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LPP PodcastThe Booze Paradox: Why Temperance Cultures Have The WORST Alcohol ProblemsIs alcohol inherently harmful, or is the way we talk about it the real problem?In this episode, Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads tackle the cultural contradictions around alcohol consumption.They break down why countries that drink more tend to have fewer alcohol-related harms, why "NO SAFE LEVEL" messaging is misleading, and how a temperance mindset might actually INCREASE problem drinking.They also explore how harm reduction isn't about numbers -- it's about life.Tune in for a no-nonsense discussion that challenges mainstream narratives...
2025-02-1350 minLPP PodcastAre Kids Really More DEPRESSED and ANXIOUS Than Ever? What Can We Do? | Life Process ProgramAn alarming statistic from the NIH: 17% of 12-17 year olds in the united states is mentally unwell.
What accounts for this, and what can we do about it? (Hint: we've been trying antidepressants and therapy for decades and the problem has only become worse).
Zach and Dr. Peele drill deeper.
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2023-10-0934 minLPP PodcastREBROADCAST: Re-Writing Your Life StoryThis is a playback of a 2018 episode of the LPP Podcast in which we discuss the following:
The Life Process Program takes clients through a staged review of their life stories, focusing first on mistakes, continuing to how they might have acted differently to avoid these pitfalls, to re-conceiving their life stories to focus on positives, and finally to projecting their life stories forward into positive, life-fulfilling narratives.
In today’s episode we incorporate LPP exercises and examples of Zach’s work with children, including sample maps he develops for each child, to show how to put...
2023-10-0751 minLPP PodcastThis Man Studied the Lives of CENTENARIANS, What He Discovered May SHOCK You | Mario Martinez | LPPDr. Mario Martinez is a neuropsychologist who lectures worldwide on how cultural beliefs affect health and longevity. He is also the author of The Mind Body Code --- which you can check out on amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/MindBody-Code-Beliefs-Longevity-Success/dp/1622037618
Importantly, Mario studies culture and belief systems, and how they affect longevity and well-being. (As opposed to a more conventional belief -- that genes pull the strings of our ultimate fate.)
Zach explicates themes from Dr. Martinez's work, including his study of centenarians (people who live 100 years and longer); biocognitive science (a field which he founded); and...
2023-10-0654 minLPP PodcastTalking Your CHILD Through ADDICTION, Collaborative Problem Solving THAT WORKS!Zach Rhoads follows Dr. Peele's previous 5 "Ted Talks" -- 10 minute talks about addiction, natural recovery, harm reduction, and commonsense strategies for overcoming addiction. In his latest talk, Peele also laid out a "helping professional's" Bill of Rights, which instructs the following be present in helping individuals achieve a greater sense of well-being:
(1) refuting idea that addiction is permanent inescapable disease
(2) enabling people to realize valuable lives
(3) encouraging responsibility
(4) empathy tolerance
(5) support community
In this segment, Zach re-visits those concepts and helps parents / concerned loved ones think about how they may open a collaborative dialogue with a child experiencing addiction...
2023-07-1211 minLPP PodcastHow do people QUIT ADDICTIONS? | It's a VALUES StatementIn this short video, addiction psychologist Dr. Stanton Peele explains that people quit addictions by finding ways to live their values (as opposed to simply choosing 'techniques').
He lays out the following points
I. Dr. Peele's Uncle Ozzie quits smoking, suddenly
II. Such a powerful addiction: how can a person do that (1) oh it’s only cigarettes (2) a HIGHER percentage of people quit cocaine heroin alcohol addictions
III. Actually, at their basis, THIS is how everyone quits an addiction
IV. It’s a value statement — not a technique
V. What will enable people to quit en masse in today’s societ...
2023-07-0509 min
LPP PodcastPsychologist Responds to Judson Brewer's Ted Talk | What is Addiction? How Can You Beat It?Dr. Stanton Peele Delivers His OWN Ted Talk (From home), in response to Judson Brewer's talk, "A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-moW9jvvMr4
Summary:
Have you noticed confusion, conflict and disastrous failures across the board around drugs and addiction?
We at Life Process Program have (unfortunately) understood the hole we’ve been digging for ourselves for years. To dig ourselves out, we have to comprehend addiction, understand that it’s not some chemical side effect of drugs, and then apply this understanding to our personal lives and national policies.
2023-03-1912 min
LPP PodcastFinding Purpose in Mid to Late Life (EVEN When It's Painful To Get Started!)Several of our clients have told us something to the effect of:
“I know that Meaning/purpose in life is a bulwark against addiction. But I’m ____ (45 - 65) years old…. I have failed relationships / estranged kids… It’s hard to find meaning”
Dr. Peele and LPP coach Zach Rhoads help our 50+ year old clients begin to generate a optimistic but practical Life-Purpose Road Map
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro to LPP
1:28 Episode intro
4:36 Meaningful Work @ 50+
9:57 Meaningful Hobbies
19:25 Making New Friends
34:44 Intimate Relationships...
2023-02-1442 min
LPP PodcastIs Drinking HELPFUL or HARMFUL - Wanna Get CONFUSED? Then Read the NYT!Zach Rhoads and Dr. Stanton Peele contemplate the transfer of knowledge about alcohol from Science to Society — and how imperfectly the job gets done. “Alcohol: Even a Little Bit Is Harmful!” the headline screams. It turns out that none of the experts interviewed advocates abstinence — including the director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (now there’s a title!).
In fact, those who drink, worldwide, live longer with fewer disabilities than those who never drink, according to WHO. What gives? Is the New York Times guilty of malpractice, or just sowing confusion — especially for older Americ...
2023-01-3133 min
LPP Podcasthe History of NON-DISEASE Addiction TreatmentTom Horvath (SMART Recovery) and Stanton Peele (Life Process Program) delve into their decades’ long association in the battle to establish non-disease, harm reduction treatment in the United States. Their connection is supportive, even affectionate. Each in their own way — Tom through his decades of establishing an international association of SMART Recovery groups, Stanton by attacking the disease lobby — has contributed to a shift in the treatment paradigm.
Both SMART Recovery and the Life Process Program focus anti-addiction efforts through support for people's functioning, and not in terms of their use of substances. Both look forward rather than b...
2022-10-101h 01
LPP PodcastAre "Alcoholism" And "Addiction" REAL? | DSM vs AA vs LPPThere is a movement against use of labels like “alcoholism” and “addiction” as being pejorative and discouraging. 3
Zach and Stanton evaluate these critiques and discuss how to deal constructively with what some people call “loss of control” substance use. As always, their approach is to respect clients and their values, focus on the here and now, seek incremental and realistic improvements, and to not panic!
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2022-08-2122 min
LPP PodcastTop FIVE Mental Health BEST PRACTICES | Life Process ProgramBiological psychiatry has IMPLODED, and everyone knows it, including the World Health Organization (WHO) and the long-time (2002-2015) director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Thomas Insel, biological psychiatry’s biggest booster.
Yet, instead of the relief from mental illness and addiction Insel and the entire field have promised from the 1970s on, we are inundated with mental disorders and drug deaths.
NOW WHAT?
The WHO, Insel, and the ENTIRE FIELD are at a loss. With no there there, what is to be done?
Rushing to fill this breech, WHO is p...
2022-06-2655 min
LPP PodcastHow To Avoid Being DUPED | Addiction, Love, Values, and LESSONS learned from "Bad Vegan" SeriesHow do we respond to virtually insane behavior by vital, creative women who devote their lives to petty shysters and hoodlums who rip them off and destroy their livelihoods, families, lives? We can issue warnings about checking out online hook-ups. But the signs are always there, background checks or no (hints: when they say they are secret agents, ask endlessly for money, cut off your family connections, etc.) Yet brilliant women still go down the tubes.
Take the case of “The Bad Vegan,” Sarma Melngailis, who conquered New York and the world with a new veganism, and ended...
2022-03-2738 min
LPP PodcastSingle Drunk Female | What Modern Streaming REVEALS About Harm ReductionAA doesn’t dominate the alcohol and drug scene the way it did in the last century. Harm Reduction has become a new buzz word, claimed by the most unlikely sources. Meanwhile, popular streaming media depict the reality of a wide variety of substance use patterns by younger generations.
And, yet, as demonstrated by series like “Single Drunk Female” and “Euphoria,” when it comes to “recovery” there’s only one game in town — 12-step “sobriety.”
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2022-03-2030 min
LPP PodcastPhil Collins' NON AA "Recovery" + We Answer Questions About AddictionDr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads respond to listener feedback.
First, they inspect the old AA adage, "One day at a time"
Then they turn to a case study centered on a former LPP participant (with her permission) -- a case study on overeating and how to manage it in the larger context of a person's life.
Finally, they discuss former Genesis drummer Phil Collins' UNREMARKABLE story of natural recovery -- a story that he, himself tells in his memoir as well as this interview: https://www.axs.tv/channel/the-big-interview-with-dan-rather-season-4/video/phil-collins-1/
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2022-02-2841 min
LPP PodcastAlcoholics Anonymous: A Net Good or a Net Harm?Is AA helpful?
Some people claim that AA offers specific benefits. We should say that we endorse anybody’s right to pursue any form of support or treatment they want, or find helpful, from AA to religion.
But our training and experience cause us to doubt AA’s supposed benefits. One such claim is that making amends to people alcoholics have hurt is a way of reconstructing damaged relationships. But we find that a very indirect way of going about the process of examining and improving relationships, which is a major focus of the skills taug...
2022-02-1728 min
LPP PodcastThe End of Trauma with Dr. George BonannoDr. George Bonanno's decades-long research on trauma and resilience reveals that most people overcome traumatic and adverse events in their lives.
More important: people who do feel plagued by chronic dysfunction after traumatic events have the capacity to re-map, regulate emotions, become more flexible, and self-regulate so that their lives are not defined by traumatic events in the past (i.e. people can be resilient).
Zach asks Dr. Bonanno about his role at Columbia University (where he runs the Loss, Trauma, and Emotion Lab). Then the two discuss his new book, "The End of Trauma" an...
2021-12-191h 01
LPP PodcastHOW TO PREVENT TRAGEDY School Shootings, GUNS, & ConnectionZach and Stanton discuss the profiles of school shooters. They see a lack of connection that is also present in youth (and older) addiction problems. Zach describes working with such children, including how he might have dealt with the 15–year-old Michigan shooter.
Full disclosure: Neither Stanton or Zach know the backstory of this event beyond mainstream media coverage.
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2021-12-1330 min
LPP PodcastI May Destroy You + Radical EmpathyStanton and Zach review America’s allegiance to the opioids-are-inevitably-addictive scenario even though (a) it’s wrong, (b) 100,000 people a year are now dying due to drug use. But separation from our opioid-disease scenario is hard to make happen.
Instead, perhaps, we may find popular media programs that express our point of view in order to get our ideas across. The award-winning show, “I May Destroy You,” is about a millennial woman who gets in trouble with drugs, but still uses them. All kinds of drugs, in all kinds of combinations. This is far from the clinical ideal. B...
2021-12-0559 min
LPP PodcastDISEASE ENVY - Why People Yearn For Labels, DESPITE Their Best InterestsStanton and Zach discuss why the disease theory will never die in America, no matter how many Americans die from drugs, even as Carl Hart and others (futilely) join Stanton’s antidisease campaign after four decades on his own.
They then move on to marvel at “disease envy.” Some privileged women now welcome ADHD diagnoses, which had previously been restricted to men, and especially minority men. This, even as many Black critics saw the ADHD label as a major impediment to young Black men’s progress.
This embrace of ADHD and her other disease medications means she...
2021-10-2658 min
The Social ExchangeEpisode 78: Dr. Stanton Peele - How Addiction Psychology Was Transformed ForeverIn this interview, Stanton Peele discusses his memoir, "A Scientific Life on the Edge: My Lonely Quest to Change How We See Addiction." More importantly, Peele recounts his life story, both in this interview and in his memoir. Beginning with his General Theory of Addiction that he put forth in his 1975 book "Love and Addiction", followed by a discussion of his career as an outsider in mainstream addiction psychology -- an outsider whose knowledge, views, and contributions can never be ignored. He goes on to explain how he managed to maintain an influential career in p...
2021-10-161h 31
LPP PodcastJoe Rogan's talk with "ALL IS DOPAMINE" Addiction Expert - OUR RESPONSEDr. Peele and Zach Rhoads respond to clips from Joe Rogan's recent interview with Stanford Psychiatrist and Author Anna Lembke.
It was with some disappointment — but little surprise — that we watched “iconoclast” podcaster Joe Rogan interview an “all-is-dopamine” addiction expert (a position that even Nora Volkow seems to be backtracking on). Disappointment because Rogan seemed so sympathetic to Carl Hart’s opposite position. But not surprised since (a) all-is-dopamine is the cultural fallback position, (b) Carl doesn’t require interviewers to grasp experimentally his (our) position that addiction is a lived experience.
We contend that Dr. Lembke's (Ame...
2021-10-1155 min
LPP PodcastINSTAGRAM Addiction, Revisiting "FREE RANGE", & New BRAIN DISEASE NewsZach and Stanton review the addiction news of the week: from "love" addiction (actually, love is the opposite of addiction) to instagram addiction, to the perpetual search for addiction in the brain.
They then match their perspectives on Zach's interview with Lenore Skenazy, of Free Range children fame. Could she comprehend that Stanton and Zach separate addiction from drugs? Does Lenore think that kids can drink? Can they make productive contributions to the household, even when they're small?
Zach and Stanton wondered whether a breakthrough in understanding with Lenore was/is possible.
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2021-09-281h 00
LPP PodcastLenore Skenazy | Future-Proofing and ADDICTION-Proofing our Next GenerationToday's guest wants to "future-proof" our next generation. That is, to tug on the natural tendency of children to explore, learn, and grow competent along the way, just as we, at the Life Process Program want to ADDICTION - PROOF our next generation.
Her name is Lenore Skenazy. Lenore famously (or infamously, depending on who you ask) allowed her child to ride a New York City subway home on his own. In her mind (and in ours), this was sensible, and offered her child to gain some independence in the real-world. Perversely, many parents around the country w...
2021-09-191h 02
LPP PodcastZach Compares Heroin Addiction to Love Addiction -- Stanton RespondsThis is a short clip from Zach Rhoads' forthcoming interview with Dr. Stanton Peele.
Stanton wrote the best-selling 1975 book, Love and Addiction, in which he laid out a conceptualization of addiction that transcended the drug-centered conceptualization with which the world was familiar.
In this clip, Zach expresses to Stanton how his concept rings true in his own life as he compares his own heroin addiction to destructive relationships with women. Zach runs a thought experiment about how those relationships could have metastasized if he would have pursued them into the future.
Stanton responds.
2021-09-0706 min
LPP PodcastThe Ethics of Fighting Disease MythsThere’s no need to contest or censor divergent views on addiction and mental illness as told, for instance, by Koren Zailckas, William Styron, and T Kira Madden. They are effortlessly assimilated into the big ball of wax of the standard disease theory.
The process is aided and abetted by leading theorists and commentators like Sally Satel, David Brooks, Maia Szalavitz, and the New York Times.
Stanton, on the other hand, impolitely disputes these things, while Zach tries to toe the line between confrontation and understanding.
2021-09-0757 min
LPP PodcastMARK NORMAND: Implanting the Recovery Chip | Trauma, Role Models, NON RECOVERY STORYZach and Stanton discuss Mark Normand, who as a young man would certainly pass Gabor Maté’s muster as traumatized.
Normand developed drinking issues in his 20s, but didn’t follow the recovery route away from alcoholism. In fact, the recovery chip has to be implanted, as it isn’t the natural response of most people, who instead recover naturally.
What, Stanton and Zach ask, is the result of the culture-wide adoption of this unnatural— actually quite bizarre— response?
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2021-09-0657 min
LPP PodcastOlympic Inspiration | Heroic Achievement, Stoicism, & Overcoming TraumaZach and Stanton return to the Olympic fields of glory to worship the women who have overcome every challenge—mental health, moral, and existential—by declaring: “I will not be defeated.”
The media and metal health specialists have decided that leaving the field of endeavor for mental health reasons is the secret to happiness. Yet we have never been more miserable. Here, Zach and Stanton explore an alternative story (feel free to borrow the format, MSM).
2021-08-1746 min
LPP PodcastUNDOING DRUGS: A History Of Harm Reduction With MAIA SZALAVITZZach Rhoads speaks with Maia Szalavitz about her new book, "Undoing Drugs", which traces the history of Harm Reduction from the movement's genesis to the way it affects mainstream thoughts, beliefs, policies, and behavior.
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2021-08-1152 min
LPP PodcastHARM REDUCTION & Community HealingZach discusses the personal meaning of community as “therapy” in terms of his own experiences of a family tragedy, one that drew his extended family together. In this discussion he reflects on the view of addiction from a five-year-old’s perspective, finding it to be superior to that of leading addiction specialists, and on the special burden of revealing and dealing with a porn addiction.
Stanton and Zach then describe their use of harm reduction and taking an incremental approach to helping people with addictions that resist a ready resolution.
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2021-07-2351 min
LPP PodcastLean on Me: Stanton sings COMMUNITY as therapyAmerica is convinced that if it can only provide enough medicalized treatment that all of its citizens will be fine. The opposite is true. As Stanton quotes a chapter head from his memoir:
“The Remedy for Addiction is Purpose, Connection, and Self-Acceptance — we are instead wedded to medicalization, isolation, and self-stigmatization.”
We watch addiction and mental health outcomes worsen as we lose community supports and our sense of personal agency. But we are hellbent on pursuing this direction.
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2021-07-1457 min
LPP PodcastPolitics, Britney Spears, Trauma, and DISEASEStanton and Zach dissect the current news cycle.
First, Britney Spears revealed she is being medicated against her will. She is still being held captive by her “diseases” (the ones she had in her early twenties). Drew Barrymore and Lindsay Lohan outgrew theirs. Demi Lovato, on the other hand, had to fight her way free of her “handlers” — and from 12-step “sobriety” — to become her own person.
Meanwhile, the candidate for New York mayor Stanton voted for, Eric Adams, is leading in the tallying. Adams appeals to working class Blacks and whites who want more police security...
2021-06-2856 min
LPP PodcastMare of Easttown -- Is HBO Moving Away from Drug HYSTERIA?HBO has become the ultimate destination of Harm Reduction in streaming media with its shows Mare of Easttown and Hacks. In both, the show’s protagonists (again played by women) drink (Mare) and consume drugs (Hacks) without being driven to perdition. Moreover, the creators of each series seem to be actively pursuing a harm reduction vision — meaning not blaming drugs and alcohol for people’s life problems.
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2021-06-171h 19
LPP PodcastAmerican confessions tug at our heart strings. Do they help?Naomi Osaka’s decision to withdraw from the French Open rather than face a post match press conference became worldwide news. Osaka says her depression and anxiety make it impossible for her to speak in public.
Most observers sympathize with Osaka’s reserve, and castigate the tour directors for making her quit. But tennis legend Billy Jean King and most of Osaka’s fellow players feel that successful players should appear publicly in order to raise the visibility and profitability of women’s tennis. For herself, Osaka made $55 million last year— $50 million of it due to product endorsemen...
2021-06-0753 min
LPP PodcastBelieving the UNBELIEVABLE: Cognitive Distortions in the Drug Reform FieldWARNING: Please be aware that the following many not be suitable for people who are disturbed by discussions of death OR of the fallible thinking that prevails in the drug reform field.
Leading figures in drug policy reform and addiction theory swear by MAT, which is universally accepted and used across the country.
These well-meaning reformists and experts — groups and individuals like DPA, Maya Szalavitz, and Zach Siegel — are only slightly nettled by one disconcerting fact: drug deaths have risen to record levels alongside the explosion in Suboxone, Vivitrol, buprenorphine, and methadone prescriptions.
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2021-05-2356 min
LPP PodcastYou MUST be Treated! (Coerced Treatment and How to Overcome it)WHY do people so often reject drug and alcohol treatment, let alone refusing to volunteer for it, so that American addiction treatment depends on the legal system to survive? Stanton and Zach discuss the addiction treatment coercion phenomenon and imagine an alternative helping universe.
Coercion is central to the American addiction treatment enterprise. Without the participation of law enforcement and drug, criminal, civil and family courts (let alone EAPs, licensing bodies, and a host of NGO agencies) American addiction treatment would wither. Coercion is embedded in the disease concept of denial, and AA is forced on people i...
2021-05-1052 min
LPP PodcastThe Pandemic Has Made Us All ALCOHOLIC! (or not)Stanton and Zach consider five responses to NY Times article seeding “pandemic panic” @ alcohol:
1. There hasn’t been a significant increase in drinking.
2. Problems with alcohol and drugs preceded the pandemic, and aren’t due to substances.
3. Judging from Times’ readers’ comments, people with resources do remarkably well adjusting their drinking to their circumstances.
4. People aren’t drinking enough.
5. President Biden’s response to the above propositions has been both good and bad.
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2021-05-0254 min
LPP PodcastReflections on Maia Szalavitz, Problems With The Disease Model, Casual Drug UseDr. Peele and Zach consider Zach’s interview with Maia Szalavitz. Does Maia believe in the disease theory? What would happen if she took heroin again? Would she "Richard Harris" it (drinking Guinness as a 70ish grandpa)?
Do chronic brain disease advocates understand why families resist their depredations? Are they guilty of manslaughter?
Zach says he’s okay with heroin — unlike the opioided friend of a New York Times opinion writer who, convinced he could never escape his life disease sentence, explained opioid addiction to the Times writer to spread among readers before expiring from it. Thi...
2021-04-1848 min
LPP PodcastGUEST Maia Szalavitz: Addiction, Harm Reduction, Methadone MaintenanceMaia Szalavitz joins Zach Rhoads a discussion about addiction and harm reduction, including her forthcoming book, "Undoing Drugs".
Maia and Zach agree on a definition of addiction but re-open their epic argument about "values" ;)
They also discuss Dr. Carl Hart's book, "Drug Use For Grown Ups" -- Maia disagrees with Hart on a fundamental point about Harm Reduction.
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2021-04-1153 min
LPP PodcastQ&A With Dr. Peele: "Am I focusing TOO much on moderation?"Dr. Stanton Peele takes questions from LPP followers. Today he tackles the concept of moderation, which LPP encourages with respect to drugs, alcohol, or any other involvement that a person may have formed an addictive relationship with.
But is there such a thing as an over-emphasis on moderation as an end-goal? Dr. Peele explains here.
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2021-04-0606 min
LPP PodcastSundays With Stories: Cannabis & Teens, Drug Sensationalism, & Hunter Biden Saved By LoveJAMA Pediatric affirms what Dr. Peele has been saying for fifty years (which prominent drug-reformers deny): “marijuana is as addictive as opioids.” Or is that... Opioids are only as addictive as marijuana?
How is this possible? What are the implications of this claim?
Peele and Rhoads also discuss the Derek Chauvin case, and whether the idea that there being fentanyl in Floyd's system is relevant.
Finally, is Hunter addicted to—or saved by—love?
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2021-04-0550 min
LPP PodcastWhat Does Addiction Have To Do With The Tragic Events In Atlanta? | Life Process ProgramDr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads respond to news threads that link the recent Atlanta murders to sex addiction.
Does this claim make sense or is the "sex addiction" claim simply an insanity plea with no merit? Peele and Rhoads get into the subtleties on today's "Sundays With Stories"
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2021-03-2253 min
LPP PodcastHow Meghan Markle Overcame Depression WITHOUT Psychiatry, Drugs, or 800-numbersMeghan Markel is being used as an example of how speaking openly about depression is invaluable in order to get treatment and avoid suicide.
Well, not so fast...
Here are some salient facts: America has the most depression treatment and the highest suicide rate (both much higher than in the U.K.) among economically advanced societies. Markel (a) didn’t get treatment, (b) worked through her situation with her husband to change it, (c) seems no longer to be depressed.
Can you explain the preceding? Dr. Peele and Zach do in this episode, wit...
2021-03-1740 min
LPP PodcastThe Breakfast Club's TASTELESS Interview With Carl Hart | Stanton's FIVE TIPS For Carl As He Promotes His BookDr. Carl Hart has faced rough seas promoting his new book. As helpers and theorists who have faced similar tempests, Stanton and Zach offer some helpful hints.
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2021-03-111h 04
LPP PodcastMinisode | Q&A with Dr. Peele: "Is 'Sex Addiction' different from 'Love Addiction'?"An audience member asks 'Is "Sex Addiction" different from "Love Addiction' and can the two concepts be used interchangeably? Stanton explores the differences between the two terms and illustrates a comparative parallel between different genres of 'drug addiction'.
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2021-03-0304 min
LPP PodcastYouth, Addition, and a Failed Treatment Industry (Part 1 / 3) -- Madeleine Dean's Rehab FantasyMadeleine Dean: We admire you, but you’re thinking about America’s addiction problems is all wrong.
Dr. Peele and Zach explain to the Congresswoman how she is going in exactly the wrong direction in her addiction policies following on her son’s recovery in rehab.
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2021-03-0327 min
LPP PodcastIs Sex Addiction Different From "Love Addiction"?An audience member asks 'Is "Sex Addiction" different from "Love Addiction' and can the two concepts be used interchangeably?
Stanton explores the differences between the two terms and illustrates a comparative parallel between different genres of 'drug addiction'.
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2021-02-2304 min
LPP PodcastJordan Peterson's Messy Room | Benzodiazepines, 12 Rules For Life, Addiction | Sundays With StoriesDr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads discuss Jordan Peterson's work, his views about addiction, and how he handled his own addiction to benzodiazepines (with an understanding that Peterson makes a distinction between "addiction proper" and what he believes was his own "physical dependence"-- a distinction the two discuss in another video).
Peterson is an intelligent, compelling, and very famous psychologist whose rise to fame was unexpected, even to him. Much of what he did with that fame was noble-- namely, helping disparaged people "put themselves back together" (his words).
On the other hand, Peterson p...
2021-02-1541 min
LPP PodcastDr. Carl Hart | Drug Use For GROWN-UPS | Life Process Program, Sundays With StoriesDr. Carl Hart explains that the vast majority of people who use drugs do so with no problem. In fact, drugs -- yes, even so-called "hard drugs"-- offer more positive than negative experiences.
Dr. Hart is a professor (and former chair) of psychology and psychiatry at Columbia University. Today, he opens up to Zach Rhoads about his new book, "Drug Use For Grown-Ups", in which he's comes out of the closet about his own drug use and encourages the rest of us to do the same.
And why is he so boosterish about speaking...
2021-02-0946 minLPP PodcastWhat Does It Mean to be "Trauma Informed"?Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads answer the following frequently asked question: Is LPP a “trauma informed program”?
They offer a definition of “trauma” in several contexts. Then they discuss differences between traumatic events and adverse conditions in life.
Peele and Rhoads also consider what it means to be trauma informed versus believing trauma is responsible for addiction.
And, of course, the hosts explain how all of this information applies to their work with clients in the Online Life Process Program.
If you become interested in the program and want to learn more, you ca...
2021-02-0559 min
LPP PodcastHunter Biden, Pussy Riot, and Family Addiction Entanglements | LPP PodcastQuestions of family often appear in relation to addiction and drug issues.
As with all questions in these areas, discussion is misled by disease beliefs, which leave people muddled and mystified about how to proceed constructively. Nonetheless, basic human values often assert themselves, allowing people— especially young people— to free themselves and to display bravery.
Examples in the news are the women in Russian protest group Pussy Riot, Masha Gessen (Russian-American radical journalist) whose son is lost in vicodin, the four granddaughters of Joe Biden, who allowed the president to free america from Trump, and the o...
2021-01-3153 min
LPP PodcastEp 46: Shia Labeouf is LOVE SICK | With Dr. Stanton PeeleOn today's episode, Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads (of the Life Process Program) discuss current events in addiction and harm reduction. The key note: Shia Labeouf's Love Addiction!
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Shia Labeouf has made the news for his movies and even for his recovery from alcohol and drugs. Unfortunately, despite years of "programming" for his addiction issues, Labeouf's behavior is still relatively unstable.
Zach and Stanton, however, believe that drugs and alcohol are NOT the influence behind the celebrity's recent behavior (driving cars at hu...
2021-01-1829 min
LPP PodcastASK STANTON: "Why do people call addiction a disease? What is addiction REALLY?"Stanton Peele answers questions from social media followers, listeners, and YouTube viewers.
Today, Zach Rhoads reads Stanton a question from a Facebook follower: "Why do people call addiction a disease, and what is addiction REALLY?"
Want to ask Stanton a question?? He will answer on video or on the podcast. You can reach us using any of the links below.
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Twitter: http://twitter.com/l...
2021-01-0407 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 45: Mikey G Ignores the "Addict" Identity in Favor of Life (Sundays With Stories Edition)Today Zach Rhoads speaks with Michael Galipeau (AKA Mikey G) about his upbringing in a state-run institution, his years of homelessness, and his relationship (positive and negative) with illicit drug use.
As is par for the course here at "Sundays With Stories", Mikey G's "recovery story is NOT your standard Hollywood-infused story. He describes a traumatic past (which he's not bogged down by), and he describes a relationship with drugs for which he is very thankful.
Once homeless and down on his luck, Mikey is now:
- Co-Producer New York Harvest Festival and C...
2020-12-141h 54
LPP PodcastEpisode 44 | The Dax Shepard Relapse Story (Sundays With Stories Edition)The actor, podcaster, and AA advocate Dax Shepard has decided to turn his sobriety count from 16 years all the way back to one day. This is the result of a recent decision to take narcotic pain killers off-script.
Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads discuss why Dax's own personal development is being stymied by 12-step ideology, and why he either cannot OR refuses to acknowledge that fact.
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Dr. Peele and Zach Rhoads begin the show by rev...
2020-12-0159 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 43 (Sundays With Stories Edition): Jason Terrell's Natural Recovery StoryToday's episode is a "Sundays With Stories" edition and our guest today is a man named Jason Terrell.
Jason was kind (and brave) enough to spend time talking about his upbringing, his addiction history, his time in treatment (which actually bogged him down more than it helped), and how he ultimately overcame addiction by using his own best thinking!
All of this and more on episode 43!
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2020-11-2330 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 42 (Sundays With Stories 9): Peter Bogdanovich and Love AddictionOn episode 9, Stanton and Zach talk about film director Peter Bogdanovich and his history of love addiction. In fact, the two argue that love is the worst addiction of all!
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Zach and Stanton begin by discussing current events, including Oregon's recent push to decriminalize all drugs. The new policy is a welcome movement away from incarceration for drug possession. But the devil (as is always the case) is in the details. . . . . Will the drug reform bill end discrimination against drug users, or will it lead to a new flavor of st...
2020-11-1550 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 41: LPP Coach Aaron Ferguson's Return From an Addicted and Traumatic PastWe have a truly remarkable LPP “Sundays With Stories” — Aaron’s story. Put simply, Aaron’s life has been . . . well, it might be rejected by Netflix as unbelievable. And it has left him firmly in the LPP camp. Just up front, Aaron is an outreach manager for a national opioid treatment provider. He combines his position on MAT with his non-disease, non-trauma-fixated LPP coaching. (More about this later.)
The podcast covers Aaron and his 11 siblings singing in churches, restaurants and streets around the world with his cult-member parents, escaping from the cult in California and being homeless for years...
2020-11-0845 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 40: Tom Horvath, SMART Recovery, Addiction, and the Limitations of the Disease ModelNot so long ago, I published a blog comparing and contrasting SMART Recovery with the Life Process Program.
Shortly after doing so, The president of SMART Recovery wrote to me and offered reflections on the piece. That made me a little nervous.... but he liked the blog. (WHEW!)
But he did have a bone to pick with me.... I wrote that SMART Recovery is an abstinence-based program and, evidently, they are no longer focused on abstinence from drugs, alcohol or any other involvement.
I invited him on the LPP Podcast to explain.
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2020-11-0556 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 39: What Does Evidence-Based Treatment Tell Us?In today’s episode of Sundays With Stories, Stanton and Zach discuss current events.
This week a New York Times article bemoaned the failure of addiction specialists to adopt a proven tool for treating drug addiction, “contingency management.” That is, paying meth, cocaine et al. users for abstinence.
That’s right: experienced, one might say addicted, “speed” (“crank”) users will desist drug use if you give them money — and not colossal sums at that. This has been Carl Hart’s research with meth, and the University of Vermont group’s under Warren Bickle with cocaine. The same benefits of pr...
2020-11-0140 minLPP PodcastEpisode 38: Are harm Reduction and natural recovery really suitable for the REALLY gone?Dr. Stanton Peele is the founder and creator of the Life Process Program: http://LifeProcessProgram.com
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Dr. Peele and Zach Rhoads return for episode 6 of "Sundays With Stories".
They select two more prominent non-12-step “recovery” stories — these with “addicts” who, themselves, were earmarked for hell — Lindsay Lohan and Robert Downey Jr. Lohan seemed doomed by her alcoholism (according not only to her father, but seemingly Oprah). She instead partnered in a group of beach clubs, made borscht and helped her mom and younger sibling...
2020-10-2545 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 37: Standard Addiction and Recovery Myths DEBUNKED!Dr. Peele received an email from a documentary film company, asking him to participate in a documentary about addiction. He happily agreed, and then the company sent him a list of questions that he needed to be prepared to answer.
Unfortunately, they were all leading questions-- ones which implied that a.) addiction is a disease; b.) drugs cause addiction; c.) addiction is unescapable and none of us are safe!
Stanton had to wonder, "have these people ever read any of my work?"
But he's a man of his word, so he did answer the...
2020-10-1938 minLPP PodcastEpisode 36: Trauma Theory and "The Good Place"Today, Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads talk about two popular shows and their satire of standard AA / Trauma addition theories.
The two shows are "South Park" (a classic episode poking fun at AA) and "The Good Place"-- which is, in essence, a show that pokes fun at the idea of over-focusing on past events, as per the extremes of Trauma Theory.
For more about Stanton and Zach's addiction ideas, you can connect with the Life Process Program:
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2020-10-1328 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 35: Steve-O's (not so) Recovery StoryToday, Zach and Dr. Peele discuss Stephen Glover’s (AKA Steve-O) addiction story.
Steve-O is the TV personality who produced and starred in the Jackass movies. During and subsequent to his rise to his movie career, he developed addictions to drugs and alcohol.
He went to a disease-based rehab and has abstained from alcohol and drugs ever since (which LPP doesn’t necessarily discourage, but we don’t demand it either).
Later in life, however, Steve-O developed a sex addiction, and decided he wanted to kick this addiction as well. At first, he abstain...
2020-10-0730 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 34: Elton John and Bob Weir's (not so) Recovery StoriesWelcome to Episode 34!
In this episode of Sundays With Stories, Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads tell the not-so-recovery stories of two ultra-famous musical legends, Elton John and Bob Weir. Some key notes from the episode:
I. Addiction and recovery narratives, and why people adopt them
II. There is a Grateful Dead / Jerry Garcia narrative which may be more or less true. But it wasn’t true for Robert Hunter (who died last December), and ceased to be true for Bob Weir. And, when tells his truth, he speaks of the burden — not of drug...
2020-10-0130 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 33: The Drew Barrymore Story (as told by Zach and Stanton)Welcome to episode 33!
This episode is the audio version of a new weekly segment, produced by LPP and hosted by Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads, called "Sundays With Stories"
Each week, Zach and Stanton tell the story of a celebrity-- well, COUNTER-recovery story. That is: they tell the stories of celebrities who outgrow their addictions, and whose stories actually oppose the standard addiction and recovery bromides that we've all been told.
This week's celebrity: Drew Barrymore!
(More on "Sundays with Stories" below):
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2020-09-2534 min
LPP PodcastSMART Recovery and the Life Process Program: Major Differences and Welcome SimilaritiesWelcome to the LPP Podcast!
Today's episode is a segment of our interview with LPP Coach Dee Cloward.
In this segment, Dee talks about her work at SMART Recovery and compares/contrasts it with her work for the Life Process Program. Dee loves both programs, but notes that there are meaningful differences between them-- differences which she outlines in today's discussion!
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Here's LPP's recent blog about this topic: https://lifeprocessprogram.com/smart-recovery/
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2020-09-1415 minLPP PodcastEpisode 31: Mindfulness Meditation (15 minutes)Welcome to episode 31!
Today we want you to take care of you.
So enjoy this 15 minute mindfulness meditation and free your mind so that you can make reasoned, responsible, and good decisions about how you'll behave for the rest of today.
If you'd like to learn more about mindfulness and meditation and how they relate to overcoming addiction, make sure you check out last episode of the podcast, where I spoke to Toby Sola (the CEO of Brightmind Meditation App): https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-30-BRIGHTMIND---Beat-Addiction-With-Mindfulness-and-Meditation-eioji9
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2020-09-0415 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 30: BRIGHTMIND-- Beat Addiction With Mindfulness and MeditationWelcome to episode 30!
Today's guest is Toby Sola.
Toby is the CEO of Brightmind for a living; he practices and teaches meditation as a livelihood. Brightmind is a meditaion app that helps people-- of all personalities, persuasions, and goals-- achieve a more mindful way of living.
Today we discuss the ways in which mindfulness and meditation can help you notice, acknowledge, re-frame, and OVERCOME addiction.
Some relevant discussion-points:
- Toby's back-story (how he became a meditation expert)
- Three values that drive Brightmind's content (They ensure all material...
2020-08-281h 26
LPP PodcastEpisode 29: Dee Cloward-- Beating Addiction With Encouragement and Common Sense!Welcome to episode 29!
Today's guest is LPP's own Dee Cloward.
Dee has been a Life Process Program coach for four years now. Prior to that, she was with SMART Recovery for 15 years in many capacities, primarily as a volunteer, and served there as Program Manager for Court Outreach and Special Events Coordinator, and Director of Training to mention just a few. She was highly beloved in the online community and beyond and continues to facilitate SMART meetings locally in the county jail and online. In addition, she has her own small local coaching business in...
2020-08-211h 21
LPP PodcastEpisode 28: Mindy Vincent - Utah Harm Reduction CoalitionWelcome to Episode 28!
Today's guest is Mindy Vincent.
Mindy is an addiction therapist and social worker; she is the host of the podcast "Therapeutic Madness"; and she is the founder of Utah Harm Reduction Coalition.
Mindy spoke with host Zach Rhoads about her history with drug addiction, and how she became a harm reduction practitioner and advocate.
Sadly, Mindy's sister died of a drug overdose in 2014. As if that weren't enough, her brother was also using drugs destructively at the time. At that time, Mindy had already overcome her own addiction, and sh...
2020-08-131h 26
LPP PodcastEpisode 27: Zach Appears on the "REBT Advocates" PodcastWelcome to episode 27!
Today you'll hear LPP coach and author Zach Rhoads talking with Michael Edelstein and Tommy Bateman of the show REBT Advocates about his and Stanton Peele's latest book, "Outgrowing Addiction"
The hosts ask Zach questions about the book including what addiction means in the fist place and what it means to outgrow it.
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The YouTube video of Zach's appearance on the show is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0zYnmGgR9w&t=245s
Article abo...
2020-07-3128 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 26: Daniel Snyder-- Harm Reduction, Self-Agency and Personal ResponsibilityWelcome to Episode 26!
On today's program, Zach Rhoads speaks with Daniel Snyder.
Daniel Snyder lives in Langley, British Columbia where he is a project and peer coordinator at Langley Overdose Response. He is also the founding creator of Mindful Hope, a hub of resources regarding harm reduction and sensible drug policy.
Daniel Snyder also overcame a heroin addiction which lasted 15 years. It was only after attending, being perplexed by, and "failing" at 12-step recovery programs that he found SMART Recovery. He is now living his best life, and does not consider himself "in...
2020-07-2349 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 25: Will Godfrey of Filter Magazine (an online harm reduction magazine)Welcome to episode 25!
Today's episode is the fourth of our four-part series about harm reduction.
Zach spoke with Dr. Peele in the first three episodes of the series. Here are links to those episodes, in case you missed it:
Episode 1: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-22-The-History-of-Harm-Reduction-for-Addiction-efv3el
Episode 2: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-23-HARM-REDUCTION-versus-NON-ABSTINENCE-eg6tei
Episode 3: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-24-Improvement-versus-Perfection-Harm-Reduction-Series-Part-3-eggp30
Today, Zach speaks with Editor in Chief of Filter Magazine, Will Godfrey.
Filter is an online publication whose mission is t...
2020-07-2122 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 24: Improvement versus Perfection (Harm Reduction Series Part 3)Welcome to episode 24!
Today's episode is also part three of our four-part series about harm reduction. Zach and Stanton discuss several domains in which harm reduction can be useful:
- Addiction
- Policing
- Public health
- Working with children
And more. . .
And they hone in on the fact that harm reduction is based on improvement rather than only perfection. A quote from the episode:
"Harm reduction means getting on the right track for improvement so that we see benefits in t...
2020-07-0909 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 23: HARM REDUCTION versus NON-ABSTINENCEWelcome to episode 23!
This is episode #2 of a four-part series about Harm Reduction.
Last week, Stanton and Zach discussed the history of harm reduction for addiction. That episode is here:
In today's episode, Stanton wraps up his telling of Harm Reduction History and then talks about harm reduction's evolution, as a concept, into two incompatible ways of thinking:
There is "harm reduction" as the Life Process Program defines it; and then there's another way of thinking about harm-reduction-- namely, that "harm reduction = non-abstinence." Stanton and Zach make a clear distinction between the...
2020-07-0221 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 12: Monday Morning Ammunition-- Module 1 (self-reflection) with Dr. Stanton PeeleWelcome to episode 12!
For the next 8 weeks, Zach Rhoads will be talking about each of the eight LPP modules with the creator of the program, Dr. Stanton Peele. In today's episode, they discuss module 1: "Self-Reflection"
Enjoy your Monday Morning Ammunition!
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Text us - +1 (802) - 391 - 4360
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2020-06-3018 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 22: The History of Harm Reduction for AddictionWelcome to episode 22!
We’ve created a new series of episodes titled, “LPP and Harm Reduction”
The series contains four segments that you’ll hear over the next four weeks. Today you’ll hear part 1: “The History of Harm Reduction For Adddiction”
Remember: If you have any comments or questions or suggestions about the episode, that you can reach us at info@lifeprocessprogram.com
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2020-06-2628 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 21: Dr. Sandy Steingard -- "Critical Psychiatry"Today you’ll hear an excerpt from my long-form discussion with Dr. Sandy Steingard. Sandy is a psychiatrist and the chief medical officer of a statewide non-profit organization in Vermont called The Howard Center.
She is also a blogger for Robert Whitaker’s online Magazine called “Mad in America” and she’s the author of a book called “Critical Psychiatry.” I sat in-person with Sandy and spoke with her for a few hours about why she is critical of psychiatry— her own field. And how she reconciles this with her role, not only as a psychiatrist, but as the chief medica...
2020-06-2031 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 20: Dr. Robert Schwebel "The Seven Challenges"Today you’ll get a sneak-peak from a long-form conversation I had with Dr. Robert Schwebel. Robert Schwebel is a psychologist, author, and the creator of a non 12-step program called “Seven Challenges”
Dr. Schwebel's "Seven Challenges" are a practical guide for people, young and old, to really understand their relationship with drugs and alcohol and whether they're happy with that relationship or not.
Dr. Schwebel says that-- to the extent that people decide (for themselves) that they have a problem with drugs or alcohol-- not only are the NOT powerless (as AA and other 12-step p...
2020-06-1532 minLPP PodcastEpisode 19: Monday Morning Ammunition (Module 8- "GREATER GOALS")Welcome to episode 19!
In today's episode, Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads discuss the Life Process Program's Module 8: "GREATER GOALS"
You can listen to episodes related to the first seven modules here:
Module 1: 'Self-Reflection' https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-12-Monday-Morning-Ammunition---Module-1-self-reflection-with-Dr--Stanton-Peele-ebqan0
Module 2: 'Values' https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-13-Monday-Morning-Ammunition-Module-2-Values-ec5asp
Module 3: 'Motivation' https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-14-Monday-Morning-Ammunition-Module-3--Motivation-ecejs3
Module 4: 'Rewards' https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-15-Monday-Morning-Ammunition-Module-4--Rewards-ecndgu
Module 5: 'Resources and Skills' https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-16-Monday-Morning-Ammunition-Module-5--RESOURCES-AND-SKILLS-edadlj
Module 6: 'Maturity' https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-17-Monday-Morning-Ammunition-Module-6...
2020-06-0124 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 18: Monday Morning Ammunition (Module 7- "MATURITY")Welcome to episode 18!
In today's episode, Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads discuss the Life Process Program's Module 7: "MATURITY"
You can listen to episodes related to the first 6 modules here:
Module 1: 'Self-Reflection' https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-12-Monday-Morning-Ammunition---Module-1-self-reflection-with-Dr--Stanton-Peele-ebqan0
Module 2: 'Values' https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-13-Monday-Morning-Ammunition-Module-2-Values-ec5asp
Module 3: 'Motivation' https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-14-Monday-Morning-Ammunition-Module-3--Motivation-ecejs3
Module 4: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-15-Monday-Morning-Ammunition-Module-4--Rewards-ecndgu
Module 5: 'Resources and Skills' https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-16-Monday-Morning-Ammunition-Module-5--RESOURCES-AND-SKILLS-edadlj
Module 6: 'M...
2020-05-1815 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 17: Monday Morning Ammunition (Module 6- "SOCIAL SUPPORT")Welcome to episode 17!
For the next 8 weeks, Zach Rhoads will be talking about each of the eight LPP modules with the creator of the program, Dr. Stanton Peele.
In today's episode, they discuss Module 6: "SOCIAL SUPPORT"
You can listen to episodes related to the first 5 modules here:
Module 1: 'Self-Reflection' https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-12-Monday-Morning-Ammunition---Module-1-self-reflection-with-Dr--Stanton-Peele-ebqan0
Module 2: 'Values' https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-13-Monday-Morning-Ammunition-Module-2-Values-ec5asp
Module 3: 'Motivation' https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-14-Monday-Morning-Ammunition-Module-3--Motivation-ecejs3
Module 4: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-15...
2020-05-0420 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 16: Monday Morning Ammunition (Module 5- "RESOURCES AND SKILLS")Welcome to episode 16!
For the next 8 weeks, Zach Rhoads will be talking about each of the eight LPP modules with the creator of the program, Dr. Stanton Peele.
In today's episode, they discuss Module 5: "RESOURCES AND SKILLS"
You can listen to the last two episodes here:
Module 1: 'Self-Reflection' https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-12-Monday-Morning-Ammunition---Module-1-self-reflection-with-Dr--Stanton-Peele-ebqan0
Module 2: 'Values' https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-13-Monday-Morning-Ammunition-Module-2-Values-ec5asp
Module 3: 'Motivation' https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-14-Monday-Morning-Ammunition-Module-3--Motivation-ecejs3
Module 4: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-15-Monday-Morning-Ammunition-Module-4--Re...
2020-04-2735 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 15: Monday Morning Ammunition (Module 4- "Rewards")Welcome to episode 15!
For the next 8 weeks, Zach Rhoads will be talking about each of the eight LPP modules with the creator of the program, Dr. Stanton Peele. In today's episode, they discuss module 4: "REWARDS"
You can listen to the last two episodes here:
Module 1: 'Self-Reflection' https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-12-Monday-Morning-Ammunition---Module-1-self-reflection-with-Dr--Stanton-Peele-ebqan0
Module 2: 'Values' https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-13-Monday-Morning-Ammunition-Module-2-Values-ec5asp
Module 3: 'Motivation' https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-14-Monday-Morning-Ammunition-Module-3--Motivation-ecejs3
Enjoy your Monday Morning Ammunition!
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2020-04-1319 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 14: Monday Morning Ammunition (Module 3- "Motivation")Welcome to episode 14!
For the next 8 weeks, Zach Rhoads will be talking about each of the eight LPP modules with the creator of the program, Dr. Stanton Peele. In today's episode, they discuss module 3: "MOTIVATION"
You can listen to the last two episodes here:
Module 1: 'Self-Reflection' https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-12-Monday-Morning-Ammunition---Module-1-self-reflection-with-Dr--Stanton-Peele-ebqan0
Module 2: 'Values' https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-13-Monday-Morning-Ammunition-Module-2-Values-ec5asp
Enjoy your Monday Morning Ammunition!
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2020-04-0618 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 13: Monday Morning Ammunition (Module 2: Values)Welcome to episode 13!
For the next 8 weeks, Zach Rhoads will be talking about each of the eight LPP modules with the creator of the program, Dr. Stanton Peele. In today's episode, they discuss module 2: "VALUES"
Listen to last week's episode, "Module 1: 'Self-Reflection'" here: https://anchor.fm/lifeprocessprogram/episodes/Episode-12-Monday-Morning-Ammunition---Module-1-self-reflection-with-Dr--Stanton-Peele-ebqan0
Enjoy your Monday Morning Ammunition!
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Email us - info@lifeprocessprogram.com
Text...
2020-03-3018 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 11: Monday Morning Ammunition--- Psychedelic Assisted Therapy with Dr. Rick BarnettHappy Monday Morning!
Today's episode of Monday Morning Ammunition is an interview that LPP coach Zach Rhoads conducted with Vermont Psychologist, Dr. Rick Barnett. Zach and Dr. Barnett discuss the potential (and the limitations) of psychedelic drugs to assist in psychotherapy.
The interview was originally published as an episode of "The Social Exchange Podcast" which is another podcast that Zach hosts about social issues and topics related to psychology. You can find that podcast here https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-social-exchange/id1333527133?i=1000400841259&mt=2
OR follow the YouTube channel here: https://www.youtu...
2020-03-1634 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 10: Monday Morning Ammunition -- Dr. Ross Greene's Proactive and Collaborative SolutionsToday’s episode is an excerpt from a conversation between LPP coach Zach Rhoads and developmental psychologist and Best-Selling author Dr. Ross Greene.
Zach asked Dr. Greene to talk about his strategy for working collaboratively with children whose behavior presents challenges to themselves and/or to others around them. The model is called Collaborative and Proactive Solutions. This model ensures that all parties— kids AND adults— act according to the wants and needs of all involved.
Of course, this is not a direct link to addiction-related problems, but the methods and tools of problem-solving that Ross Gree...
2020-03-0917 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 9: Monday Morning Ammunition-- "Outgrowing Addiction"This episode is a reading from Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads' new book, "Outgrowing Addiction: With Common Sense Instead of 'Disease' Therapy".
You can purchase a copy of the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Outgrowing-Addiction-Instead-Disease-Therapy/dp/0942679466
HOW TO REACH US:
Email us - info@lifeprocessprogram.com
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2020-03-0213 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 8: Bill Kinkle: 12-Step CoercionToday I spoke with a man named Bill Kinkle.
Bill is a nurse, a paramedic and an advocate working at, what he calls, the intersection of harm reduction and recovery. Bill describes himself as a person in recovery as well (although he's explain that the term recovery probably means something different to him than it does to many others-- this is something we discuss in the interview.)
Unfortunately, Bill lost his nursing license in the process of seeking professional help to overcome an opioid addiction. He and I discuss what may have led to his ad...
2020-02-2737 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 7: Monday Morning Ammunition-- Stanton Peele talks about Outgrowing AddictionThis episode is an excerpt from Stanton's recent appearance on "Cultural Baggage," a Texas-based radio program hosted by Dean Becker.
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2020-02-2414 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 6: Monday Morning Ammunition with Brooke FeldmanWelcome to the LPP Podcast.
LPP is the Life Process Program-- an online (NON 12-step) counseling program for people who think they may have addictions, and who want to overcome them from the comfort of their own home.
Today marks the first of our weekly series called Monday Morning Ammunition--- a short and sweet bit of information to inspire you and give you something to think about until next Monday.
In this episode you're hearing from Brooke Feldman, an addiction professional from Philadelphia who overcame both a traumatic childhood-- including legal trouble-- as we...
2020-02-1009 min
LPP PodcastEpisode 5: Dr. Peele Does Q&A With Group In Galway IrelandOn today's podcast, Dr. Stanton Peele delivers a talk to a group of helping professionals in Galway Ireland.
His keynote addresses the importance of recognizing values-- as well as motivation, skills, connection, purpose, and meaning-- in overcoming addiction. He also fields audience questions and debunks a range of addiction myths.
We hope this episode will bring you tremendous value… Let us know what you think! Write to us at Info@lifeprocessprogram.com
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2020-01-111h 28
LPP PodcastEpisode 4: Dr. Stanton Peele Interviews Harm Reduction AuthorsToday's episode is a throwback!
Dr. Stanton Peele interviews harm-reduction therapists and authors of the book, Over The Influence, Patt Denning and Jeannie Little. These ladies were (and are) at the forefront of commonsense, harm-reduction based therapy-- their ideas closely resemble those of The Life Process Program and we hope this interview brings you value.
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Intro: 0:00 - 2:55
Interview: 2:55 - 48:50
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2020-01-0848 min
The Social ExchangeEpisode 47: Dr. Robert Schwebel: "Leap of Power"Welcome to episode 47! Today Zach Rhoads speaks with Dr. Robert Schwebel about his latest book, Leap of Power (available now). Robert Schwebel is a clinical psychologist who developed The Seven Challenges Program: holistic life counseling for people with alcohol and other drug problems. This program is widely used for adolescents across the United States in hundreds of organizations (Learn more about the adolescent program from his book, "The Seven Challenges.") More recently, Dr. Schwebel has established a version of his program for adults which he describes in his latest book, Leap of Power: Take C...
2019-11-0555 min
The Social ExchangeMINISODE: Charles Murray: The Bell CurveCharles Murray responds to Zach's questions about IQ, ethnicity, and race-- as told in "The Bell Curve"-- and expresses his frustration at the mischaracterization of the book's message. ****** Visit http://ModesOfExchange.org for multimedia educational content about addiction, human development, and a range of sociopolitical issues. ****** Buy a copy of Zach Rhoads and Stanton Peele's book, "Outgrowing Addiction" http://OutgrowingAddiction.com ****** Support the show by contributing to Patreon: http://Patreon.com/thesocialexchange ****** Support by...
2019-04-1509 min
The Social ExchangeEpisode 16: Where The Story Meets Pain (Volume 3: "Pain Patients")Where The Story Meets Pain Volume 3: "Pain Patients" Series Episodes: 1. Addiction 2. Drug Deaths 3. Doctors and Pain Patients __________________________________________ Despite our best efforts, we’ve yet to slow the rate of death related to drugs in our country… In the year 2016, there were 64,000 total drug-related deaths. Something is not working, and that truth is getting increasingly difficult to stomach. Host, Zach Rhoads spent the last two years challenging the standard story about the opioid crisis. He spoke to relevant experts...
2018-07-1958 min
The Social ExchangeEpisode 15: Where The Story Meets Pain (Volume 2: "Drug Deaths")Where The Story Meets Pain Volume 2: "Drug Deaths" Series Episodes: 1. Addiction 2. Drug Deaths 3. Doctors and Pain Patients __________________________________________ Despite our best efforts, we’ve yet to slow the rate of death related to drugs in our country… In the year 2016, there were 64,000 total drug-related deaths. Something is not working, and that truth is getting increasingly difficult to stomach. Host, Zach Rhoads, has responded; he spent the last two years challenging the standard story about the opioid crisis. He asked spoke t...
2018-07-0842 min
The Social ExchangeEpisode 14: Where The Story Meets Pain (Volume 1: Addiction)Where The Story Meets Pain "Addiction" volume 1 (of 3) Series Episodes: 1. Addiction 2. Drug Death 3. Doctors and Pain Patients __________________________________________ Despite our best efforts, we’ve yet to slow the rate of death related to drugs in our country… In the year 2016, there were 64,000 total drug-related deaths. Something is not working, and that truth is getting increasingly difficult to stomach. Host, Zach Rhoads, has responded; he spent the last two years challenging the standard story about the opioid crisis. He asked...
2018-06-2631 min