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Removing Addiction and Healing Mental HealthMental Health Awareness Week (UK) 2022Hi its Mike, Jess is away for our final episode in Series 2, looking forward to Season 3, starting Friday 10th June 2022. In the United Kingdom its Mental Health Awareness Week. Mental Health Foundation (UK) have themed 2022 'loneliness' for Mental Health Awareness Week - Monday 9 May until Sunday 15 May 2022. Daniel from "Life Changes You" podcast is my guest this week. Dan is a Mental Health professional, currently in private practice "Change your Therapist". Dan has a massive following on his podcast, in coincidently launched in December 2019, 4 months prior to lockdown. I was interested in his journey...2022-05-1337 min
Removing Addiction and Healing Mental HealthIs movement the answer for addiction and mental health?This week on the show, Ross and Jayne Quick from Quick Results training join us...Ross & Jayne (the Quicks) are the Co-Founders of Quick Results Training (QRT). QRT provide online anxiety, depression & self-confidence coaching/ exercise sessions for their members and clientele.Ross’ personal struggle with anxiety and depression and Jayne’s holistic and supportive approach to his recovery, have been the foundation of QRT. Now they are assisting others on their journey.QRT’s proven fitness, wellbeing and mindfulness solutions, support individuals who are struggling with stress, anxiety and self-confidence, to achiev...2022-04-2336 min
Removing Addiction and Healing Mental HealthStigma in Addiction and Mental HealthElisa Buggy is a Board Director with Mike Carroll for the Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA) and is the CEO of West CASA (Centre Against for Sexual Assault).Elisa grew up on Palawa Country, also known as Tasmania. She loves meeting new people, cooking, her couch, and her family - and she also seems to be a perpetual student. She is deeply committed to making the world a better place - at least in the way that she sees it - and is magnetised towards the proverbial 'too hard baskets' (a term she finds bo...2022-04-1539 min
Removing Addiction and Healing Mental HealthThe American Treatment Centre’s Most Disliked ManDr Rob Kelly from Rob Kelly Recovery Group.Guarenteed addiction removal - or your money back…Robb has overcome homelessness, alcohol dependency, trauma, PTSD, and MDD and a whirlwind of events to be the "Gordon Ramsay" of the addiction treatment world. Before Robb succumbed to addiction and mental health issues, he played bass guitar at Abbey Studio with Queen, David Bowie, and Elton John. He is an accomplished musician, and the money he made helped him attend Oxford University to pursue a Ph.D. in Psychology. Robb experienced a spi...2022-04-0938 min
Removing Addiction and Healing Mental HealthBoth Sides of the system - Lived experienced and professional - addiction and mental healthRosalyn Hennesy is a woman with lived experience of both mental health and lived experience of dependence of both drugs and alcohol. For 23 years she used any substance available to cope with a vast history of trauma and grief most of which she is still unravelling. Today she is approaching 5 years in “recovery”. She is also a trained mental health and drug and alcohol support worker and has been advocating for a reform on drugs for many years. In 2018 Rosalyn was involved in the Uniting Churches documentary “Half a million steps” and then moved to Sy...2022-04-021h 03
Removing Addiction and Healing Mental HealthLife Coaching for Mental Health and AddictionIt is our hope by listening to Removing Addiction and Healing Mental Health you have discovered many different ways to remove addiction and heal poor mental health. For people who have been in long term addiction and experiencing poor mental health, life Coaching can be useful in piecing life back together. It's one of the methods I use in Problematic Substance Use and Addiction Reprogramming at MC Counselling.During the past two years on Insta, I met Dom who is a life coach from neume.today, producing a...2022-03-2551 min
Removing Addiction and Healing Mental HealthZERO to ADDICT in one pipe (Ice Addiction)Nicole's story...We do recover- I consider myself a recovered addict, I am 43 years of age mum of 4 boys, wife, daughter, sister and aunt/godmother. Addiction does not discriminate. I was addicted to ICE for a very small time in my 30’s, (5-7 years) and it did not take long until my life began to spiral out of control. Jail became a revolving door, I committed more crime to fuel my addiction so I could hide it from my children and family (so I thought) until enough was enough.Today, I am alm...2022-03-1737 min
Removing Addiction and Healing Mental Health10 Lessons in Power Psychology - Helping you to help yourself.This week Jess and Mike are going to help you to help yourself, especially if you are waiting 6-12 months for counselling appointments through the Mental Health Treatment Plans.Dr. Michael Abruzzese is an award-winning educator, author, licensed clinical psychologist, and school psychologist. With nearly 40 years of experience in forensic, cognitive-behavioral, neuropsychological, and clinical practice, Dr. A. Has been teaching and lecturing at major east coast medical schools and universities and to students and professionals of all levels around the world.He is passionate about making psychology accessible to all people, a factor in many p...2022-03-1027 min
Removing Addiction and Healing Mental HealthPTSD stands for "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder"PTSD stands for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.This week on the show, we take a break from the prison theme we seem to have adopted, (for no particular reason) and welcome Scott from PTSD Brokensword. Here’s what Scott said when I asked what message he would you like to communicate about Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.“I think we need to stop the stigma of PTSD and look at how we can help people get through it. Over the years there have not been many people to help people suffering from PTSD and that’s changi...2022-03-0328 min
Removing Addiction and Healing Mental HealthNavigating The Australian Justice and Prison SystemRenee Mcnab is a Ex prisoner and prisoner advocate in recovery who knows what it's like to navigate the Australian justice and prison system and the dilemmas that come with doing so.Not only is she an advocate and ex prisoner she is a woman with life experience in mental health issues drug addiction and domestic violence that is passionate about helping others going thru similar experiences and is on a mission to expose the failings and inhumane treatment many men and woman face every day in our prisons and mental health system and is advocating for...2022-02-2333 min
Removing Addiction and Healing Mental HealthChanging the world, one word at a timeI first met Dean from #otherwordz about two years ago and you could not have got two more different people on Zoom together. Each of us from different sides of the school playground, (so to speak) coming together to talk about how we help people.Dean Lloyd is a passionate social justice advocate and founder of #otherwordz a social movement that understands the power of language. As a result of this moment Dean has also founded Advocate Apparel clothing for people who care.Dean has a wealth of lived experience from the criminal justice system, pu...2022-02-1746 min