Christina Dent and the Spark of Curiosity

Christina Dent is the founder & president of End It For Good and author of Curious: A Foster Mom’s Discovery of an Unexpected Solution to Drugs & Addiction. She was previously with us on episode #235 which can be found below. Today, Christina shares with us about why she chose to write a book to support her endeavors, the integral link between connection and drug use, and why fear needs to stop being our motivator when addressing addiction issues. Christina paints a vision of creating a health-centric approach to helping people overcome addiction. Hers is a movement rooted in the way Jesus sees them not behavior modification that we can all learn from.

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Stories Christina shared:

The work of End It For Good
The effects of three strike laws and why we need to understand it
The farmer who has
How Jesus treated people and how it’s different than our approach
The stigma that people are silently suffering with
The Rat Park experiment
Why addiction is a symptom of loneliness and other experiences
How to influence community by being curious
The CRAFT Method of interacting with addicted family members
A nuanced, moderate approach to drugs
Why fear is the worst motivator
Why she chose to call the book Curious
What you can do to get involved
A health centric approach to helping people overcome addiction

Great quotes from Christina:

If we want to help people move away from addiction…we have to shift away from

Fear is the only thing that’s been used to think about drugs.

It doesn’t matter where you fall on the political spectrum. A health centered approach to drugs gets you more of what you want.

None of us change the way we think without going through a process of asking how it changes everything else.

We are in the image of God and not made to (55)

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