The Body Keeps the Score, (2014) by Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., CHAPTER 17 – PUTTING THE PIECES BACK TOGETHER: SELF-LEADERSHIP, page 284: “The critical insight is that all these parts have a function: To protect the self from feeling the full terror of annihilation. The final stage of healing is developing self-leadership skills to manage the…
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A Buddhist Recovery Path. The location of my new apartment was carefully chosen to be near recovery meetings, enlightened community and the beach. Randy Mermell’s excellent Principles in Application Primetime A.A. meeting will probably soon be live and in-person a few blocks from me at the Westside Hope Center. But it gets even better. I…
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PTSD & EMDR
EMDR Heals Traumatic Memories. Eye movement desensitizing and reprogramming (EMDR) has brought about a miraculous healing of my posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). EMDR is one of the greatest things to happen in my life since I got sober on January 21, 2004. Step by step, bit by bit, my brokenness has been repaired. All it…
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ROAD TO RECOVERY
The road of recovery is the road of life. Working with trauma is as much about remembering how we survived as it is about what is broken. I survived my traumatic upbringing by self-medicating with drugs and alcohol. The most effective trauma treatment available to me was the plant based medicine called alcohol. However, no…
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BROKEN
The most broken man ever to recover from alcoholism. It is quite possible that I could be the most broken man ever to recover from childhood trauma. Only very recently have I miraculously recovered from posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). By practicing love and forgiveness I am now aware of my traumatic childhood and stunted emotional…
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COMEDY RECOVERY WITH RUSSEL BRAND
Lose the Personalities and Recover Your Higher Power. The way to cure your alcoholism or drug addiction is to recover a higher power of your own understanding. My higher power works for me and probably nobody else. My higher power is constantly unfolding. Today my higher power is mindfulness. Sometimes I call my higher power…
Jeffrey Robert Goldhammer Changed His Name to Jeffrey Robert Cowan To Piss Off Mommy & Daddy. Now he has unclaimed money that he cannot collect. His unclaimed funds are in the name of Jeff R Goldhammer! DEARLY DEPARTED HARRY & CLAIRE GOLDHAMMER GET THE LAST LAUGH | Jeff R Cowan goes around unabashedly telling the…
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What is 12 Step Metaphysical Healing?
What is Primetime AA? The reason to attend a 12 Step meeting of Primetime Alcoholics Anonymous is not to give long-winded histories of drinking alcohol or using drugs. Everyone at the meeting knows how to get drunk or get high. Intoxication is never the issue. Listening to you talk about your drinking will not assist…