Recovery Month in an international initiative ran each September to promote awareness and understanding of addiction and recovery. Addiction therapist and Mindfulness-Bases Stress Reduction (MBSR) teacher, Austin Tuohy chats about addiction and recovery. Topics discussed in this episode: -       Choice Theory Psychology -       September as Recovery Month -       Addiction as a creative coping mechanism for stress -       The continuum of substance abuse -       Trauma, Pain & Addiction -       Is addiction in a person’s nature, or an outcome of a circumstance? -       Gabor Maté -       Humans need a sense of community & belonging -       Social capital / ‘Recovery’ capital-       Difficulty of lockdown for those in recovery  -       Drugs are great! The consequences and outcomes of the addictive behaviours are bad! -       Are drugs a working-class problem? -       Heroin, a derivative of the poppy flower (like morphine), used as an (emotional) pain-killer -       “Addiction is Park Ave to park bench” -       Adam & Paul movie (and Dublin Oldschool movie on Netflix) -       Addiction – a brain disease? An emotional disorder? Or just a bad coping mechanism? -       Increase of antidepressant Xanax during lockdown -        Babette Rothschild & Patricia Bourke D’Souza – Somatic Trauma & the Body-        “Emotional Archaeology” – replaying trauma repeatedly in our minds can be more damaging, hardwiring it into our psyche -       Know what lifts your human spirit – tap in to this as a positive, alternative coping mechanism -       Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)  Resources mentioned in this episode: William Glasser Institute Ireland & Choice Theory Psychology:  https://wgii.ie/ Gabor Maté:   https://drgabormate.com/ Babette Rothschild:   http://www.somatictraumatherapy.com/the-body-remembers-an-interview-with-babette-rothschild/Patricia Bourke D’Souza:   https://www.somatictraumatherapy.org/aboutCheck out Austin’s full range of services workshops at his website: http://www.austintuohy.com/Recovery Race 2019:https://dublinpeople.com/news/northsidewest/articles/2019/10/05/local-services-show-support-for-irelands-first-recovery-run/Subscribe to the Journeying podcast YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqa2toscxF6xiFPslXxUtZw?view_as=subscriberRate & review on iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/journeying/id1529912826Like our Facebook Page:    https://bit.ly/33kp4bU

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