Trauma, yoga, and spiritual recovery

Back from the Abyss: Psychiatry in Stories

Craig Heacock MD

Psychiatry, Bipolar, Suicide, Depression, Ketamine, Psychotherapy, Science, Psychedelics, Health & Fitness, Addiction, Medicine, Psychology, Mental Health

4.8 • 452 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Trauma embeds in the complex zone between body and spirit, deep within the realm of primary consciousness. The typical psychiatric approaches of meds and talk therapy rarely access these unconscious realms. In prior episodes of BFTA, we have heard accounts of healing these deep wells of trauma with EMDR, psilocybin, and MDMA-- this episode highlights the unexpected power of a loving teacher and a guided spiritual practice.Jeff Finlin, a Colorado-based singer/songwriter and recovery coach, sha...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Back from the Abyss. I'm Dr. Craig Hecock.
0:14.4	How do we heal, particularly from trauma? This question has fascinated me for years now.
0:22.6	What's the special sauce?
0:24.6	Are there commonalities or even essential pieces of the process?
0:28.6	Part of what is driven back from the abyss is my search to understand the how and the why of healing,
0:35.6	believing that first person accounts of emerging from the
0:38.3	darkness can provide the most wisdom and hope.
0:42.3	In this episode, Colorado-based singer-songwriter and recovery yoga instructor Jeff Finlan
0:48.3	tells his story of recovery after recovery.
0:52.3	Years into sobriety, he was still deeply tormented and traumatized,
0:57.3	until he found a path of spiritual healing through the practice of yoga and the breath.
1:03.6	You can learn more about Jeff and his new book on his website, jefffinland.com,
1:08.3	and I'll have links to that in the show notes.
1:10.8	Jeff was very gracious to let us use his music for this episode, and I really hope you
1:15.2	enjoy this one.
1:17.1	Where's the good man go for breaking?
1:24.1	Where's the ramble go to kneel? Where's the earth going to quaker?
1:33.3	To find what isn't, isn't...
1:36.3	You know, in AA, they say, you know, it takes five years to get your marbles back
1:42.3	and another five years to know what to do with them.
1:45.8	And that's kind of what was happening for me.
1:48.9	You know, I never got any relief after I got sober for probably two and a half years.
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