366 Shadow Addictions with Sober Coach Patty Powers
The Terri Cole Show
Terri Cole
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2021
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Recently, many people have been asking me to talk about addiction. During the pandemic there has been an increase in consumption of substances like alcohol, weed, and pills around the world as people use them to cope with difficult times we are going through. Today I invited a special guest, my friend Patty Powers, who is an amazing addiction recovery coach who I have referred my own clients to. We're sharing our conversation about addiction, relapse, and psychoeducation, as well as Patty's own incredible battle with addiction.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, hello and welcome to a very special episode of the Terry Cole Show. |
| 0:05.5 | I wonder if you guys heard recently that Drew Barrymore just shared that she stopped drinking |
| 0:10.8 | two and a half years ago. Very quietly, hadn't said anything about it. She said, |
| 0:16.4 | I haven't had a drink of alcohol in two and a half years. It was something that I realized |
| 0:20.5 | just did not serve me and my life. Now, we know that if you know her history and being a child |
| 0:27.2 | external, that she has struggled with this for many years. But what I want to say is that she |
| 0:33.8 | is not alone. We've seen an absolute increase around the world, not just in the US and Canada, |
| 0:42.5 | but an increase in consumption, overuse of alcohol, weed, pills. People use this as a coping mechanism. |
| 0:57.2 | To get through. I mean, of course, we know about the opioid crisis, which was going on before |
| 1:03.2 | this. But this is something that is real. And I've had so many people reach out to me and ask |
| 1:10.0 | me to talk more about this. So I invited a very special guest on the show today to talk about |
| 1:17.5 | addiction and relapse and psycho education and all the things that we actually care about. |
| 1:22.9 | Her name is Patty Parris. She was featured on the A&E Mini Series relapse. And she's really |
| 1:28.8 | recognized as a like a world class sober coach. I met Patty many years ago in a social setting. |
| 1:38.2 | We were both in recovery. And I didn't even know really what a sober coach was at that point. |
| 1:44.0 | And then I started sharing clients with her and anyone who had addiction issues or someone |
| 1:50.6 | if I thought that they were actively addicted. And it wasn't something that as a solo practitioner |
| 1:57.1 | in my own therapy practice that it would make sense for me to take on. She is an expert. So I started |
| 2:02.6 | referring people to Patty and having an amazing experience, an amazing result. Now Patty's own story |
| 2:10.6 | is just unbelievable. A drug user from the age of 12. Just her story really reads like sex drugs, |
| 2:18.4 | rock and roll version of Forest Gump, moving through music scenes and art worlds, New York, |
| 2:23.9 | London during the 70s and 80s until it all sort of fell apart. Because as she says in her bio, |
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