Episode 35: Mark - A Psychotherapist, Took multiple attempts to Become Benzo Free

Benzodiazepine Awareness with Geraldine Burns

Mark Stoll has been a psychotherapist and coach for over two decades integrating mindfulness centered approaches and traditional cognitive therapies into a way of life that that helps people free themselves from the prison of their minds so they can engage life and connect to matters most. No one has benefitted more from these skills than him when the hell of benzo withdrawal hit last year. After multiple attempts to get off Klonopin, he was finally successful in September 2020 but then got to experience firsthand that it’s not about controlling our inner experiences but how we relate to our thoughts, feelings and sensations and what meaning we assign to these internal experiences that truly determine our level of peace and happiness. He has found it important to interpret the suffering he went through as having made him a better, more compassionate person. He lives with his wife and two teenage boys in Columbia SC and knows that it was his family that kept him going despite whatever symptoms he experienced and now one year off, considers himself mostly healed and looking forward to the rest of the healing coming when it comes.