TAM+ EP4 Unstuck & Unstoppable: Navigating Change with the Stages of Change Model
The Addicted Mind Podcast
Duane Osterlind, LMFT
4.7 • 655 Ratings
🗓️ 1 February 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
This episode dives into the Stages of Change Model, a powerful tool for understanding and navigating personal growth. Hosts Duane and Eric explore the six stages: pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance, and relapse. They emphasize the model's humanistic approach, acknowledging that change is a non-linear journey with room for setbacks and restarts. Learn how to identify your current stage, overcome obstacles, and move towards lasting positive change.
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Key Topics:
- The six stages of the Stages of Change Model
- Recognizing your current stage of change
- Overcoming challenges in each stage
- Moving from contemplation to action
- The role of relapse in the change process
- Applying the model to personal growth and addiction recovery
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Bonus:
- Download the free worksheet on the Stages of Change Model in the show notes!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Addicted Mind Plus, the podcast where recovery, mental health, and wellness take the front seat. |
| 0:07.3 | I'm Dwayne Austerland, and joining me is my co-host, Eric Osterland, known for his insightful work on the Stuck Brain podcast. |
| 0:14.3 | In each episode, we'll dive into actionable, small steps to help those in recovery journey further along the path to wellness. |
| 0:22.4 | Our conversations are designed to be concise, typically around 15 minutes, though we may |
| 0:27.0 | occasionally delve deeper when the topic demands it. Our goal to provide you with practical |
| 0:32.0 | advice grounded in real experiences and expert insights to empower your recovery journey. So whether you're on a |
| 0:39.3 | break, on a walk, or just taking a moment for yourself, join us as we explore the many |
| 0:44.1 | facets of recovery and mental health, one small step at a time. This is The Addicted Mind Plus, |
| 0:50.5 | where your journey to wellness gets an extra boost. So let's get started. All right, let's |
| 0:55.7 | start this episode. Eric, are you ready? I am ready. Let's dive in. Okay, I'm excited about this topic. |
| 1:01.7 | We are going to talk about the stages of change model. And the reason I really wanted to talk about |
| 1:10.4 | this model is that for me, it's given me a way to look at the change process and to be able to understand how change takes place in us and how we move through that process. Because when we're working with addiction, |
| 1:30.1 | that's what we're trying to do. We're trying to change, right? We're trying to change our life. |
| 1:33.3 | We're trying to change the things around us. And I think this model gives us an ability to look at that. |
| 1:38.7 | Yeah, I think it gives us an objective ability, almost like a roadmap kind of feeling that, you know, |
| 1:44.9 | you know which stage you're in to a certain extent. We'll also touch on the limitations |
| 1:49.4 | later on as well because it's not perfect, but it's definitely a great launching point and a |
| 1:54.7 | great way to look at addiction and change. Absolutely. So the stages of change model was developed in the early 1980s by James |
| 2:06.2 | Purchaska and Carlo de Clemente. And the reason this kind of came about is that they were doing a |
| 2:12.9 | study around smoking and stopping smoking. |
| 2:28.3 | And when they did that study, they realized that people go through a predictable set of stages as they make that change. And what's happened with that model is that it's from that study about stopping smoking, it's been |
| 2:35.8 | applied to behavioral change in general, especially around addiction. One of the things I really |
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