The CHAN Podcast offers Compassion, Healing, and Awareness through opportunities to Nurture your spirit and soul, it's the CHAN way. We believe that individual emotional wellness and mental well-being is the root of our spirit and the inner being of our souls, and that by building a strong tribe around each and every soul, we strengthen our inner being. We are as strong as our friends, the knowledge they lend, the support they offer. We will lend you stories of overcoming trials and tribulations, explorations of grief and loss, knowledge from experts whose journeys of healing have seen decades of success, and explorations that have mended and healed others beautifully. Heather Giron Fritts, Founder of the CHAN Project, lost her son Chandler Lee Fritts in 2019 to the Opioid Crisis and a Fentanyl poisoning, which led her to start the CHAN Project and this Podcast. We hope you'll listen with an open ear and that one or more of our stories will give you hope, build awareness and open your spirit to a new understanding. Our hope here at the CHAN Podcast is that together, we will open doors, create opportunities to build awareness, and open minds to healing that allows for spirits to flourish and hearts to mend. We invite you to share with us what you enjoy about our stories, what you would like to hear more about, and to share your opinions and interests.Namaste' Heather and the CHAN Podcast
Ericka Davis - CHAN Project Opioid Awareness Program Lead: An Eye-Opening Journey Through Childhood Grief and Addiction
Today's episode is with our very own Ericka Davis, who by the time our episode airs, has graduated her program with Western Washington University and earned her bachelor's degree in Human Services. She fulfills the Opioid Awareness Middle School Program Lead role with the CHAN Project, and she comes on today's episode to share her story of what brought her to intern with the CHAN Project, remain with us through a full year of internships, and to stay on as a Lead Volunteer seeing our Mi...
18 Jun 2022
Kate Russell, Author: Shares Her Journey in Writing Down the Rabbit Hole
Author Kate Russell speaks with Heather to share her story growing up in a dysfunctional household with two parents living addicted and abusive lifestyles, who at five years old welcomes her baby sister who later suffers multiple disorders of her own. Kate goes on to share the struggles she overcomes from the mothering she takes on of her sibling, to the trauma she undergoes day after day of abuse under the care of two parents who are struggling with addiction of their own, a workahol...
10 Jun 2022
Megan Fenyoe, Founder/CEO I Am Enough: When 8 out of 10 Women Believe They Are Not Enough, Megan Assures They Are
Eight out of ten women don't think they are good enough, but cognitive restructuring can help us gain the wisdom and confidence that we are. because we are. Megan Fenyoe is the Founder and CEO of the I AM ENOUGH movement™ Nonprofit Organization, she has been a Licensed Mental Health Therapist for over 15 years and in 2013 found herself involved in a narcissistic abusive marriage. Megan felt so damaged and empty. When she tapped into her inner being, the only message she received w...
3 Jun 2022
Laura Stack, Founder/CEO Johnny's Ambassadors: The Seriousness for Youth and the Harms of Marijuana
27 May 2022
Richard Capriola, Mental Health and Addictions Counselor: A Conversation on Teens, Substance Use, and Hope
20 May 2022
Christian Carbajal, BSHS Graduate Shares Art as a Tool for Emotional Wellness
Join Host Heather Giron Fritts with Guest and Artist Christian Carbajal as he shares his journey through substance use and emotional challenges and how he has turned to art as a practice to calm his mind and stay clear of substance use and move toward creativity. Christian, one of Heather's very first students at Western Washington University, inspired Heather's move toward a podcast with the CHAN Project when Covid 19 shut down the University's in person coursework in 2020. Chr...
13 May 2022
Jason Shiers, Life Coach: Discusses the Fundamental Misunderstanding of Typical Treatment
Jason Shiers is a certified transformative coach who has helped people free themselves from suffering and he is our guest on the CHAN Podcast today. Jason remembers many years ago when he heard about people having life changing experiences in just a few sessions of coaching and it really looked like the process of change had to be hard. They'd spend a lifetime conditioned to believe that change is hard, change is tough, change takes guts, and determination and forced behavioral change. ...
13 May 2022
Robert Kanter, International Recovery Advocate: A Discussion on Recovery Advocacy and the Opioid Epidemic
Robert Kanter, International Recovery Advocate addressing the drug overdose epidemic speaks with us today on the CHAN Podcast about his journey through recovery and on to becoming an International Advocate speaking out against the Opioid Epidemic. He brings his vast knowledge to the discussion around AUD and SUD, as well as treatments such as the acclaimed Portugal Model and CDC statistics. We discuss the past and current lawsuits, Purdue Pharma and legislation and trends, including th...
13 May 2022
Marcia Christen, Certified NVC Trainer: A Discussion of Nonviolent Communication with
Marcia Christen is a Certified Nonviolent Communications Trainer who has been practicing since 2011. She is part of the Trainer Candidate Community Path which is an assessing community for trainer candidates. Marcia's mission is to work with people who are wanting to find practical tools for their situations and who want to find more inner peace and inner strength. She believes strongly in inner wisdom and letting people know that there is a strategy out there that can be transformative...
11 May 2022
Chandler and Heather's Story
The CHAN Podcast is a story that came about through our Host's loss of her loving son Chan's passing in 2019 from a Fentanyl poisoning due to an accidental overdose after taking a counterfeit M30 street pill purchased off the streets. Heather tells her family's story of loss, and Chandler's struggle with addiction, loss, and disconnect, and the reasons behind the formation of the CHAN Project and the CHAN Podcast.
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