Welcome back to our Body Talk. We began in our last post by touching on the consequences of long-term substance abuse and important body-oriented considerations in early recovery. Today, we’re going to take a look at how the body, and specifically bodily awareness, can help in the healing process and promote effective forward motion in […]
Over the course of the next 3 blog posts, we’ll be exploring the body. We’ll begin this week by touching on the consequences of long-term substance abuse and important body-oriented considerations in early recovery. In our next post, we’ll dive into somatic therapy and talk about how the body may hold the key to healing […]
The Opioid Epidemic, the CDC (June 2021) says, can be broken into 3 waves: The first, beginning in the late 1990s when the number of prescriptions for opioid medications increased, the 2nd, beginning around 2010 when heroin deaths rose dramatically, and the 3rd and most recent wave, beginning in 2013 with a rise in overdose […]
Both substance use disorders and mental illnesses are serious health issues that impact millions of people in the United States. Individually, substance use disorders, including addiction, and mental illness account for serious family, financial, educational and health problems. Combined, they can be devastating. When someone is diagnosed with both a substance use disorder and a […]
Blursday is a term that’s being tossed around on social media right now to describe the merging of minutes, hours and days since COVID-19 shut so much of the world down. Before the pandemic, it was a term that described a drunk or hungover day, according to Urban Dictionary. You can probably see the similarities. […]
Trauma is a loaded word, and we can talk about it in several different contexts, but for the next few minutes, let’s talk about trauma as it relates to what’s going on right now with the COVID-19 pandemic and how this experience could complicate addiction and recovery. One way of looking at trauma is this: […]
In our last post, we talked about the importance of staying connected even as we started moving toward social distancing measures. Time has passed, and many cities and states are observing Shelter at Home Orders, more social settings and events have been shut down, and we are being encouraged to stay at home and stay […]
Boundary work is one of my favorite subjects. My rock-solid belief is that living a life with healthy boundaries leads to greater joy, fewer resentments, and more compassion all the way around. I also know that many people, myself included, were not raised with healthy boundary-setting skills. The truth is, most of the people that […]
“Growth is a spiral process. Doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping.” —Julia Margaret Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way “Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our […]
Welcome back to our Body talk. So far, we’ve looked at the consequences of long-term substance abuse and important body-oriented considerations in early recovery, and we’ve talked about the body’s role in healing and forward motion in recovery. Today, our focus is on specific body-based activities that can support you in ongoing healing and discovery. […]
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