Miracles in Recovery: Recent Episodes
Ray Lynch
On Miracles in Recovery we discuss all aspects of addiction and recovery and how they affect our families, communities, and the relationships within them. Join us for answers on how twelve step recovery programs can work in the lives of addicts and their families. We are also open to discuss any alternative options that have been working in your life as well. It starts by looking in the mirror. Hope is in your corner.
Judi Miller started her career as a Certified Public Accountant and went on to excel in the world of corporate finance for over 20 years. Most of her life has been dedicated to personal development and helping others excel in a constantly changing environment. Over the past several years, Judi’s interest shifted toward spirituality. Her growth was no longer aimed at making herself better; instead, she began to focus on finding her intrinsic wholeness. This shift brought her numerous lessons around the nature of the creator, forgiveness and the trajectory each soul follows throughout the course of many lives. Today, sharing these lessons is an integral part of her journey. As a coach, speaker and author, she shares her relatable and heartfelt messages with others who want to awaken to their true greatness and experience lasting happiness.
On Miracles in Recovery we discuss all aspects of addiction and recovery and how they affect our families, communities, and the relationships within them. Join us for answers on how twelve step recovery programs can work in the lives of addicts and their families. We are also open to discuss any alternative options that have been working in your life as well. It starts by looking in the mirror. Hope is in your corner.
If you have struggled finding, holding or maintaining deep, safe and long lasting love in your life, you may be very surprised at the reason. It's not because you've been jinxed, the lovers you've attracted have been selfish and insensitive, or your partner no longer cares the way he or she did.It's because your brain has been mis-programmed. That's according to the vast research done by relationship counselor Dr. Gary Salyer, Ph.D. in his illuminating breakthrough new book.Yes, you do DESERVE to have a long-lasting deep love.But everyone has a love style that plays out throughout their lives, according to Salyer, an underlying subconscious approach to love. Either Secure, which leads to long-lasting, fully-embodied love; Avoidance, which causes a person to find ways not to fully commit or become deeply intimate; and lastly Anxious, in which a person creates drama from the fear that the relationship is always in jeopardy.
Call in and speak to our featured guest Dr. Robb Kelly as we discuss all aspects of addiction and recovery and how they affect our families, communities, and the relationships within them. Join us for answers on how twelve step recovery programs can work in the lives of addicts and their families. We are also open to discuss any alternative options that have been working in your life as well.
Call in and speak to our featured guest Dr. Robb Kelly as we discuss all aspects of addiction and recovery and how they affect our families, communities, and the relationships within them. Join us for answers on how twelve step recovery programs can work in the lives of addicts and their families. We are also open to discuss any alternative options that have been working in your life as well.
Harry is co-host, with Greg Suchy, Recovery Coach from Ohio, the bi-monthly highly successful webinar and YouTube series called ADDICTION, ALCOHOLISM & THE 3 PRINCIPLES. We have over 60 shows with over 700,000 minutes viewed. This YOUTUBE channel also has a FREE course of 7 short episodes for those struggling with Addiction issues.
For nearly 30 years, Deni Carise, PhD, has served as an important national voice on substance use disorder, treatment and recovery and regularly speaks at national conferences on current trends in the field. She is a clinical psychologist and assistant adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and currently serves as chief scientific officer for Recovery Centers of America, a locally accessible, evidence-based treatment provider. Dr. Carise has provided consult for the White House and internationally with treatment providers in other countries to develop national systems of clinical treatment delivery. She has published over 100 articles, books and chapters on addiction and related topics. With extensive knowledge, media experience and her own personal experience in recovery, Dr. Carise speaks in plain truths and succinct sound-bites about the scope and stigma of addiction, the quest for treatment, and the challenges of recovery.
For nearly 30 years, Deni Carise, PhD, has served as an important national voice on substance use disorder, treatment and recovery and regularly speaks at national conferences on current trends in the field. She is a clinical psychologist and assistant adjunct professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and currently serves as chief scientific officer for Recovery Centers of America, a locally accessible, evidence-based treatment provider. Dr. Carise has provided consult for the White House and internationally with treatment providers in other countries to develop national systems of clinical treatment delivery. She has published over 100 articles, books and chapters on addiction and related topics. With extensive knowledge, media experience and her own personal experience in recovery, Dr. Carise speaks in plain truths and succinct sound-bites about the scope and stigma of addiction, the quest for treatment, and the challenges of recovery.
In this emotional memoir, Susán Hoemke divulges the heart-wrenching story of her son Hayden’s eight-year battle with drug addiction, and his tragic death at age twenty two. Through the pain of losing a child, Susán unflinchingly relates the crimes that her son’s desperation for a fix drove him to commit, and how the mental and physical impact of the drugs on his body turned her happy, creative son into a stranger in their home. The years surrounding Hayden’s death have been some of the most difficult in the family’s life, his addiction not only affecting him but all those around him. Rebuilding their home and family, and attempting to see light in the darkest days they’d ever experienced proved to be an incredibly difficult effort, but not impossible. Hoemke hopes that her family’s story will serve as a wake-up call to people everywhere about the drug epidemic across this country, and as a song of hope for those suffering through what her family has.
I was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, where as a child I was sexually abused by my parish priest. This abuse plunged me headfirst into drug addiction, incarceration, ruined-relationships, and homelessness. As a survivor of sexual abuse, I found my voice at 32 years old and I have gone on to be an outspoken advocate for the protection of children. I am actively involved with and support those that push for legal remedies to protect children. As a recovered addict and a survivor or sexual abuse, I’ve dedicated my life to helping those going through what I experienced and show them that abuse and addiction do not have to limit them from all of life’s joy and beauty.
The program is called Action Based Induction Therapy ABIT which consists of various team-based drills adapted from Navy SEAL training exercises. McMillen brought in former NAVY Seal Vets and has implemented their highly intensive training program into their addiction treatment model. The results have been extraordinary.
ABIT helps rebuild, repair and strengthen the prefrontal cortex, frontal lobe that plays a role in the regulation of complex cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functioning and Tree House is the first to implement the model.
Rundown of one Navy Seal exercises utilized at Tree House Recovery- The men break into 2 teams Carry IBS boats 300lbs on top of their heads Race to the edge of the water and get into the boat Row as a team to the endpoint Jump into the water FLIP the boat and get back in Row back to shore Carry the boats to the finish line back on the beach
Erik Coleman is a former NFL standout, active philanthropist and sought-after sports analyst who uses his on-field experience, extensive knowledge of sports and robust personality to bring new and exciting insight to fans young and old. Coleman played nine seasons in the NFL with the New York Jets, Atlanta Falcons and Detroit Lions. Recognized for his unwavering work ethic and passion for the game, Coleman became the first New York Jets player ever to earn the NFL Rookie Defensive Player of the Month Award since 1996 and finished his rookie season as the NFL's highest grossing member of its performance-pay program, the league's plan for rewarding low-salary players who outperform their contracts. During his NFL tenure, Coleman's highlights include 653 combined career tackles and assists, 11 interceptions, 4 forced fumbles and 37 passes defended and he also served as the player-elected NFL Players Association Team Representative five out of his nine years in the league.
Pete Mills, longtime producer and artist, has started a new band, The Sweet Kill. Driven by dark wave synths, masculine punk attitude, minimal urban beats and a neo-emo message, The Sweet Kill refracts the struggle of addiction in a beautifully unsettling fashion. The Sweet Kill is debuting their first single, Die In Your Eyes, is now available on Spotify and YouTube (June 22nd). For LA listeners, The Sweet Kill will be performing at Bar Sinister in Los Angeles on Saturday June 30th.
Amy Dresner is a former professional stand-up comic, having appeared at The Comedy Store, The Laugh Factory, and The Improv. She is also a recovering alcoholic, drug and sex addict. Since 2012, she has been the sole official columnist for the online addiction and recovery magazine TheFix.com. She's also written for the Good Men Project, The Frisky, Refinery 29, Addiction.com, Daily Tonic/Vice and PsychologyToday.com, where she has her own addiction blog entitled Coming Clean. My Fair Junkie: A memoir of getting dirty and staying clean published by Hachette in September 2017 is her first book. It has garnered rave reviews by critics and readers alike for it's dark humor, deep insights and brutal honesty. She is currently in negotiations for a TV series based on her memoir.
We will be joined by legendary tattoo artist Freddy Negrete. The key topics of Freddy's life that we will discuss are Growing up in foster care and being physically/mentally abused which led to him running away, entering the juvenile hall system in Los Angeles and joining a gang. By the time he was 21 Freddy had spent most of his life in correctional institutions. It was in there, especially in California Youth Authority, where he mastered the art of Black and Gray prison style tattooing and he is considered a pioneer of this art form. His son, Lorenzo was killed in a gang conflict which propelled Freddy into hard-core heroin and speed addiction. He nearly died in the LA County Jail from drug-induced congestive heart failure but called out to God and went through a miraculous recovery and Freddy has counseled a group of young addicts for many years at the Beit T'Shuvah treatment center and is passionate on the subject of faith, God and the 12-step program.
My name is Catherine; I am a recovering addicted compulsive gambler who lives dually diagnosed with mental health, childhood trauma & abuse and have lived in recovery ten+ years. I advocate in raising awareness, inform, & educate the public through sharing my experiences about these important issues that affect many people. By doing this, I hope it begins to diminish STIGMA around these issues.
The opioid epidemic and the different facets this non-profit advocated for action on which include: Accessible treatment & mental health services, harm reduction, more cautious prescribing of opioids, educating the public, reducing the stigma of addiction and drug use, making big pharma more accountable and better monitor their conflicts of interest, better surveillance and reporting of overdose deaths, better training for enforcement when investigating overdose deaths.
We will be speaking with Patricia Rosen, the Publisher of Sober World Magazine. Patricia launched the Sober World Magazine in 2011 after her son Steven died from a prescription drug overdose. This tragedy led her to launch the magazine as a means of giving back to families who are suffering the perils of addiction. She wanted to provide a comprehensive resource that provides education about addiction and the resources that are available to aid in recovery. Her goal is to help eliminate the stigma associated with addiction, present quality resources, and to educate people on addiction and to try to prevent another tragedy from occurring. She believes this can only be done by educating the public and bringing awareness to the problem.
Dr. Boyett is a former president of The Alabama Osteopathic Medical Association and the current president of the Alabama Society of Addiction Medicine. In his role as ALSAM president, his top priorities include the effort to fully implement Parity Law and to bring addiction medicine into the mainstream of the healthcare system ultimately improving access to care for patients in need.
In 2017, Dr. Boyett was appointment by Alabama Governor Robert Bentley to serve on the Governor’s Task Force on Opioid Addiction and Abuse. This committee is made up of leaders from the state’s criminal justice system, public and mental health systems and medical profession with the assignment of combating Alabama’s opioid abuse crisis.
Recognizing the extreme unmet need for access to outpatient addiction treatment, Dr. Boyett established Pathway Partners Addiction Medicine, now known as Pathway Healthcare, as evidence based model for outpatient treatment of addictive disorders.
Her Story Born in New York City, Ginger’s early childhood was one of privilege. Private school education and every opportunity to succeed were at her fingertips. At the age of 12, she picked up her first drink and it spiraled into her living a double life.
During the day she would attend to the expectations of her parents and at night she would go out dancing and doing drugs in the nightclubs. She worked at the infamous Studio 54 in high school and behaved in ways that were unbecoming to a “young lady.”
Following college, she returned to NY to work in the advertising business. Lacking a serious work ethic, she found a man to marry and settled into a life in the suburbs. After a couple of years, her daughter was born and that was the beginning of her bottom.
She arrived in AA on May 22, 2000 and has not looked back. Her Recovery is the greatest fact of her life for without it she would not live the life of joy and usefulness.
Currently she lives in Vermont with her husband and 2 dogs.
When it become apparent that traumas play an important role in addicts (as well as most people’s) becoming an addict Dr. Rohrer took note. He started to use effective tools such as E.M.D.R. and more recently Brainspotting. Bs is a very effective tool for neutralizing traumas, as well as triggers and the accompanying cravings. Information on Brainspotting can be found on brainspotting.pro.
Dr. Rohrer is currently developing a performance-based recovery addiction recovery model. Quality or Q-Recovery, including an evaluation. A performance approach towards recovery and life focuses on your ability to perform effectively, based on your potential and your desired outcomes, it speaks for its self. Find about at graduaterecovery.com.
Our Featured Guest this week is Erica Tamposi. Erica has made a short film about addiction 'Extended Release'. The film, which is around 20 minutes long, brings you through the trials and tribulations of an addict and his friend. Like art mimicking life, the end has a tragic meaning. Please watch the film and then join in to share your thoughts or view of the film. I am proud to have Erica on the show as she hits the nail right on the head with this short film, which will grab your emotions and bring you on a ride many of us have experienced, either as active addicts or family and friends.
We will be speaking with Dr Nancy Irwin, Addiction Specialist and Primary Therapist at Seasons Recovery Center. She is a member of the American Hypnosis Association, the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers, the California Psychological Association, the Los Angeles County Psychological Association, and she is a Diplomate in the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress.
A certified practitioner of EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Time Line Therapy, and Emotion Free Therapy, Dr. Irwin tailors each client's treatment to effect the most rapid transformation possible. Dr. Irwin's academic accomplishments, life experience, and personal approach together enable her to provide clients with a unique treatment experience.
Dr. Irwin currently serves as a Primary Therapist & Certified Hypnotherapist at Seasons Recovery Centers in Los Angeles, California.
Title: Admissions Coordinator and Co-Founder of Path to Serenity
Lisa Cohen is our Admissions Coordinator and is in the process of obtaining certification as a drug and alcohol counselor. Lisa graduated from the University of Arizona where she majored in Media Arts. She is currently in recovery and has a strong interest in sharing her experience, strength, and hope with others who are recovering.
Lisa has been an important resource at Path to Serenity offering her valuable perspective having gone through the recovery process herself and successfully continuing to stay on track. Lending her voice to a KTLA investigative report on drug abuse, Lisa explained during her interview how addiction can happen to anyone, and that there is help out there. As the admissions Coordinator at Path to Serenity, Lisa welcomes those seeking help in beating addiction.
As the CEO and Senior Rabbi of Beit T’Shuvah, a nonprofit, non-sectarian, Jewish addiction treatment center and synagogue community in Los Angeles, Rabbi Mark’s leadership is unparalleled. Community members, addicts, educators, dignitaries, and executives all seek his wisdom; a blend of street savvy, and wise rabbinic teachings. When working with people, he is living proof that change is possible; when speaking to the congregant, he stands for the hope that every man has a higher purpose. After being released from prison in 1988 he began his work at Beit T’Shuvah. Over the past twenty-eight years, he has helped co-create one of the most exceptional approaches to addiction treatment and criminal rehabilitation and reintegration in the world.
George Lindenfeld, Ph.D. is a Clinical Psychologist and founder of the RESET Therapy Professional Institute which is dedicated to the permanent healing of emotional trauma. He served in the Navy Seabees prior to attaining his doctorate in Child and Developmental Psychology at Utah State University in 1971. He completed his Residency in Medical Psychology at the University of Oregon Medical School in 1971, and holds a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology awarded by A.B.P.P., in 1980. He has been certified in EEG Biofeedback by BCIA and the Academy of Certified Neurotherapists
Sometimes in life, things happen too fast. We barely solve one problem when two problems surface. We’re feeling great in the morning, but we’re submerged in misery by nightfall. Every day we face interruptions, delays, changes, and challenges. We face personality conflicts and disappointments. Often when we are feeling overwhelmed, we can’t see the lessons in these experiences. One simple concept can get us through the most stressful of times. It’s called gratitude. We learn to say, thank you, for these problems and feelings. Thank you for the way things are. I don’t like this experience, but thank you anyway. Force gratitude until it becomes habitual. Gratitude helps us stop trying to control outcomes. It is the key that unlocks positive energy in our life. It is the alchemy that turns problems into blessings, and the unexpected into gifts.
Today, I will be grateful. I will start the process of turning today’s pain into tomorrow’s joy.
We will be speaking with Dr Cali Estes on this edition of Miracles in Recovery. Cali Estes, Ph.D is a highly sought after Celebrity Addiction Therapist, Life Coach, Recovery Coach and Wellness Guru that blends talk therapy with forward and positive change to assist her clients in unlocking their true potential. She has been featured in books, magazines, radio and television for her work in the addictions and therapy fields. She works with individuals, drug and alcohol treatment teams and addiction professionals looking to advance their knowledge base.
Doctor Robb Kelly is a world-renowned addiction consultant who believes in treating the problem of addiction, not the symptoms. He has worked for many years helping addicts and alcoholics to RECOVER their lives from the disease of addiction. Based on his own experiences working with addicts and alcoholics over the last 20 years, combined with a PhD in psychology, and as a recovered alcoholic himself – he is a triple threat against the disease of addiction. Dr. Kelly’s methods are seen as unconventional and unorthodox, but they are based on extensive research and behavioral studies he has conducted over the last 25 years. He has worked with thousands of people including celebrities of film, music, and sports, lectured at many high profile universities and hospitals on the subject of addiction, and is recognized as a leading authority on addiction recovery methods that are changing lives. Today, Dr. Robb Kelly is living his dream, instead of dreaming of living.
After taking a few months off from Broadcasting, Ray Lynch is eager to get back behind the mic and share his Experience, Strength and Hope, call in and share yours as well.... Ellen will be joining him in the studio again as well. Tune in to hear their message of recovery. With Miracles in Recovery, Hope is in your Corner....
Terry will join us to share his book The Silence of War, An Old Marine in a Young Marine's War.
With a Foreword by Bill O’Reilly, here is the incredible memoir of a former Marine who returns to combat in Iraq and Afghanistan three decades after leaving the Corps.
Call in and speak to our featured guest Dr. Robb Kelly as we discuss all aspects of addiction and recovery and how they affect our families, communities, and the relationships within them. Join us for answers on how twelve step recovery programs can work in the lives of addicts and their families. We are also open to discuss any alternative options that have been working in your life as well.
This week our featured guest is Dr Arthur Ciaramicoli, EdD PhD. Dr Ciaramicoli is a licensed clinical psychologist who has been treating clients for more than 35 years. He has written a new book titled The Stress Solution: How Empathy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Reduces Anxiety and Increases Resilience. We will be discussing his latest literature and all other books workbooks, literary papers, etc. Please join us as we welcome this Featured Guest on Miracles in Recovery November 7th at 7pm Eastern, 4pm Pacific time.
Our Featured Guest this week is Erica Tamposi. Erica has made a short film about addiction 'Extended Release'. The film, which is around 20 minutes long, brings you through the trials and tribulations of an addict and his friend. Like art mimicking life, the end has a tragic meaning. Please watch the film and then join in to share your thoughts or view of the film. I am proud to have Erica on the show as she hits the nail right on the head with this short film, which will grab your emotions and bring you on a ride many of us have experienced, either as active addicts or family and friends.
Sometimes it seems as though there is so much wrong with the world that we might as well forget trying to make a difference. “After all,” we think, “what in the world can I do? I’m just one person.” Whether our concerns are so broad that we desire global peace or so personal that we simply want recovery made available to every addict who wants it, the task seems overwhelming. “So much work to do, so little time,” we sigh, sometimes wondering how we’ll ever do any good. The smallest contributions can make the biggest difference. To gain more from life than an ordinary, plodding existence requires very little effort on our parts. When we smile at someone who is frowning, when we let someone in front of us on the freeway, when we call a newcomer just to say we care, we enter the realm of the extraordinary. Want to change the world? Start with the person sitting next to you and then imagine your act of kindness multiplied. One person at a time, we all make a difference.
The importance of using evidence based treatment to CURE addiction and alcoholism. There is extensive research that shows that only by healing the underlying causes of addiction and alcoholism -untreated depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, etc. and unresolved trauma- with a combination of medication and cognitive behavioral therapy can individuals be CURED of their addiction and alcoholism yet most of the nation's rehabs aren't using evidence based treatment. This lack of evidenced based treatment is equivalent to medical malpractice and needs to be addressed so that we can save millions of lives and end homelessness.
Our Featured Guest this week is Erica Tamposi. Erica has made a short film about addiction 'Extended Release'. The film, which is around 20 minutes long, brings you through the trials and tribulations of an addict and his friend. Like art mimicking life, the end has a tragic meaning. Please watch the film and then join in to share your thoughts or view of the film. I am proud to have Erica on the show as she hits the nail right on the head with this short film, which will grab your emotions and bring you on a ride many of us have experienced, either as active addicts or family and friends.
Recovery involves change, and change means doing things differently. The problem is, many of us resist doing things differently: what we’re doing may not be working, but at least we’re familiar with it. It takes courage to step out into the unknown. How do we find that courage? Just for today: I welcome change. With the help of my Higher Power, I will find the courage to change the things I can.
Our Featured Guest this week is Erica Tamposi. Erica has made a short film about addiction 'Extended Release'. The film, which is around 20 minutes long, brings you through the trials and tribulations of an addict and his friend. Like art mimicking life, the end has a tragic meaning. Please watch the film and then join in to share your thoughts or view of the film. I am proud to have Erica on the show as she hits the nail right on the head with this short film, which will grab your emotions and bring you on a ride many of us have experienced, either as active addicts or family and friends.
In recovery, we begin to interact with the world around us, we no longer live in isolation. But freedom from isolation has its price: The more we interact with people, the more often we’ll find someone stepping on our toes or reminding us of our 'Old Behaviors'. Here is where the circumstances in which resentments are often born. Resentments, justified or not, are dangerous to our ongoing recovery. The longer we harbor resentments, the more bitter they become, eventually poisoning us. To stay clean, we must find the capacity to let go of our resentments, the capacity to forgive. Then, and only then, will we be able to embrace a clear internal calmness while dealing with life on life's terms.
This is Miracles in Recovery's inaugural show on Voice America. Ray will introduce himself to you and 'claim his Seat'. During this hour Ray and his guest, Ellen Arnold will take the time to let the audience get to know who we are and what the show is about. Please feel free to call in and be part of the solution. Remember, we are YOUR voice!