Addict II Athlete Podcast

On this week's podcast, we hear from Addict II Athlete's very own Ambere Holmes. Listen as she discusses her own journey through life and recovery. The ups and the downs that she experienced along with the unknown questionable desire to turn her mess into a powerful message. Listen to her ability to cope through tremendous trauma, heartache, addiction and emotional turbulence to become a professio...

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 by which you the listener can participate by submitting your own questions. We discuss topics of add...

On this week's podcast Coach Blu discusses his feelings on dealing with the grief concerning the loss of a loved one. Grief is expressed in many ways. It can affect every part of your life; your emotions, thoughts, behavior, beliefs, physical health, sense of self, and your relationships. Grief can leave you feeling sad, angry, anxious, shocked, regretful, relieved, overwhelmed, isolated, irritabl...

On this week's podcast Coach Blu and Athletic Director, Marissa discuss anger management, the concepts, the principles, and methods you can use to avoid the pitfalls that typically anger places you in. Listen as they discuss anger management as it refers to a process. Understanding anger can help you identify stressors and learn steps to help them stay calm and work through issues better and maint...

This week Coach Blu talks about why perspective is such a powerful mindset and how to challenge it if you want a more rich experience. If you look at life's problems in this same way, by visualizing yourself up close as well as far away from the problem, you can begin to see new things. You can see the details in a new way. You may find that things aren't as they seem right now. You begin to open...

On this week's podcast Coach Blu addresses the absolutely horrific numbers released by the CDC identifying 100,306 people who died last year due to overdose. Listen as Coach Blu talks about why this number is so disturbing, how to get real in recovery and how to establish a Home Team approach to help strengthen your family system. Coach offers his concept on how to overcome and end addiction by ge...

On this week's podcast coach Blu talks with Heath McDougal-Deans, team captain, ultra runner, minster, therapist, and most of all, a father. Listen as he talks about his life. The struggles that he overcame to be more than he ever thought possible. Heath is a brave man who shares with our listeners some of his story about being a gay man and life in the LGBTQ+ community. This is a true story of re...

In this week's episode Coach Blu speaks to Ian "The Hurricane" Heinisch. Listen to this powerful story as the Hurricane nickname not only embodies his fighting style but also symbolizes the whirlwind of a journey this young fighter has faced outside of the cage. Heinisch recalled being deported from Canada back to the U.S. while working there illegally. Instead of finding legal work in the states,...

When bad things happen it can take time to overcome the pain and feel safe again, on this week's podcast Coach Blu takes a deep dive on overcoming trauma to understand what it is, how it affects us, and strategies to erase and replace it. Listen as he goes into detail on what trauma is, how it affects us all to one degree or another, how to support someone struggling or having difficulty overcomin...

This week Coach Blu talks with Wes Hurt, the founder of CLEAN Cause  and a recovering addict and alcoholic. Miraculously for Hurt, after six rehabs over 20 years and the realization that something needed to change, he finally got sober and found recovery in 2014. Often, people who want to go to treatment cannot afford it, and the same problem is true for sober living – there just isn't enough fund...

Due to the sensitive material that is discussed in today's podcast, listener discretion is advised. On this weeks podcast coach blue takes another deep dive into what makes pornography so addicting. Listen as he describes porn addiction referring to a person becoming emotionally dependent on imagery, content and experiences that can interfere with relationships, life and ability to function.   Som...

On this week's podcast Coach Blu and Athletic Director, Marissa dive deep into the book turned two mini-series Dopesick . "Dopesick" examines how one company triggered the worst drug epidemic in American history. The series takes viewers to the epicenter of America's struggle with opioid addiction, from the boardrooms of Big Pharma to a distressed Virginia mining community, to the hallways of the...

*Due to the sensitive material discussed in today's podcast, listener discretion is advised* On this episode of the Addict II Athlete podcast, Coach Blu, a mental health therapist, takes a deep dive into another episode targeting pornography. Listen as he goes into detail on how to identify, process, support needed to overcome this addiction. Pornography addiction is a very difficult situation to...

This week's podcast has been a long time in the making. We have wanted to address this today's topic for several years and struggled to find an individual we felt could inform and teach the complex and important topic of autism . We are excited to introduce the Team to Alexandra Pearson . Alex describes herself as 'living in the gap between the Neurotypical and Neurodivergent' (ND) worlds, as she...

On this week's podcast Coach Blu discusses his thoughts and the unfortunate situation is that typically plague sober living houses. Listen as they take a deep dive into the mechanisms of sober living, the benefits, and the struggles and things you need to know. They process dual diagnosis issues that typically are overlooked or not observed in sober living situations and also how to recognize if y...

This week Coach Blu speaks to Tony Hoffman a top-ranked BMX amateur with multiple endorsements to a man in trouble when in 2004 Tony committed a home invasion armed robbery and was ultimately sent to prison for two years. Violating his probation and in the depths of addiction, he made a choice and a promise to himself that ultimately saved his life. After paroling from prison Tony started living o...

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...

Have you ever wondered what's at the core of addiction? What is the causality of addiction? Have you ever wondered what it is that created your addiction in the first place? Do you know the difference between recovery and healing from addiction? Do you know how important it is for you to strengthen your mind and change your thinking in order to recover and heal from addiction? These are questions...

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 messagi...

On this week's Addict II Athlete Podcast Coach Blu takes a deep dive into the most common co-occurring disorders that are typically found when an individual is also diagnosed with a substance use disorder. Listen as he reviews generalized anxiety disorder, bipolar disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, personality disorders, and mood disorders. He also takes a deep dive into a borderline person...

This week Coach Blu interviews a special guest he worked with years ago. Portia Louder talks about her 4 and half years in federal prison, events that led to her addiction, and ultimately recovery and healing. This is a powerful example of taking accountability and seeing the good in the absolute worst.  Please join Addict to Athlete's Patreon support page and help us turn the mess of addiction in...

On this week's episode of One on One with Coach Blu, we take a deep dive into the fallout over the Brigham Young University versus University of Utah rivalry football game played on September 11, 2021, and controversy over the Board of Director's Make-A-Wish, Mr. Todd Noall's decision to wear a shirt depicting former BYU quarterback and NFL great Max Hall's mug shot as a gesture of poor sportsmans...

This week Coach Blu interviews artist and Sober Punk Runner Jimmy Watkins who reached the 800m final in the World Indoor Athletics Championships in 2006 and set a Welsh indoor record, only to leave the sport to join a band and explore some deeper roots. Listen as he then reaches a plateau to rediscover is relationship with running, the freedom within and adding his own personal twist and love for...

On this episode of the Addict II Athlete podcast Coach Blu interviews Jonah Grant Sr. Listen as Jonah discusses his life of recovery, his Native American Heritage, powerful life lessons he learned through adversity, and by turning the mess of addiction into the message of sobriety.  He has been able to overcome tremendous barriers in life and become a warrior of recovery. Listen as they discuss th...

Today's podcast where he interviewed Dr. B, Faried Banimahd, M.D. , CEO of American Addiction Institute of Mind and Medicine . They discuss the growing issue of substance use and misuse among the elderly (adults over the age of 60), particularly of alcohol and prescription drugs, as one of the fastest-growing health problems in the United States. Addiction in the elderly population can be extremel...