Podcasts about life process program

We interview Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads about addiction, Suboxone, pain patients, Harm Reduction, and more! You won't want to miss this episode. Dr. Stanton Peele is a psychologist who has pioneered, among other things, the idea that addiction occurs with a range of experiences and recognition of natural recovery from addiction. He developed the Life Process Program for addiction. He has authored many books since the 1975 publication of Love and Addiction (co-authored by Archie Brodsky); his latest is A Scientific Life on the Edge: My Lonely Quest to Change How We See Addiction. Zach Rhoads - Zach is a behavior specialist in Vermont schools and his school's PBiS (Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports) coordinator. Zach is a counselor and family systems developer for the online Life Process Program - an addiction coaching program developed by psychologist Dr. Stanton Peele. He also writes articles about health and drug policy for Filter Magazine and is coauthor (with Dr. Stanton Peele) of the book, Outgrowing Addiction. (He is currently working on a forthcoming book about student-led education in the United States). Zach believes that community collaboration and cohesion is a bulwark against many forms of mental illness and addiction, and helps people find these resources in ways that makes sense in their own lives. The Doctor Patient Forum is a national non profit organization fighting for the rights of pain patients and their providers. We bring awareness to the untreated pain and patient abandonment crisis. We are also knows as Don't Punish Pain Rally. https://www.patreon.com/thedoctorpatientforum https://www.thedoctorpatientforum.com/ #thedoctorpatientforum  #dontpunishpainrally #chronicpain #opioids #chronicpainpatient #patientabandonment #harmreduction #chronicillness #medicalgaslighting #dpfpatreon #pain #opioideliminationindustry #opioidelimination #patreon #thedoctorpatientforumpatreon #harmreduction #medicalgaslighting The information in this podcast is not to be considered medical or legal advice --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-doctor-patient-forum/message

An alarming statistic from the NIH: 17% of 12-17 year olds in the united states is mentally unwell. What accounts for this, and what can we do about it? (Hint: we've been trying antidepressants and therapy for decades and the problem has only become worse). Zach and Dr. Peele drill deeper. ***** SUBSCRIBE to Our Channel ***** To get more of our content and help us grow: https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeProcessProgram?sub_confirmation=1 ***** FOLLOW us on Social ***** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-process-program ***** CONTACT US ****** - Website: https://lifeprocessprogram.com - Text us: +1 (802) - 391 - 4360 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lifeprocessprogram/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lifeprocessprogram/support

This is a playback of a 2018 episode of the LPP Podcast in which we discuss the following: The Life Process Program takes clients through a staged review of their life stories, focusing first on mistakes, continuing to how they might have acted differently to avoid these pitfalls, to re-conceiving their life stories to focus on positives, and finally to projecting their life stories forward into positive, life-fulfilling narratives. In today's episode we incorporate LPP exercises and examples of Zach's work with children, including sample maps he develops for each child,  to show how to put these steps into action in your own life and the lives of your children and other loved ones. Similarly, examples of coaching feedback to LPP clients (disguised, of course, like Zach's plans with children) will be presented throughout to illustrate advice in implementing each stage of the re-writing of people's narratives. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lifeprocessprogram/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lifeprocessprogram/support

Mark and Michelle have a candid discussion with friend, colleague, and competitor in the non-12-step program world, Zach Rhoads of The Life Process Program

Dr. Stanton Peele Delivers His OWN Ted Talk (From home), in response to Judson Brewer's talk, "A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-moW9jvvMr4 Summary: Have you noticed confusion, conflict and disastrous failures across the board around drugs and addiction? We at Life Process Program have (unfortunately) understood the hole we've been digging for ourselves for years. To dig ourselves out, we have to comprehend addiction, understand that it's not some chemical side effect of drugs, and then apply this understanding to our personal lives and national policies. ***** SUBSCRIBE to Our Channel ***** To get more of our content and help us grow: https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeProcessProgram?sub_confirmation=1 ***** FOLLOW us on Social ***** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-process-program ***** CONTACT US ****** - Website: https://lifeprocessprogram.com - Text us: +1 (802) - 391 - 4360 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lifeprocessprogram/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/lifeprocessprogram/support

Tom Horvath (SMART Recovery) and Stanton Peele (Life Process Program) delve into their decades' long association in the battle to establish non-disease, harm reduction treatment in the United States. Their connection is supportive, even affectionate. Each in their own way — Tom through his decades of establishing an international association of SMART Recovery groups, Stanton by attacking the disease lobby — has contributed to a shift in the treatment paradigm. Both SMART Recovery and the Life Process Program focus anti-addiction efforts through support for people's functioning, and not in terms of their use of substances. Both look forward rather than backward. They end their discussion by considering whether, in accepting the accolades of Nora Volkow, Tom and SMART have created a system clearly distinct from the disease monolith. ***** SUBSCRIBE to Our Channel ***** To get more of our content and help us grow: https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeProcessProgram?sub_confirmation=1 ***** FOLLOW us on Social ***** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-process-program ***** CONTACT US ****** - Website: https://lifeprocessprogram.com - Text us: +1 (802) - 391 - 4360 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/support

Biological psychiatry has IMPLODED, and everyone knows it, including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the long-time (2002-2015) director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Thomas Insel, biological psychiatry's biggest booster. Yet, instead of the relief from mental illness and addiction Insel and the entire field have promised from the 1970s on, we are inundated with mental disorders and drug deaths. NOW WHAT? The WHO, Insel, and the ENTIRE FIELD are at a loss. With no there there, what is to be done? Rushing to fill this breech, WHO is proposing a new Best Practices in Mental Health Guide on June 17, 2022. But given its progenitors' failures for more than a half century, we may be dubious. Instead of waiting for their opus, LPP presents its own best practices, one predicated on common sense knowledge of how humans succeed, rather than a half century of continuous failure. 0:00 America's mental health crisis 15:34 Zach Rhoads weighs in 16:40 Mental health among children / schools 21:52 Why does adventure end after preK? 30:00 PURPOSE 37:08 ENGAGEMENT + STRENGTHS and SKILLS 40:47 EXPERIENCE + ADVENTURE 49:45 COMMUNITY + COLLABORATION ***** SUBSCRIBE to Our Channel ***** To get more of our content and help us grow: https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeProcessProgram?sub_confirmation=1 ***** FOLLOW us on Social ***** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-process-program ***** CONTACT US ****** - Website: https://lifeprocessprogram.com - Text us: +1 (802) - 391 - 4360 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/support

I Believe in the POWER & FREEDOM of CHOICE 100% ...It's Time to Speak Out about the Alcohol, Pharmaceutical, Tobacco, Industries, Media, Government, Authority, etc & Wake Up to the FACT that WE are being BRAINWASHED. Listen as Bobby C & Zach talk about Addiction & How we see it in Our Life/Reality. The Devastating Consequences of Cause & Effect that Alcohol/Drugs ( Legal or Illegal ) has on Society. We must ask the Question has it Gotten Better or Worst??? We Know that the Multi-Trillion Dollar Addiction Recovery Industry has Grown 1000% over the last 30 years the Selling $$$$ of Addiction Treatment. It's is Our Responsibility to Become our Own Mental Health Advocate, We are the Solution. Be Careful what They TELL & SELL YOU.

I talk with Staton Peele about the nature of addiction. Peele believes that addiction is a life problem, not a brain disease. We talk about the ideas that he has been writing about for many years. Chapters: 00:00:00 Stanton Peele https://peele.net/ 00:02:43 Failure is redefined as success in addition science 00:05:05 Life Process Program https://lifeprocessprogram.com/ 00:07:33 Most rehab sets a person up for failure 00:09:01 A non-disease approach is more realistic 00:10:11 Harm reduction 00:10:49 The entire addiction field is built on bullshit 00:11:55 What is addiction? 00:13:41 Opioid addiction 00:16:37 Mindfulness 00:17:11 Responsibility in addiction 00:19:19 What does a person gain from addiction? 00:21:57 Brain science BS in addiction 00:22:05 Life needs to come online with their values 00:24:20 Human motivation and experience help a person quit 00:26:23 Dealing with addiction as a disease makes it worse 00:28:52 Freud and secondary gain 00:31:14 My job is to open a window for a person 00:31:46 You have the power to improve yourself 00:31:48 Encouraging a person is the most essential ingredient 00:33:25 Labels hurt a person 00:36:21 Therapeutic State https://amzn.to/36n63KJ 00:36:31 Jeffrey Schaler https://youtu.be/7wySu4S1w14 00:37:20 Addiction that causes the most deaths 00:42:43 Addiction to alcohol 00:45:08 Living a good life prevents addiction 00:48:04 Labels can be crippling 00:48:57 Life Process Program https://lifeprocessprogram.com/ 00:49:23 Peele.net https://peele.net/ 00:49:37 Books by Stanton Peele https://amzn.to/3q5p7Va 00:52:35 Stanton's Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lpp-podcast/id1494188367 00:53:03 Stanton's YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSYridYK8h1uXu0Gx0Kl2Og --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aaronolson/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aaronolson/support

I talk with Staton Peele about the nature of addiction. Peele believes that addiction is a life problem, not a brain disease. We talk about the ideas that he has been writing about for many years. Chapters: 00:00:00 Stanton Peele https://peele.net/ 00:02:43 Failure is redefined as success in addition science 00:05:05 Life Process Program https://lifeprocessprogram.com/ 00:07:33 Most rehab sets a person up for failure 00:09:01 A non-disease approach is more realistic 00:10:11 Harm reduction 00:10:49 The entire addiction field is built on bullshit 00:11:55 What is addiction? 00:13:41 Opioid addiction 00:16:37 Mindfulness 00:17:11 Responsibility in addiction 00:19:19 What does a person gain from addiction? 00:21:57 Brain science BS in addiction 00:22:05 Life needs to come online with their values 00:24:20 Human motivation and experience help a person quit 00:26:23 Dealing with addiction as a disease makes it worse 00:28:52 Freud and secondary gain 00:31:14 My job is to open a window for a person 00:31:46 You have the power to improve yourself 00:31:48 Encouraging a person is the most essential ingredient 00:33:25 Labels hurt a person 00:36:21 Therapeutic State https://amzn.to/36n63KJ 00:36:31 Jeffrey Schaler https://youtu.be/7wySu4S1w14 00:37:20 Addiction that causes the most deaths 00:42:43 Addiction to alcohol 00:45:08 Living a good life prevents addiction 00:48:04 Labels can be crippling 00:48:57 Life Process Program https://lifeprocessprogram.com/ 00:49:23 Peele.net https://peele.net/ 00:49:37 Books by Stanton Peele https://amzn.to/3q5p7Va 00:52:35 Stanton's Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lpp-podcast/id1494188367 00:53:03 Stanton's YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSYridYK8h1uXu0Gx0Kl2Og --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aaronolson/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/aaronolson/support

Is AA helpful? Some people claim that AA offers specific benefits. We should say that we endorse anybody's right to pursue any form of support or treatment they want, or find helpful, from AA to religion. But our training and experience cause us to doubt AA's supposed benefits. One such claim is that making amends to people alcoholics have hurt is a way of reconstructing damaged relationships. But we find that a very indirect way of going about the process of examining and improving relationships, which is a major focus of the skills taught in the Life Process Program. A second claim for AA is that the “fellowship” provides group support. It does, but at what cost? We ask whether the goal of a support group is to cement people into that one group (AA), or to broaden their outreach to people and the world. The latter is, of course, the LPP approach. We further describe (Zach references his personal experience) how AA undercuts people's actual feelings and beliefs in order to purvey its own philosophy and “religion” (for example, powerlessness and turning oneself over to God). For Zach and others, AA, rather than offering such a benefit, is a “mindfuck” that undercuts people's ability to navigate their own feelings. In the end, we find AA's net impact to be a negative one, for individuals and society. ***** SUBSCRIBE to Our Channel ***** To get more of our content and help us grow: https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeProcess... ***** FOLLOW us on Social ***** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life... ***** CONTACT US ****** - Website: https://lifeprocessprogram.com - Text us: +1 (802) - 391 - 4360 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/support

Today's guest wants to "future-proof" our next generation. That is, to tug on the natural tendency of children to explore, learn, and grow competent along the way, just as we, at the Life Process Program want to ADDICTION - PROOF our next generation. Her name is Lenore Skenazy. Lenore famously (or infamously, depending on who you ask) allowed her child to ride a New York City subway home on his own. In her mind (and in ours), this was sensible, and offered her child to gain some independence in the real-world. Perversely, many parents around the country were horrified that Lenore would "subject her child to the dangers of New York City". Lenore began to realize that adults in the U.S. tend to overprotect their children-- a trend which ultimately stymies their natural course of development-- of exploration. This forms the basis for her book, "Free Range Kids" and her organization (with Peter Gray and Jonathan Haidt), "Let Grow". Today, Zach speaks to Lenore about her work with children and families, and compares notes, as her conceptualization of child-rearing aligns with the LPP framework. - - - - - - - - - - LENORE'S WORK - Free Range Kids https://www.freerangekids.com/ - Let Grow https://letgrow.org/ - Zach's Interview with Let Grow Chairman Peter Gray https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5gO71X7GZ0 ***** SUBSCRIBE to Our Channel ***** To get more of our content and help us grow: https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeProcessProgram?sub_confirmation=1 ***** FOLLOW us on Social ***** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-process-program ***** CONTACT US ****** - Website: https://lifeprocessprogram.com - Text us: +1 (802) - 391 - 4360 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/support

Dr. Stanton Peele is an addiction expert, a co-creator of the addiction recovery program called the Life Process Program and the author of a number of books on the subject, starting in 1975 with Love and Addiction, co-authored with Archie Brodsky, and including other seminal works like Diseasing of America and The Meaning of Addiction. His newest book is a memoir titled A Scientific Life on the Edge: My Lonely Quest to Change How We See Addiction.**This episode was recorded on July 24, 2021**DR. STANTON PEELE LINKSWebsite: https://peele.net/Twitter: https://twitter.com/speele5“A SCIENTIFIC LIFE ON THE EDGE”Buy “A Scientific Life on the Edge” from Amazon: https://amzn.to/2WJtmcWMy review of “A Scientific Life on the Edge”: https://ericwhte.com/book-review-a-scientific-life-on-the-edge-by-dr-stanton-peele/LIFE PROCESS PROGRAMYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSYridYK8h1uXu0Gx0Kl2OgtheEWpodcasthttps://ericwhte.com/podcast-052-dr-stanton-peele-and-a-scientific-life-on-the-edge/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/EricWhiteStuffTwitter: https://twitter.com/ericwhteInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/eric.whte/Interview with Zach Rhoads: https://ericwhte.com/podcast-035-zach-rhoads-and-whats-wrong-with-how-we-view-addiction/TIMESTAMPS00:00 Introducing Dr. Stanton Peele05:00 Why write a memoir?09:42 Understanding Dr. Peele's model of addiction20:15 “Analyze me Stanton”32:49 Trauma, Free Will and Agency54:55 “A Scientific Life on the Edge”

Season 2, Episode 55!This week's guest is Zach Rhoads. Jay first found Zach's work on Filter (yes, another Filter connection!) but he's also written a book with Stanton Peele called Outgrowing Addiction: With Common Sense Instead of “Disease” Therapy. Together with Peele, Zach works at the Life Process Program helping people working with those struggling with Addiction. You can learn more by reading his work on Filter Mag at: https://filtermag.org/author/zach-rhoads/ or at one of the previous links. And check out his medium article The Day I Left AA, as referenced in this convo. Today's Good Egg: Bend but don't break your routine. This year's Birthday Fundraiser is LIIIIIIIVE! Y'all were so amazing last year, helping us raise over $12,000 for Drug Policy Alliance, I'll love you all for coming through again this year. For my birthday this year, I'm raising money for Savage Sisters, an amazing organization I'm a board member for here in Philly. We provide recovery housing and harm reduction outreach. Founded and led by a woman in recovery, y'all know I'm ALLLLLLL about this work. To learn more and get involved, check out the link: https://www.facebook.com/donate/131518205723435/. Our goal is $2,500 and we're closing in on $2,000.Looking for someone to wow your audience now that the world is reopening? My speaking calendar is booking up fast! But if you're interested in bringing me to your campus, your community group, your organization or any other location to speak about Mental Health, Substance Misuse & Recovery, or Drug Use & Policy, reach out to my strategist Ryan Holzhauer at ryan@jayshifman.com. Tank Tops are in! You can see what they look like on the website (thanks to my wife for modeling the women's cut). Reach out through the website to order. If you're looking for something a little less expensive, magnets are in too! Check them out on the website or Instagram. Patreon supporters get a discount so join Patreon! Support the Podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ChooseYourStruggle Review the Podcast: https://ReviewThisPodcast.com/Choose-Your-Struggle. Support the Podcast, a different way: https://podhero.com/401017-ikv. Learn more about the Shameless Podcast Network: https://www.shamelessnetwork.com/ My Partner Bookshop (Support Local Book Stores and the Podcast in the Process!): https://bookshop.org/shop/CYS My Partner Road Runner (Use Code CYS for 10% off): www.roadrunnercbd.com/ref/CYS As always, you can find more at my links: https://jay.campsite.bio ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

I've had on plenty of people (including myself) who have found recovery through the 12 step programs. I've also had several on who have found it through other means and I am always excited when I get to hear someone else's perspective on addiction that I've not yet run across...my guest to day is no exception to that. Zach Rhoads is co-author of the book "Outgrowing Addiction" and is a coach with the Life Process Program, an online based recovery program that proclaims itself to be an "alternative to AA". This is a fantastic conversation with a fantastic person who is without a doubt doing some big things in people's lives. Check out his book available on Amazon and be sure to check out the program: Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Outgrowing-Addiction-Instead-Disease-Therapy/dp/0942679466 Life Process Program: https://lifeprocessprogram.com/ Twitter: @rhoadsoda

Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads respond to news threads that link the recent Atlanta murders to sex addiction. Does this claim make sense or is the "sex addiction" claim simply an insanity plea with no merit? Peele and Rhoads get into the subtleties on today's "Sundays With Stories" ***** FOLLOW on Social Media ***** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-process-program LPP Web Site https://LifeProcessProgram.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/support

Dr. Carl Hart has faced rough seas promoting his new book. As helpers and theorists who have faced similar tempests, Stanton and Zach offer some helpful hints. ***** Learn more about Dr. Peele's Life Process Program at their YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeProcessProgram?sub_confirmation=1 ***** FOLLOW on Social Media ***** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-process-program ***** READ Peele's Original Writing ***** https://Peele.net --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/support

Dr. Carl Hart explains that the vast majority of people who use drugs do so with no problem. In fact, drugs -- yes, even so-called "hard drugs"-- offer more positive than negative experiences. Dr. Hart is a professor (and former chair) of psychology and psychiatry at Columbia University. Today, he opens up to Zach Rhoads about his new book, "Drug Use For Grown-Ups", in which he's comes out of the closet about his own drug use and encourages the rest of us to do the same. And why is he so boosterish about speaking openly about (even illicit) drug use? Well, as he says in this interview: "As long as you put forth an effort, you might make a mistake. That's okay, we're all human. The real crime is when you make a mistake, you don't acknowledge it, then continue to speak dishonestly about it. We've been making tremendous mistakes about drugs, and I'm asking that people admit it and move past it so that we don't continue to force people to suffer." - - - - - - - - - - - TIME STAMPS 0:00 - 1:53 Introduction / drug use during the pandemic 1:53 - 5:20 Genesis of the book / when Carl began using illicit drugs RESPONSIBLY 5:20 - 8:34 When and why Carl began using heroin / the positive effects of using heroin responsibly 8:34 - 9:33 Zach opens up about his past heroin use and why he quit using it 9:33 - 12:00 Why even the most BRILLIANT minds of our time get locked into-- and then perpetuate-- drug / addiction mythology. 12:00 - 14:16 Racism and ignorance in history--- how we've all come to believe drug myths 14:16 - 15:12 Acknowledging our mistakes, as individuals and as a culture 15:12 - 17:05 Carl's response to Joe Rogan (re: "My flesh-eating friend on PCP") and others when they speak nonsense about drugs 17:05 - 20:45 What Carl means by, "harm reduction has to go" 20:45 - 24:14 Psychedelics and spiritual health / Drug exceptionalism 24:14 - 26:24 Addiction is NOT a brain disease 26:24 - 27:20 Is addiction mythology (a la NIDA) foul play OR is it intellectual laziness? 27:20 - 30:15 How and why Carl came out of the closet about his drug use (2.0) 30:15 - 31:50 Dr. Drew is full of shit 31:50 - 33:03 False drug stories about drugs offer people an identity 33:03 - 34:00 Top 3 most egregious drug myths 34:00 - 36:55 What small steps can listeners take to squash drug/addiction mythology? 36:55 - 39:50 "I worry about my family and their interaction with POLICE more than I worry that drugs might harm them." 39:50 - 41:42 Book reviewers just don't understood this book's intention. 41:42 - 42:55 Feeling alone as a truth-teller in academia 42:55 - END -- How Stanton Peele has influenced Carl's work / mutual thanks & signing off! - - - - - - - - - - Email us - info@lifeprocessprogram.com Text us - +1 (802) - 391 - 4360 LPP MAIN WEB SITE - https://lifeprocessprogram.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram Twitter: http://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm Facebook: http://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/message

Questions of family often appear in relation to addiction and drug issues. As with all questions in these areas, discussion is misled by disease beliefs, which leave people muddled and mystified about how to proceed constructively. Nonetheless, basic human values often assert themselves, allowing people— especially young people— to free themselves and to display bravery. Examples in the news are the women in Russian protest group Pussy Riot, Masha Gessen (Russian-American radical journalist) whose son is lost in vicodin, the four granddaughters of Joe Biden, who allowed the president to free america from Trump, and the often absent addicted father Hunter, who almost cost his father the presidency. Today I speak with the creator of the Life Process Program, Dr. Stanton Peele about these current events and how they tie into our work in the Life Process Program. I hope you enjoy! - - - - - - - - - - SUBSCRIBE TO THIS YOUTUBE CHANNEL https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSYr... Email us - info@lifeprocessprogram.com Text us - +1 (802) - 391 - 4360 LPP MAIN WEB SITE - https://lifeprocessprogram.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram Twitter: http://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm Facebook: http://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/message

On today's episode, Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads (of the Life Process Program) discuss current events in addiction and harm reduction. The key note: Shia Labeouf's Love Addiction! - - - - - - - - - - Shia Labeouf has made the news for his movies and even for his recovery from alcohol and drugs. Unfortunately, despite years of "programming" for his addiction issues, Labeouf's behavior is still relatively unstable. Zach and Stanton, however, believe that drugs and alcohol are NOT the influence behind the celebrity's recent behavior (driving cars at hundreds of miles per hour with his partner in the from seat and threatening to crash). They believe that this is a result (at least in part) of Labeouf's over-reliance on the women in his life to satisfy his every need (I.e. LOVE ADDICTION) - - - - - - - - - - SUBSCRIBE TO THIS YOUTUBE CHANNEL https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSYr... Email us - info@lifeprocessprogram.com Text us - +1 (802) - 391 - 4360 LPP MAIN WEB SITE - https://lifeprocessprogram.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram Twitter: http://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm Facebook: http://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/message

Not so long ago, I published a blog comparing and contrasting SMART Recovery with the Life Process Program. Shortly after doing so, The president of SMART Recovery wrote to me and offered reflections on the piece. That made me a little nervous.... but he liked the blog. (WHEW!) But he did have a bone to pick with me.... I wrote that SMART Recovery is an abstinence-based program and, evidently, they are no longer focused on abstinence from drugs, alcohol or any other involvement. I invited him on the LPP Podcast to explain. Enjoy this episode with Dr. Tom Horvath! - - - - - - - - - - Subscribe to our YouTube CHANNEL! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSYridYK8h1uXu0Gx0Kl2Og Email us - info@lifeprocessprogram.com Text us - +1 (802) - 391 - 4360 LPP MAIN WEB SITE - http://lifeprocessprogram.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram Twitter: http://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm Facebook: http://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/message

In today’s episode of Sundays With Stories, Stanton and Zach discuss current events. This week a New York Times article bemoaned the failure of addiction specialists to adopt a proven tool for treating drug addiction, “contingency management.” That is, paying meth, cocaine et al. users for abstinence. That’s right: experienced, one might say addicted, “speed” (“crank”) users will desist drug use if you give them money — and not colossal sums at that. This has been Carl Hart’s research with meth, and the University of Vermont group’s under Warren Bickle with cocaine. The same benefits of providing alternative rewards have been shown in Bruce Alexander’s Rat Park and the Baltimore City Hospital group’s research with street drinkers. What does this tell us? That drug and alcohol addiction is not a runaway train resistant to environmental factors and rewards. Which is useful to know. However, Zach and Stanton question who is creating these rewards. There is a bit of science-gone-amok to the image of men in white coats divvying out money for drug and alcohol users, even those with the worst usage patterns, to be “good.” And what happens when the rewards, the gravy train, stops? You tell us. But Harvard’s Global Anti-Tobacco Program offered a hint. While investigating the effectiveness of nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) for those who quit smoking, the program’s chief investigators found that, in the long run, those who quit on their own did as well as, or better than, those who rely on NRT. In fact, the most addicted smokers were the worst at keeping off the drug using NRT. This finding held true even though NRT was “proven effective in the laboratory.” Zach and Stanton then speak of people managing their own contingencies. That is, their finding real-world reasons to quit or cut back their addictions. Most important of all (with a nod to Steve Slate et al.’s Freedom Model”) is people’s belief that they can control their own drug use and lives. This thinking belies NIDA Director Nora Volkow’s 2007 unwise piece “Addiction Is a Disease of Free Will” — which, per Stanton’s urging, Volkow seems to be abandoning. What is she replacing this ill-conceived notion with? What Stanton and Zach practice in their Life Process Program: creating lives worth living and worlds people want to occupy. This is a tough task. But, once again, including a review of America’s ill-fated (drug deaths are ramping out of control) enthusiasm for medicine-assisted treatment for opioid addiction, there is no long-term alternative. Finally, Zach reviews SMART Recovery’s belated shift to “abstinence from addiction” in place of its former “desist all use” basis — as the user chooses. They agree in their admiration for Tom Horvath/SMART Recovery’s remarkable success at creating an alternative to AA. At the same time, they embrace SMART’s long-awaited and necessary shift to Harm Reduction. Stanton and Zach end their podcast by wondering how decades of addiction research and both positive and negative experiences with drugs have left even our “advanced guard” (i.e., policy reformists like the Ethan Nadelmann-founded DPA) so shorn of an appreciation for the interchange between people’s lived experience (their actual lives) and addiction. Come join Stanton and Zach as they reveal a little secret. That is, the best science, policy, and treatment involve common sense. At the same time, they say, free yourself from decades-old failed thinking. - - - - - - - - - - LPP MAIN WEB SITE http://LifeProcessProgram.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/message

Dr. Stanton Peele is the founder and creator of the Life Process Program: http://LifeProcessProgram.com - - - - - - - - - - Dr. Peele and Zach Rhoads return for episode 6 of "Sundays With Stories". They select two more prominent non-12-step “recovery” stories — these with “addicts” who, themselves, were earmarked for hell — Lindsay Lohan and Robert Downey Jr. Lohan seemed doomed by her alcoholism (according not only to her father, but seemingly Oprah). She instead partnered in a group of beach clubs, made borscht and helped her mom and younger siblings. Downey, who was really at the bottom of the well after years of turmoil, drug use, and coerced rehab, in his late thirties had a Jewish wedding which did the trick. (Dr. Peele actually met Mr. Levin, his father-in-law, in a hotel breakfast line.) Zach and Stanton do these stories in anticipation of a podcast Ethan Nadelmann has solicited Dr. Peele's inputs for, in which he will interview famous drug users. Not hobnobbing with the famous, they instead use public material to describe famous people’s paths to recovery, starting with Drew Barrymore. (In future episodes Zach will interview regular people about their drug use.) Enjoy the sixth episode of Sundays With Stories (Ep. 37 of the podcast)! - - - - - - - - - - Subscribe to our YouTube CHANNEL! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSYridYK8h1uXu0Gx0Kl2Og Email us - info@lifeprocessprogram.com Text us - +1 (802) - 391 - 4360 LPP MAIN WEB SITE - http://lifeprocessprogram.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram Twitter: http://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm Facebook: http://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/message

In today's program we continue our series on the conservation of humanity, today delving into the subject matter of addiction treatment. Joining us for today's episode is Mr. Zach Rhoads, an addiction treatment coach from the Life Process Program. The Life Process Program was designed and developed by the eminent Dr. Stanton Peele, the world's leading authority on non-12 step addiction recovery. Dr. Peele is a world-renowned addiction expert, author and therapist, who has remained prominently at the forefront of the addiction field for nearly five decades, challenging and changing the way people understand addiction and recovery. The Life Process Program works with the idea that addiction occurs with a range of experiences, a recognition of the possibility of natural recovery from addiction, and the harm reduction approach to addiction. Mr Rhoads once battled addictions of his own, including a destructive involvement with opiates. He now lives a healthy and happy life with his wife and daughter in Vermont. Zach is a columnist for Filter Magazine, and together with Dr. Peele co-authoured the book “Outgrowing Addiction with common sense instead of Disease Therapy”. Zach is also a broadcaster being the host of The Social Exchange podcast, and he looks after the Life Process Program Podcast. To learn more about Mr. Rhoads or the Life Process Program please visit the following links: Life Process Program The Social Exchange Podcast with Zach Rhoads Outgrowing Addiction with Common Sense Instead of Disease Therapy

Zach Rhodes Author of Outgrowing Addiction: with common sense instead of "disease" therapy , Addiction Counselor at Stanton Peele's Life Process Program, Host of the Social Exchange Podcast and Educational Consultant Welcome to the Cognitive Rampage Podcast. The exploratory podcast pushing you to question yourself and everything else. Making you think with cerebral guests, and offering alternative and mental health help. I'm your host, Adam Lowery. I have published two books, appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience, MSNBC, NASDAQ Live, NBC, multiple podcasts and radio shows. I am a retired nightclub connoisseur and drug dealer, turned retired Mental Health Therapist turned Author, Podcaster, CEO, Comedy Club Owner and Comedian. I hold both, B.A. and B.S. Degrees, a Minor in Sociology, a Masters in Mental Health and a Doctorate from Sidewalk U. As a Therapist, I founded the integrative therapeutic approach Transrational Structural Behavior Theory (TSBT), and have also been credited with the discovery of the Athletes Depression Diagnosis. In my flow time you will find me doing stand-up comedy or producing comedy shows. I love the great outdoors. I surf, dive, kayak, spearfish, offshore and inshore fish. I’ve caught and hunted my own food since I was a child and have survived on a deserted island. If comedy or nature isn’t calling, you’ll find me training boxing and kickboxing. I enjoy cooking, podcasting, playing pool, frisbee or reading a physical book. I have a serious addiction to the ocean, listening to podcasts, new experiences and randomness. I talk to strangers, and too much. I love most people, including you. In my book series The Cognitive Rampage, I fuse the cognitive, behavioral, social and biological sciences into a self application to help you create and sustain change in your life, and to reveal the authentic you. Available on Amazon, Kindle and Barnes and Noble. I hope you’re taking care of you and living your Cognitive Rampage! What does that mean? It is about cultivating happiness through a passionate pursuit of life optimization, an enthusiastically persistent search for competence in mind, body and belief while building an optimistically rational life philosophy and living and growing your purposeful structure. I hope you'll stay around by subscribing to the podcast on iTunes, Spotify and YouTube, following me on Facebook, Twitter and IG, and buying my book on Amazon so we can keep exploring this amazing human experience together.

Welcome to episode 33! This episode is the audio version of a new weekly segment, produced by LPP and hosted by Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads, called "Sundays With Stories" Each week, Zach and Stanton tell the story of a celebrity-- well, COUNTER-recovery story. That is: they tell the stories of celebrities who outgrow their addictions, and whose stories actually oppose the standard addiction and recovery bromides that we've all been told. This week's celebrity: Drew Barrymore! (More on "Sundays with Stories" below): - - - - - - - - - - Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads, an addiction and a child development specialist respectively, converse about the realities of addiction and substance misuse in their Sunday conversations. Stanton and Zach work together in the on-line Life Process Program and in publications like Outgrowing Addiction: With Common Sense Instead of "Disease" Therapy. Their Sunday conversations tap into this overwhelming truth: people have the capacity to overcome addiction. And, in fact (like Zach himself) they regularly do so. How do we know? All life studies of people's substance use show that people successfully come to grips with their addictions. Moreover, people all around you can tell you tales of such natural, developmental recovery. Only they're not "allowed" to tell their stories, for fear of offending the dysfunctional, but all-powerful, recovery community. This reticence extends to the highest levels of media and culture. (Do you know that progressive stalwart Kurt Andersen dutifully explained that George W. Bush invaded Iraq because he quit drinking without AA, and was thus permanently trapped in denial?) Among the many examples of this self-censorship are the cultural icon Drew Barrymore, who People labelled, age 13, America's youngest addict. Barrymore wrote Little Girl Lost, published at age 15, after she had entered rehab and subsequently attempted suicide. But Drew grew up by the time she reached her twenties, then went on to found a winery and become a caring mother and Hollywood power player. Apologizing for “not being in recovery” (she enjoys wine), Drew can only hint at the developmental course that has freed her and the vast majority of those with addictive problems. Hear stories like Drew’s, the silent majority’s, on Peele and Rhoads’ “Sundays With Stories.” In fact, send in your own ideas for future episodes (through any of the channels below: Email: info@lifeprocessprogram.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram Twitter: http://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm Facebook: http://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSYridYK8h1uXu0Gx0Kl2Og LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-process-program Call or Text us: (802) 391 - 4360 - - - - - - - - - - Visit the LPP Web Site: https://lifeprocessprogram.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/message

Welcome to the LPP Podcast! Today's episode is a segment of our interview with LPP Coach Dee Cloward. In this segment, Dee talks about her work at SMART Recovery and compares/contrasts it with her work for the Life Process Program. Dee loves both programs, but notes that there are meaningful differences between them-- differences which she outlines in today's discussion! - - - - - - - - - - Here's LPP's recent blog about this topic: https://lifeprocessprogram.com/smart-recovery/ - - - - - - - - - - LPP Web Site: http://LifeProcessProgram.com Call or Text us: (802) 391 - 4360 Email: info@lifeprocessprogram.com - - - - - - - - - - Connect With LPP on Social Media: Instagram: http://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram Twitter: http://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm Facebook: http://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSYridYK8h1uXu0Gx0Kl2Og LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-process-program --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/message

Welcome to episode 29! Today's guest is LPP's own Dee Cloward. Dee has been a Life Process Program coach for four years now. Prior to that, she was with SMART Recovery for 15 years in many capacities, primarily as a volunteer, and served there as Program Manager for Court Outreach and Special Events Coordinator, and Director of Training to mention just a few. She was highly beloved in the online community and beyond and continues to facilitate SMART meetings locally in the county jail and online. In addition, she has her own small local coaching business in Cincinnati. Dee had a highly turbulent although largely functional life for many years before ultimately finding recovery and joy in life with SMART Recovery over 15 years ago. She is an example of how well online ONLY recovery can work. She beat addiction without in-person meetings, AA (or other 12-step groups), therapy, inpatient or outpatient treatment. She has remained abstinent from alcohol (as well as drugs to which she's had unhealthy attachments in the past) for 11 years. That's something we discuss today-- why it is important for her, personally, to remain abstinent from those substances and involvements, and why she doesn't always necessarily recommend this approach for all. Some other relevant topics from today's discussion: - We talk about her background and personal professional / personal addiction experiences - We talk about her finding SMART Recovery— which is a non 12-step support group, that functions similarly to the Life Process Program. Actually, I ask her to compare and contrast SMART and the Life Process Program— something she does well while honoring the nuance. - She tells me the story of meeting Stanton Peele and later working with him. - We also talk about important differences between abstinence from alcohol and drugs versus drinking and using drugs moderately - And she also distinguishes moderation from harm reduction. All of that and more on episode 29 of the LPP Podcast with Dee Cloward. - - - - - - - - - - Visit Dee's web site for articles and to inquire about 1-1 coaching: http://recoverydee.com Archives from the SMART podcast, hosted by Dee : http://smartrecovery.libsyn.com - - - - - - - - - - Follow / Contact The Life Process Program Email us - info@lifeprocessprogram.com Text us - +1 (802) - 391 - 4360 LPP MAIN WEB SITE - http://lifeprocessprogram.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram Twitter: http://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm Facebook: http://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/message

Welcome to episode 23! This is episode #2 of a four-part series about Harm Reduction. Last week, Stanton and Zach discussed the history of harm reduction for addiction. That episode is here: In today's episode, Stanton wraps up his telling of Harm Reduction History and then talks about harm reduction's evolution, as a concept, into two incompatible ways of thinking: There is "harm reduction" as the Life Process Program defines it; and then there's another way of thinking about harm-reduction-- namely, that "harm reduction = non-abstinence." Stanton and Zach make a clear distinction between the two. - - - - - - - - - - HOW TO FOLLOW / CONTACT / LEARN MORE ABOUT LPP: Email us - info@lifeprocessprogram.com Text us - +1 (802) - 391 - 4360 LPP MAIN WEB SITE - http://lifeprocessprogram.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram Twitter: http://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm Facebook: http://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/message

Zach Rhoads- author Addiction Specialist.  Monica Richardson is a host of podcast Safe Recovery. Zach is an author and educational consultant working with families in Vermont. He is also an addiction coach in Stanton Peele’s Life Process Program His book Outgrowing Addiction: With Common Sense Instead of “Disease” Therapy (with Stanton Peele) will be published by Upper Access Press in May 2019. He hosts the podcast FSDP Presents on behalf of Families for Sensible Drug Policy.   Zach Rhoads is a consultant for school children who encounter life problems--along with families and teachers who are stymied by their failures to reach these children. Zach developed this empathy as a child who wasn't successful at school. Moreover, in his 20s he developed a heroin addiction, which--after several years and a near-death experience--he left behind. Zach is a coach and family systems developer with Dr. Stanton Peele's online addiction program, the Life Process Program.

Zach Rhoads- author Addiction Specialist.  Monica Richardson is a host of podcast Safe Recovery. Zach is an author and educational consultant working with families in Vermont. He is also an addiction coach in Stanton Peele's Life Process Program His book Outgrowing Addiction: With Common Sense Instead of “Disease” Therapy (with Stanton Peele) will be published by Upper Access Press in May 2019. He hosts the podcast FSDP Presents on behalf of Families for Sensible Drug Policy.   Zach Rhoads is a consultant for school children who encounter life problems--along with families and teachers who are stymied by their failures to reach these children. Zach developed this empathy as a child who wasn't successful at school. Moreover, in his 20s he developed a heroin addiction, which--after several years and a near-death experience--he left behind. Zach is a coach and family systems developer with Dr. Stanton Peele's online addiction program, the Life Process Program.

Blog Talk Radio Safe Recovery podcast created by Filmmaker, activist, victims advocate,  Monica Richardson hosts this 1 hour show- this week with author Stanton Peele. Join us as we take on the Addiction Recovery Industry. Stanton Peele, Ph. D., J.D., is a licensed psychologist, attorney, practicing psychotherapist and the author of books and articles on the subject of alcoholism, addiction and addiction treatment. Wikipedia Stanton Peele has been a cutting-edge figure in the addiction field for four decades.  Since publishing (with Archie Brodsky) Love and Addiction in 1975, Stanton has been a leader in virtually every development in the field: that 12-step, AA treatment is not the be-all and end-all and that practical life-management therapies are most effective; that people's self-empowerment, values, and purpose in life (as opposed to seeing themselves as powerless) can be the light out of the tunnel; and that people generally don't get better all at once, but make gradual improvements (called harm reduction) in their lives that lead them out of addiction.  Along the way, Stanton has written 12 books (including The Meaning of Addiction, Diseasing of America, The Truth About Addiction and Recovery, 7 Tools to Beat Addiction, and Addiction-Proof Your Child) and 250 professional articles, won numerous awards (including from the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs and the Drug Policy Alliance -- the leading drug policy reform organization in America), and created the Life Process Program for addiction treatment, which continues to be utilized worldwide. Ilse Thompson, co-founder of the blog Stinkin-Thinkin: Muckraking the 12 Step Treatment Industry, is a writer and editor living in Portland, Oregon. 

Blog Talk Radio Safe Recovery podcast created by Filmmaker, activist, victims advocate,  Monica Richardson hosts this 1 hour show- this week with author Stanton Peele. Join us as we take on the Addiction Recovery Industry. Stanton Peele, Ph. D., J.D., is a licensed psychologist, attorney, practicing psychotherapist and the author of books and articles on the subject of alcoholism, addiction and addiction treatment. Wikipedia Stanton Peele has been a cutting-edge figure in the addiction field for four decades.  Since publishing (with Archie Brodsky) Love and Addiction in 1975, Stanton has been a leader in virtually every development in the field: that 12-step, AA treatment is not the be-all and end-all and that practical life-management therapies are most effective; that people's self-empowerment, values, and purpose in life (as opposed to seeing themselves as powerless) can be the light out of the tunnel; and that people generally don't get better all at once, but make gradual improvements (called harm reduction) in their lives that lead them out of addiction.  Along the way, Stanton has written 12 books (including The Meaning of Addiction, Diseasing of America, The Truth About Addiction and Recovery, 7 Tools to Beat Addiction, and Addiction-Proof Your Child) and 250 professional articles, won numerous awards (including from the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs and the Drug Policy Alliance -- the leading drug policy reform organization in America), and created the Life Process Program for addiction treatment, which continues to be utilized worldwide. Ilse Thompson, co-founder of the blog Stinkin-Thinkin: Muckraking the 12 Step Treatment Industry, is a writer and editor living in Portland, Oregon. 

Today’s episode is an excerpt from a conversation between LPP coach Zach Rhoads and developmental psychologist and Best-Selling author Dr. Ross Greene. Zach asked Dr. Greene to talk about his strategy for working collaboratively with children whose behavior presents challenges to themselves and/or to others around them. The model is called Collaborative and Proactive Solutions. This model ensures that all parties— kids AND adults— act according to the wants and needs of all involved. Of course, this is not a direct link to addiction-related problems, but the methods and tools of problem-solving that Ross Greene describes in this episode are precisely the ways we work with clients in the Life Process Program, and it’s the way we encourage clients to work through problems with others in their lives. - - - - - - - - - - Contact The Life Process Program Email us - info@lifeprocessprogram.com Text us - +1 (802) - 391 - 4360 LPP MAIN WEB SITE - http://lifeprocessprogram.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram Twitter: http://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm Facebook: http://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram - - - - - - - - - - Learn More About Dr. Greene's Work http://livesinthebalance.org --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/message

Welcome to the LPP Podcast. LPP is the Life Process Program-- an online (NON 12-step) counseling program for people who think they may have addictions, and who want to overcome them from the comfort of their own home. Today marks the first of our weekly series called Monday Morning Ammunition--- a short and sweet bit of information to inspire you and give you something to think about until next Monday. In this episode you're hearing from Brooke Feldman, an addiction professional from Philadelphia who overcame both a traumatic childhood-- including legal trouble-- as well as a long-term addiction. In this 10-minute clip Brooke tells me about how she uses her past to her advantage and what she thinks of the term "Recovery." We hope this episode will bring you tremendous value… Let us know what you think! Write to us at Info@lifeprocessprogram.com OR TEXT US @ 802-391-4360 Main Web Site http://lifeprocessprogram.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram Twitter: http://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm Facebook: http://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/message

Today's episode is a throwback! Dr. Stanton Peele interviews harm-reduction therapists and authors of the book, Over The Influence, Patt Denning and Jeannie Little. These ladies were (and are) at the forefront of commonsense, harm-reduction based therapy-- their ideas closely resemble those of The Life Process Program and we hope this interview brings you value. - - - - - - - - - - Intro: 0:00 - 2:55 Interview: 2:55 - 48:50 - - - - - - - Main Web Site http://lifeprocessprogram.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram Twitter: http://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSYridYK8h1uXu0Gx0Kl2Og Facebook: http://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/message

Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads answer the following frequently asked question: Is LPP a "trauma informed program"?  They offer a definition of “trauma” in several contexts. Then they discuss differences between traumatic events and adverse conditions in life. Peele and Rhoads also consider what it means to be trauma informed versus believing trauma is responsible for addiction.  And, of course, the hosts explain how all of this information applies to their work with clients in the Online Life Process Program.    Visit the Life Process Program website  for free multimedia resources about addiction. If you become interested in the program and want to learn more, you can sign up for a free confidential consultation with a trained LPP coach. 

Rewrite your life story. The Life Process Program takes clients through a staged review of their life stories, focusing first on mistakes, continuing to how they might have acted differently to avoided these pitfalls, to reconceiving their life stories to focus on positives, and finally to projecting their life stories forward into positive, life-fulfilling narratives. In today's episode we incorporate LPP exercises and examples of Zach’s work with children, including sample maps he develops for each child,  to show how to put these steps into action in your own life and the lives of your children and other loved ones. Similarly, examples of coaching feedback to LPP clients (disguised, of course, like Zach’s plans for children) will be presented throughout to illustrate advice in implementing each stage of the re-writing of people’s narratives. To learn more, go to http://lifeprocessprogram.com Hear more about Zach's work at https://thesocialexchange.libsyn.com/

The LPP Podcast is a show which will explore inner-workings of the Life Process Program (including a new option for children and families with addictions). This episode deals with a clinical issue: how do you help another person to self-initiate — take control of — change in THEIR lives, with special reference to Zach’s work with children. This segment also previews their forthcoming book, Outgrowing Addiction: With Common Sense Instead of “Disease” Therapy and the future LPP Family Track (LPPFT).   Stanton Peele (co host) is a psychologist, author, and creator of the online Life Process Program Zach Rhoads (co host) is a developmental specialist, author, and producer of The Social Exchange Podcast   Aaron Ferguson (sound engineer) is an addictions counselor and co producer of The Social Exchange Podcast. You can find his original music HERE   Both Aaron and Zach work as coaches in Stanton's Online Life Process Program

Stanton Peele and Archie Brodsky joined SMART Recovery for a webinar discussing concepts of addictions with a focus on love and relationships. At the the forefront of redefining addiction as something that goes beyond any particular substance and is, rather, a human phenomenon that can develop along a spectrum of severity in the relationships we form with others, with substances, or with behaviors and activities. In 1975, the ideas in their ground-breaking book, Love and Addiction, were shocking. More recently, much of their work has come to be accepted as common knowledge in the fields of psychology and addiction treatment professions. As the general public recognizes that emotional, cognitive, social and cultural factors all play a role, we will continue to see an evolution in thought regarding addiction, and the best approaches to helping people. Stanton Peele, Ph.D., J.D., is a seminal figure in the field of addiction and recovery. Dr. Peele is a pioneer in applying addiction concepts to include self-cure, harm reduction, and social-environmental causes of addiction. His online Life Process Program has been developed to extend availability of treatment by leveraging technology.  His most recent book, with Ilse Thompson, is Recover! Stop Thinking Like an Addict and Reclaim Your Life with The Life Process. Since publication of Love and Addiction in 1975, he has written twelve books and over 250 professional and popular articles. He continues to lecture internationally on the meaning, treatment, and future of addiction. Additional information and a huge archive of articles can be found at Dr. Peele’s online addiction recovery treatment program website: www.lifeprocessprogram.com. Archie Brodsky is co-founder of the Program in Psychiatry and the Law at Harvard Medical School. In addition to Love and Addiction he has co-authored 15 books, including The Truth about Addiction and Recovery (with Stanton Peele), Preventing Boundary Violations in Clinical Practice, and Clinical Supervision in Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling. Mr. Brodsky is on the board of directors of The Influence Foundation, which recently launched the website www.filtermag.org to advocate for rational and compassionate approaches to drug use, drug policy, and human rights. He is a former chair of the Human Rights Committee at Massachusetts Mental Health Center. DON'T FORGET! SMART Recovery depends on your Donations! Please visit SMART Recovery or Click the Donate button below. © 2018 SMART Recovery®.  Music created and copyright 2017 Donald Sheeley with unlimited use as is donated to SMART Recovery.   

Stanton Peele, Ph.D., J.D., is a seminal figure in the addiction field. All Treatment awarded him the Best Academic Addiction Blog for 2012. Dr. Peele has developed the on-line Life Process Addiction Program . His most recent book (with Ilse Thompson) is Recover! Stop Thinking Like an Addict and Reclaim Your Life with The Life Process Program. Since the publication of Love and Addiction in 1975, Dr. Peele has been a pioneer in applying addiction beyond the area of drugs and alcohol, social-environmental causes of addiction, harm reduction, and self-cure of addiction. He has presented these ideas and data in a series of twelve books—including Love and Addiction, The Meaning of Addiction, Diseasing of America, The Truth About Addiction and Recovery, 7 Tools to Beat Addiction, and Addiction-Proof Your Child—and over 250 professional and popular articles. Recognition for his academic achievements in addiction has included the Mark Keller Award from the Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Drug Policy Alliance. Dr. Peele lectures internationally on the meaning, treatment, and future of addiction.

Join Author addiction specialist Stanton Peele and Blogger Juliet Abrams for a 1 hour show discussing how Depression, AA and non professionals are giving advice and tragedy occurrs. With the suicide of beloved Robin Williams,  I decided to do a show on depresssion. Stanton Peele has authored many addiction recovery books. Addiction Proof Your Child is one of my favorites.  http://www.peele.net Recover: http://recover.peele.net Love & Addiction: http://love.peele.net Addiction Proof Your Child: http://child.peele.net Seven Tools to Beat Addiction: http://7tools.peele.net On-line Life Process Program: www.lifeprocessprogram.com www.peele.net

Join Author addiction specialist Stanton Peele and Blogger Juliet Abrams for a 1 hour show discussing how Depression, AA and non professionals are giving advice and tragedy occurrs. With the suicide of beloved Robin Williams,  I decided to do a show on depresssion. Stanton Peele has authored many addiction recovery books. Addiction Proof Your Child is one of my favorites.  http://www.peele.net Recover: http://recover.peele.net Love & Addiction: http://love.peele.net Addiction Proof Your Child: http://child.peele.net Seven Tools to Beat Addiction: http://7tools.peele.net On-line Life Process Program: www.lifeprocessprogram.com www.peele.net

Our guest this evening is Stanton Peele, Ph D, JD, author of Recover!: Stop Thinking Like an Addict and Reclaim Your Life with The PERFECT Program and founder of the Life Process Program for overcoming addictions.

Stanton began working on Love and Addiction (which was published in 1975) in 1970. In these forty years he has predicted a remarkable number of addiction trends. By now it is clear that the way in which Stanton has reframed addiction for the past four decades – sometimes facing extreme opposition – has been prescient. Addiction is not a consequence of taking drugs and drinking. Rather, it arises from the way in which these and other compelling activities fit into people's lives and meanings.

Stanton began working on Love and Addiction (which was published in 1975) in 1970. In these forty years he has predicted a remarkable number of addiction trends. By now it is clear that the way in which Stanton has reframed addiction for the past four decades – sometimes facing extreme opposition – has been prescient. Addiction is not a consequence of taking drugs and drinking. Rather, it arises from the way in which these and other compelling activities fit into people’s lives and meanings.