One on One with Coach Blu: Conflict Resolution
Good communication is an art. It’s not something that comes naturally to everyone. But with the right tools, you can learn how to communicate more effectively with your spouse, family, and friends. This One on One podcast can help listeners explore their personal conflict resolution style and develop skills to improve it. The show provides a deep dive into the benefits of healthy negotiation, family communication, and boundary setting, and focusing on meeting the needs of everyone involved.
Conflict Resolution steps are as follows:
1. Recognize the conflict
2. Manage the conflict (Be Present)
3. Analyze (Look deeper at the opponent or situation)
4. Act
Minor League: Navigating Relationships
The Minor League podcast is hosted by 17-year-old Savannah Robinson and her father and therapist Coach Blu Robinson. Anyone can benefit from this podcast. This teen and father duo bring a great unique, and informative perspective to many topics. They often address communication, teen issues, parent-child relationships, and confidence.
This week Savannah has guest Coach Blu in the studio to talk about navigating relationships. Relationships in the teenage years can be quite volatile. What is love and the different forms? Why is it important to love yourself before loving anyone else? They discuss this and more about how all relationships can be challenging but beneficial if you put in the work.
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Ultrarunner Taylor Spike
Oregonian Taylor Spike added his name to the very short list of ultra-endurance athletes to complete a sub-60 hour, 200-mile ultramarathon. For Taylor, running is about life — and life is about submitting to the friction necessary to get uncomfortable. Comfort is hiding after a lousy day at work to bust into a case of beer. Comfortable is overweight. Comfortable is Dilaudid, a buzz, and a couch. There was a time in Taylor’s life when he went through the motions of addiction to cope. "I didn’t have a pill problem, I had a pain problem". Back surgeries and a gut left him uninspired and lethargic.
In the suffering of the long run, he finds his family and his truth. “I was quick to look for the easy out,” according to Taylor, who at the time was trapped in the spiral of routine, but which ultimately spun into a self-destructive path chasing numbness and a false high. When a second surgery was required for his back, he was already walking down that road. Alone. When the second round of therapy and pain management was heaped on his plate, Taylor expected help and accountability. He hoped again to skate through riding the easy out. Life was not gritty, raw, or real.
What he found instead was a heavy dose of self-accountability and a hard look in the mirror. No one offered to do the heavy lifting for him, and he realized that no one could alter the map of his life besides himself. There are prisons we lock ourselves in that we hold the only key to. “We all go through life avoiding confrontation,” he says. Even conflict within ourselves.
Listen to this podcast with Coach Blu and Taylor. See if you can relate to anything said here, and make sure to share the word with others! We can all recover. "I am a CHAMPION!"
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Instagram: tspike2
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Loss And Living: A Life With Purpose
This week's podcast Coach Blu invites Desmond and Alison Lomax on the show. They discuss a very sensitive subject matter. They talk about suicide, grief, pain, love, and loss. They lost their son Mateen Lomax to suicide in November of 2019. We know you will feel the love that remains after listening to Alison, a certified fitness instructor and life coach, & Desmond, a licensed clinical mental health therapist and certified trauma-informed care specialist, as they talk about a heartbreaking situation that their family experienced and the understanding and healing that follows. When we experience a loss of a loved one, it can be difficult to find a way forward. The pain can be overwhelming and all-encompassing. Listen as Coach Blu and the Lomax's, explore dealing with loss when progress seems impossible. Do you know how they say, "Don't take life for granted?" To someone who has recently lost someone, it means more now. Listen to this powerful conversation on what exactly is "grief work" and discover it's more than the therapeutic modality your therapist uses. It's the human connection and the delicate balance of loss and living a life with a purpose and meaning after losing someone.
Check out Desi and Alison Lomax on their new podcast Loss and Living
You can also join their FB group called illuminaTEENunity dedicated to their son Mateen Lomax.
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Expand Your Circle of Relationships
The relationships we form with others are vital to our mental and emotional well-being and survival. In this week's episode, Coach Blu talks about expanding our circle and building healthy relationships. It is through relationships that we will either excel at life or fail. It has been said that you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with, so make sure to choose wisely.
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One on One With Coach Blu: Parental Relationships
Welcome to our weekly live show, One on One with Coach Blu. Coach Blu is a licensed mental health therapist and certified substance use disorder counselor. Today's cohost is Addict II Athlete's own Athletic Director, Marisa Robinson. Marissa is a Certified Recreational Therapist. This is an open topic, so by which you, the listener, can participate by submitting your questions through direct messaging or jump on the zoom link provided to be a guest and participant on the show. We discuss addiction, recovery, mental illness, health and wellness, and much more. Today we discuss parent child relationships.
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Anger, “It’s A Learned Behavior!”
The Agents Of Recovery take on the topic of anger in recovery!
Most of us know about Max Hall’s feelings for the University Of Utah. What you may know is the why behind it!
Max finally comes clean about his anger and the truth about beating Utah!
If you are a college football fan, you will love this podcast and enjoy listening to Max’s version of the “press conference!”
Then hear the Agents discuss key information to understanding anger.
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Balance, Bonding, & Being Present
The Agents of Recovery take a dive into their personal lives to discuss fears of raising teens, the impact of social media and connecting with our loved ones! There are many things to be aware of when in recovery. Today hosts Max Hall, Brock Bevell, and Blu Robinson discuss balance, bonding and being present with our lives and relationships. These are great keys to long term successful relationships and recovery.
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Do You Struggle with Intimacy After Getting Sober?
1. When you feel like you're not good enough for your partner. 2. When you feel like you're not living up to your partner's expectations. 3. When you feel like your partner is constantly pushing you away. If you've been feeling this, then this episode is for you! In this episode, you will learn how to navigate intimacy after sobriety.
Here's a breakdown of what is covered:
[00:00:00] - Brock Bevel pt 1.
[00:01:05] - Question of the week.
[00:02:58] - Getting back in the groove of recovery.
[00:04:23] - What we're talking about.
[00:14:27] - The problem with addiction.
[00:18:40] - Physical vs emotional intimacy.
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The Proxy Run and Party in The Back
Did you know Coach Blu is a co-host with Josh Hansen on another podcast called The Party in The Back? It's a running podcast we release every Wednesday, and we discuss all things running! The best races, running tips, and more are from the old to the new. It's an excellent way to decompress. This episode was released several weeks ago following the AIIA Proxy Run. We wanted to rerelease it here so those who have not yet heard the Party in the Back could get a feel as to what it is but also share with you, a deeper perspective as to what the Proxy Run is all about. This is an emotional view into what Team Addict II Athlete holds this very special event every year. Give it a listen and then subscribe to the Party in The Back!
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One on One with Coach Blu: Approach is Everything
Welcome to our weekly live show, One on One with Coach Blu. Coach Blu is a licensed mental health therapist and certified substance use, disorder counselor. Today's cohost is Addict II Athlete's own Athletic Director, Marisa Robinson. Marissa is a Certified Recreational Therapist. This is an open topic, so by which you, the listener, can participate by submitting your questions through direct messaging or jumping on the zoom link provided to be a guest and participant on the show. We discuss addiction, recovery, mental illness, health and wellness, and much more. This week we discuss how to truly help a friend or family member while they are getting help.
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Repairing Relationships After Addiction
In order to start rebuilding and repairing relationships after addiction, you have to rebuild yourself into a new person. Listen as the Agents talk about how they have established relationships and what tools they use to bridge the gaps. Remember it’s significant to take into consideration what your actions have done to others before repairing relationships with them. If you aren’t able to see how you’ve hurt the ones you love, how can you fix what was broken? Taking steps to repair every relationship is different, and often depends on how the relationship was impacted by addiction. Some friends and family members set hard boundaries during active addiction, while others encourage codependence. Listen to these great relationship tips and how to build relationships after addiction.
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September Rising
Today On this week's podcast, Coach Blu speaks with September Frogley as she discusses the passing of her brother, Robert Dilgard, his battle with addiction and mental health, and turning the mess of losing a loved one into the message of connecting individuals to find a cure. They discuss suicide, spirituality, purpose, love and more. This is a very powerful discussion and one that should be listened to with loved ones who also struggle or who have people in their lives who they love dearly. Learn more about Connection is the Cure and how you can help the mission.
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One on One With Coach Blu; What's Sobriety?
On this week's episode of one on one with Coach Blu, we take a deep dive into what is real sobriety, what is real recovery and who makes the definitions of either one? We discuss what happens when a loved one or family member decides to continue using but still have a relationship with you. We talk about boundaries and being able to be supportive but avoid toxic relationships. This is a very deep conversation, and I want to thank Coach Holly for posing the question.
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Creating New Paths
In this week's episode, Coach Blu is interviewed as a guest on Live On Purpose Radio with Dr. Paul Jenkins. They discuss the foundational aspect of creating this new path of recovery known now as Addict to Athlete. Dr. Paul Jenkins and Coach Blu Robinson have a deep history together, and when they discuss addiction recovery, mental health awareness, and living on purpose, great connections are made.
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Giving Sunshine: How To Heal From Grief
Today Coach Blu speaks to Jason Clawson, mental health therapist, about the process of healing from grief. Listen as Jason opens a window in his heart as he processes the passing of his wife 3 short years ago. Grief is a natural response to loss. It’s the emotional suffering felt when something or someone you love is taken away. Often, the pain of loss can feel overwhelming. You may experience all kinds of difficult and unexpected emotions, from shock or anger to disbelief, guilt, and profound sadness. The pain of grief can also disrupt your physical health, making it difficult to sleep, eat, or even think straight. These are normal reactions to loss—and the more significant the loss, the more intense your grief will be.
Jason found the process of healing through service and the launching of Giving Sunshine, an offering to families and loved ones who have lost a loved one. Jason has a big heart and you will feel the love he has as you listen.
For More Information:
https://www.givingsunshine.com/
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Say Something
This episode the agents discuss some sensitive issues pertaining to heartbreaking circumstances that Coach Blu has experienced and things that Brock has come to understand. Listen as they describe action-oriented interactions and how crucial they could be in assisting individuals in overcoming adversity, assisting in the healing heart, and ultimately seeking forgiveness.
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How to Talk to Your Teen About Drugs
The Agents discuss the best way to start a conversation with your teen about drugs and alcohol and why it is important. Substance misuse in adolescents happens quite often, yet how parents respond can be vital on if a child continues to use or not. We know teens need structure to stay safe. Listen as they discuss building relationships before rules. It is crucial to have clear rules about drugs and alcohol. You can’t guarantee that your rules won’t be broken. But research shows that kids who have clear rules, even if they’re broken, are less likely to get into serious trouble than kids who don’t. It can be hard to know what to say. Don’t surprise kids with a big talk. Instead, let your child know you want to have a conversation about drinking and drugs. Be clear about rules and specific about what will happen if kids break them. Kids do best when they know what to expect.
One On One With Coach Blu: It's About Love
Director Marisa Robinson. Marissa is a Certified Recreational Therapist. This is an open topic so by which you the listener can participate by submitting your own questions through direct messaging or, jump on the zoom link provided to be a guest and participant on the show. We discuss topics of addiction, recovery, mental illness, health and wellness, and much more. Today we discuss many aspects of love.
His Life With Karma: Travis Sackett
Today Coach Blu speaks with a former police officer and competitive powerlifter Travis Sackett. Listen as they discuss a history of success followed by injury and addiction leading to crime and Travis suffering a traumatic brain injury in 2013, resulting in a total disability designation.
Travis also wrote a book entitled My Life with Karma to increase awareness for those struggling with addiction as well as mental health problems. Travis hopes My Life with Karma will help increase empathy toward populations that are often ignored, forgotten, or without a voice. This is a powerful conversation and one you will absolutely feel can relate to your own struggle overcoming addiction.
For more information, you can connect with Travis Sackett at travis.sackett@gmail.com and at https://www.facebook.com/travis.sackett.1.
Order The Book; My Life With Karma
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