Episode 504: Substance Addiction and Love Addiction with Betsy Byler

Make Some Noise with Andrea Owen

Andrea Owen

Education, How To, Self-improvement

4.8 • 516 Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This episode marks the introduction to the recovery theme of the podcast. Betsy Byler, LPC-SAS, ICS, LPCC, joins me to talk about substance addiction, love addiction, and the difference between the two. We also discuss addiction from the perspective of brain science and how the brain actually changes the addicted person. It’s a fascinating and insightful conversation. Before you turn the episode off or think this theme might not be applicable to you - there's a saying in recovery, “Everyone's recovering from something.” So even if you don’t have a dysfunctional relationship with alcohol or another substance, throughout this series we'll be talking about recovery in general. If you are interested in personal development, I really do think that you will walk away with some nuggets of wisdom. If nothing else, you will understand what it's like to be a person in recovery. I hope you do tune in. For those of you new to Betsy, she is a mental health therapist, substance abuse counselor, clinical supervisor, and host of the All Things Substance podcast. Some of the topics we discussed include: The signs that substance use is moving from recreational to problematic and what it means to be an addict (6:16) Why addicts do the things they do based on how the brain changes the addicted person (14:24) Trauma is highly correlated with substance (32:01) How love addiction is biologically different than substance addiction (37:48) http://andreaowen.com/504 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.9	Whether you're having trouble with substances or using a relationship to manage it,
0:35.5	it doesn't have to stay that way permanently. There can be change
0:39.3	and there is hope. As long as we have breath, there is hope that we can make changes to do things
0:43.8	differently. Each time you make a small step in a different direction, that is worth it and it doesn't
0:49.2	have to be some big thing. It can be a series of small things that you put together and they make a big difference
0:55.6	long term. You're listening to Make Some Noise Podcast episode number 504 with guest, Betsy Beiler.
1:18.6	Welcome to Make Some Noise podcast, your guide for strategies, tools, and insight to empower yourself.
1:24.3	I'm your host, Andrea Owen, global speaker, entrepreneur, life coach since 2007, an author of three books that have been translated into 18 languages and are available
1:29.4	in 22 countries. Each week, I'll bring you a guest or a lesson that will help you
1:34.6	maximize unshakable confidence, master resilience, and make some noise in your life.
1:41.3	You ready? Let's go. Hi, everyone. Welcome to another episode of the podcast. I am so glad that
1:48.1	you're here. And guess what? We have exited the women's health theme and we are on to the recovery
1:55.1	theme. And before you turn it off, if you're not someone who's in recovery, the way that I
1:59.6	interviewed these guests and that I
2:01.0	tried to sort of mold this theme is that it is for really, well, there's a saying in recovery
2:08.6	where we say everyone's recovering from something. So even if you're not someone who has maybe
2:15.3	a dysfunctional relationship with alcohol or anything like that, we're talking about just recovery in general. And if you're not someone who has maybe a dysfunctional relationship with alcohol or anything
2:17.7	like that, we're talking about just recovery in general. And if you are interested in personal
2:22.6	development, if you listen to this podcast plus other self-help podcasts, I really do think that
2:27.9	you will walk away with some nuggets of wisdom from these episodes. And if nothing else,
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