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LPP Podcast
by Zach Rhoads and Stanton Peele
Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads give advice about achieving skills and purpose and how to outgrow addiction.
Episodes
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The Booze Paradox: Why Temperance Cultures Have The WORST Alcohol Problems
Is 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...
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Are Kids Really More DEPRESSED and ANXIOUS Than Ever? What Can We Do? | Life Process Program
An 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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REBROADCAST: Re-Writing Your Life Story
This 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…
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This Man Studied the Lives of CENTENARIANS, What He Discovered May SHOCK You | Mario Martinez | LPP
Dr. 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,...
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Talking 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...
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Most People Outgrow ADDICTION - 10 Minutes on How YOU Can Help
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...
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How do people QUIT ADDICTIONS? | It's a VALUES Statement
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:...
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THREE Criteria for an Addictive Experience | PSYCHOLOGIST Breaks Down Addiction in 5 Minutes
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…
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Psychologist 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…
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Finding 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…
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Is 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...
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Three Pscyhologically EFFECTIVE Ways To Set Goals -- And STICK TO THEM
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:...
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Why Is America SAD? | Anderson Cooper, Serena Williams, Taylor Swift, and TRAUMA THEORY
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...
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he History of NON-DISEASE Addiction Treatment
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…
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Are "Alcoholism" And "Addiction" REAL? | DSM vs AA vs LPP
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...
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Removing The MAGIC From The Magic MUSHROOM
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...
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988 Mental Health Hotline WON'T SOLVE our Mental Health CRISIS!
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…
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How the addiction concept drives us crazy | Part II: Harm reduction as Reductionism
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...
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How the addiction concept drives us crazy | PART I: SMOKING
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...
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Top FIVE Mental Health BEST PRACTICES | Life Process Program
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...
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The Yin and Yang of Asking Questions (and how to ask them)
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...
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How Jason Bateman BEAT TRAUMA and Became a STAR In His 50's
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...
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WORSE Than Drugs: Johnny Depp and Amber Heard Were LOVE Addicted
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...
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How To Motivate ANYONE using *Motivational Interviewing* and Motivational MISDIRECTION
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…
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How To Avoid Being DUPED | Addiction, Love, Values, and LESSONS learned from "Bad Vegan" Series
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…
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Single Drunk Female | What Modern Streaming REVEALS About Harm Reduction
AA 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…
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How To Avoid CATFISHING Scams! | Desperate For Love versus SELF EMPOWERMENT
The podcast “Sweet Bobby” raises the question, “What do you call it when a talented, caring woman devotes ten years of her life to an imaginary character, and can still barely function in the aftermath?” Unfortunately, Tortoise Media is not up to the task. Just like America blames drug...
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Phil Collins' NON AA "Recovery" + We Answer Questions About Addiction
Dr. 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…
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Dirty John and the Tinder Swindler
Does love addiction exist?” commentators question. Yet our most popular streaming media stories are replete with the cases of people whose lives are severely disturbed by harmful, irrational intimate involvements — up to an including death. Take “Dirty John” Meehan (who is dead at the hands of a...
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Alcoholics 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...
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Johann Hari | Stolen Focus: Why You Can't PAY ATTENTION - And How to Think Deeply Again
NYT Best-Selling Author Johann Hari, In his new book, "Stolen Focus", explains why and how our ability to pay attention is diminishing; he explains why that matters; and he offers potential solutions to those of us who wish to improve our focus and live better lives. Johann Hari is a British...
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The End of Trauma with Dr. George Bonanno
Dr. 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...
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HOW TO PREVENT TRAGEDY School Shootings, GUNS, & Connection
Zach 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…
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I May Destroy You + Radical Empathy
Stanton 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...
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Hulu's "Dopesick" is the NEW War on Drugs
“Dopesick” is the new version of the War on Drugs for people who want to demonize drugs but to claim they’re not drug warriors. “It’s in the brain” they screech, pointing to their heads.”We’ll cut painkiller prescriptions and ramp up MOUD around the land. So what if more deprived people die —...
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DISEASE ENVY - Why People Yearn For Labels, DESPITE Their Best Interests
Stanton 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…
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Joe Rogan's talk with "ALL IS DOPAMINE" Addiction Expert - OUR RESPONSE
Dr. 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...
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INSTAGRAM Addiction, Revisiting "FREE RANGE", & New BRAIN DISEASE News
Zach 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…
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Lenore Skenazy | Future-Proofing and ADDICTION-Proofing our Next Generation
Today'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…
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Zach Compares Heroin Addiction to Love Addiction -- Stanton Responds
This 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...
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The Ethics of Fighting Disease Myths
There’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...
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MARK NORMAND: Implanting the Recovery Chip | Trauma, Role Models, NON RECOVERY STORY
Zach 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...
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Afghanistan, Vietnam and the Disease Theory of Addiction
Our massive failure in Afghanistan reminds us of cultural delusions that have gutted us in the past—starting with Vietnam. Vietnam signaled that we didn’t comprehend the consequences of our overseas adventures. It also showed that we had no idea about the relationship between drugs and addiction....
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Olympic Inspiration | Heroic Achievement, Stoicism, & Overcoming Trauma
Zach 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...
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UNDOING DRUGS: A History Of Harm Reduction With MAIA SZALAVITZ
Zach 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. ***** SUBSCRIBE to Our Channel ***** To get more of our content and help…
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HARM REDUCTION & Community Healing
Zach 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...
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Lean on Me: Stanton sings COMMUNITY as therapy
America 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...
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Sober Good; Drinking Bad -- Why "Sobriety" is the Modern Temperance
Remarkably, American anti-alcohol forces are front and present in contemporary progressive thought. They are amplified by incessant clarion calls for people to abstain — i.e., to enter “”recovery.” (Query by Ethan Nadelmann: does that mean marijuana too?) Leading recovery advocates interview and...
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Politics, Britney Spears, Trauma, and DISEASE
Stanton 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...
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Matthew McConaughey and Quinta Brunson -- Parents, Trauma, and Forgiveness
In memoirs that defy current thinking, Matthew McConaughey and Quinta Brunson describe being beaten and repressed, respectively, by their parents. Only they don’t currently dislike their parents or disapprove of their upbringings. Rather they celebrate what their parents did provide—support and...
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Dr. Stanton Peele and Zach Rhoads give advice about achieving skills and purpose and how to outgrow addiction.
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