Family Addiction Coaching

Family Addiction Coaching

Stories from families supporting a loved one with addiction. Each episode provides insight into a family's real life experience; what is useful, available, and what will improve the journey. Also addresses harm reduction, useful for those not interested in recovery or treatment. Clients discuss how our Coaching Services have impacted their recovery journey. Based on Motivational Interviewing, and Community Reinforcement And Family Training, which has a 70% success rate in bringing people with addiction into treatment.

Episodes

October 11, 2024 6 mins

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Have you ever felt like the weight of a loved one's addiction was too much to bear? Join us as we sit down with series host Patrick Doyle, a family addiction coach who shares his remarkable journey through the emotional chaos of his child's addiction and his subsequent path to personal recovery. Patrick's heartfelt story takes us from g...

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 Are you a parent worried about whether or not you’ll see your daughter alive again due to her addiction? 

This episode will show you two very different versions of what it's like when you ask a professional for help for your loved one with addiction. First, you will learn what the addiction treatment industry will say you must do. Witho...

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Are you feeling paralyzed, frustrated, and hopeless due to a loved one's addiction? Patrick Doyle and Laurie MacDougall discuss the REST (Resources, Education, Support, Together) groups, a free program where families experience transformative recovery. Families use REST to find new strategies and skills to communicate with their loved ones. They ...

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Have you financially supported a child with addiction for years and then reached a point where you wanted to change but could not?  Have you wondered if your support is holding your child back rather than helping them move forward?  Have you wondered if professional coaching might be more useful for changing your behavior, than psychotherapy?  This st...

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September 11, 2022 29 mins

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 While families are often in a position to encourage a loved one to get treatment, they are generally sidelined with inadequate inaccurate information, support and resources.  Though many persons with addiction do not have healthy families to lean upon, the minimal support available is largely devoted to parents of young people with addiction. Close f...

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Guest Interviewer extraordinaire Amanda guides the conversation as son and father describe the pursuit of addiction recovery as a family.  We hear many stories from persons recovering, and a few stories of families recovering from the impact of addiction. For the first time the two join together to describe their mutual struggles; showing the power of...

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Today’s guest is the remarkable Ms. Casie Fariello, the Co-Founder and CEO of an exciting online parent support organization called Other Parents Like Me; or OPLM.   We’ll be talking about the impact of parenting a child with addiction; and how Casie found her path to recovery from that impact. She credits Community Reinforcement and Family Training (...

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June 7, 2022 22 mins

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The third of my Pro Tips series gives you sixteen little-known practical steps you can take TODAY to Find Help For Addiction.  Did you know that many states have a 24hr hotline at 211 that will give you soon intake appointments for treatment? That having a medical professional calling an ER in advance will get you better care? That patients usually do...

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February 3, 2022 16 mins

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 People can accomplish amazing things when they feel loved. I address a listener question, "Episode 15 had great tips on recognizing addiction, but once you recognize it, how do you talk to a loved one about your concerns?" CRAFT: Community Reinforcement and Family Training, has a 70% success rate for encouraging a loved one with addiction i...

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January 17, 2022 33 mins

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Far and away the most asked question I get is, "How do I know if my loved one has a substance use problem?" Through listening to this episode you will become an expert in identifying addiction.  You will also start to learn how you can positively influence a person to become interested in health and recovery, and maybe even treatment. M...

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August 29, 2021 26 mins

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If your loved one has a substance use disorder and is not interested in reducing use, maintaining abstinence, or in pursuing treatment, this episode will help. Today’s guest has used my coaching support for several years to help her family help her son manage his addiction.  Though he had no interest in abstinence or in treatment, she was unwilling to...

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If your loved one is struggling with addiction and you're struggling with the process, this episode will help.  Patrick Doyle chats with a friend in recovery and shares his pro tips on evaluating treatment centers, navigating rehab barriers, the do's and dont's of being a supportive family member, and the importance of self-care. Resear...

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This episode describes how families with addiction can benefit from the services of Family Recovery Coach Laurie MacDougall.  Through her weekly online support groups, you can learn:
1.     Steps you can take TODAY, to reduce your loved one’s substance use

2.     How you can engage a person into treatment

3.     How to improve your quality of emotio...

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This episode courtesy of Talk2MeDoc Podcast's creator Dr. Andrew Tisser, who discusses how career stress on medical providers can lead to mental health and substance use issues. The value of peers in these professions reaching out to each other cannot be overestimated.   Helping families and chosen families through the Community Reinforcement And...

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Lynette, mother of Amanda featured in Episode 3, describes how she and her husband supported their daughter who had developed an opioid use disorder. Upon first learning of Amanda's arrest and heroin addiction, Lynette gave her the perfect response: "Nobody's perfect." Amanda's parents intuitively practiced Harm Reduction to h...

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A married couple, Joe and Lynn, describes how they decided to use my coaching; and exactly how their 3 generational family was helped to enter their own recovery.  Family recovery was then able to support Joe's fifty year old sister Jennifer who ultimately starting making decisions promoting her health and recovery from severe life-threatening al...

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We need to give Black persons with addiction tools for coping with the daily traumatic impact of racism; which if it existed, would be known as trauma-informed dual diagnosis care specific to racism. However it does not exist; no treatment programs are offering this. Like all other institutions in America, the Addiction Treatment Industry reflects the...

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 Family Addiction Recovery innovators Dr. Dominique Simon-Levine, Patrick Doyle, and Amanda S. share expert observations on the public health emergency’s impact on families and persons with addiction. Dominique is waiving the subscription fee and offering free access to her first-of-its-kind family communication skill-building online program www.allie...

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Family Addiction Coaching client Mary describes how Patrick Doyle's coaching services helped her help her adult daughter gain health and recovery.  While Anya now has eight years of sustained recovery, it was a challenging journey.  Even being a highly trained medical professional, it was difficult for Mary to find accurate information about addi...

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Hear exactly how our professional Coaching for families with addiction can help the recovery process for both families and their loved ones with addiction.  Patrick Doyle's teenage depression and wish that his family could have gotten professional help, gave him the mission to help families recover.  Our hosts share their lived experience and des...

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