458. The Unfulfilled Void: Trauma, Addiction, and Personal Transformation with Elisa Hallerman, PhD

Commune with Jeff Krasno

Commune Media

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture

4.6 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Elisa Hallerman, PhD is an expert on addiction and sobriety – and the founder of the Recovery Management Agency – which provides comprehensive and personalized treatment for addiction, mental health, and trauma. In this episode, Dr. Hallerman uses neuroscience to offer insights into the complexities of addiction, including the impact of trauma and adverse childhood experiences, and emphasizes the need for compassion and support. Learn about the root cause of addiction, how symbolism and mythology help you heal, and how to transform your pain into purpose.

In this episode we cover:
0:03:50 – Life as an Addict
0:09:15 – Is Addiction a Choice
0:16:17 – COVID-19 and Addiction
0:21:39 – Eating Disorders
0:22:49 – Loneliness Epidemic
0:23:47 – Root Causes
0:27:08 – Trauma
0:34:16 – Adverse Childhood Experiences
0:38:21 – Soul-Work
0:42:14 – Success
0:50:29 – The Turning Point
0:54:53 – The Career Change
0:57:22 – The Acorn Theory
1:03:08 – Is Suffering Necessary?
1:06:55 – Finding Purpose
1:08:22 – Soulbriety Method
1:14:45 – RMA
1:20:07 – Being Emotionally Available with Boundaries

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasnow. Today on the show, I welcome Dr.
0:14.1	Alisa Hallerman. Elisa is an attorney and member of the New York State Bar Association,
0:20.0	and she holds a master's and doctorate
0:22.7	in depth psychology and somatic studies, focusing on neuroscience and trauma. Elisa is also a drug
0:30.8	and alcohol counselor, certified in yogic science for addictive behavior, and a member of the Institute for Functional Medicine.
0:40.2	She is also the recent author of Soul Briety, a plan to heal your trauma, overcome addiction,
0:46.3	and reconnect with your soul. And this book is a vulnerable and occasionally torturous excavation of Elisa's own personal journey
0:57.0	to getting clean and eventually to rediscovering her own soul. Her transformation propelled her
1:04.0	to leave her successful career as a Hollywood agent and create the first ever recovery management
1:10.4	agency, RMA. RMA is Alisa's revolutionary
1:15.1	approach to addiction and mental health support, where she provides comprehensive assessment,
1:20.5	treatment teams, and crisis management. So in our discussion, Alisa and I delve into many of
1:27.3	the subtle factors that influence this epidemic of addiction, including its connection to depression, anxiety, and trauma.
1:36.3	We discuss how the use of imagination and symbolism are often helpful tools in understanding and communicating with the soul on the road to
1:48.9	healing. We discuss how the interruption of healthy attachment in developmental years can lead to the
1:56.2	lack of connection with others later in life and negatively impact one sense of self-worth.
2:03.6	Our conversation illuminates the impact that adverse childhood experiences can contribute to
2:10.6	loneliness and the correlation between loneliness and addiction.
2:15.6	We discuss the physiological impact of addiction on the brain,
2:21.4	specifically the dysregulation between the basal ganglia, which is responsible for
2:26.1	survival instincts, and the frontal lobe, which is significant for rational thought and
2:31.9	decision-making. We explore the concept of post-traumatic
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