Helpful Resources
Webpages
Find your meditation body scan tool here at calm.com
or Dan Siegel's breath awareness tool here
Alanon - support for families and friends of Alcoholics
National Association for Loss and Grief
Help for family/friends of Sexaholics
Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous
Overcoming Sex Addiction - Patrick Carnes' 30 Tasks
Overcomers Outreach - Christian 12 step program for All Addictions
Articles
Addiction – a Brain Disease with Biological Underpinnings
http://www.hazelden.org/web/public/vcwin1braindisease.page
Is Addiction an Attachment Disorder?
https://insidethealcoholicbrain.com/attachment/
Somatic Experiencing
http://www.goodtherapy.org/learn-about-therapy/types/somatic-experiencing
What's your Body got to Do with it? Trauma Treatment
http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/trauma-treatment-whats-your-body-got-to-do-with-it-0507155
Science of how our Minds and our Bodies converge in the Healing of Trauma
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/06/20/the-body-keeps-the-score-van-der-kolk/
Biology of Fear
http://www.tiandayton.com/scared-stiff-the-biology-of-fear
Felt Sense:The Vitality and Liveliness of Our Inner World
http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/felt-sense-vitality-liveliness-of-our-inner-world-1122165
Healing from the Freeze - Trauma, Dissociation and Embodiment
Living from our roots
http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/self-esteem-growth-stay-true-to-your-roots-not-your-leaves-0302164
Anxiety and Mindfulness
http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/thoughts-emotions-and-the-body-mindfulness-for-anxiety-0715154
Childhood trauma leads to Brains Wired for Fear
http://sideeffectspublicmedia.org/post/childhood-trauma-leads-brains-wired-fear
Neurobiology of Grace Under Pressure – stimulate the vagus nerve and keep calm, cool and collected
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-athletes-way/201302/the-neurobiology-grace-under-pressure
Self Compassion - our key ingredient in change
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/nurturing-self-compassion/201703/how-cultivate-more-self-compassion
Expressing compassion and empathy tools for all our Relationships
https://www.gottman.com/blog/what-makes-love-last-expressing-compassion-and-empathy/?
Parenting Tips from Harvard Psychologists
http://curiousmindmagazine.com/parents-who-raise-good-kids/
Bowen Theory's 8 Concepts - Family Systems Theory
https://thebowencenter.org/theory/eight-concepts/
A basic Meditation to Strengthen Neural Connections