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Rat Park and Vietnam tell us two crucial things about addiction and recovery. They first show that recovery is a natural process when the organism returns to a normally rewarding and supportive environment. Even more importantly — certainly not the rats, but the human beings in Vietnam were never conditioned to think of themselves as “addicts.” Thus their identities were never trapped, which is the hardest thing to overcome. ***** SUBSCRIBE to Our Channel ***** To get more of our content and help us grow: https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeProcessProgram?sub_confirmation=1 ***** FOLLOW us on Social ***** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-process-program ***** CONTACT US ****** - Website: https://lifeprocessprogram.com - Text us: +1 (802) - 391 - 4360

In 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 society: (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 ***** SUBSCRIBE to Our Channel ***** To get more of our content and help us grow: https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeProcessProgram?sub_confirmation=1 ***** FOLLOW us on Social ***** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-process-program ***** CONTACT US ****** - Website: https://lifeprocessprogram.com - Text us: +1 (802) - 391 - 4360

If common experiences are at the core of addiction, how do we define addictive experiences so as to distinguish them from ordinary ones? ***** SUBSCRIBE to Our Channel ***** To get more of our content and help us grow: https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeProcessProgram?sub_confirmation=1 ***** FOLLOW us on Social ***** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-process-program ***** CONTACT US ****** - Website: https://lifeprocessprogram.com - Text us: +1 (802) - 391 - 4360

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. ***** SUBSCRIBE to Our Channel ***** To get more of our content and help us grow: https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeProcessProgram?sub_confirmation=1 ***** FOLLOW us on Social ***** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-process-program ***** CONTACT US ****** - Website: https://lifeprocessprogram.com - Text us: +1 (802) - 391 - 4360

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 39:04 Financial Health **** SUBSCRIBE to Our Channel **** To get more of our content and help us grow:  https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeProcess...  **** FOLLOW us on Social  **** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram  - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life... **** CONTACT US ***** - Website: https://lifeprocessprogram.com  - Text us: +1 (802) - 391 - 4360

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 Americans, who benefit the most from drinking.\ Do we Americans do better simply living and drinking from our core values and lives? Sigh. You're on your own when it comes to deciding to drink (or use drugs) or not. ***** SUBSCRIBE to Our Channel ***** To get more of our content and help us grow:  https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeProcessProgram?sub_confirmation=1  ***** FOLLOW us on Social  ***** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram  - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-process-program ***** CONTACT US ****** - Website: https://lifeprocessprogram.com  - Text us: +1 (802) - 391 - 4360

Step by Step Change v Radical Transformation: Two LPP paths to the same destination Placing the person in the driver’s seat of their lives through each method. ***** SUBSCRIBE to Our Channel ***** To get more of our content and help us grow:  https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeProcessProgram?sub_confirmation=1  ***** FOLLOW us on Social  ***** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram  - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-process-program ***** CONTACT US ****** - Website: https://lifeprocessprogram.com  - Text us: +1 (802) - 391 - 4360

How did the main theme in American life become confronting the lifetime effects of trauma, rather than triumphing over them?   This preoccupation with trauma includes arguably the greatest stars in our universe: Anderson Cooper in political commentary, Taylor Swift in music, Serena Williams in sports, Steven Spielberg in movies. What does it signify about us that we now think of ourselves as permanently encumbered by such psychic chains? ***** SUBSCRIBE to Our Channel ***** To get more of our content and help us grow:  https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeProcessProgram?sub_confirmation=1  ***** FOLLOW us on Social  ***** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram  - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-process-program ***** CONTACT US ****** - Website: https://lifeprocessprogram.com  - Text us: +1 (802) - 391 - 4360

Tom 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 backward. They end their discussion by considering whether, in accepting the accolades of Nora Volkow, Tom and SMART have created a system clearly distinct from the disease monolith. ***** SUBSCRIBE to Our Channel ***** To get more of our content and help us grow:  https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeProcessProgram?sub_confirmation=1  ***** FOLLOW us on Social  ***** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram  - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-process-program ***** CONTACT US ****** - Website: https://lifeprocessprogram.com  - Text us: +1 (802) - 391 - 4360

There 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! ***** SUBSCRIBE to Our Channel ***** To get more of our content and help us grow:  https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeProcessProgram?sub_confirmation=1  ***** FOLLOW us on Social  ***** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram  - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-process-program ***** CONTACT US ****** - Website: https://lifeprocessprogram.com  - Text us: +1 (802) - 391 - 4360

We have embarked on a psychedelic renaissance, including use for both therapeutic and consciousness expansion purposes. In both cases the drug allows people to recast their consciousness — of themselves, of their worlds, of eternity.  This shifting of the cosmic egg is captured by the title of the best seller (with accompanying Netflix docuseries) by Michael Pollan, How To Change Your Mind. Why would you want to change your mind? To rethink your life to live more productively, intimately, happily.  But that sounds like a lot of work! And so, with the neuroscientific, know-nothing bent that has caused America’s (and the world’s) mental health to plummet, neuroscientists now say all the needed changes take place solely due to the rearrangement of neurons in your brain that the drug causes. No mindfulness need be added! ***** SUBSCRIBE to Our Channel ***** To get more of our content and help us grow:  https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeProcessProgram?sub_confirmation=1  ***** FOLLOW us on Social  ***** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram  - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-process-program ***** CONTACT US ****** - Website: https://lifeprocessprogram.com  - Text us: +1 (802) - 391 - 4360

The new mental health hotline is buckshot. Who actually thinks that calling a stranger for a few minutes addresses problems of depression and anxiety? Indeed, the idea that this makes sense is a symbol of America’s despair and cluelessness.  The hotline’s appearance in the aftermath of WHO’s June 17 World Mental Health Report, which pleaded for expanding nonexistent and disappearing community mental health resources, explains the plaintive tone of that document, which was created to refute quick medical solutions presented mainly by the US as the answer to declining mental health worldwide. ***** SUBSCRIBE to Our Channel ***** To get more of our content and help us grow:  https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeProcessProgram?sub_confirmation=1  ***** FOLLOW us on Social  ***** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram  - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-process-program ***** CONTACT US ****** - Website: https://lifeprocessprogram.com  - Text us: +1 (802) - 391 - 4360

Harm reduction once sensibly meant dealing with the whole person to reduce their likelihood of harming themselves. Common sense examples abounded — like helping people find work, residences, and communities.  Now it has been narrowed to finding drugs that can cure addiction — an impossibility that implodes harm reduction on itself, losing both the meaning of the word and the power of the tool. ***** SUBSCRIBE to Our Channel ***** To get more of our content and help us grow:  https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeProcessProgram?sub_confirmation=1  ***** FOLLOW us on Social  ***** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram  - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-process-program ***** CONTACT US ****** - Website: https://lifeprocessprogram.com  - Text us: +1 (802) - 391 - 4360

When we learned smoking was addictive we threw out all common sense: that people ultimately choose their fates, that they are led that way by their privileges and values, and that to believe that things are died in the wool only makes it harder for us to change those things.  Smoking became a bad habit to eschew, most people with advantages did that more or less, and the expense of smoking became the bad “luxury” of the poor and the deprived. All this true even as it is true to say smoking is addictive. ***** SUBSCRIBE to Our Channel ***** To get more of our content and help us grow:  https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeProcessProgram?sub_confirmation=1  ***** FOLLOW us on Social  ***** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram  - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-process-program ***** CONTACT US ****** - Website: https://lifeprocessprogram.com  - Text us: +1 (802) - 391 - 4360

Biological 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 proposing a new Best Practices in Mental Health Guide on June 17, 2022. But given its progenitors’ failures for more than a half century, we may be dubious. Instead of waiting for their opus, LPP presents its own best practices, one predicated on common sense knowledge of how humans succeed, rather than a half century of continuous failure. 0:00 America’s mental health crisis  15:34 Zach Rhoads weighs in  16:40 Mental health among children / schools 21:52 Why does adventure end after preK? 30:00 PURPOSE 37:08 ENGAGEMENT + STRENGTHS and SKILLS 40:47 EXPERIENCE + ADVENTURE 49:45 COMMUNITY + COLLABORATION ***** SUBSCRIBE to Our Channel ***** To get more of our content and help us grow:  https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeProcessProgram?sub_confirmation=1  ***** FOLLOW us on Social  ***** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram  - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-process-program ***** CONTACT US ****** - Website: https://lifeprocessprogram.com  - Text us: +1 (802) - 391 - 4360

How do you learn about people, about life? Questions. Yet again, how do you explore— and poke holes in— preposterous positions that people take? Questions.  Finally, how do you help people come to grips with troubling life issues? You’ve got it— questions.  What a versatile tool! ***** SUBSCRIBE to Our Channel ***** To get more of our content and help us grow:  https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeProcessProgram?sub_confirmation=1  ***** FOLLOW us on Social  ***** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram  - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-process-program ***** CONTACT US ****** - Website: https://lifeprocessprogram.com  - Text us: +1 (802) - 391 - 4360

The Netflix series “Ozark,” besides being a sustained “hit,” has several psychological and addiction merits. First, show runner and star Jason Batemen could have been a basket case child actor victim. Instead, he’s a role model. Second, Ozark depicts every variety of drug and alcohol use and reaction. ***** SUBSCRIBE to Our Channel ***** To get more of our content and help us grow:  https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeProcessProgram?sub_confirmation=1  ***** FOLLOW us on Social  ***** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram  - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-process-program ***** CONTACT US ****** - Website: https://lifeprocessprogram.com  - Text us: +1 (802) - 391 - 4360

We don’t care if Johnny Depp wins his defamation suit against Amber Heard. Nor will we render an opinion about whether “mutual abuse” can be used to describe a relationship where there is such a power differential (on Depp’s end). What we will say is that both parties participated in an addictive relationship, one that both say destroyed their lives. ***** SUBSCRIBE to Our Channel ***** To get more of our content and help us grow:  https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeProcessProgram?sub_confirmation=1  ***** FOLLOW us on Social  ***** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram  - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-process-program ***** CONTACT US ****** - Website: https://lifeprocessprogram.com  - Text us: +1 (802) - 391 - 4360

The use of “misdirection” in MI Using outside-the-box life areas (e.g., intimate relationships) to explore blind-alley areas of concern (e.g., alcohol), and how MI allows Chris Rock and and Will Smith to understand their difficulties in expressing painful emotions constructively. ***** SUBSCRIBE to Our Channel ***** To get more of our content and help us grow:  https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeProcessProgram?sub_confirmation=1  ***** FOLLOW us on Social  ***** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram  - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm - Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life-process-program ***** CONTACT US ****** - Website: https://lifeprocessprogram.com  - Text us: +1 (802) - 391 - 4360

How 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 up on the lam in anonymous motels, in prison, $millions in debt, and even ripped off her mother for $hundreds of thousands. All for an obese con man who “brainwashed” her into loving him. Keyword: Values Added bonus: How to raise a child who will not likewise succumb. OTHER DISCUSSION TOPICS FROM THE EPISODE:  - How did Elizabeth Holmes fool the world?  - How did Bernie Madoff get people begging to invest their money for them?  - How did the Tinder Swindler manage to borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars from women who didn't have the money to begin with?  - How in the world could the otherwise pro-social Sarma Melngailis be convinced to run from the law and steal money from her family?  - HOW DOES THIS RELATE TO ADDICTION?  - How can we addiction-proof ourselves and our children? ***** SUBSCRIBE to Our Channel ***** To get more of our content and help us grow:  https://www.youtube.com/c/LifeProcess...   STANTON'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL https://www.youtube.com/user/stantonpeele ***** FOLLOW us on Social  ***** - Facebook: https://facebook.com/lifeprocessprogram  - Twitter : https://twitter.com/lifeprocessprgm- Instagram: https://instagram.com/lifeprocessprogram- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/life...  ***** CONTACT US ****** - Website: https://lifeprocessprogram.com  - Text us: +1 (802) - 391 - 4360