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Welcome to Inspiring Community: An Inspire to Rise, Inc. Podcast where we create a community conversation and awareness about mental health, substance misuse, and overall community concerns and needs. We share inspiring stories of hope, compassion, connection, collaboration, healing, growth, and transformation that show the beauty of this thing we call life. Remember you are not defined by your worst moment. We hope to inspire you to be your best self for yourself, your family, and our commu ...
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Choose Your Struggle Presents: Made It, a documentary, serial-style podcast telling the story of a person who has made it back from the depths of trauma and created something extraordinary with their second chance. Season 1 is titled Stay Savage and focuses on Sarah Laurel and the harm reduction and recovery housing organization Savage Sisters.
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Storytelling is an incredibly powerful tool. Sharing our lived experiences with each other in the form of stories has the ability to change and grow everyday events into lessons that reach beyond the storytellers’ personal experience and connect us together into a community. Life and... is a new podcast centered on first-person, true experiences, created in partnership between the Lackawanna & Luzerne Medical Societies, Scranton Fringe, & Park Multimedia. Each season of this podcast will use ...
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Discussing issues of Mental Health, Substance Misuse and Recovery, and Drug Use & Policy with host Jay Shifman, Speaker, Storyteller, and Advocate. Each week Jay chats with interesting guests as they seek to destroy stigma and advocate for honest, educational conversations that motivate positive change. You can learn more at https://jay.campsite.bio/. Choose Your Struggle has been streamed in over thirty-five countries and is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever else you get yo ...
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Mouth-Off is a podcast series brought to you by Forget-Me-Not-Productions. It is a platform for marginalised groups to get their voices into the mainstream. Podcast episodes might celebrate successes while tackling taboos - such as sexuality, mental health, disability, religion, gender inequality, race, class divides, substance misuse - plus more. Forget-Me-Not-Productions designs and delivers courses and training in accessible music, inclusive arts and assistive technology interventions thr ...
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Every month, we bring you an unfiltered recovery conversation with someone who's either experienced addiction firsthand, or works closely with those in recovery. No sanitised success stories - just practical insights on what actually works in recovery, that you can apply, in your life too. Inside each episode, you'll find: - Direct conversations with guests who understand recovery from personal or professional experience - Pivotal moments from their journey - their insights, and how you can ...
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On Navigating the Abyss: Parenting Alchemy for Kids in Crisis
Teri Potter & Catherine Borgman-Arboleda
Teri Potter and Catherine Borgman-Arboleda are both Conscious Parenting coaches and mothers that have had difficult journeys supporting their adolescent daughters through mental health and substance misuse struggles. They candidly discuss their own experiences, the inner work that has helped them to find peace, freedom and the ability to draw on deeper sources of wisdom that they initially weren't aware of. They draw from the work of Dr. Shefali Tsabary and Dr, Gabor Maté, who they have trai ...
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You Too? Yes! Me too. I have a story that is uniquely mine yet very similar to yours. I have loved ones who have suffered from mental health issues and substance misuse. I have struggled with both. We have all gone through things that have shaped our lives, changed us for the better, and given us a story worth telling. On this platform, You too? we will be featuring the stories of our coaches, Youturn Health employees, and YOU! You never know if your story might be the catalyst for someone t ...
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Looking at the key issues in drug addiction, substance misuse and how this relates to the law Cover art photo provided by Thought Catalog on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@thoughtcatalog
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Alaska, like every other state, has problems. But it also has solutions. Some are new and innovative, and some are centuries old. Each week Alaska Public Media's Solutions Desk will highlight what's happening around the state that's making our communities stronger.
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The offical podcast from the School of Pharmacy at Queen's University Belfast, covering diverse topics in education, research, professional practice, and student experience in the areas of pharmacy and pharmaceutical science!
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Mental health and life improvement. This is the old season from 2020-2021! Check out the new season here - https://open.spotify.com/show/1RLPTAfzzm3ta1gaVLo6E2?si=VKbOZwh6Sh6eYUmXxQmoWw
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WV Collegiate Strategic Prevention Framework Partnerships for Success student leaders will be discussing issues, strategies and evidence-based practices for prevention on college campuses.
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Dr. AJ is a Halifax family physician and assistant professor at Dalhousie University’s faculty of medicine. Today she begins a regular column for The Chronicle Herald which will explore health care reform with the aim of engaging Nova Scotians in finding ways to improve individual and population health, provide satisfying and high-quality care and build thriving health-care networks.
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Darlene Petersen, MD and Paula Donnelly Cook, MD are board certified addiction medicine and family medicine physicians providing evidence based education, clinical pearls and resources to physicians, residents and students while striving to destigmatize the treatment of addiction in our medical culture and save lives. Tune in to learn about the latest treatments for all things addiction. Join us as we conduct expert interviews, review clinical pearls and best practices and discuss the latest ...
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The 20 episode, unscripted video podcast, Awkward Conversations, is hosted by Full House and Fuller House star, Jodie Sweetin, and joined by Amy McCarthy, a Senior Clinical Social Worker at Boston Children's Hospital.The two will be chatting with celebrity parents and guest experts on how to prepare for the awkward conversations with their kids and furthering the discussion on how to give parents the tools to empower their kids to stay safe, substance free and make smart decisions! Parenting ...
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Sue grew up in an unhappy, dysfunctional home and didn’t have many close friends. She left school early, in Year 9 and went to work. Her career led to shift work, which meant that she had more money and worked odd hours. Sue would often drop into a Poker Machine venue on the way home, to unwind. These sessions became progressively longer and eventu…
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Brenda entered her marriage in the early 1970's with her mother's advice to 'never argue with a drunk'. After several years of trying to keep the peace in her marriage, Brenda took her young children and left in desperation. Even without Al-Anon, she acted in faith, knowing that she did not have the answers about how she would manage on her own. It…
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"Every Time I Hear A Speaker, It Gives Me Hope." | Listen UP Episode 9 - Gayle Brannigan
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49:43In Listen UP Episode 9, Gayle Brannigan of The St Mirren Charitable Foundation shares the simple anchors that keep recovery on track, highlighting a morning reset that steadies emotions, and the power of hearing lived experience weekly. Gayle unveils a stadium‑based hub plus weekly speakers that transforms isolation into steady, face‑to‑face suppor…
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Welcome to Episode 24 of Inspiring Community: An Inspire to Rise Podcast. Today's episode was led by our host, Drew Brandom! Please join us as he interviews our guest, Dr. Rob Thomas, the CEO of Community Health Outreach, Jacksonville’s only free integrated medical/dental clinic for low-income/uninsured residents, and which also hosts the Lord’s Fo…
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Welcome to Episode 23 of Inspiring Community: An Inspire to Rise Podcast. Today's episode was led by our host, Drew Brandom! Please join us as he interviews our guest, Jennifer Ryan, the CEO of Volunteers in Medicine, a non profit clinic that provides free healthcare for the working uninsured. Mrs. Ryan is a fifth generation North Floridian with a …
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Poppy was born into a family struggling to cope with the trauma of migration from Greece to Australia. Her father drank to ease his sorrow and her mother had to cope with a growing number of small children, working, along with her husband, to provide for them all. Poppy has happy memories of celebrations with friends and family where there was plen…
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John joined Michael in the studio to chat about his life. Starting in the South East suburbs of Melbourne in a family he described as a "battleground", John's life which included, scouts, cricket, a part-time job pumping petrol and a girlfriend changed dramatically around the age of 16 as his number one priority became drinking and chasing the effe…
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Dan was on the show back in March 2024 and came in at short notice to help us out with a live interview. Dan’s earlier interview is available on https://www.3cr.org.au/livingfree/episode/alcoholics-anonymous-dan-21mar2024.Today we are talking about how recovery works and what it is like after stopping drinking and participating in a fellowship of e…
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"There Was So Much Good In My Life..." | Listen UP Episode 8 - John Elford
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48:43In Listen UP Episode 8, bestselling 12‑step author and Somerton Lodge founder John Elford shares the exact turning points that moved him from homelessness and hospital detoxes to 22 years sober, highlighting the two‑word decision that stopped his next drink, and a step‑by‑step way to face everyday triggers without panic. John Elford unveils no-nons…
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Glenda grew up in a stable family but prolonged periods of hospitalisation in childhood along with a shy disposition led to low self-esteem. Glenda used alcohol, cannabis and other drugs to fit in socially and eventually sought treatment at the age of 27 for the difficulties this caused, including cannabis-induced psychosis. For more than 40 years …
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"Small Changes, Big Impact" | Listen UP Episode 7 - Marc Buchanan
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50:47In Listen UP Episode 7, Alcohol Focus Scotland’s Marc Buchanan shares a simple, stackable approach to reducing alcohol harm in Scotland, highlighting how pricing, outlet density, and marketing limits work together, and why personal routines still matter. Marc unveils a combined‑measures insight that transforms fragile early days into a steadier, lo…
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Parenting in the Digital Age: Spotting Online Red Flags
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39:13In this episode of Awkward Conversations, hosts Jodie Sweetin and Amy McCarthy team up with Dr. Michael Rich, "the Mediatrician," and Kevin Collins from the Drug Enforcement Administration to unpack the realities of raising kids in today's digital world. From the hidden risks of online drug sales to the secret language of emojis, they reveal what p…
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Lin joined Michael in the studio and shared her story. From life as part of a large family in country Victoria, starting to drink as a 13 year old and leaving school young, Lin describes how alcohol became her solution to life until it stopped working. She also describes a 3 year period of abstinence followed by a lapse which brought her to her kne…
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Welcome to Episode 22 of Inspiring Community: An Inspire to Rise Podcast. Today's episode was led by our host, Drew Brandom! Please join us as he interviews our guest, Marcus Hill, the RISE Nassau Program Coordinator. While Mr. Hill began as a Theology major with a goal of eventually becoming a pastor, he found his calling in psychology in his seco…
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Jonathan is in his mid-50’s and has been in Gamblers Anonymous for over nine years now. His dad was a gambler and drug addict, and he was brought up by his single mother who worked multiple jobs. Jonathan started gambling in college then started working in finance and ended up in the entertainment industry. He focussed on sports gambling and regula…
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"People Can And Do Change" | Listen UP Episode 6 - Marie McGuire
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1:11:09In Listen UP Episode 6, Marie McGuire, a seasoned therapist, dives into the universal truths of addiction, highlighting the critical role of trauma-informed therapy and community-based support in recovery, all while sharing a message of hope. Marie unveils how understanding addiction's indiscriminate nature transforms feelings of isolation into em…
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This episode is a repeat. It was originally aired on 7 December 2023.Dan, a member of Al-Anon, grew up in a household in which another person's drinking was out of control. One of his parents was safe and nurturing during the day but in the evenings became a more dangerous presence. This inconsistency resulted in Dan feeling confused about how to t…
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Episode 21: That's What These Other Schools Are Missing
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9:20Welcome to Episode 21 of Inspiring Community: An Inspire to Rise Podcast. Today's episode was led by our host, Drew Brandom! Please join us as he interviews our guest, Malik Johnson, a teacher for INSPIRED Youth. Mr. Johnson got his start running a basketball camp for youth in Washington D.C., where he fond his passion for working with youth. After…
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Feebee-Lou grew up in Sydney. In her childhood, her father had a serious accident that left him wheel-chair bound and this had an effect on the dynamics of the family. Feebee-Lou took care of him. Although he did not identify as an alcoholic, alcohol was a factor in the family situation. After a close relationship with a sober alcoholic Feebee-Lou …
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Episode 20: All the Schools Around the World
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27:18Welcome to Episode 20 of Inspiring Community: An Inspire to Rise Podcast. Today's episode was led by our host, Drew Brandom! Please join us as he interviews our guests, Grace, Liam, and Saheim, three participants in the INSPIRED Youth program. Grace, Liam, and Saheim discuss their participation in the INSPIRED Youth program, which is an alternative…
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Lisa joined Michael & Bill in the studio to describe her journey to recovery from alcoholism. Introduced to the 12 Step Fellowship of Alateen when young due to alcoholism in her family, she decribes the decline in her life as the unmanageability took hold. The progressive nature of the illness had her in its grip until she landed in rehab and was i…
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10. A Path Forward - Conscious Parenting for Struggling Teens
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36:11What if the way forward with your struggling teen isn't through control, but through connection? Catherine's powerful new guide "Conscious Parenting: Struggling Teens" offers a compassionate framework for parents feeling overwhelmed by their teenager's challenges. We often believe good parenting means fixing our children's problems. Yet Catherine r…
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Noah is in his early 20’s and has been in Gamblers Anonymous for just over a year. Noah was brought up by his grandmother and he rebelled in his mid-teens and left home and eventually left school early. He discusses how his gambling progressed from playing Poker with friends in high school, to becoming a serious gambler after visiting a casino when…
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Tamara's German grandmother was an alcoholic whose children, including Tamara's mother, were affected by the difficulties that this caused. Tamara found herself in conflict with her mother in her adolescent years. When through a relationship with a recovering alcoholic who recognised the dysfunction in Tamara's family, Tamara found herself in Al-An…
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Welcome to Episode 19 of Inspiring Community: An Inspire to Rise Podcast. Today’s episode was led by our host, Drew Brandom! Please join us as he interviews our guest, Michael Seeraj. Mr. Seeraj is the Chief Financial Officer at Inspire to Rise and has over 21 years of accounting experience in both the private and not-for-profit sectors. In 2017, h…
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Alcohol brought Keely out of her shell and into functioning alcoholism for years. After finding AA and a higher power of her own understanding, things began to change.By Mitch featuring Keely
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"We Don't Need To Struggle Alone" | Listen UP Episode 5 - Iain Lee
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1:08:14In Listen UP Episode 5, discover recovery strategies that saved broadcaster and presenter Iain Lee's life, and how he understood lasting sobriety is possible, even after devastating relapses and career destruction. Iain unveils four crucial strategies that shift the focus from despair to hope: --The role of honest conversations in healing --How to …
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Samantha grew up in a family where alcoholism is an intergenerational illness, affecting her grandmother, mother, cousins, and now her child. The direct effect on Samantha was that she developed ways of being in the world that helped her survive in environments she couldn't trust, becoming isolated and inflexible in her thinking. This took an emoti…
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Chris joined Michael in the studio to share his experience of how addiction to gambling brought him to his knees and the freedom he has experienced since finding a solution in Gamblers Anonymous.By Michael & Chris (GA)
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Welcome to Episode 18 of Inspiring Community: An Inspire to Rise Podcast, led by our Community Behavioral Health Director, Anna Santiago. Please join us as she interviews our guest, Nikki Runion. Professor Runion is an Instructor of Social Work at the University of North Florida, but before she became involved in academia, she spent years with chil…
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Start Small, Aim Big — Recovery Is Possible | Listen UP Episode 4 - Paul Donnelly
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57:14Start Small, Aim Big — Recovery Is Possible | Listen UP Episode 4 - Paul Donnelly In Listen UP Episode 4, Paul Donnelly, founder of The Max Kolbe Recovery Movement, shares practical steps to navigate recovery, highlighting the power of small, consistent changes and the courage to seek connection. Paul unveils how embracing vulnerability can turn fe…
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Ann and Zakia chat about the difficulties of being authentic when you come from a dysfunctional family or from a place where the language is different. And we play some clips from the Living Free archives. The Living Free show is a place to hear authentic story-telling from people who have struggled with the effects of addiction, their own or other…
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Welcome to Episode 17 of Inspiring Community: An Inspire to Rise Podcast led by our Prevention & Family Preservation Director, Robin Rossmanith. Please join us as he interviews our guest, Treevonia Robinson. Ms. Robinson began using cocaine at the age of 16 and continued to do so for the next 23 years. While she always quit using whenever she was p…
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Have you ever felt paralyzed by conflicting advice about your struggling teen while your own parental voice gets drowned out? That gut-wrenching feeling of being told the "experts" know better than you do about your own child? This raw, vulnerable conversation dives deep into how parents become disempowered when navigating mental health systems for…
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Mouth-Off 2.06: Pride Month Special Feature – Sense Memory: Knee Deep in Rainbows
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38:30This Pride Month, Mouth-Off revisits a milestone from the archive: Welsh and Proud – Schools’ Songwriting Sessions (2014). Funded by the Arts Council of Wales and produced by Forget-Me-Not Productions — our first project as a Ltd company — this initiative brought together over 150 pupils from five Cardiff secondary schools to create original LGBTQI…
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Grounded in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), SMART Recovery is a self-empowering approach to addiction and other problematic behaviours. SMART Recovery groups support people with substance dependencies or problem behaviours to lead a balanced life. Nigel is a facilitator of such a group and has lived experience of alcohol dependency. In this ep…
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Zac joined Michael and Bill in the studio to share his experience of life as a practising alcoholic, reaching a rock bottom in his early 30's and now having had one year of recovery in Alcoholics Anonymmous.By Michael & Bill with Zac
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Welcome to Episode 16 of Inspiring Community: An Inspire to Rise Podcast. Today’s episode was led by our host, Drew Brandom! Please join us as he interviews our guest, Mrs. Enricka James. Mrs. James discusses her life, from being born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida, to moving to Atlanta to pursue modeling, moving to Las Vegas, moving to New Or…
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Well, it’s been another big year since our last Radiothon, and this time Zakia and Michael could also join us to amp up the volume another notch for this year’s show. Thanks to your generous support, by the end of the show, we had managed to raise $3,400, $900 over our target of $2,500. If you would also like to support 3CR then go to https://www.3…
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In this episode Michael and I chat with Olivia Soha about 1:1 recovery coaching tailored to the individual needs of people with eating disorders. Olivia is the founder of 'Uncovery' which she started in 2018, inspired by her own experience of living with an eating disorder. She was keen to help others find the meaning and purpose they would need to…
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8. When Your Teen Pushes You Away: Finding Balance in Difficult Relationships
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33:25The moment your teenager rolls their eyes, retreats to their room, or responds with a dismissive "whatever" can trigger something deep and primal within you. That feeling of invisibility, of being taken for granted after all you've sacrificed – it's a universal parental wound that cuts especially deep for those of us raising adolescents through men…
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Ep 15: Welcome Our Guest, Anna Santiago, Inspire to Rise, Inc. Community Behavioral Heath Director
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43:11Welcome to Episode 15 of Inspiring Community: An Inspire to Rise Podcast. Today's episode was led by our guest host, Michael Seeraj! Please join us as he interviews our guest, Ms. Anna Santiago, Director of Community Behavioral Health at Inspire to Rise, Inc. Ms. Santiago discusses her career trajectory and how she moved from a Bachelor's in Crimin…
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Tracey-Lee had an unconventional childhood in which she experienced some trauma, relating to her father's outbursts of rage. At the same time she discovered a talent for performance and this gave her a pathway to self-expression. But as she enterered adulthood she felt unbalanced, developing a tendency to addictive behaviours as she searched for co…
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"Addiction Thrives In Isolation, Recovery Blooms In Connection" | Listen UP Episode 3 - The Recovery Collective
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1:08:28In Listen UP Episode 3, The Recovery Collective, the minds behind Scotland’s first alcohol-free music festival, dive into how they create safe, stigma-free events, highlighting the role of music in recovery and the value of community support. Shaun Kenny and Derek Watt of The Recovery Collective unveil how creating alcohol-free music events transfo…
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Life And returns for a new season and series of stories - this time, we tackle the complex and unavoidable topic of death. For the fifth and final episode of this season, we turn the spotlight onto Sarah Regan. For this episode of Life And, we will be hearing from Sarah Stachura Regan. Sarah lives and works in Northeast Pennsylvania, striving to im…
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Steve joined Michael in the studio to share his experience of getting sober in his early 20's, his early days in Alcoholics Anonymous and what his life looks like now.By Michael and Steve
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Bill grew up with an active alcoholic father and as a young adult sought help through an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and was directed to Al-Anon Family Groups. He found help in those early years in the Al-Anon meetings and over forty years later he discusses the impact of Al-Anon in transforming his life and relationships, particularly with his fa…
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7. Loving Through Substance Misuse: A Mother's Journey of Radical Acceptance
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21:25Fear grips you when your child overdoses. The nightmare every parent dreads becomes reality, and suddenly every moment feels like walking on a tightrope across an abyss. In this deeply personal conversation, Catherine courageously shares her ongoing journey supporting her 18-year-old daughter through addiction and substance misuse, including a rece…
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"The Thing About Trauma We Don't Talk About..." | Listen UP Episode 2 - Darren McGarvey
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1:22:09In Listen UP Episode 2, Darren McGarvey unpacks how trauma - and overcoming it - influences addiction recovery. Darren opens up: - Recovery isn't a straight line...we need to confront uncomfortable truths - Public sharing of trauma is both healing AND risky - Genuine healing .v. using trauma as a commodity - Both supportive and challenging relation…
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