Why Intervention Podcast

Words are powerful, especially during early recovery. Building connections with someone struggling with recovery can either make or break their progress. For today’s episode, Chris and Danny discuss how behaviors like gambling can lead to other problems, especially those under the influence. They talk about how being under the influence works and the powerlessness that comes with it. Chris and Danny also share about the hope and recovery that is possible, even after struggling for years. With the power of transformation in recovery, coupled with connection, words, and encouragement from the people around them, any person dealing with these problems can find themselves on the road to recovery. Links and Resources from this Episode https://whyintervention.com/ https://twitter.com/whyintervention https://www.facebook.com/whyintervention/?ref=br_rs  Highlights Admitting that you are powerless Dangers of getting hooked on casinos The most popular saying about the 12-step program The dangers of relapses and ho

In the recovery world, it is often said that the first drink gets you drunk. This means that once someone with trouble dealing with alcohol or drugs takes that first one, they are unable to stop. This is because addiction is an illness, and the first drink sets off a chain of events that the person cannot control. This is just one of the concepts people in early recovery need to grasp. For today’s episode, Chris and Danny discuss 27 sayings that people who get sober are astonished by. They talk about how these sayings can be impactful and helpful for people in recovery, and how they can also be helpful for families of loved ones with addiction. The conversation discusses the various things that people in recovery hear that are helpful to them. These things can give insights into what is going on in the mind of a loved one struggling with addiction. The conversation also points out that addiction does not have to define a person. Links and Resources from this Episode https://whyintervention.com/ https://twit

Chris and Danny discuss multiple ways families can get help for their loved ones, some of which are outside traditional norms and expectations. They talk about how the podcast is the best way to get information out to families and how it is helpful for families with loved ones who need intervention. They also share their plans for the future and how they hope to help even more people in the coming years. In addition to this, Chris and Danny also cite the various interventions they have conducted over the past year and how these can be helpful for families with members who are struggling. They describe how interventions can be used to preemptively take action to help a loved one get treatment, and how in some cases, an intervention may need to be more urgent. The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your l

If a family member is dealing with addiction, what should the other family members do? Should they immediately take them to rehab or should they start a family conversation? Christopher welcomes Amanda E. White, Licensed Therapist and creator of the popular Instagram page @therapyforwomen to talk not only about dealing with substance abuse but how her family helped her get over her addiction problem. She gives Christopher a glimpse of the past: How it all started by experimenting to handle her eating disorder to full-on relying on drugs and how intervention and therapy aided her to get where she is today. The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and interviews people who have gone through recovery.

Many people don’t really understand why other people become addicted to alcohol, substances, or drugs. But if a loved one is suffering from it, what’s the best thing to do in this situation? Christopher and Danny talk about the very definition of addiction and how addiction can cause a rift in relationships. They share how as a family member, you can give the help that they desperately need. They also reiterate the importance of utilizing a family: Not only seeking the help of a professional but having a conversation with your loved one matters. The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and interviews people who have gone through recovery. Links and Resources from this Episode https://whyinterventi

It is difficult for a parent to know that their child is dealing with addiction. With the many misconceptions surrounding addiction that can prevent a parent from helping their child’s substance abuse, you might wonder “What can I do?” Christopher invites Cathy Taughinbaugh to talk about the CRAFT program. She shares that as a parent, you can deal with your kids struggling with addiction through better communication by saying the words that they want to hear in order to take the right actions. According to Cathy, it’s a judgment call oftentimes for parents. Always remember: It’s different for every family, what works for others may not work for you. The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and inter

As a family member, what can you do to help someone go through the road of recovery? Christopher and Danny discuss the different approaches that family members can do to help push a loved one to the road of recovery. They also shared the different enemies that most people trying to stay sober face. According to Christopher and Danny, as a family member and loved one: You can change aspects of this that can make monumental changes for the future. The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and interviews people who have gone through recovery. Links and Resources from this Episode Bridge of Spies https://whyintervention.com/ https://twitter.com/whyintervention https://www.facebook.com/whyintervention/?

If a person is struggling with alcohol or drug addiction, every member of the family is affected. But as a loved one, how can you help them recover? Christopher welcomes Darren Prince to know more about his story. In this emotional yet inspirational talk with Darren, he shares his journey from struggling and succumbing to addiction to helping and guiding others by burying the hatchet and getting through addiction. The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and interviews people who have gone through recovery. Links and Resources from this Episode https://whyintervention.com/ https://twitter.com/whyintervention https://www.facebook.com/whyintervention/?ref=br_rs Connect with Darren Prince https://ai

Is helping your loved one struggling with addiction financially a good step to make? You might think you are, but you’re not. You may be acting as an enabler. Being an enabler surrounds the talk between Christopher and Danny. They shared different scenarios as to how family members can act as enablers in the life of a person with active addiction. They also talked about the role of a family in helping a person struggling with addiction to seek treatment and retaliation. The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and interviews people who have gone through recovery. Links and Resources from this Episode ADHD 2.0 by Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey https://whyintervention.com/ https://twitter.c

Is there hope for a person dealing with addiction? Yes, there’s hope for a person struggling and dealing with substance, drugs, or alcohol abuse: And it starts with themselves and their families. Chris welcomes Heidi Le to answer the important question: How can you start healing from addiction? Heidi discusses how music helped her escape the problems starting at her home and how addiction affected not only her father but also the whole family. She also shares different stories that she experienced as a family member of someone dealing with addiction and their journey of healing and recovery. The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and interviews people who have gone through recovery. Links and Res

90% of people who struggle with an addiction never get help for it. As a family member, what can you do to help? Believe it or not, the change starts with the members of the family. As a family member, you have more power, more leverage, more influence over your loved one than anyone. In this episode, Chris and Danny share the difference between an Intervention and a 12th Step Call and the best option that can work for a person who’s fighting addiction. The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and interviews people who have gone through recovery. Links and Resources from this Episode https://whyintervention.com/ https://twitter.com/whyintervention https://www.facebook.com/whyintervention/?ref=br_

Can a repeat alcoholic or alcohol abuser change? What are the reasons why a person turns to alcohol to solve his or her problems? These are some of the questions that Chris and Gillian answered. Gillian, the brain behind the Sober Powered Podcast, shares her journey from being a repeat alcoholic hating herself and thinking of herself as a loser to helping people get over alcoholism. She talks about how people around her changed her perception about dealing with her problems and how you can also take the journey of healing and recovering. The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and interviews people who have gone through recovery. Links and Resources from this Episode https://whyintervention.com/

Chris and Danny talk about how intervention has an important role. Intervention is the initial recovery spark. Be sure to listen to this episode and understand why people in addiction recovery get their story wrong. The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and interviews people who have gone through recovery. Links and Resources from this Episode https://whyintervention.com/ https://twitter.com/whyintervention https://www.facebook.com/whyintervention/?ref=br_rs https://youtu.be/oJ-y5QSpgTo    Show Notes The right way to go to a first recovery meeting - 5:51 Understanding that you need help - 11:39 When do you come out of treatment? - 16:51 Taking ownership of the recovery - 17:24 The whole def

What’s a family’s role to a loved one who’s dealing with addiction? Chris and Lisa discussed the family’s involvement in healing from addiction. Making the phone call can make a big, significant change, especially since 90% of people with addiction don’t get help for it as it’s a general thinking for others to help them once that person hits rock bottom. They also discussed the misconceptions about addiction, treatments, and going to rehabs. There’s always an intervention: love as the first method is a much better route than the threat of jail time. Links and Resources from this Episode https://whyintervention.com/ https://twitter.com/whyintervention https://www.facebook.com/whyintervention/?ref=br_rs Connect with Lisa Badgley https://www.lisabadgley.com/  Show Notes Introducing Lisa Badgley. - 0:37 Looking back: How Lisa started in the treatment field - 1:49 The key benefits of having an interventionist. - 4:35 Intervention is so important because you’re involving the family as the greatest support thro

This is part 3 about addiction with Chris and Danny. They talked about how addicts fight the will to stay away from drugs and alcohol. Chris and Danny also discussed family members’ roles in helping someone get over their addiction and how the change doesn’t start simple: It starts within ourselves. The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and interviews people who have gone through recovery. Links and Resources from this Episode Alcoholics Anonymous https://whyintervention.com/ https://twitter.com/whyintervention https://www.facebook.com/whyintervention/?ref=br_rs  Show Notes You have to let an alcoholic keep their bottle. - 3:27 Do you really wanna be sober right now? - 9:36 “I am the prob

This is part 2 about addiction. Chris and Danny share 30 questions you can ask yourself to find out if your loved one has an addiction. They discuss some cases for each question and how to react to each of them. The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and interviews people who have gone through recovery. Links and Resources from this Episode https://whyintervention.com/ https://twitter.com/whyintervention https://www.facebook.com/whyintervention/?ref=br_rs    Show Notes Each question is a brand new topic - 2:03 The creation of interventions - 2:53 The reporting of the death - 9:31 Punishment is not an effective way to handle an addiction - 12:00 Denying a drinking problem - 14:01 A red flag i

Chris and Danny share 30 questions you can ask yourself to find out if your loved one has an addiction. They discuss some cases for each question and how to react to each of them. The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and interviews people who have gone through recovery. Links and Resources from this Episode https://whyintervention.com/ https://twitter.com/whyintervention https://www.facebook.com/whyintervention/?ref=br_rs    Show Notes Is your loved one addicted or not? - 4:35 Identifying your own fear - 9:40 Do you worry about your loved one's addiction? - 14:57 Does the person refuse to talk about their drinking or drug abuse? - 16:47 A natural human tendency - 24:44 Identifying an addict

Chris has a conversation with Mrs. L, in which they talk about addiction. When you love someone struggling with addiction, no one tells you that you will be straddling two worlds and no one teaches you how to do this. Listen in as they share their thoughts on this topic. The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and interviews people who have gone through recovery. Links and Resources from this Episode https://whyintervention.com/ https://twitter.com/whyintervention https://www.facebook.com/whyintervention/?ref=br_rs Connect with Mrs. L https://www.instagram.com/addictionmakesthree/?hl=en    Show Notes Her story: why she felt so isolated - 1:10 When she first noticed that her husband had a prob

Are you wondering why tough love has failed to work for you in the past? Chris and Danny discuss misconceptions about tough love, redefine tough love and intervention, and they reveal why tough love hasn't worked in the past. The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and interviews people who have gone through recovery. Links and Resources from this Episode https://whyintervention.com/ https://twitter.com/whyintervention https://www.facebook.com/whyintervention/?ref=br_rs    Show Notes Skeptical feelings around the idea of interventions - 1:36 Having a punitive feel - 5:00 Intervention needs tough love - 5:28 It’s never a good time to go to treatment - 8:34 The kind of things that families expe

Christopher talks with Ken Seely, who has remained professionally and personally involved in recovery since his sobriety date of July 14, 1989. He applies his relevant experience and boundless enthusiasm to change the lives of people suffering from the disease of addiction – for individuals, their family, and their friends. Ken works with clients to realign family systems to support recovery through his work as the founder of Intervention 911 and Ken Seeley Rehab. Ken has been featured on the Emmy Award-Winning, A&E television series Intervention since 2005.   The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and interviews people who have gone through recovery. Links and Resources from this Episode h