Chris interviewed Dr. Joan Rosenberg, facing eight unpleasant feelings and how her work helps families with addicted loved ones. Joan I. Rosenberg, Ph.D., creator of Emotional Mastery™ and Emotional Mastery Training™, is a highly regarded expert psychologist, master clinician, trainer, and consultant. As a cutting-edge psychologist who is known as an innovative thinker, trainer, and speaker, Joan has shared her life-changing ideas and models for emotional mastery, change, and personal growth in professional and educational seminars, psychotherapy sessions, and graduate psychology teaching.

The Why Intervention Podcast is aimed at helping family and friends feel supported and encouraged that recovery from addiction is possible, for themselves as well as their loved ones. You'll hear how to affect positive change in their life and help your loved one begin a successful recovery. Host Christopher Doyle shares his insights, talks with experts, and interviews people who have gone through recovery.

• Links and Resources from this Episode
• https://whyintervention.com/
• https://twitter.com/whyintervention
• https://www.facebook.com/whyintervention/?ref=br_rs
• Connect with Dr. Joan Rosenberg
• [email protected]
• https://drjoanrosenberg.com/ 

• Show Notes
• Being glad to serve and help people - 2:03
• How she would describe her work - 2:48
• The unpleasant feelings - 3:46
• Being shy as a kid - 5:42
• Dealing with unpleasant feelings - 8:09
• Being aware - 10:15
• The eight unpleasant feelings - 17:18
• One of the biggest challenges of people with addiction - 21:17
• Having unpleasant feelings that you do not want to feel - 23:44
• Helping your loved one - 27:30
• Taking action - how “doing” can make a difference - 29:17
• The benefits of speaking up - 34:32
• Maintaining a level of awareness - 40:19
• Facing shame - 50:40
• Talking about self-compassion - 52:01
• Get in touch with Dr. Joan Rosenberg - 56:38

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