Arlene Kahn: Working with Individuals, Couples, Addiction/Recovery Issues
Adam Goldstein, or DJAM as he was known was a celebrity D.J. who was found dead on August 28, 2009 of an accidental drug overdose after 10 years of sobriety. He had just finished filming the first episode of a new reality show called “Gone too Far” for MTV, in which he was reaching out to Amy, a 23 year old Heroin addict, trying to get her to enter rehab. Adam had a family history of addiction. In a NYTimes article Sunday October 18, 2009 …
The Science of Addiction The following article was published by the Northeast ATTC Network — funded by SAMHSA — Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to educate and improve the quality of recovery. Their article helps us learn about the effects of substances on the brain as seen through brain imaging. For the brain image pictures, please refer below to: “More about how imaging techniques work and findings…..” in the article Ihttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2851068/maging the Addicted Human Brain (Fowler, et.al.) Their article states: “Addiction is …
Focusing is a term given to our ability to turn our attention inward, to notice how we experience a life situation, a problem, a difficulty with a relationship or even a point of stuck creativity. We are gathering a “felt-sense” of a situation, a form of somatic experiencing. Felt-sensing is different than “getting in touch with feelings,” or “thoughts,” and it is not strictly meditation, yet it includes all of those ways of experiencing too. It is essentially a body/mind therapy. It addresses the whole …
Couples who risk arguing have the potential to join their partner in an interactive field that can identify and use feelings to grow and transform the relationship from hostility to passion and love.