About this episode

Jeremy French discusses a human-centered approach to recovery from substance use, emphasizing the importance of real-life skills and connections.

When traditional treatment hasn’t created the changes you hoped for, it’s easy to feel like there’s nowhere left to turn. In this episode, Jeremy French -founder of Making Whole -offers a completely different way of seeing substance use and what people actually need for recovery and a meaningful life. In this episode, we explore: How substance use becomes a powerful solution because it temporarily solves real problems - and how that solution eventually shrinks a person’s world and limits their ability to live, grow, and function. The missing piece in the treatment world: very few places help people build the everyday skills, confidence, and problem-solving needed for real life. Making Whole fills that gap with an apprenticeship model where change happens through real work, real responsibility, and a supportive environment. Why real-life experience, individualized support, and authentic human connection create more lasting change than rigid, one-size-fits-all treatment models. If you’ve been searching for a clearer, more human understanding of recovery and a program that sees the whole person, not just the substance use, you’ll find this conversation eye-opening and hopeful…

People in this episode

Host: Heather Ross

Guest: Jeremy French

Topics covered

• recovery
• substance use
• human connection
• treatment models
• life skills

Keywords

• recovery
• substance use
• Making Whole
• treatment
• life skills
• human connection
• apprenticeship model

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Making Whole

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