205. Simple Practices To Overcome Trauma and Addictions
Dear Little Me
Dawn Chitty
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 6 December 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Dr Constance Scharff’s father was highly abusive resulting in Constance taking her first drink at age 11. By the time she was in college, Constance was drinking two litres of hard liquor a day. She firmly believed she did not have long to live and friends expected she would not make it through her twenties. As a small child, Constance was abandoned and uncared for. She was lost in a family who did not protect her or keep her safe. In this quick chat episode, Constance shares some simple practices she has learnt and used over many years in addiction recovery and in her work with the Institute for Complementary and Indigenous Mental Health Research, of which she is the Founder. Dr Constance Scharff has been sober for 25 years and is passionate about the topics of addiction, recovery and mental health. You can find Dr Constance Scharff on her WEBSITE and on INSTAGRAM You can find her BOOKS HERE.
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| 0:00.0 | they said you should go to a treatment facility. |
| 0:02.0 | He's like, why would I go to a treatment facility? |
| 0:04.8 | I am sober and I don't want to use. |
| 0:08.8 | And he was not lying. |
| 0:10.9 | He was like, I'm sober and I don't want to use. |
| 0:14.2 | And he's not an hour out the door, right? |
| 0:18.2 | Maybe two and he's high again. |
| 0:21.0 | And he was perplexed. |
| 0:22.0 | He's like, what happened? |
| 0:24.0 | That's our thinking. |
| 0:25.3 | But when he's telling the people |
| 0:27.1 | at the treatment facility that they're crazy, he's not lying, right? |
| 0:32.5 | You could have strapped him up to all the monitors you wanted |
| 0:36.9 | and you'd get a truthful response. |
| 0:38.5 | I'm not going to use. |
| 0:39.9 | So that storytelling process is distorted |
| 0:43.0 | in people who suffer from addiction. |
| 0:45.2 | And that's why they can't get out of it. |
| 0:53.5 | Welcome to How My Parents Raised Me. |
| 0:55.6 | I'm Dawn Chitty. |
| 0:56.9 | When we are born, we arrive here as pure and perfect souls. |
| 1:02.0 | And the direction our life takes from that moment |
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