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"Rob Tomlinson: Nashville Music Industry Leader on Addiction Recovery and Healing in Music" · Takin’ A Walk Nashville

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Speaker 1: M Taking a Walk Nashville.
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Speaker 2: Hi, I'm Sarah Harrelson, your host of Taking a Walk Nashville,
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Speaker 2: and today I'm here with Rob Tomlinson, a care manager
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Speaker 2: at the Recovery Unplugged facility in Brentwood, Tennessee, just south
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Speaker 2: of Nashville. To give everyone some background on Recovery Unplugged.
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Speaker 2: They are a national behavioral health provider that provides care
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Speaker 2: for people going through addiction, substance abuse, and other mental
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Speaker 2: health disorders, including but not limited to, depression and anxiety
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Speaker 2: and PTSD. Recovery Unplugged has seven locations nationwide, and here's
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Speaker 2: the cool thing. Their inpatient and outpatient programs utilize music
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Speaker 2: assisted treatments to promote healing and long term recovery. Join
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Speaker 2: me as I take a walk with Rob Tomlinson today.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Taking a Walk Nashville with your hosts, singer
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Speaker 1: songwriter Sarah Harrelson.
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Speaker 2: Thank you for being on Taking a Walk in Nashville today.
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Speaker 3: Rob, How are you all doing good? How are you?
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Speaker 4: I'm good? Thank you?
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Speaker 3: So?
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Speaker 4: Can you just start by sharing what led you to
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Speaker 4: finding and working for Recovery Unplugged.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I'm in long term recovery myself. I just celebrated
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Speaker 3: thirteen years sober this past Monday. Thank you. And music
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Speaker 3: and recovery for me have always been probably two of
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Speaker 3: the most powerful forces that I've experienced in my life.
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Speaker 3: Music obviously from a young age, and then recovery as
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Speaker 3: I was an adult. Music's kind of always been like
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Speaker 3: my best friend.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 3: It was there for me when I felt the lonelin
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Speaker 3: loneliest and it felt it was there for me when
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Speaker 3: I've been at my highest, you know what I mean,
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Speaker 3: And there's just so much power in it. And with
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Speaker 3: recovery unplugged my journey there. I moved to Nashville around
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Speaker 3: seven years years ago from Philadelphia, pursuing music full time.
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Speaker 3: I worked in treatment in Philadelphia for about three years,
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Speaker 3: and this was before the fetanyl and pandemic that came out,
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Speaker 3: and I was working in treatment during the fetanyl epidemic
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Speaker 3: and the amount of people that passed away from overdose.
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Speaker 3: It was very overwhelming and I said I would never
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Speaker 3: work in treatment ever again. So I pursue music full
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Speaker 3: time and moved to Nashville, got signed. Then COVID hit right,
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Speaker 3: so it was like another kind of like call it
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Speaker 3: fork in the road, you know. I was getting older,
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Speaker 3: my brother was having kids, I was turning. I think
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Speaker 3: I turned like thirty two at the time, and being
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Speaker 3: a full time musician is extremely difficult, especially if it's
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Speaker 3: a career and not just a hobby like being able
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Speaker 3: to It's essentially three full time jobs. I had a
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Speaker 3: really good friend of mine asked me, you know, when
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Speaker 3: were you the happiest, And my response was one, I
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Speaker 3: work in treatment because I would work I would do
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Speaker 3: like music therapy based groups. I would do, you know,
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Speaker 3: like I'd bring in like a lot of music into
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Speaker 3: the facility. When I worked in Philly and I saw
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Speaker 3: that Recovery Unplug was hiring, but they were hiring for
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Speaker 3: like entry level position, like as like a tech like
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Speaker 3: making like very little money. And I had, like, you know,
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Speaker 3: I had multiple years experience working in treatment, but that's
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Speaker 3: all they were hiring for. But I believe so strongly
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Speaker 3: in Recovery on Plug's mission and who they are and
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Speaker 3: what they stood for, that I was like, you know what,
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Speaker 3: Like it's going to work out. Within within a year,
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Speaker 3: I was promoted to lead Alumni Coordinator, which is basically
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Speaker 3: like helping people get into treatment that have been through
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Speaker 3: recovery unplugged, like say they slip up and they need,
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Speaker 3: you know, to re enter treatment again, like I was
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Speaker 3: the guy that they would call. And I also started
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Speaker 3: taking responsibility of Sober Sessions, primarily in just Nashville, which
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Speaker 3: is just a sober based concert series that we put
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Speaker 3: on for the recovery community. And the next year I
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Speaker 3: got promoted to campaign manager of all of Recovery Unpluggs,
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Speaker 3: so all of our locations Florida, you know, Virginia, South Carolina,
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Speaker 3: New Jersey, Texas, Nashville obviously, and my responsibility of this
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Speaker 3: past year has been our social media presence putting on
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Speaker 3: sober sessions and all of our locations, which you know,
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Speaker 3: we just got word that I don't know when this
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Speaker 3: is going to air, but we just got word literally
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Speaker 3: like fifteen minutes ago that Anthony Green of Circus Survive
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Speaker 3: Seos and he's in recovery and he's going to be
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Speaker 3: headlining our Austin Sober Sessions that we're going to be
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Speaker 3: doing in November. So lots of really cool things. My
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Speaker 3: main initiative is do as much dope shit as possible
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Speaker 3: for the recovery community and for the mental health community,
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Speaker 3: and just to show that you can have fun sober
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Speaker 3: and not have to worry about substance or whatever in
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Speaker 3: order to feel connected. So very cool.
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Speaker 4: So, how long has the Nashville facility been around and
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Speaker 4: who started Recovery Unplugged in general?
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Speaker 3: So the Nashville Facility's been around for a little over
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Speaker 3: I would say, like, don't fact check me on this,
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Speaker 3: but like around seven years okay. Recovery Unplugged was started
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Speaker 3: by this guy named Richie Supa who is the manager
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Speaker 3: of Aerosmith and he's been creen for over twenty five
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Speaker 3: years plus. He went into facilities in Fort Lauderdale and
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Speaker 3: he called himself Recovery Unplugged. And what he would do
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Speaker 3: is he would go into facilities with a guitar and
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Speaker 3: play for the clients to all these other rehabs and
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Speaker 3: it created such a positive response through music, and he
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Speaker 3: would go in play songs that he wrote. He helped
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Speaker 3: co write Amazing by Aerosmith, Pink by Aersmith. You know.
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Speaker 3: He ended up having an investment opportunity with a couple
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Speaker 3: other guys and they were just like listen, like there's
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Speaker 3: a need for this and it is such a cool
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Speaker 3: angle and cool concept. Richie Supa we've been around for
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Speaker 3: over thirteen years plus thirteen years later, he still plays
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Speaker 3: at the Fort Lauderdale facility every Friday for the clients.
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Speaker 3: Thirteen years later. It's called Field Good Fridays. And one
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Speaker 3: of our alumni that came through Recovery Unplugged over five
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Speaker 3: years ago. His name is Adam David. He started playing
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Speaker 3: our Field Good Fridays and literally just won the voice
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Speaker 3: this past season. So you never know, you know, you
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Speaker 3: never know who it's going to impact, You never know
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Speaker 3: how your life is going to be changed, Like even
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Speaker 3: if it's just like staying clean a day at a time,
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Speaker 3: Like the power of music and the power of recovery
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Speaker 3: is so strong. The disease of addiction is horrifying and
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Speaker 3: insidious in so many ways, but recovery is so much
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Speaker 3: stronger if it's utilized in a way way that you know,
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Speaker 3: the ripple effect that music can kind of like drives
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Speaker 3: the vehicle for it. It's just, in my opinion, one
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Speaker 3: of the most powerful things.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, I'm a big believer that music heals
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Speaker 4: and that music is medicinal. And I got to perform
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Speaker 4: at one of your feel Good Fridays the other month,
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Speaker 4: and I think it's so important to provide music to
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Speaker 4: clients and patients, So how do you find these music
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Speaker 4: performances to be healing to patients?
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Speaker 3: It is so the opposite of addiction is connection, right.
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Speaker 3: One of my favorite cliches is that fear is something
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Speaker 3: that we learn, I don't believe and not and like
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Speaker 3: the only thing that we really have fear of is
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Speaker 3: like legitimate fears, is like fear of like you know,
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Speaker 3: physically being harmed and so many other things. Right, and
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Speaker 3: so myself included having you know, PTSD and trauma and
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Speaker 3: a lot of these things incorporated into my childhood and
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Speaker 3: then adulthood off obviously like I have rightfully so learned
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Speaker 3: to be afraid of certain things, certain scenarios, so on
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Speaker 3: and so forth. So I've learned to put up walls
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Speaker 3: lack of a better word. Right, music for me, it
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Speaker 3: cuts through everything, It cuts through all the fear. It
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Speaker 3: allows me to get to a place of vulnerability and
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Speaker 3: safety that maybe years of therapy would have to get to. Right,
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Speaker 3: And and therapy is incredible, don't get it, don't get
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Speaker 3: it twisted. But a song that I would hear when
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Speaker 3: I was younger or when a you know, client would
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Speaker 3: hear when they were younger. I'll give you an example,
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Speaker 3: like I ran a group one time and I performed
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Speaker 3: to Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd. You know, obviously,
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Speaker 3: the backstory of the song is like one of the
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Speaker 3: guys went on a psychedelic trip and just never came
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Speaker 3: back and wrote a song about very angry. I'm very
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Speaker 3: pissed off that you did this because I love you
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Speaker 3: and I but after you go through the grieving process,
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Speaker 3: say I love you anyway, I just wish you were here, man, Right,
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Speaker 3: there was a woman that was in that group that
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Speaker 3: lost her daughter to addiction, and she never properly grieved
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Speaker 3: over it. I played that song for her tears starts
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Speaker 3: streaming down her face. The last time that she heard
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Speaker 3: that song was at her daughter's funeral. She got involved
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Speaker 3: into addiction, obviously, and then over the course of time,
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Speaker 3: she never properly emotionally grieved her daughter's death. And when
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Speaker 3: she heard that song sober for the first time, she was,
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Speaker 3: all the emotions came up and she was able to
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Speaker 3: healthily process that emotion in a group setting. That is
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Speaker 3: like what the power of live music can do. You know,
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Speaker 3: I'm not a therapist by any means. I'm just a
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Speaker 3: human being that I believe. It's like experience over opinions
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Speaker 3: and my experiences as a musician. Now, if that experience
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Speaker 3: can be applied as many times as possible on a
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Speaker 3: daily basis, I'm doing a good job. Right. So now
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Speaker 3: my job v via social media and TikTok and Instagram
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Speaker 3: and like all that other kind of stuff. Like being
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Speaker 3: able to do that to an organic arty audience, not
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Speaker 3: just in our facilities, but being able to do that.
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Speaker 3: Here's a story, here's an experience, here's a song, and
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Speaker 3: someone scrolling they're having the worst that they've ever had
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Speaker 3: and they've seen that. I can tell you, Like so
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Speaker 3: many people reach out to me, Hey man, I'm struggling.
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Speaker 3: I'm going through detoks withdrawals and they're not ready for treatment.
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Speaker 3: But just to note like they're not alone is what
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Speaker 3: it's about.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, right, I find those stories on recovery and plugs
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Speaker 4: social media to be so impactful. So, like you said,
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Speaker 4: some of the performers at the facility are not music therapist,
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Speaker 4: But do you have music therapist or what other kind
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Speaker 4: of treatments music treatments do you have at the facility?
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Speaker 3: In Nationale in particular music therapy and having music as
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Speaker 3: a form of treatment or two completely different worlds. Just
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Speaker 3: want to make that like absolutely clear. Are all of
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Speaker 3: our therapists are master level clinicians, but we do not
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Speaker 3: do actual music therapy, right, Like what people do say
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Speaker 3: for example, like in a hospice setting having a music
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Speaker 3: therapist come in, Right, that's completely different than the music
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Speaker 3: modalities that we use.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 3: Some of the modalities of music that we do use
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Speaker 3: in therapy would be like an example of a you know,
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Speaker 3: like recovery playlist is a good example, right, Like having
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Speaker 3: like an idea. One group that we've run in the
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Speaker 3: past is like give us a song that you have
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Speaker 3: that you want played at your one year so anniversary, right,
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Speaker 3: and you play that at like fifteen days clean, sixteen
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Speaker 3: days clean, and what you use is like positive projection
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Speaker 3: to be able to in visualize like what that feeling
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Speaker 3: would be like and had that inspire to get to
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Speaker 3: a year, which, by the way, I've had people get
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Speaker 3: to a year and send me a letter and be like, hey,
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Speaker 3: just so you know, I remember that song that I
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Speaker 3: had in that group that one day whatever. Right, We
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Speaker 3: do a little bit of everything like we do everything
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Speaker 3: from brain spotting to you know, normal detoc sessions. You know,
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Speaker 3: when someone's in detox, will have four to five one
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Speaker 3: on one therapist groups a week. Then obviously as they're
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Speaker 3: in residential that I'll ramp down. I'll be kind of
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Speaker 3: based more off of like a community perspective We've had.
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Speaker 3: We've had therapists that have been there that have worked
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Speaker 3: with clients to be able to write a song right
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Speaker 3: while they're going through detox, and they don't have to
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Speaker 3: be a singer songwriter in order to do that right,
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Speaker 3: And we have musicians that work there that are in
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Speaker 3: recovery that you know, myself included that I've had clients
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Speaker 3: that are touring musicians that haven't written in years, and
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Speaker 3: I have like, you know, a mini recording set up.
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Speaker 3: We'll write an album while they're in treatment. So it
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Speaker 3: really depends on I think it's just a matter of
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Speaker 3: the angle of how you look at it, right, Like
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Speaker 3: a lot of people look at music therapy as like
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Speaker 3: a very distinctive thing, like you go to school for it,
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Speaker 3: which yes you do. You get a degree in music therapy, absolutely,
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Speaker 3: but a lot of people have degrees in like real
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Speaker 3: life experience, and in the world of addiction, having a
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Speaker 3: lot of knowledge and a lot of clinical background is
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Speaker 3: absolutely important. That's why we have like, you know, master's
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Speaker 3: levels clinicians. But it takes a village in order to
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Speaker 3: elevate someone to get to the truth of who they are, right,
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Speaker 3: you know.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think it's really important to talk about
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Speaker 4: the positive impact of music because I think many people
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Speaker 4: in the music industry as creative space a lot of pressure.
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Speaker 4: So maybe some people who are creatives at these facilities,
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Speaker 4: you know, have struggled with addiction because they were in
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Speaker 4: a path of music. So how do you help someone
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Speaker 4: find the positive side of music if they're there after
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Speaker 4: having a negative struggle with music that led them to addiction.
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Speaker 3: Sure, I think reframing is a positive tool for just
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Speaker 3: about it right, whether not. You don't have to be
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Speaker 3: in recovery, like you can be just a normal human
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Speaker 3: being and reframing something how something is years ago to
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Speaker 3: how it is now. Give relationships as an example, you
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Speaker 3: have one dad relationship and then all of a sudden,
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Speaker 3: every relationship after that, you know, like that story is
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Speaker 3: so common amongst so many people, you know, And reframing
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Speaker 3: trust and reframing relationships like very common. So talking about music,
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Speaker 3: I'll speak for myself. My relationship with music is and
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Speaker 3: has been, you know, in the beginning, it was my
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Speaker 3: first talent show in sixth grade, ten eleven years old.
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Speaker 3: It was bullied my whole life, right, And then I
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Speaker 3: saw my dad play music and I'm like, oh my god,
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Speaker 3: Like he's loved by so many people, that's the answer, right.
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Speaker 3: So I became obsessed with learning how to play guitar
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Speaker 3: and sing and like all that other kind of stuff.
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Speaker 3: So sixth grade talent show rolls around, I perform Standing Over.
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Speaker 3: I'm like, Okay, this is the answer forever, right, And
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Speaker 3: I just pursued that with relentless ambition for the next
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Speaker 3: ten years of my life. It was never enough to
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Speaker 3: fill that hole within myself to accept myself on a
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Speaker 3: deep level. Right. So when I got clean, my relationship
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Speaker 3: with music changed. It wasn't about let me do this
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Speaker 3: cool magic trick to show you how talented I am.
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Speaker 3: It was how can I do this thing to let
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Speaker 3: you not feel alone? Because I know what that feeling
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Speaker 3: is like. And I think that's really just kind of
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Speaker 3: what it comes down to, is that, like, how do
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Speaker 3: you reframe a negative emotion like loneliness, for example, into
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Speaker 3: saying like, hey, I know what that feels like. Let's
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Speaker 3: actually feel connected through loneliness. So, you know, you could
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Speaker 3: take eleanor Rigby for example, which is a song that
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Speaker 3: is like look at all the lonely people, right, and
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Speaker 3: being able to say like, Hey, you might be a
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Speaker 3: sixty year old alcoholic and I might be a twenty
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Speaker 3: two year old fetanyl addict, but we both know what
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Speaker 3: loneliness feels like. So we can listen to that song
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Speaker 3: and then if we could find if we could find
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Speaker 3: connection through that, what else can we find connection through? Right?
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Speaker 3: And then that it just causes an open minded ripple
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Speaker 3: effect too. Well, maybe my dad felt the same way,
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Speaker 3: maybe my mom felt the same way. Maybe you know
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Speaker 3: it just like it's all about just reversing and reframing,
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Speaker 3: and music can be the foundation for that. Yeah, you know,
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Speaker 3: it can be the foundation for any kind of connection
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Speaker 3: that might be possible. I don't know if that answered
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Speaker 3: the question.
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Speaker 4: But I think, Salia, I think it's important to reframe
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Speaker 4: because some people might be and stuck in the mindset
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Speaker 4: that they can no longer do music, but maybe they
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Speaker 4: can keep doing music, and maybe it's just in another form,
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Speaker 4: like you said, writing songs about what they've been through
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Speaker 4: and their experiences.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the wrong question. So what I mean by
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Speaker 3: that is like music's not the problem, like on the problem, Okay.
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Speaker 3: Music is kind of like music is this cool thing.
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Speaker 3: It's like it's like an attribute that I have if
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Speaker 3: I were to go all in. It's not just it's
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Speaker 3: not just me, Like music is not all of who
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Speaker 3: I am, Like who I am as a person is
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Speaker 3: a funny, charismatic, very caring, very loving, very empathetic, very flawed,
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Speaker 3: Like I have all these things as part of being
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Speaker 3: a human being. And if you can go down that
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Speaker 3: journey of understanding that you're a human being first being
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Speaker 3: able to allow music to be just like ten percent
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Speaker 3: of who I am and not one hundred percent of
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Speaker 3: who I am, it's not your identity, right, And I
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Speaker 3: think that's like such a hard battle that so many
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Speaker 3: people fight, because when you're selling yourself as an artist
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Speaker 3: or musician, you're the product, and if the product fails,
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Speaker 3: then all of a sudden that is like, oh my god,
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Speaker 3: I failed. But that's not true. You have to be
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Speaker 3: able to understand that the foundation is like Okay, as
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Speaker 3: any product, you have to learn what works it doesn't work,
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Speaker 3: but also be able to dissociate yourself from the product.
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Speaker 3: You know, you have to be able to say like, okay,
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Speaker 3: I'm rob first, and then whatever happens after that, X, Y,
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Speaker 3: and Z.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, I think that's very true and important.
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Speaker 4: You already mentioned a couple of songs like wish You
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Speaker 4: were here? Is that your healing anthem? Or would what
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Speaker 4: would you say is your healing anthem?
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Speaker 3: It's a good question. I would have to say. There's
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Speaker 3: two songs. Song number one would be After the Storm
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Speaker 3: by Mumford and Sons. I played that song on religious
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Speaker 3: repeat when I was in treatment. This was like over
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Speaker 3: fifteen years ago, so this was I It was when
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Speaker 3: they had like the iPod homes, remember those. Yeah, I
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Speaker 3: would like someone gave it to me for like an
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Speaker 3: hour and they were just like here, just listen to whatever.
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Speaker 3: I just listened to that song and repeat. So every
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Speaker 3: single year in my anniversary, I listened to it just
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Speaker 3: to kind of remind myself. Another song is Endless by
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Speaker 3: Pine Grove, and that song is kind of about everything
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Speaker 3: that I talked about, just like being human or I
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Speaker 3: would also say a little bit of everything by dolls.
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Speaker 3: It's like kind of like being able to understand that,
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Speaker 3: like happiness, it's all the spectrum of emotions that come
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Speaker 3: along with being human. It's not just like feeling good
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Speaker 3: all the time or feeling bad all the time. It's
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Speaker 3: like there will always be that, and the sooner that
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Speaker 3: I accept that, the sooner that I can allow life
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Speaker 3: to just be life for.
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Speaker 4: Ready to Yeah, very cool. So, if someone is listening
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Speaker 4: to this and they want to support Recovery Unplugged in
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Speaker 4: some way, how can they reach out to get involved?
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Speaker 3: You can look us up on our website Recovery Unplugged
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Speaker 3: dot com. I would say that one out of three
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Speaker 3: people know someone or is someone that struggles with addiction
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Speaker 3: and mental health. I would say that, like there is
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Speaker 3: a solution, and that our admissions line is open twenty
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Speaker 3: four hours, seven days a week. If we can't help you,
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Speaker 3: we will find someone to help you. Our initiative is that, like,
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Speaker 3: we obviously have a very good facility, you've been there,
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Speaker 3: Like we have a very awesome expectation and standard that
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Speaker 3: we try to uphold by, but we also believe in like, hey,
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Speaker 3: if we can't help you. We will find someone that
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Speaker 3: will whether you have insurance or not, whether you have
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Speaker 3: money or not, whether you have the resources or not,
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Speaker 3: let us be the resource to help you. I've worked
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Speaker 3: in that department. I've worked in the park department of
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Speaker 3: getting people into treatment, and I can honestly say with
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Speaker 3: like full disclosure that the company genuinely cares about helping people.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, very nice. Facility of the staff there
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Speaker 4: is great, So definitely check them out. Lastly, we are
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Speaker 4: on taking a walk Nashville. So do you have a
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Speaker 4: favorite place you like to take a walk in.
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Speaker 3: Nashville Percy Warner Percy Warner, Massie Ridge Trail. I was
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Speaker 3: going to go there this morning, but my car age trouble.
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Speaker 3: So it's sacred ground for me. I've had the most
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Speaker 3: conversations with the God understanding there and it's free and
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Speaker 3: it's beautiful. Coming from Philadelphia and living here, it like
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Speaker 3: reminds me how lucky I am to live in Nashville, right,
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Speaker 3: And there's so many beautiful trails around here and local
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Speaker 3: state parks and you'd be insane to not take advantage
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Speaker 3: of it if you live here.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's my favorite park is Nazi Regis up the
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Speaker 4: two mile.
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Speaker 3: Loop, it's a six mile loop, okay four point five
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Speaker 3: and oh the Red Trail Yeah yeah.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a top one m of summer.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is a good workout, I will say that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's I think it's in the top ten
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Speaker 4: in the nation actually for runners because of how sternuous
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Speaker 4: it is. So yeah, definitely checked out that park Percy
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Speaker 4: Warner if you're in Nashville. So thank you for your
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Speaker 4: time today, Rob Everyone. Head to Recovery unplugg dot com
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