48 - Healing from the Family Illness w/ Julie & Clay Engels
Adult Child
Andrea
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 February 2022
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
Julie & Clay Engels - owners of Roots Collaborative - are on the pod today to discuss family recovery and breaking the cycle of generational dysfunction. Roots Collaborative provides a variety of services and support to help families navigate addiction and mental illness recovery. They are trained the invitational intervention model, which invites the entire family network to participate in the healing process and engage in recovery and the wellness journey.
Julie Engels is a lifelong visionary, brand strategist and entrepreneur with a passion for employing creativity and empathy to initiate individual and family recovery from the illness of addiction and mental health-related issues. With 32 years of recovery, Julie is able to draw on her extensive sober history, in addition to pulling from her formal education experiences which include a BA from Columbia College, Group Facilitation Training from Hinsdale Hospital’s New Day Center, Certification from Chicago’s Second City Conservatory, Transformational Bodywork Certification from Pacific School of Massage, and intervention and family recovery training.
Clay Engels has been professionally helping individuals and families connect with the best resources, and trusted, proven specialists to receive the appropriate level of care for substance abuse treatment and mental health challenges. With his professional coaching and intervention training and credentials, strengthened by 24 years of sobriety, Clay can easily navigate the land-mines which inherently exist when dealing with alcoholism, addiction, and mental health issues. He has assisted countless individuals and their families start their roads to recovery, and can often be heard saying, “Recovery is not an event: it’s a lifelong process.”
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| 0:00.0 | Addiction is a family disease. One person may use but the whole family suffers. |
| 0:07.0 | My name is Andrea and this is adult child. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean. |
| 0:14.0 | Yeah, yeah. |
| 0:15.0 | Yeah, what you holding on to. |
| 0:20.0 | But just let it all go. |
| 0:22.0 | What's making you slow now? |
| 0:25.0 | Let it all go. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome back to Adult Child, where we take a deep dive into the impact of growing up in a dysfunctional family. |
| 0:34.3 | How do you hope my fellow shit shows? |
| 0:37.9 | Today we are diving deep with Julie and Clay Angles. |
| 0:42.4 | They are two friends of mine mine and they have a company called |
| 0:45.2 | Roots Collaborative. They're like a one-stop shop for all things, family recovery. |
| 0:50.3 | They do interventions, they do recovery coaching, they do crisis management, they're both sober, they have over 50 years of sobriety between the two of them. They're both adult children and they both have done a lot of work themselves to heal the |
| 1:06.7 | unresolved pain of the past. They will share more about it in the interview but |
| 1:11.0 | their style, what they're really rooted in is that this is a family |
| 1:15.8 | system, this is a family disease, and that not just one part of the family needs healing, that everyone in the damn family has their own |
| 1:25.8 | recovery to do. I was thinking about what my experience would have been like |
| 1:31.6 | had that been the approach within my family if we had looked |
| 1:36.1 | at it as a system as a whole, instead of just Andrea, the identified patient. |
| 1:43.0 | So this chat is a longie, |
| 1:46.0 | so I'm going to keep my part a shorty. |
| 1:49.0 | But first, let's take care of the normal housekeeping. |
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