Hi its Mike, Jess is away for our final episode in Series 2, looking forward to Season 3, starting Friday 10th June 2022.

In the United Kingdom its  Mental Health Awareness Week. Mental Health Foundation (UK)  have themed 2022  'loneliness'  for Mental Health Awareness Week -  Monday 9 May until Sunday 15 May 2022. 

Daniel from "Life Changes You" podcast is my guest this week. Dan is a Mental Health professional, currently in private practice "Change your Therapist". Dan has a massive following on his podcast, in coincidently launched in December 2019, 4 months prior to lockdown.  I was interested in his journey and Dan's thoughts  on the theme loneliness and current stigma towards  addiction and mental health.

"Life Changes You" description.
"If you are looking for conversations with inspirational people and want to learn more about the people around you? Then this is the podcast for you :) Each week I talk to people on various topics about inspiration, psychology and mental health. Some of the topics that I have covered are Anorexia, Autism, Addictions, Cults, Disability, Spirituality, The Brain and how it works and so many more topics.

My goal is to help you live a more positive and balanced life, Creating a life you have always wanted and becoming better humans. Our mental health is as important as our physical health and the interviews help you to see how you can improve your health".

Removing Addiction and Healing Mental Health host Mike Carroll is a registered counsellor with The Australian Counselling Association and Founder and CEO of MC Counselling, a global on-line Addiction and Mental Health Counselling Service. He is also an elected Director of the Board for the Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA) and has a lived experience of addiction and mental health. Mike believes everybody deserves to live their best life and helps clients remove addiction and heal poor mental health.
https://linktr.ee/mikecarroll 

Jess Gaddes, a Lived Experience Mentor/coach/advocate with 6 years addiction free from Ice/meth use. 

Jess has a Cert IV in Alcohol & Other Drugs (AOD), and is currently studying a Diploma in Mental Health. Jess is a passionate woman with a vast array of experience when it comes to navigating the health system and meeting the needs of our most vulnerable as she, herself has been there and come and out the other side. Jess is a strong believer in prevention and early intervention, and runs social media platforms https://www.instagram.com/addiction_doesnt_discriminate and https://www.Instagram.com/chance2change.aus which focus on creating hope and change for current and future generations. 

This is the final episode in Series 2. Series 3, Episode 1  will be available for download from Friday 10th June 2022.

Thanks for all your support and downloads. 

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Invite your friends and family to subscribe also.

Mike and Jess xxx

This week on the show, Ross and Jayne Quick from Quick Results training join us...

Ross & Jayne (the Quicks) are the Co-Founders of Quick Results Training (QRT). QRT provide online anxiety, depression & self-confidence coaching/ exercise sessions for their members and clientele.

Ross’ personal struggle with anxiety and depression and Jayne’s holistic and supportive approach to his recovery, have been the foundation of QRT. Now they are assisting others on their journey.

QRT’s proven fitness, wellbeing and mindfulness solutions, support individuals who are struggling with stress, anxiety and self-confidence, to achieve physical, mental and emotional health. Connect with Ross and Jayne via these links.
http://www.instagram.com/quickresultstraining
http://www.quickresultstraining.com

Removing Addiction and Healing Mental Health host Mike Carroll is a registered counsellor with The Australian Counselling Association and Founder and CEO of MC Counselling, a global on-line Addiction and Mental Health Counselling Service. He is also an elected Director of the Board for the Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA) and has a lived experience of addiction and mental health. Mike believes everybody deserves to live their best life and helps clients remove addiction and heal poor mental health.
https://linktr.ee/mikecarroll

Jess Gaddes, co-host, a Lived Experience Mentor/coach/advocate with 6 years addiction free from Ice/meth use.  Jess has a Cert IV in Alcohol & Other Drugs (AOD), and is currently studying a Diploma in Mental Health. Jess is a passionate woman with a vast array of experience when it comes to navigating the health system and meeting the needs of our most vulnerable as she, herself has been there and come and out the other side. Jess is a strong believer in prevention and early intervention, and runs social media platforms http://www.instagram.com/addiction_doesnt_discriminate and https://www.instagram.com/chance2change.aus which focus on creating hope and change for current and future generations. 
 
Executive Producer - Jared Aviet
and VoiceOver - Nathan Gardner.
 
Live your best life, you only have one.
 
Mike and Jess xxx

Elisa Buggy is a Board Director with Mike Carroll for the Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA) and is the CEO of West CASA (Centre Against for Sexual Assault).

Elisa grew up on Palawa Country, also known as Tasmania.  She loves meeting new people, cooking, her couch, and her family - and she also seems to be a perpetual student.  

She is deeply committed to making the world a better place - at least in the way that she sees it - and is magnetised towards the proverbial 'too hard baskets' (a term she finds both deeply offensive and all too prevalent). 

Elisa loves building community - especially where it's lacking - and is always up for a philosophical meander through the meaning of life.  

Oh!  And she's also a Social Worker with an MBA who is plodding slowly through a law degree.  

She sits on multiple community boards and is very proud to be leading West CASA in these fascinating times!

Removing Addiction and Healing Mental Health host Mike Carroll is a registered counsellor with The Australian Counselling Association and Founder and CEO of MC Counselling, a global on-line Addiction and Mental Health Counselling Service. He is also an elected Director of the Board for the Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA) and has a lived experience of addiction and mental health. Mike believes everybody deserves to live their best life and helps clients remove addiction and heal poor mental health.
https://linktr.ee/mikecarroll

Jess Gaddes, a Lived Experience Mentor/coach/advocate with 6 years addiction free from Ice/meth use. 

Jess has a Cert IV in Alcohol & Other Drugs (AOD), and is currently studying a Diploma in Mental Health. Jess is a passionate woman with a vast array of experience when it comes to navigating the health system and meeting the needs of our most vulnerable as she, herself has been there and come and out the other side. Jess is a strong believer in prevention and early intervention, and runs social media platforms www.instagram.com/chance2change and www.instragram.com/addiction_doesnt@discriminate  which focus on creating hope and change for current and future generations. 
 
 Executive Producer - Jared Aviet
 and VoiceOver - Nathan Gardner.
 
 Live your best life, you only have one.
 
 Mike and Jess xxx

Dr Rob Kelly from Rob Kelly Recovery Group.
Guarenteed addiction removal - or your money back…

Robb has overcome homelessness, alcohol dependency, trauma, PTSD, and MDD and a whirlwind of events to be the "Gordon Ramsay" of the addiction treatment world. 

Before Robb succumbed to addiction and mental health issues, he played bass guitar at Abbey Studio with Queen, David Bowie, and Elton John. 

He is an accomplished musician, and the money he made helped him attend Oxford University to pursue a Ph.D. in Psychology. 

Robb experienced a spiritual awakening on the cold streets of Manchester while homeless and in dire straights.

Robb's work ethic is defined by helping the addict step out of their disease and into a solution. 

He works with everyday people, professionals, and celebrities who want to reach sobriety and live in sustained recovery through evidence-based modalities and a genuine therapeutic alliance. 

Robb believes in helping marginalized communities because he understands that everyone has different worldviews when addiction is rearing its ugly head.

Robb appeared on The Doctors CBS show, The Funky Brain podcast, and a San Antonio, Texas news segment about opioids and Purdue Pharma. 

Recently Robb appeared on the addiction celebrity podcast, Knockin Doorz Down. 

Robb is a beast in the addiction treatment world. Also, Robb is lecturing at the University of Texas at San Antonio about Addiction and recovery.

Here are some of the shows Rob has appeared on:
https://youtu.be/Ex73ES45ZeI (The Doctors)
https://youtu.be/WeiuRAFEAhk (Knockin Doorz Down)
https://youtu.be/ra-QUAm7BBw (Funky Brain podcast)
https://youtu.be/DVDUl6r0l5E (KENS5 San Antonio news segment)

Removing Addiction and Healing Mental Health host Mike Carroll is a registered counsellor with The Australian Counselling Association and Founder and CEO of MC Counselling,  a global on-line Addiction and Mental Health Counselling Service. Mike . He is also an elected Director of the Board for the Victorian Alcohol and Drug Association (VAADA) and has a lived experience of addiction and mental health. Mike believes everybody deserves to live their best life and helps clients remove addiction and heal poor mental health.
https://linktr.ee/mikecarroll

Removing Addiction and Healing Mental Health co-host Jess Gaddes was on-leave this week and will return next week.

Executive Producer "Removing Addiction and Healing Mental Health" Jared Aviet 
and VoiceOver from Nathan Gardner.

Live your best life, you only have one.

Mike xxx

Rosalyn Hennesy is a woman with lived experience of both mental health and lived experience of dependence of both drugs and alcohol. 

For 23 years she used any substance available to cope with a vast history of trauma and grief most of which she is still unravelling. Today she is approaching 5 years in “recovery”. 

She is also a trained mental health and drug and alcohol support worker and has been advocating for a reform on drugs for many years. 

In 2018 Rosalyn was involved in the Uniting Churches documentary “Half a million steps” and then moved to Sydney to become a lived experienced team leader on the Fair Treatment campaign. In this role Rosalyn had the chance to speak about her experiences and opinions in many capacities including panels, with parliamentarians, the general public. 

In 2021 Rosalyn became a co-founder of Public Health en Afrique and in charge of the mental health and drug and alcohol sector to advocate and raise awareness for women and children in Africa. Rosalyn is currently taking a break from volunteering due to her disability and health.

Rosalyn loves to openly discuss her views and believes that treatment for all should be made available. It makes sense not just for societal and humane reasons but economic reasons too. 

Jess and I welcome Rosalyn to Removing Addiction and strongly urge you to listen to this episode that offers a story of phenomenal resilience and love.

Jess and Mike xxx

It is our hope by listening to Removing Addiction and Healing Mental Health you have discovered many different ways to remove addiction and heal poor mental health.

For people who have been in long term addiction and experiencing  poor mental health, life Coaching can be useful in piecing life back together. It's one of the methods I use in Problematic Substance Use and Addiction Reprogramming at MC Counselling.

During the past two years on Insta, I met Dom who is a life coach from neume.today, producing amazing results for his clients. He joins Jess and I this week in episode 9.

Here is Dom's Bio...
Dom is an ICF certified master life coach, who specializes in Mental Health and Addiction recovery. He has worked in the rehabilitation field for 5 years and is personally in recovery.

Utilizing his own skills and professional knowledge to coach individuals on the skills of life necessary to facilitate a happy/healthy recovery.

Dom is passionate about helping others like him, who are looking for help with recovery in non-traditional methods.

Dom’s own experience with recovery and his wide skill set help people find balance, motivation, and happiness.

He has worked with adults, adults with disabilities, people with ASD, and adolescents to help them find their inner potential.

We welcome Dom from neume.today to Removing Addiction and Healing Mental Health - the Mike Carroll Podcast.

Mike and Jess xxx

Instagram links for Removing Addiction, Dom from neume.today, Mike from MC Counselling and Jess from "Addiction Doesn't Discriminate".

http://www.instagram.com/removing_addiction
http://www.instagram.com/neume.today
http://www.instagram.com/mccounselling
http://www.instagram.com/addiction_doesnt_discriminate

Nicole's story...

We do recover- I consider myself a recovered addict, I am 43 years of age mum of 4 boys, wife, daughter, sister and aunt/godmother. Addiction does not discriminate.

 I was addicted to ICE for a very small time in my 30’s,  (5-7 years) and it did not take long until my life began to spiral out of control.

Jail became a revolving door, I committed more crime to fuel my addiction so I could hide it from my children and family (so I thought)  until enough was enough.

Today,  I am almost at my 5 year mark drug free/crime free. I have spent the last 5 years studying AOD and mental health, I volunteered at a hospital detox and I’m now blessed to be employed in the community service sector helping others.

I do as much as I can for the community as a way of giving back and to help stop the cycle by being non judgmental, being kind, being part of a bigger plan of education, prevention amongst the community, helping people link up to services for support.

At the time of addiction, you just do not know what help is out there (if there is any) and then there is the stigma when you actually decide to go to get help, the wait times for public health is such a huge mountain to climb, you discover the rules attached to services - the criteria.

My goal is to work towards a better future with accessible services for everyone to access easily, remove the judgement, remove the stigma and educate.

Thank you so much Nicole for sharing your story demonstrating we can change and you are the change you want to see for others  in the world.

Mike and Jess xxx

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This week Jess and Mike are going to help you to help yourself, especially if you are waiting 6-12 months for counselling appointments through the Mental Health Treatment Plans.

Dr. Michael Abruzzese is an award-winning educator, author, licensed clinical psychologist, and school psychologist. With nearly 40 years of experience in forensic, cognitive-behavioral, neuropsychological, and clinical practice, Dr. A. Has been teaching and lecturing at major east coast medical schools and universities and to students and professionals of all levels around the world.

He is passionate about making psychology accessible to all people, a factor in  many parts of the world is not possible.

His latest book "10 Lessons in Power Psychology" can be bought online via amazon and via his website,  www.vistahealth.com

 Here is the link to the book: 10 Lessons In Power Psychology - Latest How To (tenlessonsinpowerpsychology.com)

 Here is a link to his website: DRAPLUS.com – Give YOUR Organization An "A+"

Thanks for joining us Dr. A. and we look forward to helping you spread the word about your book and helping people to help themselves in this difficult times.

Thanks to Executive Producer Jared Aviet and VoiceOver by Nathan Gardiner.

We only have one life, let's make it our best.

Mikey and Jess xxx

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Use these instagram handles to find Mike and Jess

• Mike Carroll @mccounselling
• Mike Carroll @titaniumtheintersexpodcast
• Jess @addiction_doesnt_discriminate