Why Intervention Podcast

Chris and Danny share the stories of how their mothers were instrumental in getting them sober. You can apply these same ideas to help your loved one. Thank you to all mothers that are always there for us, Happy Mothers Day!

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 power of Mothers - 2:20
• Circumstances are context-specific - 6:56
• Mothers playing an integral role - 7:18
• Having a lot of things to feed the addiction - 8:11
• Moving your loved one in a direction of getting help - 9:43
• It's difficult to deal with people with an active addiction - 13:03
• How Christopher's mom helped him with his addiction - 17:13
• An intervention is a solution for a person in active addiction - 20:01
• Having intervention conversations with people - 22:35
• Interviewing in a drug problem - 29:14
• Setting the baseline - 34:41
• Why treatment is necessary - 38:12
• An unwinnable battle - 45:17
• Keeping ourselves calm - 49:00
• What makes intervention so special - 50:40
• Another giant misconception - 57:48
• Giving support and mindfulness - 1:03:09
• Raising awareness about the intervention process - 1:07:38
• Happy Mothers Day! - 1:09:00

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Chris talks with Archie Messersmith-Bunting. Their conversation is focused on the struggles families go through while attempting to help addicted loved ones. Also, in this episode, Archie has an intervention epiphany.

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 Archie Messersmith-Bunting
• https://archiecares.com/

Show Notes

• The saver-role - 2:56
• Challenging the current paradigm - 5:17
• A misunderstanding about addiction - 5:54
• Taking care of ourselves - 8:14
• His second rehab - 8:58
• People in recovery and the first time they went to a meeting - 15:37
• Chris' first day in recovery - 18:35
• Deciding to get help - 19:18
• Meetings at the churches - 20:48
• Excuses that we came up with - 29:30
• The reason why he overdosed - 31:29
• Mental illness and addiction - 43:28
• Words that are uncomfortable to say to someone - 46:43
• Denial is part of the process - 48:22
• The difference with a person with addiction - 49:10
• What's the scary part? - 49:54

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Chris and Danny discuss misconceptions and new perspectives about hitting the bottom.

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 idea around hitting bottom - 1:19
• What happens when someone hits bottom - 2:11
• When they experience severe consequences, it's when they realize they need help - 4:05
• Taking care of the problem - 12:30
• Being in the mindset of an intervention - 14:42
• What an intervention does - 19:29
• Consequences will continue - 24:44
• Breaking through the denial - 35:45
• Trying to be helpful - 50:41
• There's plenty that we can do - 52:03
• What addiction is - 52:56

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Leah Lamarr is an actress, writer, and stand-up comedian, currently based in Los Angeles. She shares how her al-anon experience transformed her life. Leah describes so many of the personal behaviors and difficult emotions families with addicted loved ones struggle with and how she mastered them.

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 Leah Lamarr
• http://www.leahlamarr.com/
• https://al-anon.org/
• https://www.instagram.com/leahlamarr/?hl=en
• [email protected]

Show Notes

• Growing up in Queens - 1:15
• Joining the stand-up community - 4:05
• How she wanted to be perceived - 5:50
• Having friends that wanted to get better - 9:45
• Alcoholism is a family disease - 12:07
• Resistant to therapy - 14:35
• Her greatest strength - 18:41
• Learning how to love - 23:32
• A very intense spiritual program - 27:23
• Freedom is priceless - 31:08
• Getting help sooner - 36:57
• Her relationship with her parents and how it had changed over the years - 39:57
• Healing the hurt - 43:54

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Chris and Danny discuss what denial is more like when it comes to addiction (delusion), what prevents you from admitting that your loved one has a problem and why it's so important to be honest.

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.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/aces/index.html

• Show Notes
• Experience with denial - 1:24
• Being in detox is a unique experience - 4:11
• The consequences of drug use - 11:03
• Trying to self-detox - 11:45
• Their experience with denial - 13:14
• Denial is very simple: lie to me - 14:16
• What's going on in active addiction - 16:11
• What happens if you're not identifying addition - 16:42
• Someone has to admit that there is an addiction problem - 17:55
• Having a substance abuse problem - 25:35
• Their first time in detox - 28:36
• Realizing the severity of the issue - 35:21
• Denial and delusion - 37:36
• The delusion with the truth - 38:56
• We're here to help you with your addiction - 40:13
• Misconceptions that addiction brings - 45:32
• The answer is intervention - 48:32
• Understanding addiction - 49:32

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Scott shares his recovery journey, his addiction struggles, and his movement with The Phoenix. If you're in recovery from substance use disorder and have the desire to live sober, The Phoenix will help you find strength and a new community of friends to support your journey.

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 Scott Strode
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• https://thephoenix.org/

• Show Notes
• A day in Scott's life - 1:19
• The impact he is making - 3:08
• A big moment for Scott - 6:10
• How The Phoenix got started - 6:46
• Recovery is possible - 7:28
• What the intervention process is all about - 7:58
• When he first started to drink - 11:09
• Identifying who is who - 15:22
• Normalizing the abnormal circumstances - 17:37
• Feeling emotions entirely - 19:46
• Own version of denial - 22:15
• Having innovative approaches - 25:15
• Transforming people's understanding - 27:24
• Being a recovery community - 28:38
• Staying sober - 34:19
• There's more than drinking and using - 36:11
• Keep trying different things - 39:21
• Feeling a kind of fulfillment - 40:22
• Moving your body resets the brain chemistry - 42:23
• The science behind you - 44:12
• Continuing to fight - 46:07
• Having virtual programs - 50:54
• What's important on the recovery journey - 53:52

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Do you want to know why recovery is so hard? Chris and Danny talk about recovery challenges from treatment to long-term sobriety.

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://lovefirst.net/

Show Notes

• Mental health challenges with the pandemic - 1:49
• Everyone is exhausted - 5:01
• A very difficult year due to covid and substance abuse - 6:27
• Many people looking for help - 8:47
• Why is recovery so hard? - 9:38
• The place matters - 11:04
• Having expectations when it comes to recovery - 12:36
• The environmental shift - 18:28
• A long-term commitment - 22:42
• Establishing new rules - 24:53
• A losing game - 26:59
• Staying away long-term - 32:06
• Detoxing a person - 32:46
• Alcohol and drugs work faster than recovery - 34:50
• Recovery - 36:12
• Recovery needs to be a priority - 37:04
• How to react and how to behave - 38:00
• This is just the beginning - 38:43
• Why intervention exists - 40:43
• You have to realize the severity of the problem - 47:55
• The sooner you take action, the better - 49:58
• There's no better source than the family - 54:16

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Chris and Tim discuss his story and talk shop around intervention cases, particularly young people with addictions.

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 Tim Ryan
• [email protected]
• https://dopetohope.com/ Show Notes
• We have to do something for our addicted loved one - 1:52
• Recovery is awesome - 2:38
• Persons that do not want to go to treatment - 3:34
• Being a tornado of destruction - 4:11
• The first time he tried cocaine - 5:10
• Calling the rehab - 5:56
• Being 14 months sober - 10:36
• Having 8 overdoses - 11:21
• Having a drug problem - 12:57
• Getting divorced when he was in prison - 18:57
• His son's death - 22:52
• The system of recovery - 24:44
• Changing people's places and things - 27:18
• A driver's license is a privilege - 29:07
• People don't care about you in this game - 31:32
• What's the deal with the intervention process - 34:51
• Doing an intervention - 36:15
• Where do you want to go with your loved one - 38:27
• He does interventions with his wife - 40:09
• The challenges now during the pandemic - 47:57

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Danny and Christopher answer the above question for families who have a loved one newly in recovery, and cover it from different angles, adding other scenarios. They discuss what's behind the desire to have a couple of drinks at all. How to handle the worry and concern of this question being raised.

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://palgroup.org/
• https://www.familiesanonymous.org/
• https://al-anon.org/

Show Notes

• A question that families often ask - 1:50
• Understanding the addiction - 4:16
• Keeping you sober - 6:31
• Wanting to get help - 9:11
• What happens at St. Patrick's Day - 9:44
• Drugs destruct a life much faster - 10:19
• Telling somebody the truth - 11:29
• The severity of addiction in general - 12:00
• Alcohol use disorder - 13:53
• How every story starts - 18:03
• Doing something when you know that you're now going to stop - 23:53
• How we tell families "That's a bad idea" - 25:11
• Discussing it with the intervention team - 26:53
• Why intervention is so important - 30:58
• Going to a treatment program - 31:55
• Drinking and using drugs in the past - 38:19

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Chris interviewed Dr. Joan Rosenberg, facing eight unpleasant feelings and how her work helps families with addicted loved ones. Joan I. Rosenberg, Ph.D., creator of Emotional Mastery™ and Emotional Mastery Training™, is a highly regarded expert psychologist, master clinician, trainer, and consultant. As a cutting-edge psychologist who is known as an innovative thinker, trainer, and speaker, Joan has shared her life-changing ideas and models for emotional mastery, change, and personal growth in professional and educational seminars, psychotherapy sessions, and graduate psychology teaching.

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. Joan Rosenberg
• [email protected]
• https://drjoanrosenberg.com/

• Show Notes
• Being glad to serve and help people - 2:03
• How she would describe her work - 2:48
• The unpleasant feelings - 3:46
• Being shy as a kid - 5:42
• Dealing with unpleasant feelings - 8:09
• Being aware - 10:15
• The eight unpleasant feelings - 17:18
• One of the biggest challenges of people with addiction - 21:17
• Having unpleasant feelings that you do not want to feel - 23:44
• Helping your loved one - 27:30
• Taking action - how "doing" can make a difference - 29:17
• The benefits of speaking up - 34:32
• Maintaining a level of awareness - 40:19
• Facing shame - 50:40
• Talking about self-compassion - 52:01
• Get in touch with Dr. Joan Rosenberg - 56:38

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