Artist Recovery Podcast

Rich Wright

Artist Recovery Podcast is Bringing Light to the Darkside of Art. I’m Rich Wright, your host — and here we're redefining recovery as Renewal, Resilience and Creative Transformation. Because for artists, it’s more than survival… it’s Remembering.This show is about the real journey of being a working creative — the highs, the lows, the pivots, and the reinventions that shape who we are. Together we’ll explore how setbacks can spark transformation, how loss can open new paths, and how resilience fuels the heart of every artist’s story.If you’ve ever faced doubt, setback, or the call to reinvent yourself, you’re in the right place. Let’s recover — and create — together.” Want to be a guest on Artist Recovery Podcast? Send Rich Wright a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/artistrecovery

  1. 5d ago

    Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 40 | The 2 A.M. Idea That Became a Crime Trilogy: Rodney Carpentier

    Rodney Carpentier is a New York sheriff's lieutenant, a former criminal investigator, and the crime fiction author R.L. Carpentier III, creator of The Overlook Trilogy and the small-town murder mystery Our Lady of the Overlook. At 2 a.m. on a double shift, one question hit him: what if a DNA test revealed that the birth mother you never knew was the unidentified victim of a cold case homicide? That question launched a police procedural series set in the rural Catskill Mountains and a new life as a self-published novelist. Rodney joins host Rich Wright for an in-depth author interview on writing a novel while working full time in law enforcement, turning real police experience into fiction, and building an author platform from scratch. THE STORYTELLER BEFORE THE BADGE: Raised in a mobile home park in Coeymans, New York, by a welder and pipefitter father and an early COBOL programmer mother, Rodney was the kid who invented stories alone in the woods and wore a suit on ordinary school days. At SUNY New Paltz he earned a BA in English and played guitar in the pop punk band Gone Ashley, named after a line in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake about the phoenix rising from the ashes. FROM LA TO LAW ENFORCEMENT: Three days after marrying Laura, his partner of more than 27 years, he drove cross-country to Los Angeles, where a "Join the LAPD" banner on Sunset Boulevard sparked a law enforcement career. Back in New York came the CSX rail yard, New York State corrections, and the county sheriff's office in 2008. As a criminal investigator he worked insurance, welfare, check, and wire fraud cases with state and federal agencies, then rose to sergeant and lieutenant. From a prison yard tower, he filled notebooks planning a novel he wasn't yet ready to write. HOW REAL POLICE WORK BECOMES CRIME FICTION: The English major who chased Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald once looked down on genre fiction. Years of interviews, fraud cases, overnight shifts, and grief quietly built what he calls a garden of material. His protagonist, rookie officer Mike Ellis, is surrounded by composite characters drawn from the real cops who mentored him. WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: ~How a DNA test premise became a cold case mystery trilogy ~Writing authentic small-town policing without CSI-style resources or backup ~Turning family history and father-son grief into character depth ~Self-publishing lessons from a rushed first launch and letting Patreon readers name book two ~Book marketing for introverts: street fairs, book events, and one reader at a time ~How to present yourself as an author before you feel ready ~Why law enforcement fiction can tell a human story without a political agenda ~Balancing a demanding career, family, and finishing book three ~"If you want people to experience it, you have to let people know it exists." - Rodney Carpentier For crime fiction readers, aspiring authors, first responders who write, and every creative with a story that has lived in their head for 20 years. Connect with Rodney: Website: https://www.rlcarpentierwriter.com Instagram: ‪https://www.instagram.com/rlcarpentier Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088602104002   Connect with Rich: Website: ⁠⁠https://www.theartistrecovery.com ⁠⁠Linkedin: @richwrightunltd Facebook: @richwrightunltd Instagram: @richwrightunltd FB: @theartrec Instagram: @theartrec Artist Rich Wright’s WOW Essential Spirit Paintings: ⁠⁠https://www.theartistrecovery.com/whi... Support and Shop Art Rec Merch: https://www.artrecshop.com Join Podmatch: ⁠https://www.joinpodmatch.com/artistre... Dyslexia Classes: ⁠https://www.skool.com/dyslexia-classes⁠ #RodneyCarpentier #RLCarpentierIII #TheOverlookTrilogy #OurLadyOfTheOverlook #ArtistRecoveryPodcast #RichWright #CrimeFictionAuthor #PoliceProcedural #ColdCaseMystery #SmallTownMurderMystery #LawEnforcementAuthor #CopTurnedWriter #SheriffLieutenant #WritingANovel #SelfPublishing #IndieAuthor #AuthorInterview #CreativeRecovery #PopPunkBand #GoneAshley #FinnegansWake #JamesJoyce #CatskillMountains #NewYorkAuthor #SUNYNewPaltz #WritingInspiration #AuthorPlatform #BookMarketing #IntrovertAuthor #DNATestMystery #TrueCrimeInspiration #WritersPodcast #CreativeCareerChange #SecondActCareer #GenreFiction #MysteryThrillerBooks #richwrightunlimited #richwrightunltd #richwrightartist #beaguest #podmatchguest  @PodMatch_com ​ Support the show Always remember, Listen to your Heart and Be Kind to Your Mind! -Rich Wright Follow us here: https://www.theartistrecovery.com Join the Community: https://www,artrecroom.com Listen Weekly at: https://www.artistrecoverypodcast.com Connect: Instagram Facebook X TikTok Linkedin

  2. Sep 25

    Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 39 | Willie Blake: Dyslexia, Confidence & the LIGHT Philosophy

    What happens when a curious, bright-eyed kid hears the words "we need to watch him" and quietly decides to stop raising his hand? Dyslexia coach, author, and speaker Willie Blake traces the path from that moment to 500+ stages, 100+ podcast appearances, and a life built on one word: LIGHT. Willie Blake is the author of Dyslexic Achiever's Blueprint, host of the Light Beyond Limits podcast, founder of the quarterly Own Your Dyslexia virtual panels, a Utah Valley University graduate, an Eagle Scout, and a three-year service award recipient as a volunteer counselor at HODIA's camp for teens with Type 1 diabetes. He sits down with host Rich Wright for an honest conversation about dyslexia, neurodiversity, confidence, faith, creativity, and the difference between a diagnosis and a label. Diagnosed in first grade after a school reading screening, Willie describes how being singled out shaped his voice in the classroom, why he always needs a clear view of the door, and how his dyslexic brain processes the world visually, solving problems in patterns rather than straight lines. He shares how hands-on learning in Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts, 14 years of soccer, and drawing classes built the self-esteem that school could not, and how confidence and sleep directly affect how strongly dyslexia shows up day to day. The conversation moves through his two-year LDS mission in Nampa, Idaho, where he met his wife and found a faith of his own; switching from accounting to business management to discover the creative side of branding and marketing; and launching a coaching business that had zero clients in year one. Willie explains how a 15-minute daily "Core Four" routine of meditation and breathwork changed his presence at home within two weeks, and why he dropped "William Blake" for "Coach Willie" to remove barriers for the adult dyslexics he serves. KEY TAKEAWAYS: ~Diagnosis vs. labeling: a diagnosis points to solutions; a label becomes an excuse ~Confidence is built through reps, mentally and emotionally, just like physical strength ~"Adult recess": why creative play belongs in the workday ~Hit record anyway: his first mastermind drew zero people, and he taught it to his phone ~Resources for dyslexic adults drop sharply after age 18, and Willie is working to change that ~THE LIGHT PHILOSOPHY L: Love (others and yourself) I: Inspiration G: Gratitude ("If you wanna change your attitude, change your gratitude") H: Hope T: Time THE DYSLEXIC ACHIEVER'S BLUEPRINT: ~Believe in the possibility ~Define what YOU want ~Reverse engineer the plan ~Take 2% action each day ~Adjust and adapt Rich and Willie also connect over visual thinking, reading pictures instead of instructions, Human Design, and why dyslexic and neurodivergent minds so often excel in art, design, and entrepreneurship. This conversation is for dyslexic adults, parents of dyslexic kids, educators, neurodivergent creatives, entrepreneurs, coaches, and anyone who was ever made to feel "watched" instead of believed in. Connect with Willie: Website: https://coachwillieblake.com Youtube:  @WillieBlake_Light Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willieblake-light Connect with Rich: Website: ⁠⁠https://www.theartistrecovery.com ⁠⁠LinkedIn: @richwrightunltd Instagram: @richwrightunltd FB: @theartrec Instagram: @theartrec Artist Rich Wright’s WOW Essential Spirit Paintings: ⁠⁠https://www.theartistrecovery.com/whi... Support and Shop Art Rec Merch: https://www.artrecshop.com Join Podmatch: ⁠https://www.joinpodmatch.com/artistre... Dyslexia Classes: ⁠https://www.skool.com/dyslexia-classes⁠ #Dyslexia #DyslexiaAwareness #DyslexicAdults #AdultDyslexia #DyslexiaCoach #DyslexicThinking #DyslexiaDiagnosis #DyslexiaInSchool #DyslexiaAndConfidence #DyslexicEntrepreneur #Neurodiversity #Neurodivergent #NeurodivergentCreatives #LearningDifferences #VisualThinking #DiagnosisVsLabeling #SelfEsteem #ConfidenceBuilding #MentalHealth #MentalHealthMatters #Meditation #Breathwork #Gratitude #Anxiety #Mindset #AnalysisParalysis #GoalSetting #PublicSpeaking #Coaching #Entrepreneurship #Creativity #Burnout #Reinvention #Faith #Type1Diabetes #WillieBlake #LightBeyondLimits #DyslexicAchieversBlueprint #LIGHTPhilosophy #OwnYourDyslexia #RichWright #ArtistRecoveryPodcast #richwrightartist #richwrightunlimited #richwrightunltd  @PodMatch_com ​ Support the show Always remember, Listen to your Heart and Be Kind to Your Mind! -Rich Wright Follow us here: https://www.theartistrecovery.com Join the Community: https://www,artrecroom.com Listen Weekly at: https://www.artistrecoverypodcast.com Connect: Instagram Facebook X TikTok Linkedin

  3. Sep 18

    Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 38: Randy Peyser on Staying in the Flow & Getting Your Book Deal

    Randy Peyser has spent nearly 30 years opening doors for writers, landing book deals with major New York publishers through relationships built on a first-name basis. As the founder of Author One Stop, an author, speaker of 500+ talks, and a lifelong creative across music, art, and the written word, she brings a rare blend of publishing-industry insight and soul-level wisdom to this conversation with Rich Wright. Randy traces her path from a hypersensitive, perfectionist child writing spelling words like "conflagration" in second grade, through a psychology degree and years of low-paid recreation work with disabled children and seniors, into the New Age magazine world of 1990s San Francisco, and finally into her calling as a book coach, ghostwriter, and proposal writer who gets authors published. At the heart of the conversation is her philosophy of staying in the flow: following the question "What's the most loving thing I can do for me right now?" through a dark night of the soul, and trusting that unexpected opportunities often carry more than the thing you were chasing. Her first book, Crappy to Happy: Small Steps to Big Happiness Now, was famously featured in the film Eat, Pray, Love, held up by Julia Roberts on screen without Randy knowing in advance. WHAT WE COVER: ~Why every creative project "births self" and how to give yourself permission to experiment without self-censorship ~Growing up in a Holocaust survivor family and the resilience passed down through generations ~How working for embezzlers led to her one-woman show and her first traditional book deal ~The "Author Seeks Publisher" freeway sign stunt that changed everything ~WAIT training: why delays mean lessons still to learn or people still to line up ~How to "pitch like a five-year-old" with a clear, visual ask and no compromise on your value ~Linear vs. process-oriented creators and why goal-planning isn't for everyone ~Interviewing legends like Wayne Dyer, Deepak Chopra, Carolyn Myss, and Bernie Siegel ~Getting past the gatekeepers to the genuinely warm humans behind the fame ~Vulnerability as the strongest place of strength, and visitations from beyond the veil ~Her newest book, Bald Courage: Gentle Wisdom on the Cancer ~Journey, and the sponsorship mission to gift it to chemo patients Rich and Randy also share honest, moving reflections on grief, forgiveness, sensitivity as a gift rather than a weakness, and the cycles of death and rebirth every creative moves through. As Randy puts it: "Sorrow digs the well and joy fills it." Connect with Randy: Website: https://authoronestop.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/randypeyserbookeditor Connect with Rich: Website: ⁠⁠https://www.theartistrecovery.com ⁠⁠LinkedIn: @richwrightunltd Instagram: @richwrightunltd FB: @theartrec Instagram: @theartrec Artist Rich Wright’s WOW Essential Spirit Paintings: ⁠⁠https://www.theartistrecovery.com/whi... Support and Shop Art Rec Merch: https://www.artrecshop.com Join Podmatch: ⁠https://www.joinpodmatch.com/artistre... Dyslexia Classes: ⁠https://www.skool.com/dyslexia-classes⁠ #RandyPeyser #ArtistRecoveryPodcast #RichWright #BookPublishing #HowToGetABookDeal #BookCoach #AuthorOneStop #BookProposal #Ghostwriting #TraditionalPublishing #CreativeEntrepreneur #HighlySensitivePerson #DarkNightOfTheSoul #StayInTheFlow #CrappyToHappy #EatPrayLove #BaldCourage #CancerJourney #WritingCommunity #AuthorPlatform #CreativeBurnout #Reinvention #AuthenticExpression #Vulnerability #Forgiveness #Manifesting #WaitTraining #PitchTips #Perseverance #WayneDyer #DeepakChopra #CarolynMyss #MindBodySpirit #Intuition #Spirituality #BeyondTheVeil #Resilience #SelfBelief #CreativeProcess #Podcast #AspiringAuthor #richwrightartist #richwrightunlimited #richwrightunltd Support the show Always remember, Listen to your Heart and Be Kind to Your Mind! -Rich Wright Follow us here: https://www.theartistrecovery.com Join the Community: https://www,artrecroom.com Listen Weekly at: https://www.artistrecoverypodcast.com Connect: Instagram Facebook X TikTok Linkedin

  4. Sep 11

    Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 37 | John Voelz — Faith Deconstructed, Music & Creative Reinvention

    Singer-songwriter, author, and traveling musician John Voelz sits down with Rich Wright for a long-form conversation that traces one of the most winding creative paths you'll hear — from a boat yard in Richmond, California to a jukebox-soundtracked childhood in a family bar, through a three-month VW bus tour across America, into the fire of a rigid fundamentalist church, and out the other side as a full-time creative living on the road in an Airstream. John opens up about growing up with a father who couldn't read but out-worked everyone, learning to build a life from raw ingenuity and provision. He shares how teachers who believed in him — choir directors, speech coaches, English teachers — carved the inroads that shaped his voice, and how a strict church experience tried to burn it all down, literally, when his albums went up in flames. This is a story about freedom — the word John tattooed on his body — and about what it costs to chase an unconventional creative life. He talks candidly about becoming a pastor to redeem the church's ugliness, building a decentralized ministry rooted in community, funding a charity wine for a struggling art school, and eventually getting fired over "a difference of vision." Then came the dream: a coffee shop, beer-and-wine bar, and live music venue that opened six days before the COVID shutdowns — and the three-year fight that followed, ending with selling the house, the business, and everything else to hit the road. Through it all, music remained the thread. John reflects on his surprising second act as a professional Santa — turning down 700 appearances in a single season — and how slipping into that suit pulled him back from cynicism and reminded him how beautiful people really are. The conversation closes on the darker side of the creative life: mental health, perseverance, the song he wrote in the Airstream the night Betty White died, and why creatives need each other to make it through. A raw, funny, deeply human episode about pivots, provision, faith, reinvention, and the unshakable pull of making things. John Voelz is the author of "Becoming an Idea Mentalist," "Quirky Leadership: Permission Granted," "Broken Record," and the "Because I Wear the Suit" series. He hosts the Gig to Live podcast for working musicians and performs Americana, country, folk, rock, and pop across a wide regional circuit. Connect with John: Website: https://johnvoelz.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-voelz-b953264/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/johnvoelzmedia/ Youtube:  @johnvoelzmusic Artist Rich Wright’s WOW Essential Spirit Paintings: ⁠⁠https://www.theartistrecovery.com/whi... Support and Shop Art Rec Merch: https://www.artrecshop.com Join Podmatch: ⁠https://www.joinpodmatch.com/artistre... Dyslexia Classes: ⁠https://www.skool.com/dyslexia-classes⁠ #JohnVoelz #ArtistRecoveryPodcast #RichWright #CreativeLife #MusicianInterview #SingerSongwriter #WorkingMusician #IndependentMusician #GiggingMusician #CreativeReinvention #CareerPivots #FaithDeconstruction #LeavingTheChurch #ProfessionalSanta #GigSalad #LiveMusicVenue #SmallBusiness #AirstreamLiving #LifeOnTheRoad #CreativeEntrepreneur #ArtistBurnout #MentalHealthForArtists #FollowYourHeart #Storytelling #Americana #FolkMusic #CreativePerseverance #Freedom #MusicIndustry #VenueOwner #LongFormPodcast #ArtistMindset #CreativeStruggle #RedemptionStory #GigToLive #AuthorInterview #richwrightartist #richwrightunlimited #richwrightunltd  @PodMatch_com ​ Support the show Always remember, Listen to your Heart and Be Kind to Your Mind! -Rich Wright Follow us here: https://www.theartistrecovery.com Join the Community: https://www,artrecroom.com Listen Weekly at: https://www.artistrecoverypodcast.com Connect: Instagram Facebook X TikTok Linkedin

  5. Sep 4

    Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 36 | Brheanna Myers: Near-Death, DNA Activation & Awakening

    Brheanna Myers is the founder of Light & Breezy Coaching, creator of the Awaken Your Potential method, and author of "Awaken Your Potential: Healing Frequencies Made Easy" and "Awakening From the Inside Out" — sits down with Rich Wright for one of the most expansive conversations Season 2 has held. Born on Nellis Air Force Base, raised across nine elementary schools, and out on her own at 15, Brheanna traces a path of pure resilience: from survival mode and street hustle to a bachelor's, a psychology degree, and a doctorate in holistic healing medicine. At the center of it all is her 2020 near-death experience — contracting fungal pneumonia during COVID, collapsing, stepping outside her body, and returning with a soul contract, exit clauses, and a mission she never saw coming. She and Rich go deep into what that experience revealed: that separation is an illusion, that we are infinitely divine creators, and that unconditional love is the frequency underneath everything. This is a raw, wide-ranging talk about spiritual awakening, energy healing, and reclaiming creativity through the body's own systems. WHAT WE GET INTO: ~Growing up chaotic — a stripper mother, an absent businessman father, and the childhood that became the building blocks ~"Apple Pie" — the imaginary friend who turned out to be a lifelong spiritual guide ~Breaking generational cycles: "It ran through my family until it ran into me" ~The near-death experience in full — leaving the body, meeting guides, the DNA activation, and the life review where every moment connected ~Why Brheanna doesn't believe in free will the way most people do ~Reading natal charts, Chiron the wounded healer, and the Taurus transition ahead ~The spontaneous kundalini awakening of March 2023 — 30 days without sleep ~Frequency healing, tuning forks, chakras, and how trapped emotion lands in the physical body ~Jehovian seals, DNA manipulation, and what the elite teach their children ~Why organic farming isn't what you think, and how trauma embeds in the food you eat ~The art of detachment, dropping the weight that isn't yours to carry, and unconditional love vs. unconditional access ~Learning to spot opportunity everywhere — and why nothing is a coincidence ~How color palettes in your art mirror your chakra system !Rich and Brheanna on collecting tools instead of counting failures, the power of the pivot, and why creatives carry too much Connect with Brheanna: Website: https://www.lightandbreezycoaching.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lightandbreezy1111 Youtube:  @Brheanna1111 Artist Rich Wright’s WOW Essential Spirit Paintings: ⁠⁠https://www.theartistrecovery.com/whi... Support and Shop Art Rec Merch: https://www.artrecshop.com Join Podmatch: ⁠https://www.joinpodmatch.com/artistre... Dyslexia Classes: ⁠https://www.skool.com/dyslexia-classes⁠ #neardeathexperience #NDE #spiritualawakening #energyhealing #DNAactivation #kundalini #kundaliniawakening #soulcontract #lifereview #chakrahealing #frequencyhealing #tuningforks #pastliferegression #QHHT #natalchart #astrology #chiron #woundedhealer #higherself #consciouscreator #manifestation #lawofattraction #traumahealing #innerchildhealing #generationalcycles #highlysensitiveperson #empath #intuitivehealing #remoteviewing #quantumfield #consciousness #unconditionallove #detachment #breakingcycles #survivalmode #resilience #creativementalhealth #artistmentalhealth #spiritualcoach #mindbodyspirit #awakeningjourney #meditation #holistichealing #selfworth #solarplexus #crownchakra #thirdeye #ascension #5D #spiritguides #telepathy #artistrecoverypodcast #richwrightartist #richwrightunlimited #richwrightunltd #beaguest #podmatchguest  @PodMatch_com ​ Support the show Always remember, Listen to your Heart and Be Kind to Your Mind! -Rich Wright Follow us here: https://www.theartistrecovery.com Join the Community: https://www,artrecroom.com Listen Weekly at: https://www.artistrecoverypodcast.com Connect: Instagram Facebook X TikTok Linkedin

  6. Aug 28

    Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 35 | The Undoctor: Dr. Fred Moss on Healing Beyond Diagnosis

    Dr. Fred Moss—known as The Undoctor—joins Rich Wright for a raw, sweeping conversation that runs from the streets of 1970s Detroit to four decades inside modern psychiatry and out the other side. A board-certified psychiatrist with an MD from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and a biology degree from Wayne State, Dr. Moss has treated over 30,000 patients across private practice, tele-health, correctional healthcare, and nursing homes. He walked away from diagnosis-and-protocol psychiatry to pursue what actually heals human beings: real human connection. Rich and Dr. Moss share deep Metro Detroit roots, and this conversation is soaked in it—Oak Park and Southfield, the 12th Street riots, Motown, Bob Seger and Ted Nugent, Tiger Stadium, the Bad Boy Pistons, and a chance front-row night with Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band before anyone knew his name. Those roots frame a much larger story about grief, identity, and the human drive to keep moving. Dr. Moss opens up about being born to "bring unity" to a family in chaos, losing his first love and a close friend at 13, dropping out of college more than once, and stumbling into the mental health field on a three-week orientation he expected to quit—46 years ago. He traces the moment Prozac reshaped how the world thinks about being human, and why he came to believe modern medicine was never designed to heal. Rich shares his own hard-earned perspective as a patient—years cycling through medications, a suicide attempt, hospitalization, and being told by one of the country's top depression centers that they couldn't help him. Two Metro Detroiters, two sides of the same broken system, finding common ground on what real healing requires. What you'll hear: – Why "there's nothing wrong with you" sits at the center of Dr. Moss's work – How a diagnosis can become a cage rather than an answer – The Moss Method: 20 time-tested, age-old ways to get grounded without a prescription – The Creative Eight—how art, music, dance, cooking, gardening, writing, and everyday creativity dissolve so-called symptoms in real time – Why misery is a choice we're trained to make, not an inevitability– Honest talk on Ibogaine, ketamine, and plant medicines—their promise and their paradox – Relationship and authentic conversation as the most powerful medicine ever discovered Dr. Moss is the author of "Creative Eight: Healing Through Creativity and Self-Expression" and "Find Your True Voice," creator of the Creative Eight and True Voice methodologies, and host and guest across 600+ podcast episodes. His memoir, "Welcome to Humanity," tells the full story of how he became who he is. This is a conversation about listening to your heart while being kind to your mind—and about the radical idea that healing was never something wrong with you to begin with. Connect with Dr. Moss: Website: https://welcometohumanity.net Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drfredmoss Artist Rich Wright’s WOW Essential Spirit Paintings: ⁠⁠https://www.theartistrecovery.com/white-owl-wisdom-1 Support and Shop Art Rec Merch: https://www.artrecshop.com Join Podmatch: ⁠https://www.joinpodmatch.com/artistrecovery Dyslexia Classes: ⁠https://www.skool.com/dyslexia-classes⁠ #DrFredMoss #TheUndoctor #ArtistRecoveryPodcast #RichWright #Psychiatry #MentalHealth #HealingWithoutMedication #Deprescribing #Antipsychiatry #CreativeEight #MossMethod #TrueVoice #HumanConnection #AuthenticSelf #DepressionRecovery #Anxiety #AddictionRecovery #Ibogaine #KetamineTherapy #PlantMedicine #TraumaHealing #AlternativeMentalHealth #HolisticHealing #SelfExpression #CreativityAsMedicine #Mindset #richwrightartist #richwrightunlimited #richwrightunltd #beaguest #podmatchguest  ⁨@PodMatch_com⁩   Support the show Always remember, Listen to your Heart and Be Kind to Your Mind! -Rich Wright Follow us here: https://www.theartistrecovery.com Join the Community: https://www,artrecroom.com Listen Weekly at: https://www.artistrecoverypodcast.com Connect: Instagram Facebook X TikTok Linkedin

  7. Aug 21

    Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 34 | Permission to Feel Alive Again with Dr. Alisa Kriegel

    Dr. Alisa Kriegel joins Rich Wright for a raw, wide-open conversation about desire, healing, self-discovery, and the courage it takes to reclaim pleasure at any stage of life. A psychologist with over 30 years in the field, Alisa spent the first half of her career in community mental health settings and hospitals serving clients with complex needs, while teaching and supervising graduate students in mindfulness, DBT, and trauma. She opened her private practice in 2009 and now works with young adults, adults, and couples in New York City, both in person and virtually, including those in monogamous relationships and people exploring consensual non-monogamy. Her debut memoir, "From Sexless Marriage to Sex Goddess," released in November 2025, and the story behind it anchors this episode. Alisa opens up about a marriage that carried deep friendship and intellectual closeness yet quietly lost its sexual center, the shame and silence that surround sexless relationships, and the season of upheaval that finally cracked her life wide open. She shares what almost no one talks about: how birth control, a tilted uterus, and decades of missing information shaped her experience, and why she wrote a book to break the silence when as many as 40 percent of couples describe themselves as sexless. This is also a story about creativity as medicine. Alisa traces a lifetime of art, dance, poetry, and writing, from a mother who taught in Watts to a grandmother named Blanche who found ceramics and painting in her sixties and spent the final decades of her life winning art shows. Her belief in second chapters and in it never being too late runs through everything. She and Rich explore the healing power of writing, the difference between healing in private and healing that is shared, and why creativity and sexuality are entwined threads of the same aliveness. Together they dig into being your own advocate in therapy and in life, how to find a therapist who truly fits, why it is never your job to protect your therapist's feelings, and the permission we all need to give ourselves to feel pleasure again. From walking barefoot through grass to reclaiming intimacy, this conversation is an invitation to reconnect with the parts of yourself you may have quietly shut off. Connect with Dr Alisa Kriegel: Website: https://alisakriegel.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/letstalkaboutsex_really Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alisa-kriegel-ph-d-299a4141 Youtube:  ⁨@dralisakriegel⁩   Get Her Book: https://a.co/d/0ivqMT55 #ArtistRecoveryPodcast #DrAlisaKriegal #SexlessMarriage #SexGoddess #Memoir #CreativeHealing #WritingToHeal #Psychology #Relationships #Intimacy #Desire #ReclaimingPleasure #SelfDiscovery #SecondChapters #MidlifeReinvention #Divorce #DatingAfterDivorce #ConsensualNonMonogamy #OpenMarriage #FindingATherapist #SelfAdvocacy #MentalHealth #DBT #Mindfulness #Trauma #Permission #Sexuality #Creativity #SensitiveSoul #PersonalGrowth #WomensHealth #HealingJourney #AuthenticLiving #beaguest #podmatchguest @podmatch #richwrightartist #richwrightunlimited #richwrightunltd Support the show Always remember, Listen to your Heart and Be Kind to Your Mind! -Rich Wright Follow us here: https://www.theartistrecovery.com Join the Community: https://www,artrecroom.com Listen Weekly at: https://www.artistrecoverypodcast.com Connect: Instagram Facebook X TikTok Linkedin

  8. Aug 14

    Artist Recovery Podcast S2 Ep. 33 | Solving Dyslexia with AI & Brain Science - Russell Van Brocklen

    Russell Van Brocklen, known as The Dyslexia Professor, joins Rich Wright for a conversation that reframes dyslexia not as a deficit but as a differently wired brain with a creative advantage. Founder of Dyslexia Classes, Russell built a research program funded by the New York State Senate and owned by the SUNY Research Foundation, with documented results showing motivated high school students with dyslexia improving their writing skills seven to eight grade levels in a single academic year. Russell breaks down the science from Dr. Sally Shaywitz's Overcoming Dyslexia: the back of the dyslexic brain shows little activity, while the front runs roughly two and a half times overactive. That overactive front is the engine of creativity, and it explains why figures like Steven Spielberg and Walt Disney produced work the way they did. Russell walks Rich through the exact method he teaches, using word analysis followed by articulation, movie reviews, universal themes, and a writing tool called the warrant drawn from The Craft of Research. You will hear the real student outcomes that make this method impossible to ignore. Casey jumped eight grade levels in six months. Reid went from the 11th percentile in reading to the 64th, and from the 4th percentile in writing to the 65th, in under nine months at home, avoiding years at a $75,000-a-year school. Grayson, a ten-year-old aiming to publish in a peer-reviewed journal, is being prepared to walk into a senior professor's office a decade ahead of schedule. Russell also opens up his own story: growing up in upstate New York, being bullied until an eighth-grade growth spurt, entering law school at a first-grade reading level and learning to read in a month, arguing a professor to a standstill on day two, and later convincing the New York State Senate to fund his research. He shares how he uses AI at the highest levels to 10X his output, how he delegates through assistants and partners, and the customer service philosophy he learned from the dyslexic founder of Kinko's. This one is for creatives, parents, educators, tutors, and any neurodiverse mind that has ever felt like they were grabbing fog. If you have ever wondered why your ideas fly at light speed with no organization, this conversation hands you a map. Connect with Russell: Website: https://dyslexiaclasses.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/russell-van-brocklen-2007ab87 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dyslexiaclassesus Artist Rich Wright’s WOW Essential Spirit Paintings: ⁠⁠https://www.theartistrecovery.com/white-owl-wisdom-1 Support and Shop Art Rec Merch: https://www.artrecshop.com Join Podmatch: ⁠https://www.joinpodmatch.com/artistrecovery #Dyslexia #DyslexiaProfessor #RussellVanBrocklen #Neurodiversity #ADHD #ADD #DyslexicThinking #CreativeBrain #LearningDisabilities #DyslexiaAwareness #OvercomingDyslexia #SallyShaywitz #StrugglingReaders #StrugglingWriters #WritingSkills #ReadingIntervention #SpecialEducation #Homeschooling #GiftedKids #NeurodivergentCreatives #AIforLearning #BrainScience #StevenSpielberg #WaltDisney #TheCraftOfResearch #WordAnalysis #UniversalThemes #SUNY #Tutoring #EdTech #DyslexiaSupport #ReadingHelp #ParentingTips #CreativeEntrepreneur #ArtistRecovery #ArtistRecoveryPodcast #RichWright #richwrightartist #richwrightunlimited #richwrightunltd #beaguest #podmatchguest @podmatch Support the show Always remember, Listen to your Heart and Be Kind to Your Mind! -Rich Wright Follow us here: https://www.theartistrecovery.com Join the Community: https://www,artrecroom.com Listen Weekly at: https://www.artistrecoverypodcast.com Connect: Instagram Facebook X TikTok Linkedin

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Artist Recovery Podcast is Bringing Light to the Darkside of Art. I’m Rich Wright, your host — and here we're redefining recovery as Renewal, Resilience and Creative Transformation. Because for artists, it’s more than survival… it’s Remembering.This show is about the real journey of being a working creative — the highs, the lows, the pivots, and the reinventions that shape who we are. Together we’ll explore how setbacks can spark transformation, how loss can open new paths, and how resilience fuels the heart of every artist’s story.If you’ve ever faced doubt, setback, or the call to reinvent yourself, you’re in the right place. Let’s recover — and create — together.” Want to be a guest on Artist Recovery Podcast? Send Rich Wright a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/artistrecovery

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  • Creator
    Rich Wright
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    92
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    Explicit
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