Bobby Newman - Interventionist and Former Addict

‌  ‌  ‌ Bobby Newman- Getting the Addict into Treatment can be the Hardest Thing After going from a strong, moral upbringing in Southern Oklahoma to a drug-related downfall that had him facing federal prison, Bobby Newman understands what those who are addicted feel and think. That’s what enables him to cut through the resistance and manipulative tactics of an addicted person and help them choose life and recovery. In the eighteen years since he completed a long-term drug rehabilitation program, he has educated more than a hundred thousand youth on the dangers of drug abuse and helped thousands of people with drug or alcohol rehabilitation. Many of those he helped with their addictions as a substance abuse counselor, now many more as a drug intervention specialist. CLICK HERE to listen and CLICK HERE to watch on our YouTube channel. Are you Looking for Some Good News? Check out our new podcast - The Why I Help Podcast. We know that the majority of people are doing good things but the mainstream media only focuses on murder and mayhem. We want to spread good news. CHECK IT OUT Subscribe to our YouTube Channel Steve Sigal, Producer 727-314-7080 Joanie Sigal, Host 727-314-7080 theaddictionpodcast@yahoo.com www. theaddictionpodcast.com Visit our Sponsor - Narconon Ojai https://www.narcononojai.org/ 866-231-5924 Please connect with us on social media by clicking the icons below.  ‌  ‌  ‌  ‌  ‌

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Monday Thoughts 5/24/2021

“There is always a new beginning.”  ~~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”  ~~Seneca “You may have a fresh start any moment you choose.  For this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.”  ~~Mary Pickford #9 The past is gone forever. No longer am I victimized by the past.  I am a new woman. Sobriety and Statement #9 in action can bring about lasting change and can instill feelings of a fresh start or new beginning.  Oftentimes for women in recovery, the past can hang over us like a dark cloud, limiting our ability to enjoy a fulfilling life.  WFS and in particular, Statement #9, create a portal for a New Life that feels fulfilling and life affirming. Connected to the past are two emotions: shame and guilt.  Both are challenging to move through yet Statement #9 in action helps to progress through them.  Yet what are they exactly?  It is easy to lump both of them together, yet they are two separate emotions.  According to Kristalyn Salters-Pedneault, PhD:  You may sometimes confuse shame with guilt, a related but different emotion. Guilt is a feeling you get when you did something wrong, or perceived you did something wrong. Shame is a feeling that your whole self is wrong, and it may not be related to a specific behavior or event. When you feel guilty about the wrong thing you did, you can take steps to make up for it and put it behind you. But feeling shame or being convinced that you are the thing that's wrong, offers no clear-cut way to "come back" to feeling more positive about yourself. That's one difference between shame and guilt. Guilt Feeling remorse or responsible for something you've done wrong or perceived you did wrong.  Relating to a specific action like making a mistake, committing an offense, or hurting someone (intentionally or unintentionally) Shame Feeling that you are bad, worthy of contempt, or inadequate as a person.  Relating to our behavior or self, often in relation to other people's opinions, not necessarily about a specific behavior or event How Shame Happens             From the day you were born, you were learning to feel that you were okay or not okay, accepted or not accepted, in your world. Your self-esteem was shaped by your daily experiences of being praised or criticized, lovingly disciplined or punished, taken care of or neglected. People who grow up in abusive environments can easily get the message that they are undeserving, inadequate, and inferior—in other words, that they should feel ashamed. Over time, intense feelings of shame can take hold of a person's self-image and create low self-esteem. Feelings of shame often stem from what other people think. The person may become super-sensitive to what feels like criticism, even if it isn't, and may feel rejected by others. Inside, they feel painful self-contempt and worthlessness.” This week, embrace new beginnings and examine your feelings. Identify guilt or shame that you have felt in the past or recently. What behaviors are linked to guilt or shame?  How did you move through these difficult feelings?  What tools did you use?  Is there an area in your life that needs a bit more attention?  Hugzzz Karen Hi 4C Women, In healing from the past, I have learned that using shame or guilt as a motivator to cure addiction is an absolute myth.  I read an article online from The Clearing which addressed this and clearly stated that shaming only reinforces the intense feelings of unworthiness.  The one sentence in the article that spoke to me was, “Shame doesn’t heal addiction, it only does damage.”  For myself in early sobriety, I struggled to release the painful past of shame.  I felt I deserved to punish myself and couldn’t quite grasp the concept of no longer victimizing myself.  My life experience was filled with rejection so I obviously was flawed.  Another article I read from NICABM talks about Guilt vs Shame and how we need to learn the difference as we heal from the past.  There is helpful guilt which directs us to “learn” from hurting or harming ourselves or others.   Unhealthy guilt leads us to emphasize self-punishment over behavior change, trapping us in guilt.  I was stuck in the guilt trap and yet was determined to become a new woman in my New Life.   As I practiced releasing the past, I also had to acknowledge that there were times of acceptance, being loved but I didn’t trust it to be real or lasting in the past.  The feelings of rejection took over. This is why I value the WFS program.  It wasn’t just about not drinking, it was about digging deep to uncover the hurt I was unnecessarily causing myself and to discover ways to love and forgive myself.  After all, I cannot change the past.  I can learn and heal from it with a lot of introspection and truth finding.  Forgiveness empowered me.  As Dr. Phil wrote in “Making peace with your past: Choosing Forgiveness: The pain of what happened is inevitable but continuing to suffer is optional.  The only person you can control is you.  By constantly reliving the pain of what happened, you are giving your power away.  You can’t change the things that happened in your life, but you can decide how you interpret and respond to them.  If you didn’t receive support when you needed it, give it to yourself now.” All of these bits and pieces from what I have read and learned from over the years is all because of the WFS program, the supportive women I have met and choosing to heal from the past.  If pain knocks on my door, I will let it visit, giving me time to regain my power and forgiveness.  I no longer let it stay and sometimes, I don’t even open the door!  Where are you on the journey of releasing the past, healing and empowering yourself?  Bonded in releasing, healing and being empowered, Dee   Speaker Highlights for the WFS Virtual Conference 2021 include some familiar names: .O - Sharon Salzberg -  Dr. Rebecca Ray - Ester Nicholson - Mary Beth O'Connor. Full Presenter Bio’s and Workshop descriptions are available now! To read more, visit: conference.womenforsobriety.org/ Register today!

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Caron Treatment Centers Cut Readmission with New Insurance Contracts

Did you see the News?  Last week, Caron and Independence Blue Cross released outcomes of their value-based agreement at the 2021 RxSummit, as detailed in the Philadelphia Inquirer. The data showed Caron had a 90-day readmission rate of 5.6% in 2019, the last full year for which data is available, which is 2x better than our nearest competitor and 5x better than the lowest performing center in our cohort. What does a 5.6% 90-day readmission rate mean?  For families a 5.6% 90-day readmission rate means that most patients who discharge are engaged in the recovery process – or that, based on 2019 insurance data, that Caron’s patients have a 94.4% rate of recovery at 90-days post-treatment.  Specifically, from the data presented at the RxSummit, the 5.6% means that of the 71 Caron IBC patients in 2019, 5.6% were readmitted into some form of treatment/care for substance use disorder within 90 days of being discharged. Because of the relationships with providers like IBC, and more recently Aetna and Highmark, we have been able to make the quality treatment we provide at Caron more accessible to individuals suffering with substance use disorder and treat more affected individuals and their families. When you treat addiction as the chronic disease it is, by focusing on the individual needs of the patient mentally, physically and spiritually as well as the family and having the length of time you need to truly treat the individual – you get better outcomes for patients. Read The Philadelphia Inquirer's piece that talked to Dr. Garbely and IBC’s Dr. Snyder here If you would like to learn more about our Value-Based Agreements, Caron Treatment Centers would like to invite you to this complimentary webinar  - Caron Treatment Centers Presents -  Value-Based Agreements: Revolutionizing Addiction Treatment and Improving Outcomes Tuesday, April 20  | 12:00 - 1:00 PM ET Through our value-based treatment pilot program with Independence Blue Cross, we were able to verify what we’ve known all along – that providing superior, patient-centric care increases a patient’s likelihood of long-term recovery. Join us as we dig deeper into these findings and present why value-based treatment is the way of the future. We will also outline best practices to institute VBAs from a clinical and operational perspective, a model that can be replicated by treatment providers and payers to help more patients succeed in recovery. Register Now Presenters: Joseph Garbely, D.O., DFASAM EVP / Chief Medical Officer Caron Treatment Centers Brad Sorte, MSW, MBA EVP/Chief Strategy and Growth Officer, CEO & President-Elect Caron Treatment Centers For more information about our webinar, contact Katelyn Stine  |  kstine@caron.org |  610-743-6525

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