Before
his experience with addiction and recovery, Al spent over 15 years in business development and executive leadership positions at HealthSouth Corporation and SourceMed, Inc..
Through his engaging style and 30 + years of experience, Jim offers hope and healing to couples and families impacted by addiction» «So grateful for your willingness to share your personal
experience with addiction and DE-stigmatizing addiction.
Chemical dependency is a complicated matter because each person has their own unique
experience with addiction.
Anti-smoking socialisation effects were measured on the parent survey in the following categories: (1) parental self efficacy regarding smoking prevention; (2) parental self disclosure of smoking history and
experience with addiction; (3) parental explication of negative consequences for initiation of smoking; (4) parental reinforcement of child's abstinence; (5) effort by parent to counter pro-smoking influence from media; (6) effort by parent to counter pro-smoking influence from peers; (7) parental monitoring of smoking initiation by children and friends; (8) parental effort to reduce child's exposure to tobacco smoke in the home; (9) parental action to establish social contracts against smoking with children.
Now it's about drinking Claddagh coffee and sharing
his experience with addiction, running marathons and doing Crossfit, practicing law, being a father to his children, and (yes) going to recovery meetings.
If you have
any experience with addiction; or if you have a friend or family member who struggles with it, this topic will make for very interesting reading.
In
our experience with addiction (not alcohol addiction) we've found a group of people who believe addiction can be overcome completely and victoriously without the need for a lifetime of recovery, and another group who see it is a lifetime process.
(Szalavitz has also written extensively about her own
experiences with addiction and recently authored a book on the topic, called «Unbroken Brain».)
Sheree, thank you very much for posting your own personal
experiences with addiction.
I've worked with individuals, spouses, parents and Adult Children of Alcoholics / Addicts (ALCOA) who wish to recover from their direct or indirect
experiences with addiction.
She has
experience with addictions, mental disorders, teenagers, foster care, adoptions and spiritual issues.
Not exact matches
Combining her barre
addiction with 15 + years of
experience in corporation communications / public relations, management
experience at lululemon athletica, her role as an accomplished runner on Dave's Running Shop's Racing Team and her love for the Toledo community (founding member of LoveLettersToToledo.com), Mo is thrilled to share her Pure Barre love
with Northwest Ohio at two studios — Pure Barre Toledo and Pure Barre Perrysburg.
In my
experience, I didn't have sickness or
addiction as society perceives them to be but I was infected
with the virus of perfectionism and addicted to achievement.
Lolli writes: «A realistic understanding of the pleasurable connotations of
addiction to alcohol will help the therapist to alleviate his own emotional problems relating to «pleasurable»
experiences in other human beings and thus make his work
with the alcoholic more effective.»
Working
with people who have
experienced offending, homelessness and
addiction, Resco runs a 16 - week employment programme that gives them the tools and confidence they need to break the cycle of unemployment.
My
experience with AA was folks swapping one
addiction for another one, two or four.
Through her own personal life
experience, in combination
with several years of intense training
with Dr. Stephanie Mines (http://tara-approach.org), Jeanice has come to a deep understanding of how early overwhelming
experiences can influence one's health and personality throughout life and can cause a variety of disorders later in life including, but not limited to, repetitive relationship problems, chronic health issues, drug and alcohol
addiction, uncontrollable violence and criminal behavior, chemical imbalances in the brain, fertility issues, severe depression, and an inability to lead a joyful, healthy life.
In New York, the Seneca Strong program aims to help rehabilitate people
with drug
addictions by reaching out to them through peers, fellow Seneca Nation members who have
experienced addiction and are in recovery, Colburn said.
Many of the people we work
with face homelessness, have suffered abuse, have
experienced trauma in childhood, are battling
addictions or struggling
with mental health problems.
Many people have personal
experiences with the devastation of
addiction — including Perlstein himself: Twelve years ago, his mother died after a long battle
with mental illness and
addiction.
Addiction to cocaine is commonly preceded by
experiences with legal or decriminalized drugs, such as alcohol, nicotine, and marijuana.
A broader form of love
addiction includes love that is more like the usual
experience, but
with stronger cravings.
For example, those
with bipolar disorder
experience addiction at six times the rate of people in the general population, while those
with depression and anxiety disorders suffer at twice the rate.
Dr. Crosby has specialized clinical and research
experience with perfectionism, OCD and related disorders, anxiety, and behavioral
addictions.
Tommy Rosen is a leading authority on yoga,
addiction and recovery
with 20 years
experience helping others to overcome
addictions of every kind...
Even though I have been completely healthy most days of my life other than dealing
with drug
addiction and a near - death
experience at 24, I am a super-healthy, safe person.
Along
with her
experience with food
addiction, Maureen uses her Certifications as a Holistic Health Coach and a Certified Eating Psychology Coach to assist others in creating a lifestyle that fills them physically, spiritually, emotionally and socially.
Maureen Wielansky uses her
experience with binge eating and food
addiction to help others let go of the shame that food
addiction brings.
So I thought it might be helpful to share
with you my knowledge and
experience so you can stop your sugar
addiction too.
To demonstrate the validity of this thesis, Dr. Hyman provides numerous examples of patients
with a wide variety of apparently disparate brain disorders, ranging from autism to depression to eating disorders to
addictions to ADHD to dementia, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease, all of whom
experienced not just resolution of symptoms, but recovery of healthful function as a result of his application of the functional medicine matrix to their unique physiology, history and current circumstances.
They have heard or
experienced many of the horror stories related to food
addiction and know that the disease is always
with them and they are just one bite away from losing their abstinence and all they have worked for.
That's my own
experience with sugar
addiction.
I have my own
experience with sugar
addiction for years.
I have learnt from my own
experience and working
with my clients that overcoming our food
addictions with discipline alone isn't very effective.
Addictions (chronic masturbation,
addiction to caffeine, alcohol, smoking, drugs, chocolate, sugar, games, etc.) lead to dopamine deficiency because whenever you
experience a pleasure (assocoiated
with addiction) your dopamine - producing cells flood your brain
with dopamine so that you could
experience pleasure.
Kathy's prior
experience was at the Duke
Addictions Program working
with individuals and families who struggle
with alcoholism and
addiction.
Based on both his personal
experience overcoming deep suffering,
addiction, and adversity, as well as his professional success
with thousands of people worldwide, he shares what he's found to be the most effective approaches to mental, emotional, and physical health.
Many people
with sugar
addictions (yes, it is an
addiction)
experience both physical and mental strains from consuming too much.
The
experience, or experiment as it turned out to be, reminded me of an earlier
addiction to love affair
with Starbucks Chai Tea Lattes.
With sites such as Adultfriendfinder, people can break out of their sex site
addiction and engage in a satisfying, real sexual
experience.
Trainspotting, buoyed by a great Brit Pop soundtrack and Brian Tufano's agile cinematography, captures the stoned - out, gut - churning
experience of hardcore
addiction with hallucinogenic acuity.
Herzog describes the Internet as «one of the biggest revolutions we as humans are
experiencing,» and yet he tempers this enthusiasm
with horror stories from victims of online harassment and Internet
addiction.
Co-written by estimable Frownland director Ronald Bronstein, it's inspired by the
experiences of street kid Arielle Holmes, who plays a fictional version of herself alongside actor Caleb Landry Jones in what's described as «a tumultuous drama about a New York City couple battling
addiction in the midst of a love affair»... And finally, the prize for oddest remake of the week: French thriller specialist Jean - François Richet is changing gear rather alarmingly
with his, er, «reboot» is the word I'm looking for, of Claude Berri's 1977 comedy Un moment d'égarement, in which two fathers take their sexy adolescent daughters on vacation — and one of them is seduced by the other's jeune fille.
He has to stumble across these as new
experiences and learn on the way,
with the support of his adoring young granddaughter, Aurora, who is wary of his
addiction to the device but stands by him unconditionally.
But what was meant to be a one - time
experience with an escort turns into a growing
addiction — a new demon threatening to destroy his life, family, and career.
Though they all wrestle
with personal problems — for example, the affluent student suffers from depression brought on by the death of his father, who suffered from a drug
addiction — their
experiences within school vary in predictable ways.
Meet teens who are struggling
with prescription opioid misuse and heroin use and learn the science behind their powerful stories in this self - paced, standards - aligned e-learning
experience, The Science of
Addiction: The Stories of Teens.
There he witnessed a highly unusual set of
experiences for a privileged, young white man — daily struggles
with racial discrimination, poverty, drug
addiction, gang violence, and sexual abuse.
Using this approach we have supported systemic change
with culturally and linguistically diverse people (including newly arrived, asylum seeker and refugee people), Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, people
experiencing addiction, people living
with disabilities, and people facing deep community exclusion or past trauma.
In the same way I've had to struggle
with my
addiction to real - time connectedness on a mobile device... I started to find that Facebook was a painful
experience.