Love First intervention

21/07/2025

18/07/2025

Recovery for Licensed Professionals with Buddy Stockwell
Lawyers, pilots and healthcare professionals often receive the ‘gold standard’ in treatment. What is that and how does it work?

Licensed professionals like lawyers, pilots, doctors and other health professionals receive a very high level of treatment and support if they require addiction treatment. As a result, they achieve greater success. What makes the difference?

04/06/2025

Jeff sat down with Why Intervention: A Story of Hope for Exhausted Families.

Jeff Jay was sleeping under bushes in San Francisco, physically deteriorating and contemplating su***de, when his parents found him through an unlikely serie...

25/04/2025

Are you struggling to make sense of the excuses? Jeff Jay talks about this.

Are you struggling to make sense of the lies, excuses, and rationalizations your addicted loved one keeps repeating?

08/04/2025

Why You're Enabling and 4 Ways to Stop

What is enabling? How can we stop enabling? We don't want to be part of the problem, but how do we get to the solution? Jeff talks about 4 ways to stop enabl...

03/04/2025

I feel like people are ganging up on me--even my family and friends. Everybody tells me I need to go to treatment. They tell me I’m out of control. But I still have a good job, and my kids still love me (even though they live with my ex). I’m not lying in the gutter. The truth is, vodka is my best friend. It’s not judgy, it’s reliable, and it’s legal. I just wish everybody would get off my back....

I feel like people are ganging up on me--even my family and friends. Everybody tells me I need to go to treatment. They tell me I’m out of control. But I still have a good job, and my kids still love me (even though they live with my ex). I’m not lying in the gutter. The truth is, vodka is my be...

30/03/2025

Dear Jeff and Debra: I’ve been told to go to AA, but I’m turned off by the use of “God” in the 12 Steps. I can’t believe in something that can’t be proven. I believe in science.-Factual Frank Dear Factual: Prove it! If you’re a man of science, show us you’re willing to follow the evidence wherever it leads....

Dear Jeff and Debra: I’ve been told to go to AA, but I’m turned off by the use of “God” in the 12 Steps. I can’t believe in something that can’t be proven. I believe in science.-Factual Frank Dear Factual: Prove it! If you’re a man of science, show us you’re willing to follow the

29/03/2025

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17/03/2025

Myth #3: Addicts must hit bottom. WRONG! (4:21)

Myth #3: Addicts Must Hit Bottom. Wrong!Jeff Jay, a renowned addiction interventionist and author, debunks the myth that people struggling with addiction mu...

14/03/2025

Fr. Bill W talks with Jeff on raising the bottom and more.

Jeff and Debra Jay are the co-authors of Love First: A Family’s Guide to Intervention. Now in its third edition, their book has helped thousands find their w...

13/03/2025

Myth: Treatment won't work if they don't want it. WRONG!

Myth #2: Treatment won't work if they don't want it. WRONG!Jeff Jay challenges the common belief that an addicted person must *want* help for treatment to be...

12/03/2025

Myth busting with addiction counselor Jeff Jay.

Myth #1: You Can't Help An Alcoholic Until They Want Help. Wrong!In this insightful video, interventionist and addiction counselor **Jeff Jay** debunks one o...