Blu Robinson 5/21/21 Blu Robinson 5/21/21

One on One With Coach Blu: Wine Culture; Normalizing Alcoholic Moms

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 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 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's topic: Wine Culture; Normalizing Alcoholic Moms.

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Blu Robinson 5/18/21 Blu Robinson 5/18/21

Taking Ownership

In this week's podcast episode the Agents of Recovery Max Hall, Brock Bevell, and Blu Robinson talk about taking ownership of our life and the situations we find ourselves in. Ownership means we take responsibility for whatever it is that’s going on in our lives. We stop waiting for other people and other things to change for us. This means taking the necessary actions for whatever you want in life.

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Blu Robinson 5/17/21 Blu Robinson 5/17/21

Intentional Walk by Corey Harrington

An intentional walk occurs when the defending team elects to walk a batter on purpose, putting him on first base instead of letting him try to hit. Intentional walks -- which count as a walk for the hitter and a walk allowed by the pitcher -- are an important strategy in the context of a game. They can be used to put a runner on first base, setting up a potential double play.

Listeners, today's podcast features Corey Harrington an inspiring man who had aspirations of playing professional baseball and due to some unfortunate experiences, made it as far as the minor league. But his story didn't end there. Listen as Coach Blu and Corey talk about the secrecy of addiction and the fear of letting other people know. Then intentionally walking into recovery by choosing to let others in. Personal accountability, a healthy dose of trust, and Corey has now been able to turn the mess into a message. Corey shares his story on athlete to addict to athlete and ultimately Ironman.

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Blu Robinson 5/11/21 Blu Robinson 5/11/21

The Better Half

On today's Agents of Recovery Podcast, we were lucky enough to have Max and Brock along with their wives in the studio for a live broadcast of the Agents of Recovery Podcast. Due to some technical issues with broadcasting Live to Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn, some of the audio recorded rough but, the message is strong. Listen as the agents discuss relationships, marriage, and the reality of what kind of toll it takes on a marriage. They talk about communication, trust, PTSD, and EMDR. The agents take questions submitted by you, the listener, and answer them in real-time, so thank you for listening downloading sharing, and subscribing.

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Blu Robinson 5/10/21 Blu Robinson 5/10/21

How Important is Family in Addiction Recovery

In any path to obtain sobriety from any addiction, the question is asked, how important is family support in addiction recovery?

Today Coach Blu dives into family systems therapy, developing a home team, and processes this with Parham Nematollah, a licensed counselor with a master's degree in marriage and family therapy. Parham has been working in the mental health and addiction treatment space for over a decade and has great insight on how to involve the family in the healing process. Listen to his story and how he discovered for himself why family involvement can operate much like a team to achieve success in recovery and beyond. Listen as they talk about family systems in recovery, how do family members help and support an individual in active addiction and in recovery, and setting boundaries, and what enabling does.

Parham has been coaching boys basketball at Aliso Niguel High School since 2008. These days he mostly works with student-athletes in a mental health/mental wellness capacity, with the intention to provide them with the tools needed to succeed on and off the basketball court.

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Blu Robinson 5/4/21 Blu Robinson 5/4/21

It's Your Call

In this week's show, the Agents of Recovery Max Hall, Brock Bevell, and Blu Robinson discuss personal views and understanding of the current situations our community face with the legalization of medical and recreational cannabis. The use of marijuana and medical marijuana is growing. Listen as they process the positive and negative side of this new method of medical intervention and in the end to remain true to yourself and to your recovery. Ultimately, it's your call, to know yourself, to know your addiction, to know your needs, and to know that balance is the key.

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Blu Robinson 5/3/21 Blu Robinson 5/3/21

The 'Long' Road To Success

Today, Christy Long, a single mom, a woman in long-term recovery, and member of Team AIIA talks about her recovery, her passion for service, and going back to school to pursue a career in counseling and therapy. Listen as she describes the mindset of wanting to help people that society seemingly has cast away. She shares how her passion is to help the prison population reacclimate into society after having dealt with the aftermath of incarceration. Christy has a very genuine heart and has turned the mess of addiction and emotional turbulence into a mindset and purpose to serve all those she works with.

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Blu Robinson 4/27/21 Blu Robinson 4/27/21

Turning The Mess Into The Message

When is it time to share your story? When do you feel as though your message of recovery is worth telling? On this week's podcast, the agents of recovery, Max Hall, Brock Bevell, and Blu Robinson discuss how to share your story, how to know when it's time and how powerful your story can be if offered through genuine desires to help. We all can get better at developing and maintaining a sense of resilience. Chances are, all of us will experience some kind of adversity and face some tough times at some point in our lives. We are absolutely amazing people who have the capacity to bounce back after problems, which is why it is so important to know how and when to share your story.

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Blu Robinson 4/26/21 Blu Robinson 4/26/21

How to Face Fear with Pat Miletich

On today's podcast, we speak with Pat "The Croatian Sensation" Miletich. Listen as Coach Blu and Pat discuss his history and family, ultra running, a career in mixed martial artist (MMA) well known for his fights within the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). Interestingly, the conversation focuses on overcoming fear, replacing it with faith, belief, and strong perseverance related to personal grit. Pat is very passionate about not backing down from a fight whether it be from addiction or life itself.

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Blu Robinson 4/23/21 Blu Robinson 4/23/21

One on One With Coach Blu: Game Changer

On this week's One on One With Coach Blu we open take calls from our listeners. This week's topics include Coach Blu talking about the Team's 10 years of service, Athlete Ward talking about things she learned in recovery, Athlete Armitage talking about her feelings about stigma, and Team Captain Olsen talking about getting insight on ways to cope with adult ADHD.

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Blu Robinson 4/19/21 Blu Robinson 4/19/21

Building A Strong Home Team: How To Strengthen Families

Today we seek deeper understanding on how to strengthen families and build a strong home team as Dr. Paul Jenkins from Live on Purpose joins Coach Blu in-studio. Dr. Paul is a world renowned psychologist, author, speaker, and parenting expert. Listen as they discuss real principles to family system development and repair. When a problem occurs within the family system it is crucial to reconcile and mend the relationship. It is true that apologizing and granting forgiveness are helpful but do not always end in successful outcomes. Learn how to take personal accountability, show love, compassion, understanding and communication. Dr. Paul and Coach Blu process how the home team is strengthened when full of love, emotional investment, and accepting each other, will result in relationships that are destined for greatness.

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Blu Robinson 4/14/21 Blu Robinson 4/14/21

The Minor League: How to Talk to Teens

One of the toughest jobs of parenting and being a teen is talking about difficult subjects. On today's podcast, 15 yo Savannah and therapist Coach Blu discuss ways you can communicate to your teenager and avoid the breakdown or roadblocks typically seen in conversations. Teenagers have very difficult waters to navigate in this day and age and unless you can have an open and honest dialogue, it will be difficult for a parent to truly understand what their child is going through. Listen for tips and dialogue on how to open up communication and build a better relationship.

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Blu Robinson 4/13/21 Blu Robinson 4/13/21

Understanding Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT)

On this week's podcast, Max, Brock, and Blu offer some insights into Medication-assisted treatment (MAT) and how it can be used to help manage withdrawal symptoms and reduce cravings in people who have been addicted to opioids. The guys have different opinions on the use and promotion of using MAT and this podcast will help you develop some personal insight as to why. MAT is one of many options for treating substance use disorders. No single option is appropriate for everyone. MAT is an adjunctive treatment or assistive therapy to the overall treatment of a person with a substance use disorder.

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Blu Robinson 4/12/21 Blu Robinson 4/12/21

Understanding Triggers, Cravings and Using Dreams

In this week's podcast Coach Blu and Athletic Director Marissa discuss triggers, cravings, and using dreams. Triggers and warning signs of relapse are always important to pay attention to if you or a loved one is struggling with addiction. A trigger is a stimulus that can cause a craving and lead to behavioral responses. Triggers often come at the beginning of a behavioral cycle; prompting a specific thought, feeling and a subsequent behavior chain. Warning Signs become present when a person stops focusing on recovery or begins fantasizing about the days when they were using, this is when relapses may occur. Some warning signs typically are experienced when romanticizing about past substance use, believing you can use again without becoming addicted or being able to quit on your own, and could include reconnecting with old unhealthy relationships. These in combination with cravings and without proper help could result in relapse or continued use.
As we explore using dreams we dive into what our body and subconscious will do to remind you how, you used to cope with stress, even when sobriety has been achieved. The using dream typically awakens that sleeping addiction and can have emotional responses as a result. The good news is, using dreams are an indicator that you're on the right path, that you're choosing, and being very aware that returning to substance use will not solve your problems, and that your body is re-learning how to cope with stress. It is a sign that your brain is healing.

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Blu Robinson 4/9/21 Blu Robinson 4/9/21

The Minor League: A Life Worth Living

On this week's Minor League Podcast teenager Savannah and therapist Coach Blu talk about the difference between living life to its fullest rather than being a Survivor of life. Listen as Savannah discusses principles on how to make the most of a situation as a pertains to immersing yourself with the beautiful, spiritual things that life offers.

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Blu Robinson 4/6/21 Blu Robinson 4/6/21

Higher Power, Spirituality, and Addiction Recovery

This week on The Agents of Recovery we discuss the importance of spirituality, higher power and addiction recovery. Spirituality is part of the human experience and is at times, a delicate subject to discuss because of how vast the topic is. This podcast will help you discover your higher power, your inner self, your talents and gain new insights. Regardless of how you choose to express your spirituality, always be grounded in love and compassion and your purpose in life will show itself along the way.

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Blu Robinson 4/5/21 Blu Robinson 4/5/21

Captain My Captain with Athlete Chelsie Olsen

Today Coach Blu interviews one of our very own Team Captains. Chelsie Olsen is a member of the Home Team of Addict II Athlete. Athlete Olsen and Coach Blu have a very long history. He has seen her successes and assisted her through some low points in her life. Listen as she describes life in addiction, her surrender, and her request for help. She shares how to use child protective services as a resource rather than a roadblock despite having significant issues, which has created a resource for her to understand that families are forever. Her story is one not to be missed as she describes never quitting, the true meaning of grit, and how to open your heart and trust again so that anything can happen.

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Blu Robinson 4/2/21 Blu Robinson 4/2/21

One on One With Coach Blu: Finding Confidence

On today's show, we discuss viewers questions about having the confidence to crush a job interview after addiction has taken you out of the loop, athletic Director speaks directly to a mother about how to connect with her family now that she's sober, following through with plans and making the most out of the time spent with children. We also get an emotional update from an athlete who reports on her experience at drug rehab.

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Blu Robinson 3/30/21 Blu Robinson 3/30/21

How To Love Yourself Again

In this week's podcast Max, Brock, and Blu take a deep dive into the stages of love. Coach Blu kicks off the topic by presenting a question and the response from Max and Brock which fuels the discussion by recounting how important love is. The guys offer personal insight into the concept of learning how to love and learning how to be loved. Addiction aids in emotional disassociation and can lead to an individual falling out of love with family, friends, and even themselves. This is a podcast not to be missed as the content will help open your mind and heart to the love that is truly within reach.

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Blu Robinson 3/29/21 Blu Robinson 3/29/21

The Gold Medal of Recovery with Carrie Steinseifer Bates

In this week's podcast Coach Blu speaks with Carrie Steinseifer Bates, a 3-time Gold Medal Olympic Swimmer having competed in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles California. Listen as she describes life just below the waterline, growing up in an alcoholic home, and how she used the freedom of the pool to escape the world, discovering the water as a safe place where she would work out her fears, frustrations, and a good place to work out emotions because “No one can see you cry under the water”.

Following her 1984 Olympic success, Carrie missed qualifying for the 1988 Olympics. As that chapter closed she continued to progress in College, swimming, and coaching, starting a family, and becoming a mother. Unfortunately, addiction also began to take a stronghold and as she describes it, "distracted her from what her true and authentic purpose was".

Listen as she describes her recovery in aspects of several treatment episodes and then coming to an awakening that she faced and knew the only way to genuine recovery and sobriety would be laid upon the foundations of honesty. With multiple treatment episodes under her belt, like false starts on an Olympic journey of recovery, she finally learned and ultimately took the dive into understanding, emotional balancing, and overcoming adversity where she became the woman and mother she had always wanted to be. After 18 years absent from the water she took the plunge again and became an Ironman triathlete. Carrie says, “True Champions never let the fire inside them die out”, and she is an example of what can happen if you truly want to go for gold in recovery.

Today she continues to maintain an active lifestyle and has found her true calling in assisting those on the starting blocks of sobriety by working at Hazleden Betty Ford in Oregon. This is a podcast not to be missed, as you will feel the passion she has for life noticed after gold in the Olympics but also, life after addiction.

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