We took a unique break from our traditional format. Instead of having a guest on this podcast, we opted to ask our parent listeners to provide issues and struggles for host, Dave Cooke, to reflect on. The response was tremendous. Thank you! From your submissions, we selected five questions that best reflected the general tone of all your questions.

Today’s podcast focuses on the following topical areas:

1. Dealing with a child who is not ready to embrace recovery; yet is at tremendous risk if they don’t.

2. The challenges of finding effective recovery programs for our children.

3. Inspiring a child to get on with their life, post recovery.

4. Responding to societal related issues of family, friends, relatives -judgement, scorn, ignorance - who just don’t understand the roller coaster pain of a parent’s addiction journey.

5. Handling family divides, especially between siblings, that result from everyone’s respective addiction related experiences.

Thank you to the parents who submitted questions. We will do this again.  My son has offered to participate in our next Q&A session to bring someone with personal addiction experience and perspective into the conversation.

Next week (January 8) we will resume our series of guest interviews.  In the meantime, enjoy and many blessings to you and your families through this holiday season and into 2015!

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About this Podcast:

Having heard much enthusiasm for Ibogaine Treatment from parents across the country, it was hard to say “no” to Crossroads Treatment Center when they asked to be part of The Addiction Conversation.

While I didn’t really hear the word “cure” to describe the experiences of parents whose children received Ibogaine treatment, they came close. Reluctantly agreeing to host the team from Crossroads, I was pleasantly surprised at what I learned and heard.

I am hoping that those with addictions and family members of people with addictions will listen very closely to the entirety of this interview.

What you will hear and learn:

Ibogaine is one critical, valuable step in the Crossroad treatment program. Ibogaine provides great benefits in clearing the mind and eliminating the craving. Ibogaine alone would not be enough. The “drug” is not the only piece to this puzzle. There are two other critical steps in the CrossroadsTreatment Center recovery program. These steps are, in many respects, essential to anyone searching for a path to their recovery.

The key to their recovery program is in how the other two steps leverage the benefit of the Ibogaine treatment. Without this three step approach, the “drug” component of this program would not be nearly as successful. The three steps are: Pre-treatment, Detox, Post-treatment.

There are parallel insights in this interview which offer wonderful educational perspectives on the keys to effective and successful recovery, in general.

Examples of the insights contained in this podcast include:

• The easy step to treating addiction is the detox component, the challenging task is aftercare and sustained recovery.
• People know what they need. By creating an authentic space where they can be safe, vulnerable and speak their truth, they can begin to layout and embrace their own recovery plan.
• When a person comes into a treatment program in a mindset of commitment and dedication to change and not tied to the program to make the change for them, they are much more likely to be successful.
• Planning and envisioning your future prepares the patient to start working on their future.
• A patient cannot go into treatment without first cleaning up and changing their environment before they go - otherwise they simply come back to the same stuff.

Key links:

“The Ibogaine Experience” (article)

Crossroads Treatment Center (website)

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Our guest: Meet Lorelie Rozzano. Seventeen years ago, she entered into a local treatment center. Less concerned about recovery and more committed to playing the game in order to get back to her addictive ways, she received something she didn’t expect to find - recovery.

She finally discovered in recovery what she had been searching for in alcohol and drugs.Having grown up in an alcoholic home she understands first-hand, the importance of a healthy family. Since her recovery, she has become a successful author, mother, wife, daughter, grandmother, foster parent, counselor, sister and friend. Her passion is to help others recover from the effects of addiction in their lives.

As a writer she shares an authentic and insightful honesty to educate and enlighten families, parents, and those who are addicted. It is her quest through the honesty found in her books and in her blog, that those in addiction and their families will be inspired to search for the help they need. She wants everyone to discover and know there is hope for their situation!

What you will hear and learn:

You cannot apply logic to an illogical situation, you cannot apply reason to an irrational mindframe, you cannot bring a healthy person to an unhealthy person and get that unhealthy person well.  All that will happen is a healthy person will become sick when continually exposed to the habits of unhealthy behaviors.

A parent can’t love a child well and can’t reason a child well. The underlying issue of addiction goes beyond simply the addiction. Its a family disease, no one gets there alone. The family has to also be willing to ask and go through anything they are asking the addiction person to go through.

Key takeaways:

• Eight symptoms of addiction
• Ten examples for parents and family members of “Going Too Far” to assist or help the addicted person in your life
• Lessons and guides for enabling and the stress parents feel in this situation

Helpful Links:

Lorelie’s website: Jagged Little Edges

Gracie’s Secret (book for children dealing with addiction)

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What happens when a mom does everything she can, on her own, to save her son from his addiction?

When she realized it made no sense to try to take her son into a recovery “battle he is not willing to fight”?

What she did once he decided it was time to change his life!

• Learn how this mom experiences a massive transformation in her life.

Discover how she went from a place of complete self-denial, even protecting her family from the truth and reality of her son’s addiction, to a incredible wake-up call in the form of a heart attack. Today, mother and son are sharing a different, more inspiring, hopeful story about love, parenting, and addiction.

From “I am that mother who sits in church and says I don’t care what happens to me, please take care of my child.”

To “Its not okay to put your child before you at any cost…”

Links of interest:

Anita Devlin’s Website and Blog

Addiction: Video Series

Addiction Video #2: “The Voicemail”

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