This Is Powerful With Paul Sculfor

<div> <p>Today we welcome Melanie, a young woman working through the stages of recovery after growing up a child of an alcoholic. Melanie always felt different at school and struggled to make friends.  After learning as much as she could about alcohol and having had a spiritual awakening, she is now able to speak about her experiences and share her strength and hope for other young people who are living in households where alcoholism is present. Melanie speaks openly about how living with alcoholism shaped her early years and has some enlightening insight into how other young people can identify whether someone close to them might have a problem with alcohol.</p><p>If you or someone you know is struggling with addiction, there are plenty of resources on the Stride Foundation website: <a href="https://stridefoundation.com/">https://stridefoundation.com/</a></p><p>Watch all our episodes on YouTube @thisispowerfulwithpaulsculfor </p><p>Follow us on social media for more insights, behind-the-scenes moments, and community discussions. Share your thoughts and connect with us @this_ispowerful on Instagram and YouTube. We’d love to hear from you!</p></div><h1>Find Paul on Instagram @paulsculfor </h1><div>Find Nacoa online <a href="https://nacoa.org.uk/">https://nacoa.org.uk/</a><br>Find NACOA on Instagram @nacoauk </div>

<div><p>How do you manage to cut through the silence of a disengaged young man, engaging with those who seem the most disenchanted with the people around them?</p></div><h1>Today we are pleased to welcome an incredible guy who is doing life-saving work with vulnerable young people, getting them reengaged with school and with the world at large. Tom Paget is the operations lead for Reach Group Community Projects based in Essex, delivering bespoke projects and mentoring pathways to engage the most vulnerable young people in the county. </h1><h1><br></h1><h1>Reach Group uses a blend of proven methodologies and physical activity to help those that have been pushed to the wayside for various reasons. Tom uses his life experience to successfully support the next generation through his guidance as a boxing coach and life-changing mentor. </h1><div> <p><br>If you or someone you know is struggling with addiction, there are plenty of resources on the Stride Foundation website: <a href="https://stridefoundation.com/">https://stridefoundation.com/</a></p><p>Stride Foundation provides educational talks about addiction to schools and we do this free of charge so if you could donate to help with this, please do: <a href="https://stridefoundation.com/donate/">https://stridefoundation.com/donate/</a></p><p>Watch all our episodes on YouTube @thisispowerfulwithpaulsculfor </p><p>Follow us on social media for more insights, behind-the-scenes moments, and community discussions. Share your thoughts and connect with us @this_ispowerful on Instagram and YouTube. We’d love to hear from you!</p><p>Find Paul on Instagram @paulsculfor </p></div>

<div> <p>What power does a ten-year-old have in the face of a disease as insidious as alcoholism?</p><p>We are so privileged to welcome the extraordinary Amelie and her mother, Lucy. Amelie sadly lost her father after a devastating battle with alcoholism when she was just ten years old. After losing her father, Amelie would write letters to him at night before she went to bed. As a result of writing these letters, Amelie felt compelled to write to the government and ask for change in how alcohol is sold and advertised and to ask for support for families of alcoholics. Lucy, Amelie’s mother tells us the story of Dan’s alcoholism but we also get a strong sense of an amazing father who loved his children very much and was taken away at the young age of 41 as a result of alcoholism. Lucy, Amelie and I hope that this conversation will help to raise awareness for other families of alcoholics and to let them know that they are not alone.    </p><p>If you or someone you know is struggling with addiction, there are plenty of resources on the Stride Foundation website: <a href="https://stridefoundation.com/">https://stridefoundation.com/</a></p><p>Stride Foundation provides educational talks about addiction to schools and we do this free of charge so if you could donate to help with this, please do: <a href="https://stridefoundation.com/donate/">https://stridefoundation.com/donate/</a></p><p>Watch all our episodes on YouTube @thisispowerfulwithpaulsculfor </p><p>Follow us on social media for more insights, behind-the-scenes moments, and community discussions. Share your thoughts and connect with us @this_ispowerful on Instagram and YouTube. We’d love to hear from you!</p><p>Find Nacoa online <a href="https://nacoa.org.uk/">https://nacoa.org.uk/</a><br>Find NACOA on Instagram @nacoauk <br>Find Paul on Instagram @paulsculfor </p></div>

<div> <p>We have done something a bit different this time around and we are bringing you a really impactful new set of episodes. Our new season focuses on all of the different ways that addiction can affect young people. Joining us on the show will be some admirable guests who work with young people to support them through trauma, mental health challenges and addictive behaviours. We also feature brave guests who have struggled with addictive behaviours in their youth and young people coping with the challenges that come in life with an alcoholic parent. I can't wait to share these conversations with you. </p><p>The first episode of the new season will be out on the second of April.</p><p>If you or someone you know is struggling with addiction, there are plenty of resources on the Stride Foundation website: <a href="https://stridefoundation.com/">https://stridefoundation.com/</a></p><p>Stride Foundation provides educational talks about addiction to schools and we do this free of charge so if you could donate to help with this, please do: <a href="https://stridefoundation.com/donate/">https://stridefoundation.com/donate/</a></p><p>Watch all our episodes on YouTube @thisispowerfulwithpaulsculfor </p><p>Follow us on social media for more insights, behind-the-scenes moments, and community discussions. Share your thoughts and connect with us @this_ispowerful on Instagram and YouTube. We’d love to hear from you!</p><p>Find Paul on Instagram @paulsculfor </p></div>

<div> <p>Today’s guest welcomes the tough times as an opportunity to grow. The tougher, in fact, the better.</p><p>Ken Rideout is the fastest marathoner in the world over fifty and a former prison guard, Wall Street trader, and opioid addict. His life story has been chronicled in such publications as <em>The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal</em>, and <em>Outside</em>. Since getting sober more than a decade ago, he has won some of the world's toughest races, including, at age fifty-two, the Gobi March—a 155-mile, self-supported race across the sweltering Gobi Desert in Mongolia—and a few months later, the Masters (50+) Marathon World Championships. Even though Ken places high value on health and physical fitness, he cuts through the wellness clichés. He’s blunt, practical, often provocative – and his philosophy is backed by lived experience rather than platitudes. Ken lives in Nashville with his wife and their four children.</p><p>If you or someone you know is struggling with addiction, there are plenty of resources on the Stride Foundation website: <a href="https://stridefoundation.com/">https://stridefoundation.com/</a></p><p>Stride Foundation provides educational talks about addiction to schools and we do this free of charge so if you could donate to help with this, please do: <a href="https://stridefoundation.com/donate/">https://stridefoundation.com/donate/</a></p><p>Watch all our episodes on YouTube @thisispowerfulwithpaulsculfor </p><p>Follow us on social media for more insights, behind-the-scenes moments, and community discussions. Share your thoughts and connect with us @this_ispowerful on Instagram and YouTube. We’d love to hear from you!</p><p>Amazon link to Ken’s book here:<br><a href="https://amzn.eu/d/0chE06q5">https://amzn.eu/d/0chE06q5</a></p></div><h1>Find Paul on Instagram @paulsculfor </h1>