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.

Listen to this important conversation with Christian Dent where you get your podcasts right now.

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)

Resources we mentioned:

• End It For Good’s website
• Curious: A Foster Mom’s Discovery of an Unexpected Solution to Drugs & Addiction by Christina Dent

Related episodes:

• Christina Dent and Compassion for Other
• John Schlitt is a Rock Star Redeemed
• Rose Ann Forte and Letting Go of Shame