Let’s Talk Addiction and Recovery (Oct 2022)
By Lisa Stangl
This was originally published for Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation’s monthly Recovery Advocacy Update. If you’d like to receive our advocacy emails, subscribe today.
Highlighted webinars and podcasts this month recognize and shine a light on mental health, cultural healing, youth and families, shame, service and hope. Check them out, mark your calendars and share with your networks.
NEW WEBINARS
Ways You Can Support Teen Mental Health
Recent headlines about a growing mental health crisis among our youth are distressing. What damage has the been done during the pandemic? How concerning are these developments? What can we do now to support adolescent mental health and well-being? Join Deirdre Flynn, a prevention expert with the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, to review the current state of teen mental health based on research, not headlines. Flynn will also discuss implications related to substance misuse, overdose, dating violence and suicide. You will come away with actionable next steps to support behavioral health and wellness for youth. Register Today
How Social Media Can Exacerbate Self-Injury
Nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) — intentional acts of harming oneself by cutting, burning, scratching or punching — is a confounding and complex phenomenon that can occur across the lifespan, yet usually begins in adolescence. Although NSSI is not new, the emergence of social media has created new challenges as adolescents view, share, upload and comment on NSSI-related content online. Join leading experts Amanda L. Giordano, PhD, LPC, and Michael K. Schmit, PhD, LPC, to discuss signs and symptoms of NSSI among adolescents and the role of the internet in potentially exacerbating the issue. Register Today
Additional Webinars to Add to Your Watch List
NEW “RECOVERY EQUITY” PODCAST
Wellbriety Movement | Cultural Healing for Trauma and Addiction
In this episode of Let’s Talk Recovery Equity, host Andrew Williams welcomes Kateri Coyhis, executive director of White Bison, to discuss the tragedies that struck Indigenous communities and disrupted their teachings and traditions. Coyhis also explains the Wellbriety movement and its framework for restoring Native cultures and communities and helping break cycles of trauma and addiction. As Coyhis explains, Wellbriety helps American Indians/Native Americans rewrite the narrative to account for all the loss — and in the process, paves the way for healing.
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NEW “LET’S TALK” PODCASTS
A Message of Hope for Parents with Children who have Substance Use Disorders
A beautiful and fun-loving boy transformed when he began to experiment with substances. His father, Stephen, could hardly recognize him: he became “nasty and combative,” and their home life was marred by conflict. Willing to do anything, Stephen retired from Wall Street to learn everything he could about parenting a child who is struggling with a substance use disorder. Now he joins host William C. Moyers to share some essential life lessons and tools for other families who still hurt. Listen | Watch | Share | Subscribe
How to Heal and Recover from Shame
Senior clinician Sarah Wicks, PhD, LP, explains to host William C. Moyers how shame is treated and transformed through unconditional love and self-acceptance. Shame and addiction go hand-in-hand, she explains. Because of that, some of the most important work in recovery deals with the transformation of shame into something lighter and more actionable — guilt. Then a person can understand, “I did bad things, but I am not a bad person.” And they can forgive themselves, work to make things right, and heal. Listen | Watch | Share | Subscribe
Gridiron to Guardian: Student Athlete Inspires Change at His Alma Mater
Mike Heuerman’s football career at the University of Notre Dame took a heavy toll on his body. He needed surgery to repair the labrum in his hip and the torn muscles in his lower abdomen. But then the opioids prescribed for his pain led to addiction. Now Mike is five years sober (and counting) and spreading the hope of recovery to college students at his alma mater. Hear how else he’s inspiring people in this conversation with host William C. Moyers. Listen | Watch | Share | Subscribe
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Lisa Stangl is a director of marketing strategy for the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation.
