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Every Brain Matters Monthly Speakers Meeting

Please join us to hear Anne Hassel’s experience, strength, and hope.

 

Anne worked 1.5 years in a Massachusetts medical marijuana dispensary as a budtender.  There she discovered the dangerous reality of the profit-driven marijuana industry and its contaminated high THC products.  Anne quit the marijuana industry and marijuana.  For years she has been speaking out at the state and national level, striving to wake the public and stop the harm.

 

On the first Friday of every month, Every Brain Matters welcomes a different speaker every month who will share their experience and provide pathways to find serenity as we navigate through today’s pro-marijuana/drug culture. Whether you’re grieving the loss of a loved one or trying to recover yourself, this meeting is for you. There will be a Q & A at the end of each meeting. This meeting is appropriate for all family members ages 16 and up.

 

Link To Meeting

Meeting ID: 872 9417 0134
Passcode: ebmsupport

 

Every Brain Matters Recovery Community is built on a foundation of love, willingness, and HONESTY. We seek to create a culture of healing.

The expansion of marijuana is negatively affecting people in many ways:  addiction, psychosis, suicide, homicide, DUI’s, Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome, and other incidents of injury or trauma resulting in harm or death, overdoses, and where marijuana was a gateway, companion, and/or relapse drug.

This meeting may be recorded with the presenters’ and the participants’ permission.

Free

Every Brain Matters Monthly Speakers Meeting- Hazel B.

Please join us on the first Friday of every month for messages of hope and healing from the impacts of marijuana.

 

Hazel recently retired from the insurance business after 38 years. She is the interim Executive Director of NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) in Solano County, CA. Hazel is passionate about reducing the stigma of mental illness. She also advocates for more quality care and support for people living with mental illness and their loved ones. She supports groups like Every Brain Matters to help educate the public about today’s high THC marijuana. After witnessing the devastating effects of THC on her son’s health she has decided to speak up and share her experience, strength, and hope. Please read more about Hazel’s family on Moms Strong, Kevin’s Story.

 

We welcome a different speaker every month who will share their experience and provide pathways to find serenity as we navigate through today’s pro-marijuana/drug culture. Whether you’re grieving the loss of a loved one or trying to recover yourself, this meeting is for you. There will be a Q & A at the end of each meeting. This meeting is appropriate for all family members ages 16 and up.

Link To Meeting

Meeting ID: 872 9417 0134
Passcode: ebmsupport

Every Brain Matters Recovery Community is built on a foundation of love, willingness, and HONESTY. We seek to create a culture of healing.

The expansion of marijuana is negatively affecting people in many ways:  addiction, psychosis, suicide, homicide, DUI’s, Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome, and other incidents of injury or trauma resulting in harm or death, overdoses, and where marijuana was a gateway, companion, and/or relapse drug.

This meeting may be recorded with the presenter’s and the participant’s permission.

Free

Every Brain Matters Monthly Speakers Meeting- Barbara D

Come to our monthly EBM Speakers meeting on the first Friday of every month for messages of hope and healing from the impacts of marijuana.

Barbara Dwyer is our featured speaker for September.

Barbara Dwyer worked in education for over 25 years in a multitude of capacities including teaching elementary school;  Coordinating a research study for the University of Houston’s Graduate College of Social Work;  founding and serving as the program coordinator for Cougars in Recovery, the collegiate recovery community at the University of Houston which supports students in recovery from substance use disorders.  Barbara was educated in New Jersey, earning her Bachelor’s Degree in Elementary and Special Education from Kean College of New Jersey, and her Master’s in Learning Disabilities from Montclair Stat College.

We welcome a different speaker every month who will share their experience and provide pathways to find serenity as we navigate through today’s pro-marijuana/drug culture. Whether you’re grieving the loss of a loved one or trying to recover yourself, this meeting is for you. There will be a Q & A at the end of each meeting. This meeting is appropriate for all family members ages 16 and up.

Link To Meeting

Meeting ID: 872 9417 0134
Passcode: ebmsupport

Every Brain Matters Recovery Community is built on a foundation of love, willingness, and HONESTY. We seek to create a culture of healing.

The expansion of marijuana is negatively affecting people in many ways:  addiction, psychosis, suicide, homicide, DUI’s, Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome, and other incidents of injury or trauma resulting in harm or death, overdoses, and where marijuana was a gateway, companion, and/or relapse drug.

This meeting may be recorded with the presenters’ and the participants’ permission.

Free

Every Brain Matters Monthly Speakers Meeting- Hayden-Moreau

Join us on the first Friday of every month for messages of hope and healing from the impacts of marijuana.

Hello, my name is Hayden and I am 28 years old. Throughout my life, I have struggled with anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and cannabis-induced psychosis. While some may view this as a negative, I have seen it as an opportunity to grow, learn, and help myself and others. On my quest for self-healing, I studied with teachers and disciplines including yoga, meditation, reiki, shamanism, martial arts, counseling, and volunteered at a suicide prevention hotline. In my work, I try to distill what I have found helpful from these bodies of knowledge and experiences into something easily applicable and practical for anyone. I share some of that information on my YouTube Channel, “Just Being Hayden”, where I focus on specific tools or approaches for mental health, particularly psychosis. I also work with people one-on-one to help them reach their recovery goals and give them tools that may be helpful for them along their journey.

If you have any questions or would like to schedule a session with you you can reach me at:

hmoreau@live.com or @hmoreau19 on Instagram.

Look forward to seeing you!

Hayden

*Please note that I am not a trained medical or mental health professional and nothing I say during the seminar should be treated as or replace professional care.

My hope in sharing with you would be to inspire your own curiosity, creativity, and empowerment. Sometimes realizing you are not alone and seeing that someone has walked the path before you can give the encouragement you need to take the next step in your recovery.

Every Brain Matters welcomes a different speaker every month who will share their experience and provide pathways to find serenity as we navigate through today’s pro-marijuana/drug culture. Whether you’re grieving the loss of a loved one or trying to recover yourself, this meeting is for you. You will be a Q & A at the end of each meeting. This meeting is appropriate for all family members ages 16 and up.

Link To Meeting

Meeting ID: 872 9417 0134
Passcode: ebmsupport

Every Brain Matters Recovery Community is built on a foundation of love, willingness, and HONESTY. We seek to create a culture of healing.

The expansion of marijuana is negatively affecting people in many ways:  addiction, psychosis, suicide, homicide, DUI’s, Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome, and other incidents of injury or trauma resulting in harm or death, overdoses, and where marijuana was a gateway, companion, and/or relapse drug.

This meeting may be recorded with the presenters and the participants’ permission.

Free

Every Brain Matters Monthly Speakers Meeting- Christy Plant

Join us on the first Friday of every month for messages of hope and healing from the impacts of marijuana. Christy Plant will share her experience, strength, and hope on November 5, 2021.

Christy Plant has been in recovery as a codependent for 13 years (5 years with Celebrate Recovery and 9 years with Al-anon). She is a devoted mother who has raised 4 kids  (2 girls who are 28 and 26 years old, and 2 boys, ages 22 and 19 years old) and has been divorced for over 5 years. Currently, she works full-time at a school, is a full-time student and will earn a Bachelors in Business within a year. Also, Christy works a strong recovery program in the Cornerstone Recovery community in Houston Texas after experiencing her younger son’s struggle with addiction (substance use disorder) and an episode of cannabis-induced psychosis.  Christy states, ” I work strong recovery program because it brings me peace and serenity. It’s given me my life back and taught me how to show up for myself and take care of myself.”

Link To Meeting

Meeting ID: 872 9417 0134
Passcode: ebmsupport

We welcome a different speaker every month who will share their experience and provide pathways to find serenity as we navigate through today’s pro-marijuana/drug culture. Whether you’re grieving the loss of a loved one or trying to recover yourself, this meeting is for you. You will be a Q & A at the end of each meeting. This meeting is appropriate for all family members ages 16 and up.

Every Brain Matters Recovery Community is built on a foundation of love, willingness, and HONESTY. We seek to create a culture of healing.

The expansion of marijuana is negatively affecting people in many ways:  addiction, psychosis, suicide, homicide, DUI’s, Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome, and other incidents of injury or trauma resulting in harm or death, overdoses, and where marijuana was a gateway, companion, and/or relapse drug.

This meeting may be recorded with the presenters’ and the participants’ permission.

Every Brain Matters Monthly Speakers Meeting – Joe Parker

Join us on the first Friday of every month for messages of hope and healing from the impacts of marijuana. We welcome a different speaker every month who will share their experience and provide pathways to find serenity as we navigate through today’s pro-marijuana/drug culture. Whether you’re grieving the loss of a loved one or trying to recover yourself, this meeting is for you. There will be a Q & A at the end of each meeting. This meeting is appropriate for all family members ages 13 and up.

Link To Meeting      Meeting ID: 872 9417 0134     Passcode: ebmsupport

Joe Parker was born in Goldsboro, North Carolina on Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. After more moves than he can count he settled in Katy, TX with his mother and little sister. At age 14 after beginning his own recovery he realized his dream was to become a counselor in order to help other young people achieve their goals of a happy, healthy life free from debilitating addictions and self-destructive behaviors. Joe believes that one of the biggest keys to successful long-term recovery lies in a relationship with a higher power expressed through connection with others. He still follows the same basic principles today with 20+ years of recovery as he did with 30 days sober; God, Sponsor, Steps, Meetings, Service.
After Awakening from Cornerstone Recovery in 2000 at the age of 17 and graduating high school Joe began attending classes at Texas Tech. At the time of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, he felt compelled to serve our country by enlisting in the Marine Corps. Following 8 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, including tours in the Republic of Georgia and active duty in Iraq in 2004-2005 as a machine gunner; Joe graduated from Texas Tech University in May 2008 with a B.S. in Human Development and Family Studies, and a minor in Substance Abuse Studies. During this time he spent several years (2005-2008) working in residential treatment centers across Texas before being honorably discharged from the Marines in November 2010. The following year he rejoined Cornerstone Recovery.
Joe currently works as the primary counselor for Cornerstone of Houston Team Counseling program in the greater Houston & Fortbend areas. Joe’s work is more than a job, he says it’s a calling and his passion. He has witnessed the success of Cornerstone’s Positive Peer Group method first hand, and says its value cannot be overstated. Positive peer support is what youth live and breathe by, and the daily example set by peers speaks the loudest; and with the parent group as the backbone of the program, he feels his role is to lead by example and illuminate the path.
Joe is an “in the trenches” type of counselor who deals with all aspects of substance abuse choosing to focus on a “whole person” method of treatment. He’s well-versed in what is needed in a crisis and has helped numerous families in facilitating interventions. He leads a weekly interactive group therapy session for parents where he facilitates open, honest, direct communication on all parenting topics especially as they relate to teens and self-destructive behaviors. He also provides individual counseling for both teens and parents, as well as family counseling in order to deal with all of the issues that may either be leading to or stemming from a substance abuse issue. He puts his all into getting at the heart of the matter so as to begin the healing in the mind, body, and spirit.

Every Brain Matters Recovery Community is built on a foundation of love, willingness, and HONESTY. We seek to create a culture of healing.

The expansion of marijuana is negatively affecting people in many ways:  addiction, psychosis, suicide, homicide, DUI’s, Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome, and other incidents of injury or trauma resulting in harm or death, overdoses, and where marijuana was a gateway, companion, and/or relapse drug.

This meeting may be recorded with the presenters’ and the participants’ permission.

Every Brain Matters Monthly Speakers Meeting – Recovering from Cannabis Addiction and Psychosis – Zach P.

My name is Zach P. I am 20 years old from Houston, TX. I had drug-induced psychosis caused by marijuana in July of 2020.  Since then I’ve joined a sober peer group and work an AA program where I’ve been able to maintain sobriety for over a year.  I’ve worked at a grocery store for nearly 3 years and my family relationships have improved tremendously since I’ve been in recovery. I am an addict and therefore I have to constantly work a program of recovery if I want to stay sober. Please join me to hear my experience, strength, and hope from recovering from psychosis and addiction.

Join us on the first Friday of every month for messages of hope and healing from the impacts of marijuana. We welcome a different speaker every month who will share their experience and provide pathways to find serenity as we navigate through today’s pro-marijuana/drug culture. Whether you’re grieving the loss of a loved one or trying to recover yourself, this meeting is for you. You will be a Q & A at the end of each meeting. This meeting is appropriate for all family members ages 16 and up.

Link To Meeting

Meeting ID: 872 9417 0134
Passcode: ebmsupport

Every Brain Matters Recovery Community is built on a foundation of love, willingness, and HONESTY. We seek to create a culture of healing.

The expansion of marijuana is negatively affecting people in many ways:  addiction, psychosis, suicide, homicide, DUI’s, Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome, and other incidents of injury or trauma resulting in harm or death, overdoses, and where marijuana was a gateway, companion, and/or relapse drug.

This meeting may be recorded with the presenters’ and the participants’ permission.

Every Brain Matters Monthly Speakers Meeting Combo-Mother and Daughter’s Experience, Strength, and Hope

Regan Steinert is 21 years old and has been in recovery from substance use disorder since March, 2018. She attended The Pathway Program in Tempe, AZ for 10 months, spending her first 45 days in Step 2 (residential treatment), 8 additional weeks in IOP and 6 months in Aftercare. She moved back home to Magnolia, TX in January, 2019 and attends AA meetings regularly. She earned her GED in June, 2019, and graduated MOGO Salon Academy as an eyelash technician in 2020. She is a Certified Recovery Coach at Cornerstone of Houston, working with teens who are struggling with SUD and other mental health issues. She is a student at Lone Star College studying to become a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor. Her desire is to connect with kids/adolescents through her personal struggles with substance abuse and recovery to offer them hope and understanding, and to inspire them to live a beautiful life free from drugs and alcohol.

Janelle Martin is a married mother of two children, living in Magnolia, TX. Her youngest child, Regan, started using drugs at age 16 and entered a treatment program at The Pathway Program in Tempe, AZ at age 17. Subsequently, Janelle found herself also in recovery in order to better understand and help her daughter. Her recovery consisted of weekly phone meetings with a Pathway counselor, weekly parent meetings, working a 12-step program, and reading a multitude of books on addiction and recovery. She facilitates weekly PAL (Parents of Addicted Loved Ones) meetings at Cypress Therapy and Counseling in Cypress, TX. She works as an Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor and an IASIS Certified Provider with The Mind Connection, LLC in Cypress, TX, providing addiction counseling and IASIS MicroCurrent Neurofeedback. MicroCurrent Neurofeedback is a natural, chemical-free and painless way to help the brain heal from many conditions: addiction, anxiety, depression, PTSD, chronic pain, ADD/ADHD, insomnia, migraines, concussions/TBI, autism and many more. Helping parents and families recover from the devastating effects of substance use disorder is something Janelle feels compelled to do, because she views her own family’s recovery as an incredible gift.

Together, we share our experiences of trauma, substance use, denial, brokenness, fear, and also our healing journey in the hope that we can offer hope to the hopeless, and education for those who misunderstand addiction and who it affects.

Link To Meeting

Meeting ID: 872 9417 0134
Passcode: ebmsupport

Every Brain Matters Recovery Community is built on a foundation of love, willingness, and HONESTY. We seek to create a culture of healing.

Join us on the first Friday of every month for messages of hope and healing from the impacts of marijuana. We welcome a different speaker every month who will share their experience and provide pathways to find serenity as we navigate through today’s pro-marijuana/drug culture. Whether you’re grieving the loss of a loved one or trying to recover yourself, this meeting is for you. You will be a Q & A at the end of each meeting. This meeting is appropriate for all family members ages 16 and up.

The expansion of marijuana is negatively affecting people in many ways:  addiction, psychosis, suicide, homicide, DUI’s, Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome, and other incidents of injury or trauma resulting in harm or death, overdoses, and where marijuana was a gateway, companion, and/or relapse drug.

This meeting may be recorded with the presenters’ and the participants’ permission.

Every Brain Matters Monthly Speakers Meeting -Sarah Emes

Sarah Emes was born and educated in England; this included learning a respect for Christianity from an early age through musical service in the church. According to societal expectations at the time, she graduated from university, started working at an internationally known financial institution in the City of London and was married by the time she was 26. She met her first husband during a year of business studies taken to ensure long-term employability as music, her first love, was not a reliable career option.

With a strong desire to see the world, Sarah accompanied her American husband on several overseas assignments in the oil business, ending up in Houston, Texas where they both found good jobs.

Sarah has spent the last 28 years working for a global chemical company headquartered in Belgium, in positions of increasing responsibility related to Information Services, Corporate Communications and Data Compliance all while based in Houston and traveling for business frequently. She retired in January 2022.

Her career and many friends made through music and faith-based networks have supported her through the birth of her only son, a difficult divorce, single-parenthood, her son’s cancer treatment and the challenges of co-parenting with an ex-spouse with untreated childhood and Vietnam-era PTSD and substance use disorder.

Finally, through her son’s addiction disease, she learned the hope that comes from working the 12-steps and grew significantly as a result of being in a parent-driven recovery program with him over a period of nearly 4 years. After his death in 2017, Sarah has continued to work a 12-step program for her codependency and shares her story in the hope that it will help people whose loved ones are using mind-altering substances wake up quicker. By focusing on self-improvement, she found new and effective ways of approaching what was going on for her son and saw how he responded positively to those efforts.

Today, she is happily married to a research scientist who also supported Sarah’s son in his recovery journey by working the 12-steps and following the latest data relating to the efficacy of 12-step programs, the relationship between trauma and substance use disorder, and the science of addiction.

Join us on the first Friday of every month for messages of hope and healing from the impacts of marijuana. We welcome a different speaker every month who will share their experience and provide pathways to find serenity as we navigate through today’s pro-marijuana/drug culture. Whether you’re grieving the loss of a loved one or trying to recover yourself, this meeting is for you. You will be a Q & A at the end of each meeting. This meeting is appropriate for all family members ages 16 and up.

Link To Meeting

Meeting ID: 872 9417 0134
Passcode: ebmsupport

Every Brain Matters Recovery Community is built on a foundation of love, willingness, and HONESTY. We seek to create a culture of healing.

The expansion of marijuana is negatively affecting people in many ways:  addiction, psychosis, suicide, homicide, DUI’s, Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome, and d other incidents of injury or trauma resulting in harm or death, overdoses, and where marijuana was a gateway, companion, and/or relapse drug.

This meeting may be recorded with the presenters’ and the participants’ permission.

Every Brain Matters Monthly Speakers Meeting -Josie M.

I’m Josie M., I’m 22 and I’ve been clean from marijuana and other substances for 3 years. Marijuana was my drug of choice and led me down a path of self-destruction behaviors. It heavily affected my mental health, causing acutely heightened anxiety and paranoia. Through working a 12-step program I have found healing, love, and the truth about how mind-changing chemicals really affect me. Join me while I share my story of recovery from marijuana with the Every Brain Matters community on June 3rd.

Join us on the first Friday of every month for messages of hope and healing from the impacts of marijuana. We welcome a different speaker every month who will share their experience and provide pathways to find serenity as we navigate through today’s pro-marijuana/drug culture. Whether you’re grieving the loss of a loved one or trying to recover yourself, this meeting is for you. You will be a Q & A at the end of each meeting. This meeting is appropriate for all family members ages 16 and up.

Link To Meeting

Meeting ID: 872 9417 0134
Passcode: ebmsupport

Every Brain Matters Recovery Community is built on a foundation of love, willingness, and HONESTY. We seek to create a culture of healing.

The expansion of marijuana is negatively affecting people in many ways:  addiction, psychosis, suicide, homicide, DUI’s, Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome, and other incidents of injury or trauma resulting in harm or death, overdoses, and where marijuana was a gateway, companion, and/or relapse drug.

This meeting may be recorded with the presenters’ and the participants’ permission.

Every Brain Matters Monthly Speakers Meeting -Ethan Andrew

My name is Ethan Andrew. I suffered from cannabis-induced psychosis about 5 years ago. Despite a full recovery, I have never truly been the same since. Although I am succeeding in life on the surface, marijuana has affected me mentally to the point where I live in constant fear if I’m in the clear or not. That is, will I ever experience psychosis again? Will I develop a long-term psychotic illness? Those are thoughts I have to live with and accept. Don’t get me wrong, I am blessed to be here and I live a happy, fulfilling life. I overcame addiction to such a misunderstood drug. Whatever demons I deal with now would be infinitely worse if I didn’t cease my cannabis use. I just wish I knew then what I know now.

Join us on the first Friday of every month for messages of hope and healing from the impacts of marijuana. We welcome a different speaker every month who will share their experience and provide pathways to find serenity as we navigate through today’s pro-marijuana/drug culture. Whether you’re grieving the loss of a loved one or trying to recover yourself, this meeting is for you. You will be a Q & A at the end of each meeting. This meeting is appropriate for all family members ages 16 and up.

Link To Meeting

Meeting ID: 872 9417 0134
Passcode: ebmsupport

Every Brain Matters Recovery Community is built on a foundation of love, willingness, and HONESTY. We seek to create a culture of healing.

The expansion of marijuana is negatively affecting people in many ways:  addiction, psychosis, suicide, homicide, DUI’s, Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome, and other incidents of injury or trauma resulting in harm or death, overdoses, and where marijuana was a gateway, companion, and/or relapse drug.

This meeting may be recorded with the presenters’ and the participants’ permission.

Every Brain Matters Monthly Speakers Meeting- Kiernan and Jackie O.

Not only do children need healthy peers to recover from Substance Use Disorder and other destructive behaviors, but they also need healthy family dynamics. Attend our next Speakers Meeting to hear about PDR- Parent Driven Recovery from this dynamic husband and wife team. You will be amazed as they share how they had to work together, stick with a plan, and walk through some very difficult times.

Join us on the first Friday of every month for messages of hope and healing from the impacts of marijuana. We welcome a different speaker every month who will share their experience and provide pathways to find serenity as we navigate through today’s pro-marijuana/drug culture. Whether you’re grieving the loss of a loved one or trying to recover yourself, this meeting is for you. You will be a Q & A at the end of each meeting. This meeting is appropriate for all family members ages 16 and up.

Link To Meeting

Meeting ID: 872 9417 0134
Passcode: ebmsupport

Every Brain Matters Recovery Community is built on a foundation of love, willingness, and HONESTY. We seek to create a culture of healing.

The expansion of marijuana is negatively affecting people in many ways:  addiction, psychosis, suicide, homicide, DUIs, Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome, and other incidents of injury or trauma resulting in harm or death, overdoses, and where marijuana was a gateway, companion, and/or relapse drug.

This meeting may be recorded with the presenters’ and the participants’ permission.