“Being cut off from our own natural self-compassion is one of the greatest impairments we can suffer. Along with our ability to feel our own pain is our best hope for healing, dignity and love. What seems non-adaptive and self-harming in the present was, at some point in our lives, an adaptation to help us endure what we then had to go through. If people are addicted to self-soothing behaviors, it’s only because in their formative years they did not receive the soothing they needed. Such understanding helps delete toxic self-judgment on the past and supports responsibility for the now. Hence the need for compassionate self-inquiry.”
― Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
​Dr Gabor Mate explains that any addiction is an unconscious choice for people to deal with past trauma and stressful experiences – only because they have no other way to cope.  And this is addiction to anything – work, success, money, shop as well as drugs or alcohol.  We need to give people the tools to cope and heal past trauma – and TRE is one of best ways.  And even those who, for example, eat or drink a little too much at the end of a hard day’s work, TRE can be the alternative healthy way to release the day’s stress.

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Saturday, October 20, 2018​
One Day Retreat
10 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Healing From Addiction & Past Trauma
10:00 Welcome (light refreshments) - Intro to Trauma
11:00 Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises
12:00 Group Discussion
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Somatic Techniques  &  Working with Partners
2:30 Group Processing & Discussion
3:00 Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises
4:00 Progressive Relaxation & Sound Bath
4:45 Closing Circle
Registration Required by 10/15
Space Limited
$200
Payments accepted via PayPal, Apple Pay, Venmo, Check