304 Dr. Adi Jaffe - Reimagining Recovery
The Terri Cole Show
Terri Cole
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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I loved speaking with Dr Adi Jaffe today about addiction, relationships, abstinence and shame, as well as his book, The Abstinence Myth.
People need guidance and understanding, not judgment and stigma, and the sooner we realize this, the more lives we'll be able to save. - Dr. Adi Jaffe
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello, and welcome to another episode of the Terry Cole show. I'm so excited that you're spending some time with me today. |
| 0:08.0 | I had a fascinating conversation with Dr. Adi Jaffe about addiction and recovery and he has a book called The |
| 0:19.8 | Abstinence Myth. Dr. Jaffe is a national abstinence myth. |
| 0:23.4 | Dr. Jaffey is a nationally recognized expert on mental health, addiction, relationships, and shame. |
| 0:29.5 | He lectured in the UCLA Psychology Department for the better part of a decade and was the executive director |
| 0:34.8 | and co-founder of one of the most progressive mental health treatment facilities in the country |
| 0:39.7 | until he started his online recovery center and it's called Ignited. That's how you pronounce |
| 0:46.7 | it but it's actually I G N T D. So Dr Jaffy through Ignited is changing the way people think about and deal with mental health issues. |
| 0:56.0 | His passion is the role of shame, destroying lives, is the philosophy behind Ignited. |
| 1:02.0 | Really like how to get rid of shame, recovery, and its aim to |
| 1:06.7 | greatly reduce the stigma of addiction and mental health. So that is what |
| 1:11.1 | Ignited is all about. He now writes for psychology today, several other online resources. |
| 1:18.0 | But his goal is to bring the latest knowledge about addiction to the people who could benefit from it the most. |
| 1:25.2 | And really that's those who are suffering because of it. |
| 1:28.1 | His writing combines personal experiences. |
| 1:30.6 | He was a meth addict back in the day he went to jail with a decade's worth of fine detail research regarding the mechanisms involved in the addictive process. |
| 1:42.0 | So he's done lots of stuff. CNN, the Huffington Post, the |
| 1:45.6 | LA Times, but what I found really fascinating about talking to him is he has a different way of looking at helping people with addiction. |
| 1:57.0 | And I myself have a different way with my clients over the many years. I would see people who I knew were having |
| 2:05.7 | some kind of a substance issue, but it went into the category that I created called Shadow Addictions, where they were still |
| 2:15.4 | being able to be in their life, but it was still negatively impacting the work that |
| 2:20.9 | I was trying to do with them. |
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