Holistic Trauma Healing with Lindsey Lockett

Episode 41: Addiction & Recovery — Consciousness Prevents Relapse with Mike Govoni

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In this episode with addiction recovery specialist Mike Govoni, we...

  • share Mike's unbelievable trauma story and how he healed himself from opioid and alcohol addiction, ulcerative colitis, and multiple chemical sensitivity
  • discussion addiction and alcoholism as an adaptation of the nervous system to attempt to regulate a dysregulated internal environment
  • differentiate between getting clean and sober and healing
  • talk about how addiction and alcoholism aren't actually about the substances at all
  • discuss the role of the social engagement system of Polyvagal Theory and why addicts isolate themselves
  • share how Mike encourages his clients to be in awareness of their bodies to heal from the trauma story that led them to substance abuse
  • discuss the differences in cognitive, narrative therapies, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, and somatic, body-based therapies, such as somatic experiencing
  • challenge the 12-step recovery language and discuss whether it's truly supportive of healing and re-establishing identity after addiction
  • share the role of spirituality in healing addiction and trauma
  • discuss the role of ancestral trauma in addiction and alcoholism
  • share Mike's take on people in recovery using psychedelic medicine
  • talk about the trauma that abusers and perpetrators experience and their need to heal just as much as victims

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