042 - Interventions with Clay Johnson

The Kurty D Show

What we covered:

• Learn more about addictions and sobriety as a whole.
• Get to ask yourself the questions that you need to know yourself better.
• The importance of interventions and sobriety in the long run
• Why trauma can lead to substance abuse
• Why it’s essential to give out second chances to people who are recovering from addiction
• The importance of creating a safe space for people who aim for sobriety.

Tweetable Quotes:

• “If your definition of success is going into rehab, it works. But it takes a lot more to get somebody into recovery. You can’t trick someone into a program of rigorous honesty.”
• “People are greater than the sum of their faults.”
• “If there’s someone I’m a victim of, it’s myself.”
• “When you think you’re smart and larger than life and have a successful career, the idea of being an alcoholic is preposterous. How would you not be able to control this? You can control everything else.”
• “It took me ten years to stop drinking and recognize my problem.”
• “I can’t undo what I’ve done. I can’t undo what he has done, either. But what we can do together is face forward and fix the future. Create healing. But we’re not going to do that while we’re wallowing in our despair. We have to find out how to recover from that. Find ourselves and make that a place of power.”

Links Mentioned:

Kurt’s Twitter

Kurt’s Instagram

Kurt’s LinkedIn

Stop, Pause, Play website

Clay Johnson’s LinkedIn

Clay Johnson’s Twitter

Jack Dangermond

Duke Stump

Kirk DeWitt

Ronald Reagan

Blue State

CNN

The Sunlight Foundation