Tag Archives: Trauma

  • Does Healing Attachment Wounds Heal Addiction, Too?
    Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022

    Does Healing Attachment Wounds Heal Addiction, Too?

    Over the past 50 years, addiction treatment specialists have come to understand the role that early-life attachment wounds (i.e., childhood trauma) can play in the formation and maintenance of...
  • Healing Trauma in Addicts: Techniques
    Friday, December 17th, 2021

    Healing Trauma in Addicts: Techniques

    Dr. David Fawcett In my previous post to this website, I discussed the idea that trauma treatment is necessary for long-term addiction healing, though it needs to take place...
  • Healing Trauma in Addicts: Timing
    Friday, December 10th, 2021

    Healing Trauma in Addicts: Timing

    Dr. David Fawcett Trauma can often be identified in the histories of those who combine drugs and sexual behavior. Adverse childhood experiences such as sexual, physical, or emotional abuse,...
  • Wounded Healers: The Way of the Miracle Worker
    Thursday, October 8th, 2020

    Wounded Healers: The Way of the Miracle Worker

    By Tim Stein Meditation from Gifts of Recovery. The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one of two things: either love or a call for love....
  • Trauma and the 12 Steps, with Dr. Jamie Marich
    Wednesday, August 19th, 2020

    Trauma and the 12 Steps, with Dr. Jamie Marich

    In this episode of Sex, Love, and Addiction, Dr. Rob welcomes Dr. Jamie Marich, an EMDR therapy master trainer and the author of several books, including Trauma and the...
  • The Pain Beneath the Porn
    Wednesday, October 23rd, 2019

    The Pain Beneath the Porn

    By Andrew Bauman Robert Masters writes in his phenomenal book, To Be a Man, “What we do sexually is a reflection of what we’re doing with the rest of...