Men's Emotional Health Issues & Solutions

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Rethinking Addiction: A Parent’s Guide to Understanding and Healing Let’s embrace a holistic approach to uncover and address the root causes of addiction.

GETTING TO THE ROOT CAUSE TO TREAT EATING DISORDERS

Eating Disorders, Trauma, and PTSD Getting to the Root Cause to Treat Eating DisordersEating disorders are rarely solely related to abnormal or disturbed eating habits. In fact, eating disorders are rarely even about food. As an integrative medicine practitioner with over thirty years of experience in treating eating disorders, knowi...

Reframing Language, Perception, and Understanding to Foster Healing

Breaking the Chains of Stigma: A Key Factor in Family Addiction Recovery Reframing Language, Perception, and Understanding to Foster Healing

Exploring the Five Key Areas of Conflict and Their Implications for Understanding Addiction

The Dichotomy of Approach: Alcoholics Anonymous and Modern Psychology in Addiction Treatment Exploring the Five Key Areas of Conflict and Their Implications for Understanding Addiction

Gabor Maté was one of those people and his insights into trauma, how it develops, and how it gets locked in the body have helped me understand my own. Here is what he had to say about being nice:

“Being nice and pleasing others — while socially applauded and generally acknowledged as positive traits — actually can harm our health. Decades of research point to the same conclusion: Pushing down our anger, prioritizing duty and the needs of others before our own, and trying not to disappoint others are leading causes of chronic illness. Ignoring or suppressing how we feel and what we need — whether done consciously or unconsciously — revs up our stress response, pushing our body toward inflammation, at the cost of our immune system.” — Gabor Maté

The Danger of Being Nice: Science-Backed Research That Reveals A Hidden Truth From Gabor Maté’s 30 years of research to my own personal journey, here are examples of how being overly nice can lead to anxiety, chronic…

This definition of trauma from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in the US is often used as a starting point.

Trauma is defined as the result of: an event, a series of events or a set of circumstances that is experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life threatening and that has lasting adverse effects on the individual's functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional, or spiritual well-being.

Education, Support, Guidance I Empower Families with a Modern Coaching Approach to Family Healing​​. I will teach your family to manage crisis in a safe and healthy way while building the future.​ My modern, relevant, evidence & values based approach to drug use intervention & family

Addiction is often stigmatized, causing those affected to feel isolated. But what if we could change this narrative? My post explores how we can view addiction as an opportunity for profound personal growth.

Embracing Family Addiction Recovery: A New Perspective Through Psychedelic Therapy ​ Introduction In a world where addiction has long been stigmatized, a paradigm shift is on the horizon. Imagine a society where addiction is not only de-stigmatized, but also seen as an...