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Doc Jacques: Your Addiction Lifeguard — 157 episodes

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Title
1

Why The 12 Steps Are Important

2

The Comparison Trap

3

It Was an Accident, Not a Relapse — Here's Why That Matters

4

Sobriety Doesn't Fix Character

5

Have You Crossed A Line?

6

Why Addicts Sometimes Want to Destroy Themselves

7

Alcohol and the Hijacked Brain: Why They Can’t Think, Remember, or Decide Like They Used To

8

The Addiction Identity Crisis

9

The Enemy In The Parking Lot

10

Intervention: Lifeline or Landmine?

11

Why Relapse Is Not Failure: Learning From Our Mistakes

12

Not Your 70s Weed — What Today’s THC Levels Mean

13

Dry Holiday In A Wet World

14

At The End Of Your Rope - When Addiction Stops Working

15

How To Recognize Trauma

16

When You Feel Like Giving Up

17

Coping With Burnout

18

Why the Steps Matter: The Blueprint for Lasting Recovery

19

Dealing with Sadness in Addiction — Learning to Feel Without Drowning

20

Hidden in Plain Sight — Why You’re Trying to Hide Your Addiction

21

THC: The Hidden Hook — Understanding the Addictive Dangers of Modern Marijuana

22

What To Do When Tragedy Strikes

23

Why Addicts Resist Seeing Trauma as the Root

24

The Hidden Grief In Addiction

25

Why Do I Keep Sabotaging My Own Recovery

26

Isolation Is Addictions Best Friend

27

The Issues That Can Cause Discomfort

28

Step 9: A Very Particular Part Of Recovery

29

The Push And Pull Of Discomfort

30

Addicts and Loved Ones Suffer Bitterness

31

Finding A Good Therapist Is Important

32

The Brain Changes On The Journey To Recovery

33

Step 12: How To Spread The Good News

34

Do You Know How To Self-Sooth?

35

Change Your Perspective, Change Your Addiction

36

Alice In Wonderland Can Teach Us Something About Our Addiction

37

The Trauma Response Trifecta

38

Where To Return As A Prodigal Child

39

The Enemy Wants Your Soul

40

What Is It Really Like Going To Rehab?

41

Separate The Problem From The Addiction

42

Getting There Because Of You

43

Is This Rock Bottom?

44

Just How Long Is This Gonna Take?

45

Be Responsible For Your Own Recovery

46

The Stages Of Recovery

47

When You Order Salvation You Must Receive The Goods

48

It's The Small Things That Matter

49

How To Pick A Sponsor

50

The Stoics Can Teach Us Something About Recovery

51

Connectivity Is The Key To Recovery

52

Help, I've Fallen And I Won't Get Up!

53

Relief From The Past

54

Accident, Experiment, Or Relapse

55

Determination Is All You Need To Get There

56

Accountability And Responsibility, What's The Difference?

57

Step 5: Deflation Of The Ego

58

Addiction Is Not A Choice, But A Decision Is

59

Purposeful Remembering

60

The Stages Of Denial

61

Right Fighters: Are You One?

62

Special Guest: Donnie

63

Special Guest: Jon

64

How To Make An Aftercare Program

65

Defining Recovery

66

Boundaries, Boundaries, Boundaries!

67

You Need To Change Your Behavior To Change Your Thinking

68

A Culture Change Away From Enmeshment

69

What Is The Opposite Of Addiction?

70

Our Troubling Times

71

That Crazy Switch In My Head

72

What Is Abuse?

73

What Is PAWS?

74

Make Your Recovery As Visible As Your Addiction

75

What Are Aftercare Programs All About?

76

Are You Being Authentic In Recovery?

77

Diagnosis Is A Tricky Business

78

Don't Be A Social Handyman

79

Is Your Marriage Being Destroyed By Addiction?

80

Moving At The Speed Of Pain

81

Are You Buried Or Are You Planted?

82

Healing The Addicted Brain

83

Are You A Professional Dependent?

84

Step 12: Spreading The Good News

85

Your Greatest Weakness Is.........?

86

THC Use In Recovery

87

Stop The Abuse Of Enabling

88

The Institute Of Higher Unlearning 2: New Things To Learn

89

The Goldilocks Syndrome: Resistance to Treatment

90

Harm Reduction: Is It A Mystery Or A Myth?

91

You Are Actually Destroying Your Brain By Drinking

92

Observing Without Absorbing

93

Change is gonna come. But whose change?

94

The Doc Jacques Institute of Higher Unlearning

95

Step 10: Instant Change of Your Defects

96

Why Do I Need 12 Step Meetings?

97

THC: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

98

Step 9 The Follow-up To Healing Yourself

99

Step 9: A Step Towards Cleansing

100

Did You Mislabel Your Trauma?

101

What Is Rehab?

102

Step 8: The Step That Requires You To Find Courage

103

The Prodigal Child

104

Step 7: Being Humble

105

Special Guest Paul Mozo

106

Step 5: The Revealing Of Your Garbage

107

Need or Want In Recovery: What's The Difference

108

Surrender Defined

109

What Exactly Is An Intervention?

110

Drug Vaccines: The Newest Misguided Addiction Treatment

111

Did You Grow Up With A Personality Disordered Person In Your Life?

112

Let It Go: But What Are You Letting Go Of?

113

How To Surrender To Recovery

114

New Coping Mechanisms: The Key To Recovery

115

Drug Seeking Behaviors Contribute To Addiction

116

Let's Talk About Recovery With Special Guest Scott

117

Special Guest: Scott Joins In Again

118

Special Guest: Scott The Recovery/Addiction Specialist

119

The Recovery Treatment System Is Broken

120

What Needs To Change For You To Recover From Alcohol Addiction?

121

How Do Men And Women Differ In Approaching Recovery?

122

Doc Jacques: Guard Shorts Episode 1

123

Step 7: Where Higher Power Meets The Road

124

Where Does Addiction Come From?

125

COVID Burnout

126

Step 6: The Waiting Room Of Recovery

127

Step 2: Realize You Can Not Do It Alone

128

Step 5: The Hard Truths

129

Pots Legal Now! Great, Let's All Get Stoned.

130

The Switch In My Head

131

The Power of Forgiveness By Example

132

I Need Help, But I Don't Want Help.

133

The Fire Inside

134

Step 3: Turning Yourself Over To A Higher Power

135

Step 4: Fearless Searching Moral Inventory, The Dreaded Step

136

Observe Don't Absorb Someone Else's Problems

137

Moral Failing Or Medical Condition?

138

Mother May Be Assuming Something Untrue

139

Pandemic Drinking, What A Bummer

140

Tell The Truth About Your Childhhod

141

Special Guest In The Studio: Carrie Sue

142

Love An Addict? Want To Help Save Them? Let Me Tell You How To Start

143

Reenacting, Recreating, And Reliving. This Is What Is Messing Up Your Life.

144

Are You Being Tested or Being Guided?

145

Living In A State of Denial Or Acceptance, The Choice Is Yours

146

Intervention Help: What Is It and How To Get It

147

The Show on Just Plain Old Alcoholism

148

Failure To Launch: What's A Parent To Do

149

Yoga Specialist Maryam Ovissi Offers Guidance: Part 2

150

Yoga Specialist Maryam Ovissi Offers Guidance: Part 1

151

How do I Pick a Good Rehab?

152

Trauma Informed Yoga Approach to Treatment of Addiction: Part 2

153

What is forgiveness: A Pastors perspective.

154

Trauma Informed Yoga Approach to Treatment of Addiction: Part 1

155

Forgiveness? Nope, I Can't Do That For Me.

156

What Has Happened To Kids?

157

Isolation: Addictions Best Friend