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

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 Subscribe! Follow @iamlindseylockett Support the show Join the Trauma Healers Circle