. Adena's background - 1:13
• The opioid crisis - 2:00
• Opioids and heroin - 4:11
• Trying methadone - 6:50
• Make sure you're taking care of yourself - 9:11
• What it takes to recover from addiction - 13:56
• Her piece of advice - 15:42
• Feeling the unconditional love from God - 21:14
• Reaching out to God - 22:19
• Wanting to help your loved one - 24:07
• A story about a loved one that was using drugs - 27:39
• Keeping the love and having forgiveness - 29:19
• Having bipolar disorder - 34:35
• Her experience being a coach - 43:46
• Finding one on one coaching and helpful tools - 44:01
• What is our biggest fear as a family member - 46:00
• Helping families feel supported - 57:09

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Chris and Danny discuss ways to overcome various forms of manipulation, where it's all stemming from, and why there's still hope for transformation and the biggest gaslight of them all.

The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and interviews people who have gone through recovery.

Links and Resources from this Episode

• https://whyintervention.com/
• https://twitter.com/whyintervention
• https://www.facebook.com/whyintervention/?ref=br_rs
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Qixc77KhCo88E5muxUjmA

Show Notes

• What's gaslighting? - 2:04
• A narcissistic disorder - 5:10
• Learning about narcissism with Dr. Ramani Youtube Channel - 10:55
• A real big challenge to overcome - 12:26
• A word to protect what you're doing - 15:53
• An addicted person has to lie - 17:02
• This is what addiction looks like - 18:11
• When it comes to addiction, transformation is possible - 36:46
• How transformation is possible - 39:33
• Tools of manipulation being used against you - 53:13

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Christopher interviewed Jessica Lahey. Jess shares her research and expertise in her new book helping to prevent addiction in young people. This is so needed, now more than ever. And it's everything Chris wants every family to know before a loved one's substance use gets out of control. So they might as well learn it now before they even start using substances.

Here are some of her book's testimonials: - "Substance abuse is a complex topic, but Lahey separates myth from reality in this deeply researched resource for parents and educators. As a therapist, I know I will be recommending her book to many families for years to come." -- Lori Gottlieb, New York Times bestselling author of Maybe You Should Talk To Someone

- "The Addiction Inoculation is a vital look into best practices parenting. Writing as a teacher, a mother, and, as it happens, a recovering alcoholic, Lahey's stance is so compassionate, her advice so smart, any and all parents will benefit from her hard-won wisdom." -- Peggy Orenstein, author of Girls & Sex and Boys & Sex

- "Hard and tremendously important conversations are at the core of The Addiction Inoculation. But thanks to Jessica Lahey's wit, compassion, and beautiful writing, reading it feels like having those conversations with your most entertaining friend who also happens to be an expert in substance abuse research, education, and child development." -- David Epstein, author of Range and The Sports Gene

The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and interviews people who have gone through recovery.

Links and Resources from this Episode

• https://whyintervention.com/
• https://twitter.com/whyintervention
• https://www.facebook.com/whyintervention/?ref=br_rs
• Connect with Jessica Lahey
• https://www.jessicalahey.com/

Show Notes

• Why Chris started the Why Intervention Podcast - 1:44
• About substance abuse - 2:52
• Places to send kids - 4:10
• The stories people often share - 8:02
• Recovery for young adults is so difficult - 8:45
• Being loved - 11:51
• Getting into recovery - 13:45
• Look at the stories behind the research - 14:57
• Not understanding the consequences of the actions - 23:04
• Friends supporting you in sobriety - 27:08
• Moderate drinking - 30:05
• The book under the hands of parents - 31:00
• Substance abuse prevention programs in schools - 34:27
• We have to help kids find the answers themselves - 39:32
• The prescription of opioids - 46:16
• What an alcoholic looks like - 52:23
• Maintaining denial - 56:09

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