Bonus Episode: Finding Addiction Recovery in Movies with Ted Perkins
The Addicted Mind Podcast
Duane Osterlind, LMFT
4.8 • 621 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Movies, as much as they’re entertaining, can also play a major role in addiction recovery. Films and movies tell us a lot about our humanity, and stories in films always follow a very familiar pattern – they're all about transformation, a relatable theme for anyone in recovery.
In an engaging conversation with Duane, Ted Perkins shares his passion for using movies to promote addiction recovery. As the author of Addicted in Film: Movies We Love About the Habits We Hate, you can use Ted's workbook to explore self-discovery questions while enjoying recovery-related movies. Ted is also the Founder/CEO of Recovery Movie Meet-Ups, where individuals in recovery can support each other. Having been in recovery himself, Ted is dedicated to helping others break the stigma of addiction and move forward, as we all overcome addiction, together.
In this episode, you will hear:
- How film and addiction are intertwined
- Identifying with the movie characters
- Addiction as a subjective mental experience
- How movies help in addiction recovery
- Putting screenwriting and recovery together
- Understanding the mental models of the future
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Supporting Resources:
Addicted in Film
https://www.addictedinfilm.com
Recovery Movie Meet-Ups
https://www.recoverymoviemeetups.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. Welcome to another episode of the Addicted Mind podcast. |
| 0:10.1 | My name is Dwayne Austerlund, and I'm your host, and we are on to this next bonus episode. |
| 0:17.0 | Today, my guest is Ted Perkins. He is a former Universal Pictures in Warner Brothers Studio Executive, |
| 0:23.1 | university lecturer, public speaker, Hollywood producer, and virtual reality entrepreneur, |
| 0:30.0 | and has successfully worked in film and television series as a screenwriter, and has watched |
| 0:36.1 | 100 movies in 100 days to beat his alcohol addiction |
| 0:40.3 | and then wrote an awesome book. |
| 0:43.1 | It's eye-opening, entertaining, inspirational, and frequently hilarious, behind-the-scenes |
| 0:48.2 | explorations of the best and worst movies ever made about addiction and recovery called |
| 0:53.5 | Addicted in Film. Based on the success of |
| 0:56.5 | the book, he launched Recovery Movie Meetups, a mutual support meeting format that lets addiction |
| 1:02.0 | treatment providers leverage the power of filmed entertainment to help people heal. So in this |
| 1:07.1 | episode, Ted is going to talk a little bit about his own recovery journey and how |
| 1:13.3 | films were a part of that for him and his healing and how he's bringing that forward to |
| 1:18.9 | others with recovery movie meetups. |
| 1:22.0 | And the exciting thing is, is that on May 14th, they are going to have the online film premiere, a first of its kind |
| 1:30.0 | national simulcast event to celebrate the powerful and continued commitment to the recovery |
| 1:35.2 | community. And they're going to be premiering the movie Clean Slate. And if you remember, |
| 1:41.0 | I interviewed Jared Callahan, the director of that movie on episode |
| 1:47.6 | 214. |
| 1:49.1 | It's such a great film. |
| 1:50.8 | I definitely encourage everybody to tune into this. |
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