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The Life is a Marathon show gives you inspiration, motivation, and resources to empower you to thrive and win in the marathon we call “life!” Bruce Van Horn is a Life Coach, Mentor, Thought Leader, Best-Selling Author, Entertaining and Motivational Speaker, Dad, and Marathon runner. He brings his respected insight, wisdom, leadership, and storytelling abilities to this podcast to share with you information, tips, life-hacks, and entertaining and heart-warming stories with the goal of helping ...
Carpe Diem is the Term
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By Anna Marie Murphy and SMART Recovery. Discovered by Player FM and our community — copyright is owned by the publisher, not Player FM, and audio is streamed directly from their servers. Hit the Subscribe button to track updates in Player FM, or paste the feed URL into other podcast apps.
Dr. Reid Hester is a psychologist and researcher. He is the founder and director of the science division of Checkup & Choices. Reid’s extensive research in alcohol abuse has led to professional opportunities and collaborations with many experts in the field. One long-standing partnership has been with SMART Recovery.
In this podcast, Reid talks about:
- His educational background and path to earning a doctorate in psychology
- Meeting the “rising star” William Miller in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1978
- Finding a kindred spirit in Tom Horvath, a founding member of SMART Recovery
- Publishing findings from a drug and alcohol abstinence focused protocol, in conjunction with SMART, in the Journal of Medical Internet Research
- How the pandemic is affecting recovery
- The Checkup & Choices approach and app
- Receiving funding for continued research through Small Business Innovative Research Grants
- Carpe diem is the term when looking for web-based applications to make changes
- Future innovators including Chess Health and Vorvida
- Reasons to be hopeful and optimistic in recovery
- The positive ripple effect
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