Proactive 12 Steps
Health & Wellness Podcasts
Conversations about mindful recovery and personal growth, from 2 perspectives. Serge Prengel is a therapist and the author of The Proactive Twelve Steps. Lee Renee McGinnis has been in recovery for 10 years and enjoys coaching people.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Health & Wellness Podcasts
Description:
Conversations about mindful recovery and personal growth, from 2 perspectives. Serge Prengel is a therapist and the author of The Proactive Twelve Steps. Lee Renee McGinnis has been in recovery for 10 years and enjoys coaching people.
Twitter:
@proactive12step
Language:
English
Website:
https://proactive12steps.com
Episodes
Happy Holidays?
12/20/2022
A message about the holidays, whether you are happy or not at this time of year. Serge Prengel is a therapist and the author of The Proactive Twelve Steps. Published December 2022
Duration:00:03:26
Conversation with a Focus on Slowing Down
11/27/2022
Lee and Serge talk about how a conversation need not be stimulating. They discuss how paying attention to the slowing down of the voice and the body helps to find a soothing and relaxing rhythm of connection. This podcast features conversations about mindful recovery and personal growth, from 2 perspectives: Serge Prengel is a therapist and […]
Duration:00:11:33
Modeling conversation
11/6/2022
Serge and Lee discuss what makes conversation safe and spontaneous. Then they realized that they were modeling the concepts. This podcast features conversations about mindful recovery and personal growth, from 2 perspectives: Serge Prengel is a therapist and the author of The Proactive Twelve Steps. Lee Renee McGinnis has been in recovery for 10 years […]
Duration:00:16:24
Conversation & Connection
10/23/2022
Lee and Serge share their enjoyment of conversation and what it means to them. This podcast features conversations about mindful recovery and personal growth, from 2 perspectives: Serge Prengel is a therapist and the author of The Proactive Twelve Steps. Lee Renee McGinnis has been in recovery for 10 years and enjoys coaching people. Published October […]
Duration:00:07:42
Confronting Somebody’s Addiction
9/4/2022
Serge and Lee talk at length about how to handle the intense emotions that are triggered when we confront somebody about their dangerous behavior. We talk about how focusing on the moment-by-moment experience makes us more present and effective. This podcast features conversations about mindful recovery and personal growth, from 2 perspectives: Serge Prengel is a therapist […]
Duration:00:19:41
Reset: How to Pause and Feel Present
8/21/2022
Serge and Lee discuss what to do when we feel frazzled or overwhelmed. We describe a simple way to take a mindful pause and feel present. This podcast features conversations about mindful recovery and personal growth, from 2 perspectives: Serge Prengel is a therapist and the author of The Proactive Twelve Steps. Lee Renee McGinnis has […]
Duration:00:10:35
Pendulum
8/7/2022
Lee and Serge talk about Lee’s imagery of a Pendulum in codependency to describe shifting from being people-pleasing to intolerant and then eventually finding balance. This podcast features conversations about mindful recovery and personal growth, from 2 perspectives: Serge Prengel is a therapist and the author of The Proactive Twelve Steps. Lee Renee McGinnis has […]
Duration:00:10:31
Inclusion
7/24/2022
Serge and Lee talk about coming from self-absorption and moving into a place of noticing others. Not as an exercise in being altruistic but as a way of life that actually feels better. This podcast features conversations about mindful recovery and personal growth, from 2 perspectives: Serge Prengel is a therapist and the author of The Proactive Twelve […]
Duration:00:11:38
The Upward Spiral of Healing
7/10/2022
Serge and Lee talk about the moment-by-moment experience of sharing with someone who can relate to our situation. This podcast features conversations about mindful recovery and personal growth, from 2 perspectives: Serge Prengel is a therapist and the author of The Proactive Twelve Steps. Lee Renee McGinnis has been in recovery for 10 years and […]
Duration:00:09:54
From Dark Isolation to Light
6/27/2022
Lee & Serge talk about the darkness of isolation and how important it is to share with another person. This podcast features conversations about mindful recovery and personal growth, from 2 perspectives: Serge Prengel is a therapist and the author of The Proactive Twelve Steps. Lee Renee McGinnis has been in recovery for 10 years […]
Duration:00:18:09
Dealing with unbearable consequences
6/12/2022
Lee and Serge talk about how we can deal with things that we cannot control that result in unbearable loss and lasting consequences. This podcast features conversations about mindful recovery and personal growth, from 2 perspectives: Serge Prengel is a therapist and the author of The Proactive Twelve Steps. Lee Renee McGinnis has been in recovery […]
Duration:00:26:31
Sharing joy
5/29/2022
Lee and Serge talk about things that make them happy and reflect upon how connecting it feels to share with another person what brings you joy. This podcast features conversations about mindful recovery and personal growth, from 2 perspectives: Serge Prengel is a therapist and the author of The Proactive Twelve Steps. Lee Renee McGinnis has […]
Duration:00:09:17
The Pause and the Nature of Healing
5/15/2022
Serge and Lee discuss the nature of healing. We talk about becoming aware of the patterns we have learned in order to adapt to our circumstances. We learn to pause. We are no longer compelled to identify with these patterns. Little by little a broader sense of who we are begins to emerge. This podcast features conversations […]
Duration:00:13:03
The experience of spirituality
5/1/2022
Lee & Serge explore spirituality as an experience, as opposed to an idea. We don’t see spirituality as necessarily related to religion or any sort of dogma. In fact, we let go of the need to label it as spirituality at all. This podcast features conversations about mindful recovery and personal growth, from 2 perspectives: […]
Duration:00:12:31
The dilemma of overcommitment
4/17/2022
We want to do things and we commit to them but then we discover the toll they can take on us. Serge and Lee explore this dilemma and how to deal with the trade-off between integrity, responsibility, self-care, and being true to yourself. This podcast features conversations about mindful recovery and personal growth, from 2 […]
Duration:00:11:22
A prayer need not be religious
4/3/2022
In this 13-minute conversation, we talk about prayer, and how it need not be religious. This podcast features conversations about mindful recovery and personal growth, from 2 perspectives: Serge Prengel is a therapist and the author of The Proactive Twelve Steps. Lee Renee McGinnis has been in recovery for 10 years and enjoys coaching people. […]
Duration:00:13:03
When things go well
3/20/2022
In this 7-minute conversation, we veer away from talking about problems and talk about when things go well. This podcast features conversations about mindful recovery and personal growth, from 2 perspectives: Serge Prengel is a therapist and the author of The Proactive Twelve Steps. Lee Renee McGinnis has been in recovery for 10 years and […]
Duration:00:07:13
I don’t want to be here
3/6/2022
In this 6-minute conversation, we talk about when things feel so bad that we’d rather not be present. This podcast features conversations about mindful recovery and personal growth, from 2 perspectives: Serge Prengel is a therapist and the author of The Proactive Twelve Steps. Lee Renee McGinnis has been in recovery for 10 years and […]
Duration:00:06:07
Feeling overwhelmed: It’s a lot
2/20/2022
In this 4-minute conversation, we talk about feeling overwhelmed: “It’s a lot.” This podcast features conversations about mindful recovery and personal growth, from 2 perspectives: Serge Prengel is a therapist and the author of The Proactive Twelve Steps. Lee Renee McGinnis has been in recovery for 10 years and enjoys coaching people. Published February 2022
Duration:00:04:22
Why we need a mindful pause and how to do it
2/6/2022
In this 15-minute conversation, we talk about why we need to pause, and how to do it. This podcast features conversations about mindful recovery and personal growth, from 2 perspectives: Serge Prengel is a therapist and the author of The Proactive Twelve Steps. Lee Renee McGinnis has been in recovery for 10 years and enjoys […]
Duration:00:15:40