Podcast appearances and mentions of michelle dunbar

Our first interview is with Powerpaola, a Colombian Ecuadorian cartoonist and visual artist based in Buenos Aires. She is a member of the member of the international collective Chicks on Comics and authored the graphic book All My Bicycles. In the second half our guest is Michelle Dunbar, co-owner of Aztec Cycles, a community-oriented bike shop in Stone Mountain, Georgia.

Thousands of people have applied for the City of Atlanta's e-Bike Rebate Program. The first round of rebates is scheduled to go out on July 15th. Roz Tucker with the Atlanta Regional Commission shares demographic data and more about the people who are taking advantage of the rebates. Michelle Dunbar, the owner of Clutch Bicycle Shop, also joins us to give the perspective of a shop owner, to discuss the e-bike boom, and how this program will work. To those who know it best, the Okefenokee Swamp is the largest, completely freshwater swamp in North America. However, the future of the swamp could have huge implications for water law throughout the eastern United States. Marisa Mecke talks about her latest feature: With mine permits on the horizon, feds fight for water rights at the Okefenokee Swamp.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Coach Blu interviews Michelle Dunbar Mark Scheeren. They have created a mindset called the freedom model. Addict to Athlete revolves around the foundation of this style of recovery. They discuss their backgrounds and how the ideas came to fruition.  Addiction Solution podcast TheFreedomModel.org The Freedom Model Book Facebook Freedom Model Group

Coach Blu interviews Michelle Dunbar Mark Scheeren. They have created a mindset called the freedom model. Addict to Athlete revolves around the foundation of this style of recovery. They discuss their backgrounds and how the ideas came to fruition.          Addiction Solution podcast   TheFreedomModel.org  

Mark Scheeren and his colleague, Michelle Dunbar, developed the Freedom Model of Addiction. Listen as Claudia and Bev discuss this, agreeing on some things and disagreeing on others. It's always interesting to listen to different points of view. Both Mark and Michelle have struggled with addiction. Is addiction a brain disease? Can someone recover? Is medication always needed to stop using substances? Do people with addiction have to stop using all substances for the rest of their lives? Is the hijacked brain idea true? Who created it and why? The Freedom Model research - The Baldwin Research Institute The Freedom Model Website "Here are some really informative opiate/MAT-centered articles written by FM co-author and BRI Research Fellow, Steven Slate on his site www.thecleanslate.org" https://www.thecleanslate.org/the-facts-buprenorphine-treatment-for-opioid-use-disorder-is-widespread/ https://www.thecleanslate.org/how-the-new-york-times-and-everyone-else-keeps-getting-one-major-fact-about-opioid-addiction-and-treatment-wrong/ Mark Scheeren's co-author and BRI Research Fellow, Steven Slate's Ted Talk You can contact Mark at info@thefreedommodel.org Information on opioid MDL settlement dollars - $54 billion and counting Disclaimer: The information that has been provided to you in this podcast is not to be considered legal or medical advice. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-doctor-patient-forum/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/the-doctor-patient-forum/support

In this episode Mark Scheeren and Michelle Dunbar tell the story of how they slowly left the cult of Alcoholics Anonymous.

In this episode, we talk to LIVE WELL Exercise Clinic CEO Sara Hodson and franchisee Michelle Dunbar who opened her Bowmanville, Ontario location in July 2020. LIVE WELL is a medical fitness clinic that specializes in providing supervised exercise and healthy lifestyle coaching for people who have chronic health conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity, and provides fitness support for those wanting to prevent them. Here, Sara and Michelle share: • Why Michelle chose LIVE WELL over other franchise opportunities and instead of starting her own business from scratch • How LIVE WELL's core values impacts Sara's ability to find franchisees aligned with the same mission • The challenging surprises (and joys!) that emerged from COVID-19 for the LIVE WELL system and for Michelle's brand new franchise that was opened in the midst of the pandemic

In a time when a lot of us are dealing with strong, difficult emotions, it can be easy to slip into bad patterns to try and cope and these patterns can spiral to harmful levels and addiction. On top of that, some of the most popular addiction treatments often end up reinforcing the idea that someone's identity is "addict" which only serves to feed the pattern. Michelle Dunbar has a different way of looking at addiction. Through the framework she helped to develop, Michelle and her team empower people struggling with addiction to change the trajectory of their lives rather than giving the power to substances and bad habits. On Today's Episode of A Healthy Curiosity: What addiction means in the context of Michelle's work How her own experiences and those of other family members led her toward the framework she developed The three distinct components of The Freedom Model Why she says the opposite of addiction is diversification What has surprised her along her career of helping people with addiction Michelle Dunbar is the co-author of The Freedom Model for Addictions: Escape the Treatment and Recovery Trap and The Freedom Model for the Family. She is also Executive Director of Baldwin Research Institute, Inc., and The Saint Jude Retreats, not-for-profit research organizations with the mission to change the way people with substance use problems are helped worldwide. Michelle has been helping  people move beyond addiction for over 30 years. Links: Get A Free Sample of The Non-12 Step Addiction Ebook Get The Freedom Model Books for free by using code “freedom100” through the end of 2020 Connect With Michelle Dunbar: Saint Jude Retreats The Freedom Model Ebooks Twitter Facebook YouTube -- Find out how to enroll in the Level Up course (on sale through the end of 2020!) Work with Brodie 1-on-1

In this podcast, Freedom Model co-authors Mark Scheeren and Michelle Dunbar talk about their personal experiences with deprogramming and also their experiences helping others to do the same.

What you think about yourself is what you become. Addiction is a habit that is self-created and developed over time for personal reasons. Physical dependence is a physical toxicity issue, not an addiction issue, and there’s no such thing as an addictive gene. The Freedom Model runs counter-culture to what you may have heard before and gives hope to those who have failed traditional treatment. Join Dr. Hotze and his guests, Mark Scheeren and Michelle Dunbar of The Freedom Model, a St. Jude Retreat in New York. Mark shares that it’s okay to reject the labels (alcoholic, addict, etc.) and move on with your life. Michelle grew up in the cult of AA. She drank and tried her 1st drug at 12 and started using regularly at 16 or 17. They have educated over 8,000 people (most of which have failed at traditional treatment) about the power of choice! Escape the power of addiction and go from hopeless to hopeful, knowing you have control and power over drugs and alcohol. If you or someone you know needs to escape from the power of addiction, you can contact The Freedom Model at www.soberforever.net or call them directly at (888) 424-2626. You can find them on YouTube and subscribe to their podcast The Addiction Solution. Their five-star book, The Freedom Model for Addictions, is also available online. https://www.thefreedommodel.org/ Watch now and subscribe to our podcasts at www.HotzePodcast.com If you have any of the signs and symptoms mentioned on this podcast, take our free symptom checker test at https://www.hotzehwc.com/symptom-checker/

What you think about yourself is what you become. Addiction is a habit that is self-created and developed over time for personal reasons. Physical dependence is a physical toxicity issue, not an addiction issue, and there’s no such thing as an addictive gene. The Freedom Model runs counter-culture to what you may have heard before and gives hope to those who have failed traditional treatment. Join Dr. Hotze and his guests, Mark Scheeren and Michelle Dunbar of The Freedom Model, a St. Jude Retreat in New York. Mark shares that it’s okay to reject the labels (alcoholic, addict, etc.) and move on with your life. Michelle grew up in the cult of AA. She drank and tried her 1st drug at 12 and started using regularly at 16 or 17. They have educated over 8,000 people (most of which have failed at traditional treatment) about the power of choice! Escape the power of addiction and go from hopeless to hopeful, knowing you have control and power over drugs and alcohol. If you or someone you know needs to escape from the power of addiction, you can contact The Freedom Model at www.soberforever.net or call them directly at (888) 424-2626. You can find them on YouTube and subscribe to their podcast The Addiction Solution. Their five-star book, The Freedom Model for Addictions, is also available online. https://www.thefreedommodel.org/ Watch now and subscribe to our podcasts at www.HotzePodcast.com If you have any of the signs and symptoms mentioned on this podcast, take our free symptom checker test at https://www.hotzehwc.com/symptom-checker/

The dudes have Steven Slate and Michelle Dunbar of the Baldwin Research Institute on the podcast to talk about a different approach to addiction. Their belief is that addiction is not a disease, and should be treated accordingly. They, along with Ryan Schwantes, have written The Freedom Model for Addictions: Escape the Treatment and Recovery Trap, and have published several additions of the book. They also offer retreats at St Jude in upstate New York. For more information on the Freedom Model approach, go to Saint Jude Retreats https://www.soberforever.net The Freedom Model https://www.thefreedommodel.org or email info@thefreedommodel.org

Welcome my fellow eCommerce Entrepreneurs! My name is Matt Edmundson and this show is for those of us Kurious About eCommerce and want to know how to get better at digital business.   Coming up in today's show, we are talking about Black Friday - one of the busiest shopping day in the retail calendar. It's time now to start planning a strategy that is best suited for your business.   No matter how you feel about Black Friday, it is coming and it is still one of the busiest shopping days in the retail calendar on both sides of the pond. This year Black Friday is falling on November 29th which for many will be just after pay day. Many businesses will be stepping up their Black Friday sales to get a bigger share of consumer spending.   With the number of Black Friday shoppers increasing year on year, how do businesses approach Black Friday in such a saturated market?   In reality there are two main options - either stand out or stand down. Stand out to get the biggest share of consumer spending as possible or stand down and save your discounts for Christmas sales.   However you choose to protect your margins and retain customers, essentially you need to be highly strategic in Q4 to protect your profit margins and create conversions.   Here are 10 Top Tips:   1. Get ahead of the curve and start planning for Black Friday now. Shoppers will start holiday shopping and researching for Black Friday sales in October. Plan your products and promotional calendar, marketing emails etc.   2. Be competitive and apply the right discounts. Consumers are becoming increasingly immune to discounts - they are used to getting 15%-20% off all year round so 20% off on Black Friday means very little. Use you landing page to clearly display your discounts.   3. Offer targeted promotions instead of site-wide sales to protect profit margins. Some businesses that offer massive discounts not only risk their profits but also stock shortages in the middle of the shopping season.   4. Don't discount for the sake of Black Friday. Looking at trends from Prime day a few months ago, research shows that "while discounted products saw the largest average period-over-period revenue increases (+820%), the roughly 59% of products in the sample that were not discounted over Prime Day still saw average revenue growth of +496%". These stats show that whilst discounts help, people were generally in the buying mood. We can expect the same for Black Friday.   5. Black Friday is not just a day of sales but a weekend long event. To keep the customers and the sales coming, make sure your extend your sale until Cyber Monday.    6. Prepare for a huge spike in traffic by keeping your server speed and check out process in check - no one has the patience for a slow site and you don't wan't to lose sales and or valuable future custom. If you can google 'page speed insight' and check the speed of your website.   7. If you can't compete with the big businesses then create interest in your business by sacrificing old inventory -if you're a beauty site you could give away an item from old inventory for every customer who spends £10/$10 or more. Not only will you be able to get rid of old stock but customers will get to sample your products too.   8. Donate all or portions of your BF sales to Charity.   9. Do nothing. Don't participate in and save the discounts for Christmas instead. IKEA, Asda and M&S, Selfridges, Apple, Next and Primark are just some of the brands who have opted out of some BF events.    10. Internalise #4 -  it's not just about discounts!   There is no right or wrong way to do Black Friday. As consumers we know we are going to be completely bombarded by companies competing to give us the best offers but that doesn't necessarily mean we aren't going to spend our money. In essence, consumers are looking for great value for money - whether it's on Black Friday or Christmas sales or whether our money goes to charity or goes to line profit margins.     >> A Look Inside Jersey Beauty Company with Director, Michelle Dunbar

When looking for alternatives to 12 step based programs and meetings, people often look for alternative support groups. And while there are a few, the question remains, are support groups actually necessary and/or effective at helping people to change their substance use behaviors? What people fail to realize is that before 1935 when Alcoholics Anonymous was formed, those people who struggled with alcohol or drug problems simply got over their problems and moved on with their lives. The entire premise that people need some kind of support structure or meeting was literally born out of the 12 step movement. Freedom Model co-authors Mark Scheeren, Steven Slate and Michelle Dunbar discuss their personal experiences in support group meetings and where their research has taken them. They talk candidly about whether or not support group meetings are necessary or effective

This and the next two podcasts will introduce you to The Addiction Solution team, Michelle Dunbar, Mark Scheeren and Steven Slate. In the first in this 3-podcast series, Steven Slate has a candid discussion with Michelle Dunbar what it was like to grow up in Alcoholics Anonymous, which she refers to as "the cult", and how that influenced her life. She discusses how her early life struggles transformed into a passion to find the answers to these problems and help people to change their lives. From her take on moderation, which is heresy in the "recovery" world, to her work helping families of substance users, to her personal experiences working with substance users at The Freedom Model Retreats, you will get a unique glimpse into Michelle's life and the answers she has found over the course of nearly 3 decades of dedicated curiosity and work on this one mission.

In this episode of the Addiction Solution Podcast, addiction experts, researchers, and authors, Mark Scheeren and Michelle Dunbar discuss the controversial topic - Addiction Is Not a Disease.

Join us for an interview with President of St Judes Retreat, a non 12 step place to go for help with alcohol or drug problems. If you need to get away from your environment to get help, this might be th eplace for you. Abstinence and Moderation are options here. 

Join us for an interview with President of St Judes Retreat, a non 12 step place to go for help with alcohol or drug problems. If you need to get away from your environment to get help, this might be th eplace for you. Abstinence and Moderation are options here. 

Join Monica and Michelle Dunbar for a 1 hour show.   Michelle Dunbar is the Executive Director of St Judes Retreat and she is in the process of developing their Family Program as well as a book for families which is scheduled to be released by Fall this year. Call in or chat live with other bloggers. 

Join Monica and Michelle Dunbar for a 1 hour show.   Michelle Dunbar is the Executive Director of St Judes Retreat and she is in the process of developing their Family Program as well as a book for families which is scheduled to be released by Fall this year. Call in or chat live with other bloggers. 

Our first guest is Shilo Murphy, executive director of the Peoples Harm Reduction Alliance to talk about drug user stigma.   Our second guest is Michelle Dunbar, executive director of St Jude Retreat House. St Jude's has the highest independently verified success rate of any addiction treatment center--no 12 steps, no disease model, and no B*llsh*t.

Our guests for today are Mark Sheeran and Michelle Dunbar of the Baldwin Research Group. They have a thought-provoking conversation about The Freedom Model of addiction treatment, which is a non-Twelve Step, and non-disease model of treatment. Mark is 49-years old. He is the chairman of Baldwin Research and he is one of the authors of The Freedom Model. Mark co-founded the Saint Jude Retreat, which is where The Freedom Model is taught. Episode Link>>>>www.theaddictedmind.com/78 ( http://theaddictedmind.com/78 ) Mark and Michelle both come from heavy AA backgrounds. Their families were both steeped in treatment and AA, so their research actually began when they were kids. Mark was involved in a serious drunk-driving accident thirty years ago, at the age of nineteen. This made him realize that he needed to change his life. He was mandated into treatment and found that he disagreed vehemently with what they were teaching him because he did not believe that he would be an alcoholic forever. His treatment experience was so bad that he knew there had to be a better way. After completing eighteen months of treatment he decided to figure out a better way for people. Within one year, he coined the phrase "non-Twelve Step”. Join The Addicted Mind Podcast Facebook Group>>> ( https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheAddictedMindPodcast/ ) Mark spent the next twelve years, doing research. He then met Michelle and they continued doing the research together, along with some others. Together, they developed the skeleton of what was to become The Freedom Model. The model was perfected over the next twenty years. Michelle is the Executive Director of Baldwin Research. She is also one of the co-authors of The Freedom Model. Michelle is the Director of the Saint Jude Retreat and she teaches the program. Mark met Michelle's father at AA in 1989. Michelle approached her father for help with her drinking and drug use when she was twenty-two years old. Her father had been in recovery for about ten years at the time, and he no longer believed that he was an alcoholic. Michelle was intrigued by her father's approach. He had a group of young people with whom he was doing research and so she unknowingly became one of his only female research subjects in his project. Michelle's father told her that she did not have a disease and she was not powerless. He explained that her problem was temporary and that she could be okay. This was a very new idea for her. She continued with AA for another seven years but she was always a heretic, trying to change it from within and telling people that they could be okay. Mark and Michelle spent the first twelve years of the thirty that they were doing their research in AA, trying desperately to make it work and become more effective. But they were heretics at the same time. Where AA was saying that you never get over the problem, they were saying that you most certainly do. Mark went to over 3000 AA meetings. First, as a member, then as a skeptical member, then as a researcher, then as a researcher that was fairly anti-AA when he got to truly understand the facts. According to Mark's research, people do move on from their addictions. Over 90% of drug addicts, alcoholics, and heavy substance abusers move past the problem as they get older, whether they treat it or not. With The Freedom Model, you have to undo the mythologies so that you become free to move on. As a young person, the idea that you are going to struggle with your "disease" forever can be very daunting. The Freedom Model debunks 23 of the grand myths that people are told about addiction so that people can make the choice as to the benefits of their using. Because people use because they like it. The Freedom Model helps people question why they make decisions and why they are motivated to use, based on their behavior, their belief systems, and the myths by which they may be living their lives. According to Mark's research, 90% of drinkers quit, whether they are treated or not. 98% of crystal meth addicts stop whether there are brain changes or not. And 99% of cocaine users and 98% of heroin users quit whether they are treated or not, even though their brains change because brain changes are normal. It is more natural to move on from addiction than it is to keep one. And it is much more natural for a human being to change than it is to remain static in a behavior. The key to recovery is to move the locus of control to the self. Shame sits in the way of recovery. At their residential retreats, people spend four weeks attending classes where they work with the 450 page Freedom Model curriculum. They don't take away people's cellphones and laptops or treat them like babies or criminals. It is a very conducive, quiet, learning environment. By the time that everyone leaves, the myths have been undone, they know that they can be free, and they have usually chosen either moderation or abstinence. Life in recovery doesn't have to be a daily struggle. It all comes down to a choice that we make to deal with difficult experiences. Mark and Michelle help people by challenging their beliefs that a substance will help them to deal with stressful situations. Mark and Michelle have both been there. They want people to know that they can move on from addiction because it's not a chronic, progressive, psycho-social disease. You can become free to get on with your life and move past all of this and by actually understanding what is happening. *Links and resources:* The Baldwin Research Group - https://www.baldwinresearch.com/ Website for retreats - www.soberforever.net ( http://www.soberforever.net/ ) Website for the book and all services - www.thefreedommodel.org ( http://www.thefreedommodel.org/ )