Are You Always Doing Exactly What You Want to Do?

The Addiction Solution Podcast  Are You Always Doing Exactly What You Want to Do?   This discussion on human behavior takes Mark and Michelle in some interesting directions. From comparing addiction treatment to the Salem Witch Trials, to taking care of elderly...

Can You Solve Addiction in Just 1 Day?

The Addiction Solution Podcast  Can You Solve Addiction in Just 1 Day? Did you know that most people can actually solve addiction in a single day? It’s true. In this episode of The Addiction Solution Podcast, Mark and Michelle explain exactly why people continue to...

Feeling Nostalgic After Leaving the Cage of Recovery

The Addiction Solution Podcast  Feeling Nostalgic After Leaving the Cage of Recovery People can feel nostalgic about leaving all kinds of relationships, even those that are hurtful and negative. And when moving on from recovery, depending on how long you’ve spent in...

Solving Addiction Through Mental Autonomy

The Addiction Solution Podcast  Solving Addiction Through Mental Autonomy Addiction exists in your mind, and that’s the only place you can solve it! Mark and Michelle talk about the key role free will and mental autonomy play in solving addiction. CLICK HERE TO SIGN...

Giving Up Isn’t Easier!

The Addiction Solution Podcast  Giving Up Isn’t Easier! So many people say, “Just don’t give up!” “Persistence always pays off!” But does it always pay off? Isn’t there a time when you should call it quits. Mark and Michelle break this down in this week’s episode of...

Unhappiness Is Not Causing Your Addiction!

The Addiction Solution Podcast  Unhappiness Is Not Causing Your Addiction! A common misunderstanding about The Freedom Model is we’re saying you have to be happy to stop your addiction, which is not true at all! Mark and Michelle clarify that unhappiness is not the...

Learning the Addict Self-Image through the Playground Effect

The Addiction Solution Podcast  Learning the Addict Self-Image through the Playground Effect Taking on the addict/alcoholic self-image can make moving past addiction seem impossible! Even those people who don’t think addiction is a disease can unknowingly take on the...

Do Addiction Treatment and 12 Step Programs Harm Relationships?

The Addiction Solution Podcast  Do Addiction Treatment and 12 Step Programs Harm Relationships? We make the case that 12 step programs and addiction treatment based on it can cause significant harm to relationships, which often makes struggles with heavy substance use...

“I Hate It, But I Keep Doing It!”

The Addiction Solution Podcast  “I Hate It, But I Keep Doing It!” When you get to that point where you are continuing heavy drinking or drug use, or another behavior, and you’re hating the consequences, and you’re hating yourself, but you can’t seem to stop doing it,...

The War on Opiates

The Addiction Solution Podcast  The War on Opiates The Addiction Solution welcomes a special guest, Beverly Schechtman, Director/Vice President of The Doctor Patient Forum (https://www.thedoctorpatientforum.com/) , an advocacy group for pain patients and prescribing...

What Will It Take to Change Addiction Treatment?

The Addiction Solution Podcast  What Will It Take to Change Addiction Treatment? Addiction treatment doesn’t actually help people to solve addiction, it makes them “accept it” under the guise of helping them. It creates lifelong customers who continue to struggle with...

Changing Your Preference with Emotional Understanding

The Addiction Solution Podcast  Changing Your Preference with Emotional Understanding Listener topic request: Why do some people gain an understanding of The Freedom Model but occasionally drink or use drugs heavily? CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR OUR NEW FAMILIES MOVING...

Talking to Family About Moving Past Addiction & Recovery

The Addiction Solution Podcast  Talking to Family About Moving Past Addiction & Recovery Everything changes for you once the people in your life see you as “an addict”. Whether you labeled yourself or that label was thrust on you by well-meaning friends, family,...

Can Talking Critical to Yourself Be Motivational?

The Addiction Solution Podcast  Can Talking Critical to Yourself Be Motivational? A podcast listener asked us this question and he used the example of David Goggin’s book, Can’t Hurt Me, where he explains how he motivated himself to achieve many remarkable...

Are There Long Term Effects from Being “In Recovery”?

The Addiction Solution Podcast  Are There Long Term Effects from Being “In Recovery”? Everyone knows there are long term effects from heavy substance use, but what no one talks about are the long term effects of being “in recovery” and there are many!  On this...

Do You Need “Tools” to Stop Drinking?

The Addiction Solution Podcast  Do You Need “Tools” to Stop Drinking? “I wake up in the morning and have great resolve! I’m not going to drink today! Then at 5:00 it goes out the window and I start my binge again! I must be one of those who will never get it.” If this...

Answering Skeptics and Critics of The Freedom Model

The Addiction Solution Podcast  Answering Skeptics and Critics of The Freedom Model When criticizing an accepted paradigm and 80 year old institution such as the addiction disease theory and the original 12 step program, Alcoholics Anonymous, you better have a thick...

Will You Lose Anything You Put Before Your Recovery?

The Addiction Solution Podcast  Will You Lose Anything You Put Before Your Recovery? We’ve all heard this mantra: your “recovery” must come first! Whatever you put in front of it, you’ll lose! Is this true? And is it helpful to think this way? This great topic was...

The Problem with Addiction Recovery

The Addiction Solution Podcast  The Problem with Addiction Recovery If you think “addiction recovery” is a good and positive thing, listen as Mark and Michelle explain the immense inherent problems with identifying yourself in this way, and the massive benefits of...

What About “Dry January”? Is It Helpful?

The Addiction Solution Podcast  What About “Dry January”? Is It Helpful? “Dry January” has become “a thing” over the last decade as more and more people spend more and more time on social media. We were asked the question by our fans, “What does The Freedom Model...

Replacing 12 Step Servitude with Freedom!

The Addiction Solution Podcast  Replacing 12 Step Servitude with Freedom! In this episode Mark and Michelle explore and explain the unholy marriage of medicine and religion that the 12 step model created to treat the “addiction disease”. Is it a spiritual disease? Is...

Becoming Happier in the New Year!

The Addiction Solution Podcast  Becoming Happier in the New Year! Happy New Year Everyone! Do you have New Year’s Resolutions? Are there areas in your life you want to improve? These things are all in an effort to make you happier in your life. Mark and Michelle talk...

Freedom Model Success Stories

The Addiction Solution Podcast  Freedom Model Success Stories A special Christmas episode of The Addiction Solution where Mark and Michelle talk about real people who have transformed their lives with The Freedom Model. It’s important to know that no matter who you...

Do You Struggle with Heavy Use When You’re Alone?

The Addiction Solution Podcast  Do You Struggle with Heavy Use When You’re Alone? There are many people who struggle with heavy drinking or drug using more when they are alone. Some sneak away so they can binge on their favorite substance, while others binge drink/use...

Are You Living in Quiet Desperation?

The Addiction Solution Podcast  Are You Living in Quiet Desperation? Everyone feels bored, restless, and dissatisfied at times. For those trying to solve and an addiction and move past recovery as well, this can seem especially troublesome. Mark and Michelle talk...

Shedding the Addict/Alcoholic Self Image

The Addiction Solution Podcast  Shedding the Addict/Alcoholic Self Image Even people who don’t buy into the addiction disease mythology, sometimes still have some of the beliefs about themselves that are part of that addict or alcoholic self-image. Mark and Michelle...

What is the Solution to Addiction?

The Addiction Solution Podcast  What is the Solution to Addiction? One of the criticisms we get here at The Freedom Model is, “You guys are saying The Freedom Model is the only way!?? Isn’t that just like AA?” Mark and Michelle explain what they mean when they say,...

Peeling Back the Onion to Find True Freedom from Addiction

The Addiction Solution Podcast  Peeling Back the Onion to Find True Freedom from Addiction 12 Step beliefs are pervasive in our society today, and those who’ve been exposed to AA or NA for any length of time often underestimate how programmed with misinformation they...

Does AA Fit the Criteria for Being a Cult? Part 2

The Addiction Solution Podcast  Does AA Fit the Criteria for Being a Cult? Part 2   Here at the Freedom Model, we often talk about Alcoholics Anonymous being a Cult and give ample evidence as to why.  Despite the overwhelming and blatantly obvious evidence, many...

Does AA Fit the Criteria for Being a Cult? Part 1

The Addiction Solution Podcast  Does AA Fit the Criteria for Being a Cult? Part 1   Here at the Freedom Model, we often talk about Alcoholics Anonymous being a Cult and give ample evidence as to why.  Despite the overwhelming and blatantly obvious evidence, many...

No One Needs AA or 12 Step Programs, and we mean No One!

The Addiction Solution Podcast  No One Needs AA or 12 Step Programs, and we mean No One!   “But AA works for some people.” Mark and Michelle take to task the popular idea that some people need a 12 step program, and that it “gets them sober.” Don’t forget to...

12 Step and Addiction Treatment Lies: Are They Justified?

The Addiction Solution Podcast  12 Step and Addiction Treatment Lies: Are They Justified?   Mark and Michelle tackle the premise that telling people the truth about addiction: which is that no one is actually powerless or out of control of their drinking or drug...

Addiction, Recovery, and Tragedy in Hollywood

The Addiction Solution Podcast  Addiction, Recovery, and Tragedy in Hollywood   It seems every time you turn on the news you hear of another actor, musician, or professional athlete that has relapsed, gone to rehab, or tragically overdosed and died. And when a...

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