[Host's Note: If you prefer to watch this interview, check out the YouTube video.]
I had the privilege to chat with addiction researcher, author, and advocate, Dr. Constance Scharff as we discuss the intersection of trauma and substance misuse/addiction.
TOPICS COVERED:
- Her trauma story and how she found herself in Transformative Studies
- PTSD and suicidal ideation
- 24 years of sobriety
- Correlation between trauma and addiction co-occurrence
- Finding few- to no-side-effect treatment options
- Rock to Recovery
- Why combining therapeutic interventions creates synergy
- Self-care regimens and how to personalize your recovery road
- Why music impacts the brain
- Getting a chemical high from singing and making music
- Breaking up the brain's feedback loop with music
- Somatic experiencing
- Mind/body disconnect
- Changing your narrative
- Abstinence based treatment v. harm reduction
- Insurance practices and a broken system
- Relapse dangers
- What can we do as a society to help advocate for those struggling with addictions?
- Trauma based rehabs
- Value of therapy and coaching but the importance of healthy, strong, safe relationships
- Community/support
- Knowing where to find the resources (some free) that are available for yourself or loved ones who need it
- Being willing to do the work
- Parents: Don't love your children to death
- If you love someone in addiction, understand it's not about you and they don't mean to hurt you
- Self-will doesn't mean your addiction is your fault
- What her sobriety early years looked like
GUEST'S MOST USEFUL RESOURCES IN THEIR HEALING:
1. Somatic Experiencing
2. Rock to Recovery
3. Changing the narrative of her trauma
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5. Rock to Recovery: Music as a Catalyst for Human Transformation (book)
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