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Doc Jacques: Your Addiction Lifeguard — 165 episodes
The Destruction of Distractions
Don't Mask It, Deal With It Part 2
Don't Mask It, Deal With It Part 1
The Truth Will Set You Free
The Tell Before The Tell
Learning To Swim Without The Lifejacket
When Sobriety Breaks Up The Family
Sober Isn't The Finish Line - Peaceful Is
Why The 12 Steps Are Important
The Comparison Trap
It Was an Accident, Not a Relapse — Here's Why That Matters
Sobriety Doesn't Fix Character
Have You Crossed A Line?
Why Addicts Sometimes Want to Destroy Themselves
Alcohol and the Hijacked Brain: Why They Can’t Think, Remember, or Decide Like They Used To
The Addiction Identity Crisis
The Enemy In The Parking Lot
Intervention: Lifeline or Landmine?
Why Relapse Is Not Failure: Learning From Our Mistakes
Not Your 70s Weed — What Today’s THC Levels Mean
Dry Holiday In A Wet World
At The End Of Your Rope - When Addiction Stops Working
How To Recognize Trauma
When You Feel Like Giving Up
Coping With Burnout
Why the Steps Matter: The Blueprint for Lasting Recovery
Dealing with Sadness in Addiction — Learning to Feel Without Drowning
Hidden in Plain Sight — Why You’re Trying to Hide Your Addiction
THC: The Hidden Hook — Understanding the Addictive Dangers of Modern Marijuana
What To Do When Tragedy Strikes
Why Addicts Resist Seeing Trauma as the Root
The Hidden Grief In Addiction
Why Do I Keep Sabotaging My Own Recovery
Isolation Is Addictions Best Friend
The Issues That Can Cause Discomfort
Step 9: A Very Particular Part Of Recovery
The Push And Pull Of Discomfort
Addicts and Loved Ones Suffer Bitterness
Finding A Good Therapist Is Important
The Brain Changes On The Journey To Recovery
Step 12: How To Spread The Good News
Do You Know How To Self-Sooth?
Change Your Perspective, Change Your Addiction
Alice In Wonderland Can Teach Us Something About Our Addiction
The Trauma Response Trifecta
Where To Return As A Prodigal Child
The Enemy Wants Your Soul
What Is It Really Like Going To Rehab?
Separate The Problem From The Addiction
Getting There Because Of You
Is This Rock Bottom?
Just How Long Is This Gonna Take?
Be Responsible For Your Own Recovery
The Stages Of Recovery
When You Order Salvation You Must Receive The Goods
It's The Small Things That Matter
How To Pick A Sponsor
The Stoics Can Teach Us Something About Recovery
Connectivity Is The Key To Recovery
Help, I've Fallen And I Won't Get Up!
Relief From The Past
Accident, Experiment, Or Relapse
Determination Is All You Need To Get There
Accountability And Responsibility, What's The Difference?
Step 5: Deflation Of The Ego
Addiction Is Not A Choice, But A Decision Is
Purposeful Remembering
The Stages Of Denial
Right Fighters: Are You One?
Special Guest: Donnie
Special Guest: Jon
How To Make An Aftercare Program
Defining Recovery
Boundaries, Boundaries, Boundaries!
You Need To Change Your Behavior To Change Your Thinking
A Culture Change Away From Enmeshment
What Is The Opposite Of Addiction?
Our Troubling Times
That Crazy Switch In My Head
What Is Abuse?
What Is PAWS?
Make Your Recovery As Visible As Your Addiction
What Are Aftercare Programs All About?
Are You Being Authentic In Recovery?
Diagnosis Is A Tricky Business
Don't Be A Social Handyman
Is Your Marriage Being Destroyed By Addiction?
Moving At The Speed Of Pain
Are You Buried Or Are You Planted?
Healing The Addicted Brain
Are You A Professional Dependent?
Step 12: Spreading The Good News
Your Greatest Weakness Is.........?
THC Use In Recovery
Stop The Abuse Of Enabling
The Institute Of Higher Unlearning 2: New Things To Learn
The Goldilocks Syndrome: Resistance to Treatment
Harm Reduction: Is It A Mystery Or A Myth?
You Are Actually Destroying Your Brain By Drinking
Observing Without Absorbing
Change is gonna come. But whose change?
The Doc Jacques Institute of Higher Unlearning
Step 10: Instant Change of Your Defects
Why Do I Need 12 Step Meetings?
THC: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly
Step 9 The Follow-up To Healing Yourself
Step 9: A Step Towards Cleansing
Did You Mislabel Your Trauma?
What Is Rehab?
Step 8: The Step That Requires You To Find Courage
The Prodigal Child
Step 7: Being Humble
Special Guest Paul Mozo
Step 5: The Revealing Of Your Garbage
Need or Want In Recovery: What's The Difference
Surrender Defined
What Exactly Is An Intervention?
Drug Vaccines: The Newest Misguided Addiction Treatment
Did You Grow Up With A Personality Disordered Person In Your Life?
Let It Go: But What Are You Letting Go Of?
How To Surrender To Recovery
New Coping Mechanisms: The Key To Recovery
Drug Seeking Behaviors Contribute To Addiction
Let's Talk About Recovery With Special Guest Scott
Special Guest: Scott Joins In Again
Special Guest: Scott The Recovery/Addiction Specialist
The Recovery Treatment System Is Broken
What Needs To Change For You To Recover From Alcohol Addiction?
How Do Men And Women Differ In Approaching Recovery?
Doc Jacques: Guard Shorts Episode 1
Step 7: Where Higher Power Meets The Road
Where Does Addiction Come From?
COVID Burnout
Step 6: The Waiting Room Of Recovery
Step 2: Realize You Can Not Do It Alone
Step 5: The Hard Truths
Pots Legal Now! Great, Let's All Get Stoned.
The Switch In My Head
The Power of Forgiveness By Example
I Need Help, But I Don't Want Help.
The Fire Inside
Step 3: Turning Yourself Over To A Higher Power
Step 4: Fearless Searching Moral Inventory, The Dreaded Step
Observe Don't Absorb Someone Else's Problems
Moral Failing Or Medical Condition?
Mother May Be Assuming Something Untrue
Pandemic Drinking, What A Bummer
Tell The Truth About Your Childhhod
Special Guest In The Studio: Carrie Sue
Love An Addict? Want To Help Save Them? Let Me Tell You How To Start
Reenacting, Recreating, And Reliving. This Is What Is Messing Up Your Life.
Are You Being Tested or Being Guided?
Living In A State of Denial Or Acceptance, The Choice Is Yours
Intervention Help: What Is It and How To Get It
The Show on Just Plain Old Alcoholism
Failure To Launch: What's A Parent To Do
Yoga Specialist Maryam Ovissi Offers Guidance: Part 2
Yoga Specialist Maryam Ovissi Offers Guidance: Part 1
How do I Pick a Good Rehab?
Trauma Informed Yoga Approach to Treatment of Addiction: Part 2
What is forgiveness: A Pastors perspective.
Trauma Informed Yoga Approach to Treatment of Addiction: Part 1
Forgiveness? Nope, I Can't Do That For Me.
What Has Happened To Kids?
Isolation: Addictions Best Friend