Brad Lamm

Brad Lamm (born 1966) is the founder of the residential trauma clinic and residential campus Breathe Life Healing Center, an American interventionist, educator and author of many books including How to Help the One You Love: A New Way to Intervene (2010). How to Help details the theory and practice of a system of psychosocial invitation-based intervention named "Breakfree Intervention", which trains and utilizes "voices that matter" (the friends and family of an identified loved one) as an ongoing "support circle". He owns and operates Intervention.com as a family resource for those seeking help to intervene to help one they love with agency locations in New York City, Cape Cod and Los Angeles. Lamm is also the author of Just 10 Lbs (2011), a self-help book on the diet-obsessed public's "need to feed" and what he describes as “emotional eating” in the face of mounting evidence of the dangers of restrictive eating, fad diets and binge eating trends. Early life and education Lamm was born in 1966 in Wenatchee, Washington, the youngest of four brothers. His father was an Evangelical Quaker minister and he grew up in a highly religious home where his mother was pre-occupied with religious Armageddon, prophesy and the "end times." The family moved to Eugene, Oregon in 1968, where he attended public school until the middle of his sophomore year at Winston Churchill High School. In 1982 the family moved to Yorba Linda, California, where his father became Senior Pastor of Yorba Linda Friends Church, the largest Friends Church in the nation. Lamm attended Whittier Christian High School, the University of California, Los Angeles and Pennsylvania State University. Lamm is a lifelong Quaker, who launched Spark Recovery (2013), an interfaith peer to peer support network. His short story, It Hurts a Little, was featured in Newsweek (2018) on the anniversary of his cover story Gays Under Fire. It became the basis for an announced documentary by the same name. He is a Recorded Minister in the Quaker tradition and a member of the Religious Society of Friends. From university to career After college, Lamm lived in Kamakura, Japan, for over a year before settling in New York City, where he worked producing television news programs and writing music. Dubbed the "once reigning king of the late night party scene", he wrote for and hosted the syndicated entertainment TV show Party Talk, seen in New York, Los Angeles and six other US markets.