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Coming Up for Air - Families Speak to Families about Addiction
Kayla checks in with Annie Highwater, a regular contributor to our blog, about ways that CRAFT and Allies in Recovery's member site have changed her as a person.Is your Loved One struggling with addiction? Allies in Recovery's online program can help. You'll learn a powerful, evidence-based approach to improve your wellbeing and that of other family members. Allies in Recovery provides the strategy, words, and actions a family needs to successfully move their Loved One with addiction toward stopping substance misuse/addiction. Allies in Recovery also teaches families to navigate the world of addiction and recovery, including working towards engaging a Loved One into care and treatment. The program trains families to be effective participants in the journey to wellness for a Loved One with addiction. Let's get you on the road to becoming an ally! Visit alliesinrecovery.netTo learn more about Annie Highwater, you can check her out on FB, listen to her podcast "The Unhooked Podcast", or check out her books, Unhooked and Unbroken.
Coming Up for Air - Families Speak to Families about Addiction
(20 min 5 sec) Dominique interviews Annie Highwater on her journey to her current vocation Annie speaks of the feelings of craziness and chaos she grew up in: "When life feels hopeless and you feel like everyone around you is losing their mind... I was so surrounded by it, I never saw a way out!" She speaks of the peer support work she does now, and shares a message of hope that comes from her own lived experience: "Recovery is a beautiful thing, and it's possible for any family." She talks about her own journey to healing: "I started noticing that the more peaceful I was, the calmer the situation would be." Annie's enthusiasm is catching, and her journey is inspiring. Tune in! Join our Member Site today to take full advantage of Allies in Recovery’s program, including 8 video modules, three blogs, and dialogue with experts in the fields of treatment and recovery. Learn more @ alliesinrecovery.net Membership is FREE during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Coming Up for Air - Families Speak to Families about Addiction
In today's episode of Coming Up for Air, Annie Highwater focuses on peer support. She interviews Brian Bailys, Thrive CEO and creator of Ascent. Ascent - Regain Control is a patient support mobile app designed to help people in recovery walk the path to sobriety. Ascent also is an in-person peer recovery coaching service and an emergency room peer support service. Listen in to learn more about peer recovery coaching and Thrive Peer Support. Learn more about Thrive @ thrivepeersupport.org Check out the Ascent - Regain Control app here or get in touch hello@ascent-program.com Warmest thanks you to Annie for her inspiring words, her dedication and her enthusiasm. Click here for more Coming Up for Air episodes. Join our Member Site today to take full advantage of Allies in Recovery’s program, including 8 video modules, three blogs, and dialogue with experts in the fields of treatment and recovery. Learn more @ alliesinrecovery.net Membership is FREE during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Coming Up for Air - Families Speak to Families about Addiction
Columbus, Ohio. Allies in Recovery contributor and acclaimed writer Annie Highwater meets with some of Heartland High's key staff members, making for an uplifting and heartfelt Coming Up for Air episode! In today's episode, School Director Dr. Paige Stewart and Student Engagement Coordinator Jennifer Belemu describe Heartland High's ground-breaking approach based on individualized learning, kindness and compassion. Listen in to learn more about how Heartland students in recovery manage to rekindle hope as well as regain self-confidence and dignity. heartlandhighschool.org anniehighwater.com Warmest thanks to Annie for her inspiring words, her dedication and her enthusiasm. Click here for more Coming Up for Air episodes. Join our Member Site today to take full advantage of Allies in Recovery’s program, including 8 video modules, three blogs, and dialogue with experts in the fields of treatment and recovery. Learn more @ alliesinrecovery.net Membership is FREE during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Coming Up for Air - Families Speak to Families about Addiction
In this episode of Coming Up for Air, Annie Highwater and Katie Donovan share thoughts about how their children's active addiction affected their whole family. Invested to help their kids overcome addiction, they both questionned their own behaviors, only to grow, heal and become stronger women, mothers, and individuals. amothersaddictionjourney.com anniehighwater.com Join our Member Site today to take full advantage of Allies in Recovery’s program, including 8 video modules, three blogs, and dialogue with experts in the fields of treatment and recovery. Learn more @ alliesinrecovery.net Membership is FREE during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This episode will feature a conversation with author, writer, podcaster, and recovery enthusiast, Annie Highwater. She has two books available currently on Amazon. The first is called Unhooked: A Mother's Story of Unhitching from the Roller Coaster of Her Son's Addiction. The second is named Unbroken: Navigating the Madness of Family Dysfunction, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Heartache. We touch on these subjects and more.For More Content: Visit humbleumedia.com Search @humbleumedia on Twitter, Instagram, or Youtube.If you are interested in becoming a guest, please email info@humbleumedia.com
Annie Highwater is a Writer, Speaker, Podcast Host and Family Advocate. She has a particular interest in family pathology and concepts of dysfunction, addiction, alcoholism and conflict. Annie published her memoir, Unhooked: A Mother's Story of Unhitching from the Roller Coaster of Her Son's Addiction, in 2016.Annie's Mission: There are more people affected by addiction than addicted. My mission is to promote healthy dialogue and to offer support, information and hope to the stressed out, affected family, partners and friends (the “entourage”) of those in the grips of addiction, alcoholism and SUD. I believe no one should have to go through it alone.https://www.facebook.com/AnnieUnhooked/https://anchor.fm/annie-highwaterhttp://anniehighwater.com/about/https://www.amazon.com/Annie-Highwater/e/B01M7RVC7D%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_shareOther than being known as "Elliot's Mom," Annie Highwater is a long distance runner, health and wellness advocate and a fanatical researcher of behavioral science, family pathology and concepts of dysfunction and conflict. Annie resides in Columbus, Ohio where she has worked in the insurance industry. She also enjoys writing, yoga and visiting her son in Southern California as often as possible.
In this episode, I chat with Annie about her son's drug addiction that started when he was just a Junior in High School. Annie's own mother fed into her son's addiction by covering for him, keeping secrets for him and even taking him to get pills. This episode is a mother's perspective on her child's drug abuse and the great lengths Annie went to to investigate and prevent his addiction from going any further.
Coming Up for Air - Families Speak to Families about Addiction
In this episode (Part 1 of a 2-part series), Annie Highwater speaks with Lisa Bond, RB and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Specialist about the DBT method of treatment. DBT is found to be efficient and highly effective for those experiencing emotional distress, conflict issues, borderline personality, suicidal ideation, C-PTSD, trauma and addiction. Listen to this conversation to learn how DBT can help children, teens or adults, in all sorts of situations. Join our Member Site today to take full advantage of Allies in Recovery’s program, including 8 video learning modules, three blogs, and dialogue with experts in the field of treatment and recovery. Learn more here: https://alliesinrecovery.net/
In this short clip, I shared the CliffsNotes version of my family's experience with addiction and mental health. This presentation was with Peace UMC. We are six years into our recovery journey, the memories almost seem like someone else's story. We've come so far, more than a million miles! That's possible for anyone. There is hope for any family to rise from the depths of addiction, despair and dysfunction. (Note: the episode will end just before the Q & A with those in attendance.) Check out my families story in Unhooked! Read about our recovery journey in Unbroken! Follow me Annie Highwater, Recovery Writer on Facebook!
Coming Up for Air - Families Speak to Families about Addiction
Not only will you learn what Laurie hankers for that is both sweet and salty, or why other drivers are likely to honk at Annie in her car, but in this new podcast episode, you will hear your Coming Up for Air hosts as never before. You will learn more about their motivations for why they do the work they do, hear what they envisioned for their lives (or didn't) as children, and learn about their visions for a society that does a better job addressing the issues of addiction. You'll also hear an interesting exploration of self-care — why is there so much resistance across the board? Allies in Recovery's Content Editor, Isabel Cooney, invites Laurie MacDougall and Annie Highwater to spend half an hour in the guest seats! Join our Member Site today to take full advantage of Allies in Recovery’s program, including 8 video learning modules, three blogs, and dialogue with experts in the field of treatment and recovery. Learn more here. http://alliesinrecovery.net/#benefits
Coming Up for Air - Families Speak to Families about Addiction
Regardless the holidays or traditions you observe, this time of year can be trying, triggering and even traumatic. In this special holiday podcast, Laurie MacDougall and Annie Highwater take apart the often looming, overwhelming effect of "the Holidays" - from how our own expectations affect reality, what role nostalgia plays, how honest we are about those in our entourage who are struggling with SUD, and the heavy duty emotions that often come up for many of us during this time, this conversation will allow you to look at the holiday season from a different angle. A membership at Allies in Recovery brings you into contact with experts in the fields of recovery and treatment for drug and alcohol issues. Our learning platform introduces you to CRAFT and guides you through the best techniques for unblocking the situation. Together we will move your loved one towards recovery. Learn more here. http://alliesinrecovery.net/#_benefits
Coming Up for Air - Families Speak to Families about Addiction
This episode focuses on lying. It is well known that SUD often ushers in lies and more lies. Annie Highwater and Laurie MacDougall explore the phenomenon of lying, digging back into their own childhoods and trying to identify the roots of lying in adulthood. They look at how we, as the entourage of someone with SUD, can approach the fact of being lied to. We may not be able to prevent someone from lying, but we can learn how not to be thrown off or trapped in the net. Finally, they address the reality that many families are tempted to create their own web of lies in order to protect their Loved One struggling with addiction. Listen in! A membership at Allies in Recovery brings you into contact with experts in the fields of recovery and treatment for drug and alcohol issues. Our learning platform introduces you to CRAFT and guides you through the best techniques for unblocking the situation. Together we will move your loved one towards recovery. Learn more here. Visit alliesinrecovery.net/ for more information, to sign up for Module 1 for free, or to join today!
Annie Highwater joins us today on The SHAIR Podcast. Annie is the author of Unhooked: A Mother's Story of Unhitching from the Roller Coaster of Her Son's Addiction. This memoir follows the experiences of one mother who started her own life in a neglected home and came to realize how those experiences both helped and hindered the hardest, most heartbreaking, yet illuminating changes of her life, her son's addiction to opiates. "I am the mother of an addict. I'm in recovery as much as my addicted son is in recovery.” Annie learns to understand that her own dysfunctional family upbringing influences her reactions. She is a fighter, never gives up, and digs deep into her past's successful and unsuccessful strategies, including finding several treatment centers, the good and the disappointing ones. She sets boundaries, enlists resources, and finally moves through her life with determination and acceptance. As the country struggles to address the issues of the rampant epidemic of opiate abuse and addiction, this story is especially relevant in helping us all understand the personal challenges facing parents and family members and how family dynamics both help and hinder the recovery process. This is a short read designed to help families in recovery and open up conversations.
Dreem2Reality Entertainment proudly presents the Think Tank Podcast, pre-recorded from the D2R Studios! On today's show: Joining Ryan in studio is Dave, and on the phone, their special guest Annie Highwater! Annie is an author of a book entitled "Unhooked" which releases today nationwide and can be bought on Amazon by clicking through the sponsorship banner at www.theareaman.com. Annie's book is about her son's addiction and how she as well as her son got unhooked and made it through recovery. She discusses coming from a long line of addiction, The Elliot Effect, going to your happy place, addiction being generational and a disease, the 90 second rule, chemical flushing, the 3 C's, hating cliche's, accountability, her favorite word: equanimity, advice for other families in the struggle, studying behavioral science, the underlying boxing tones to the book, and having hope. Annie has several upcoming book signings in Oregon and California and you can find out more about her by going to her Facebook page www.facebook.com/AnnieUnhooked. It's also Annie's birthday today, so while you're on her page, wish her a Happy Birthday. Happy Birthday Annie and thanks for telling your story on the show! Please SUBSCRIBE to the D2R Podcast Network on iTunes and don't forget to RATE and REVIEW while you're there. Or, find the D2R Podcast Network on Stitcher or the Podbean app. Just simply download the app to your device and search: D2R PODCAST NETWORK and subscribe! It's really that easy. If you enjoy listening to the Think Tank Podcast, then SPREAD THE WORD to everyone you know. Your word of mouth is our BEST advertising method and we truly appreciate your support! Thanks for listening and SHARE!
Dreem2Reality Entertainment proudly presents the Think Tank Podcast, pre-recorded from the D2R Studios! On today's show: Joining Ryan in studio is Dave, as they take a musical journey down the road to recovery. In between a number of inspirational songs, the guys discuss what's been the hardest day during recovery, how many coins Dave has as well as sponsoring duties, his 1st coin story with the lead singer of Blue October, how the family deals with him being in recovery, his book Dave's Not Here, and the guys look ahead to next week's episode featuring author, Annie Highwater, and her book, Unhooked! Enjoy! Please SUBSCRIBE to the D2R Podcast Network on iTunes and don't forget to RATE and REVIEW while you're there. Or, find the D2R Podcast Network on Stitcher or the Podbean app. Just simply download the Stitcher or Podbean app to your device and then search: D2R Podcast Network and SUBSCRIBE! It's really that easy! If you enjoy listening to Think Tank Podcast, then SPREAD THE WORD to everyone you know! Your word of mouth is our only advertising and we truly appreciate your support! Thanks for listening and SHARE!
The author of the book "Unhooked", Annie Highwater, talks about her son's struggle with drug addiction. She offers some valuable information and a ray of hope to parents who are fighting similar battles. The moms also speak with Sarah Smith the director of the drug prevention campaign, Start Talking. She explains that kids are 50% less likely to abuse drugs if their parents have the difficult conversation about drug prevention with them.
Annie Highwater talks about her new book “Unhooked”… A mother’s story of unhitching from the roller coaster of her son’s addiction. Related Reading: Teens Now Smoke Marijuana Cigarettes