Flowers for Zoe - Stories for Dennis: A Fentanyl Addiction and Recovery Diary

On today's podcast we talk with Agnes Chen about the Stigma of Drug Use, and how it's affecting our children. To learn more about Agnes Chen and her pro-active fight to protect children and how you can take-part, visit the Starlings Community at Starlings.ca

Today's podcast is a Zoe's Recovery Diary episode, #7

Today's podcast is all about SMART Recovery - a FREE state of the art rehabilitation program changing people's lives. SmartRecovery.org

Today we talk Emotions with Jennifer van Wyck, psychotherapist, humanitarian, author, and speaker. To access the material mentioned on today's podcast, vist youtube.com/@vanwyckconsulting or vanwyckconsulting.com (and be sure to click on the "Free Grounding Visualization" right on their home page).

On today’s podcast we discuss abstinence and harm reduction while Zoe questions her sobriety..

On today’s podcast we ask the question “Why Not Rehab?” in an attempt to find out why some, like our brother and Zoe’s father, Dennis, chose not to attend Rehab.

On today's podcast Lara walks us through an exercise called "Cost/Benefit Analysis" (or CBA) to identify the good reasons people use opioids like Fentanyl. If you find anything on today's show activating, please reach out and talk to somebody. If you like what you hear, please share the link with someone else.

On today’s podcast we do some healing, as we talk about Dennis, more than a year after his death from fentanyl. If you find anything on today’s episode activating, please reach out and talk to somebody. If you find the discussion helpful, please share the link with others.

On today’s podcast, we have our first guest.  Soroush is currently in recovery, after 10 years of polysubstance use including fentanyl.  Today, he is a peer support worker and a Smart Recovery Group Facilitator (smartrecovery.org). As part of his passion for  helping others, he talks about his story of loss, hitting bottom, loneliness, isolation, and almost dying. He also shares what it took to reduce harms and and begin his recovery journey.  Sit back, get comfortable and hear how Soroush survived, and then flourished after his battle with opioids.

On today’s podcast we review 3 steps in Preparing for the Holidays while in Recovery, as outlined by www.SmartRecovery.org (no affiliation).  Zoe talks about the possibility that she is just on the Pink Cloud right now, and not fully in recovery.