Episode 4: Substance Use Involves Risk: Where Do You Stand?
Beyond The Two Pillars of Recovery®: a MEETINGHOUSE SOLUTIONS® Podcast With Geoff Kane, MD, MPH
Release Date: 04/17/2023
Episode #32: Find Your Place — Find a Way Forward
Beyond The Two Pillars of Recovery®: a MEETINGHOUSE SOLUTIONS® Podcast With Geoff Kane, MD, MPH
Consultant and trainer Dr. Tabitha Moore encourages us to appreciate our own humanity, including our personal place in history and culture. Also appreciating the humanity of everyone else, and their place in history and culture, has huge benefits, including taking racism out of race relations.
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Episode #31: Clearing a path to “the good life” of respect, connection, and kindness
Beyond The Two Pillars of Recovery®: a MEETINGHOUSE SOLUTIONS® Podcast With Geoff Kane, MD, MPH
Dr. J. Scott Rutan, a psychologist who spent decades training group psychotherapists, shares how he taught therapists to create safe spaces where people could be honest and vulnerable enough to get out of their own way and into mutually rewarding relationships. You don’t need to be a therapist to enjoy and learn from this.
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Episode #30: Multiplying Healthy Changes
Beyond The Two Pillars of Recovery®: a MEETINGHOUSE SOLUTIONS® Podcast With Geoff Kane, MD, MPH
Trainer, facilitator, and instructional designer Jess Sneed is headed to Boston Medical Center to train community professionals in screening and brief intervention for harmful and risky substance use. Jess also is helping develop Macro Motivational Interviewing (Macro MI), which promotes beneficial changes not only in individuals but also in systems around them that make change difficult.
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Episode #29: No Need to Remain Alone
Beyond The Two Pillars of Recovery®: a MEETINGHOUSE SOLUTIONS® Podcast With Geoff Kane, MD, MPH
Clinical psychologist, researcher, author, and group psychotherapist Dr. Cheri Marmarosh describes how therapy, especially group psychotherapy, heals trauma from past relationships and helps people express who they are and cope with who they are with.
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Episode #28: Nurturing Vitality and Trust
Beyond The Two Pillars of Recovery®: a MEETINGHOUSE SOLUTIONS® Podcast With Geoff Kane, MD, MPH
Bilingual and bicultural psychologist Dr. Carlos Canales expands on how humans develop emotionally, learn to express emotions constructively or otherwise, and become more attuned to themselves and others through group psychotherapy.
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Episode #27: Building Communities: Envisioning a More Just Future
Beyond The Two Pillars of Recovery®: a MEETINGHOUSE SOLUTIONS® Podcast With Geoff Kane, MD, MPH
Psychologist Dr. Joshua DeSilva and the graduate students they train help marginalized individuals and groups give more to and receive more from their communities—not by telling them what to do, but by listening to who they are.
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Episode #26: If you care for others, care for self is not optional
Beyond The Two Pillars of Recovery®: a MEETINGHOUSE SOLUTIONS® Podcast With Geoff Kane, MD, MPH
Dr. Jessi Gold—psychiatrist, educator, media presence, and author—describes healthcare workers and others who delay or altogether avoid obtaining help for their own mental health needs, which increases their risks for burnout and worse. She encourages individuals in need to get help promptly, encourages healthcare institutions to set realistic expectations for employees, and has chronicled her own journey of growth in the October 2024 book How Do You Feel? One Doctor’s Search for Humanity in Medicine. Geoff said reading it was “a human experience worth having."
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Episode #25: Everyone is Different and That's Okay
Beyond The Two Pillars of Recovery®: a MEETINGHOUSE SOLUTIONS® Podcast With Geoff Kane, MD, MPH
Psychologist and group psychotherapist Dr. Kavita Avula specializes in conflict resolution and large group dynamics. She explains how we make collaboration possible and grow community when we “avoid the wish to convince” people to think and feel as we do.
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Episode #24: Peace and Social Justice Will Follow Once We Better Distribute “Nutrients for the Human Soul."
Beyond The Two Pillars of Recovery®: a MEETINGHOUSE SOLUTIONS® Podcast With Geoff Kane, MD, MPH
Guest Maria Kontarini, as a diplomat for the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the early 2000s, helped restore stability in Bosnia after the Bosnian War—a conflict known for human-to-human atrocities. Years later, with a person-centered understanding of people and the powerful influence of social context on behavior, she believes humans’ potential for good will outshine their potential for violence, as long as we create communities of listening, empathy, and shared responsibility.
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Episode #23: Becoming Tobacco Free Can Start With One Phone Call or Online Click
Beyond The Two Pillars of Recovery®: a MEETINGHOUSE SOLUTIONS® Podcast With Geoff Kane, MD, MPH
Tobacco users in every state in the U.S. can connect with well-trained helpers who listen—not lecture—and provide encouragement and resources to individuals who want to leave tobacco behind. On request, some states, including Vermont, send free nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) such as patches, gum, and lozenges. Guest Dana Bourne MPH manages telephone and online “quit” services for Vermont residents and describes how call centers operate locally and nationally. Many individuals quit tobacco simply because they keep at it and don't go it alone.
info_outlineGeoff and Reggie go deep into respect in the community, autonomy, and personal risk
tolerance, which all affect substance use, substance use disorders, and recovery. Are you
playing Russian roulette with your life, liver, or driver’s license?