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Surviving Opioids - Beyond an Epidemic

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Interpreting The Polyvagal Theory and How Safety Impacts Addiction Recovery - Part III

July 27, 2021 • Jeff Simone • Season 1 • Episode 9

Part 3 of a 3-part series about how the physiological feeling of safety and hypervigilance impacts the prognosis of addiction recovery.

This episode concludes the discussion about Dr. Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory and gives an interpretation of how this current research relates to opioid addiction.

I hope this series was helpful. Ensuring that clients, friends, or whoever I'm working with feel safe is the foundation for everything that I do, and it's always at the front of my mind.

If you’re a practitioner or clinician of any stripe or coach or mentor or sponsor or friend, and you want one sentence, one mantra to repeat in your head as you’re trying to help, let it be this:

"Is what I’m doing right now adding to a feeling of safety?"

If yes, continue down that path, and if no, make some adjustments.

A lot of us have been conditioned by the culture to believe that the only way for an addicted person to fully recover is to receive a lot of aggressive, "tough love."

In this episode, I offer my own theory for why that belief has lingered on in the treatment of addictions long after it's been largely proven ineffective.

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