Episode 15: Providing Meaningful Belonging in Portugal: The Power of Caring and Comprehensive Resources
Beyond The Two Pillars of Recovery®: a MEETINGHOUSE SOLUTIONS® Podcast With Geoff Kane, MD, MPH
Release Date: 07/10/2024
Episode #34: Challenged? Take a Breath—and Maybe See a Life Coach
Beyond The Two Pillars of Recovery®: a MEETINGHOUSE SOLUTIONS® Podcast With Geoff Kane, MD, MPH
Guest Aviva Okrent shares her fascinating background as she describes what drew her to her current work as a life coach and how she goes about doing it, which is with relentlessly curiosity and attention to the whole person and their relationships.
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Episode #33: Community Makes A Difference
Beyond The Two Pillars of Recovery®: a MEETINGHOUSE SOLUTIONS® Podcast With Geoff Kane, MD, MPH
Guest Gregory Tatro is a co-founder and the Senior Director of Mission and Impact at Jenna's Promise, a 9- to 18- month residential program in Johnson, VT that prepares persons in early recovery from substance use disorders to ultimately merge into communities with the skills and confidence they need for employment and daily life. Gregory shares how the tragic overdose death of his sister Jenna, and how the community responded, gave rise to this nationally recognized program of stigma reduction, hope, and action.
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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.
info_outlineGuest Maria Joao Cunhal was there in 2001 when Portugal decriminalized the possession of drugs for personal use and created strong incentives for entering addiction treatment. Dramatic improvements followed, but expensive interventions
are difficult to maintain.