CNEI Podcast: Recent Episodes
Chris Tannahill
- Ok, Now what do you do?
- Is there a secret to it?
- Can you get loaded after a long period of being clean?
- How does one stay sober for the rest of their lives?
- Did you want to get high?
- Did you have using/drunk dreams?
- How did you deal with that?
- Did anyone not want to see you get better?
- What happened to your friends?
- was family supportive?
- How many true friends did you end up with after?
- How can I tell I have a problem?
- How did you succeed when many others your age did not?
- Why did you stop?
- Do you have to want to get clean for it to work?
- What was treatment process like?
- Did you feel it was going to work?
- Did anyone help you through?
- Was there a moment of clarity?
- Describe entering vs. Leaving treatment
- Life before recovery
- What active addiction was like?
- The impact of social media.
- Active addiction as a teen.
- Active addiction as a teen at school.
- Could you stop? Did you want to?
- Did you care?
- Who were you hurting?
- Authority figures?
- What happened before you quit?
- Suicidal?
- Could anyone help you?
- Could anyone reach you?
Chris Tannahill talking about Pain and Addiction.
- What is addiction?
- 3 types of addicts.
- How emotional pain keeps us loaded.
- How youth perceive this process.
- Being young and loaded.
- How I understand my early use?
- Is pain necessary?
- Steps 6, 7, 8 ,9, 10 11, 12
- Why is there only a paragraph in Big Book on steps 6,7??
- What do I do exactly on 6,7?
- Is Step 8 necessary?
- Is 8,9 just an apology?
- What if I don’t forgive who I am making amends with?
- Explain, “injure them or others”
- What if I do not care about the people on my amends list?
- Is step 10 just this process in short form?
- Do I have to continue to do this?
- Is step 11 necessary if I am already a church goer?
- How do I do step 11?
What if I do not have time to help others? Is step 12 necessary?
- Step 2/step 3/step 4/ step 5
- Power vs God
- Atheist? Agnostic? Cool.
- Personal Experience & of Others with this step
- Sanity?
- Made a decision…??
- Why God? Why Spiritual?
- Inventory – moral or immoral?
- Why write it down?
- Is it Confession?
- What happens when I do this? What happens if I do not?
- We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable.
- What are the 12 steps?
- Why do we need them?
- Guide to Living not New Religion
- Beginning the Process
- Why it is so hard for many...
- Breakdown of Step 1
- Personal Experience and Obstacles
Do you want to be an Alcohol and Drug Addiction Counselor?
- Why Counseling?
- What does a counselor do?
- LISTEN
- Self Care
- Your Work is not Your Recovery
- Profession with Highest Rate of Relapse
- Boundaries
- Burnout
- Encourage & Listen
Chris Tannahill interviews Derek Townsend about his downward spiral starting as a young teenager.
- Gateway drug?
- How dangerous if it's legal?
- Social perception of drunks/alcoholics over the years
- Has treatment changed for alcoholic in last 40 years?
- Purpose of treatment?
- Purpose of counselor?
- Number of alcoholics in treatment vs heroin addicts etc...
Chris Tannahill on "Cannabis."
Topics covered:
- Very Federally illegal
- Schedule 1 - physical/psychological - no medical use
- Is cannabis addictive?
- Potency vs. 1966?
- ER visits?
- DUI's?
- Gateway drug?
- The “Vote”
- Does weed have a place in Treatment?
- Does it have a place in recovery?
- There are more cannabinoid receptors in the brain than opioid receptors.
- Where are we going with this?
- Decriminalization?