Do you want more for your recovery?
it's time to address your trauma
Take this quick quiz to find out if trauma symptoms are holding you back from living a more free and thriving life.
By the time I realized that there was more going on beneath the surface of my addiction recovery, it was almost too late.
I was in graduate school, suffering from severe anxiety, debilitating fear, unhealthy relationships, boundary issues, and suicidal ideation.
It was one evening after coming home from my internship at the VA hospital in Madison, Wisconsin that I was almost at a breaking point.
I needed help.
Have there been times in your life when you realize that something isn’t working anymore?
What was happening in my body and mind—in early recovery—caught me off guard. Instead of protecting the temple of my personhood, I felt pulled towards ending it.
The pain was so great.
And I was confused.
I was sober, wasn’t I supposed to be cured? I was faithful; wasn’t I supposed to be at peace?
The pain, instead of being buried deep inside, was starting to resurface, taking shape. I could finally look at the pain and say: “there it is!” I was learning for the first time in my life how fully entrenched trauma and its symptoms were in my mind and body and how if I wanted to grow in my addiction recovery or even stay in abstinence-based recovery, I was going to need to do something about it. It was time.
What are some of the ways that past trauma has resurfaced in your life or is resurfacing as we have this conversation together?
Are there things from your own life or your parents’ lives (or their parents’ lives) that are creeping into your every day and preventing you from living in freedom?
What is disrupting your peace?
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We are not meant to live chained to our past or to things that haunt our family trees. That is part of why I wrote my new book with my mother. To show you that healing is possible.
No matter what we’ve lived through, we can uproot unhealthy patterns and heal our family trees.
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Do you wonder how trauma has impacted your own family, life, or recovery? Are you noticing unhealthy patterns that you just can't seem to stop?
Are you looking for practical ways that you can heal and get unstuck? Are you ready to let go of your trauma or your family's trauma?
Let’s share some stories in the comments. Was there a time when you realized that you were ready for more in your recovery?
Is there a time when you wanted more for a loved one or someone you worked with?