There’s stigma around people with addictions, there’s more stigma around women with addictions, and there’s maybe none more stigmatized than pregnant women with addictions. Today’s episode is all about pregnant women with opioid use disorders and some of the considerations for that particular group. One thing that is a huge liability for an addicted mom raising a child is the nonstop gossip and judgement that they have to deal with it. Culturally no one is as judged as an an addicted mother...
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There’s stigma around people with addictions, there’s more stigma around women with addictions, and there’s maybe none more stigmatized than pregnant women with addictions. Today’s episode is all about pregnant women with opioid use disorders and some of the considerations for that particular group. One thing that is a huge liability for an addicted mom raising a child is the nonstop gossip and judgement that they have to deal with it. Culturally no one is as judged as an an addicted mother...
Interpreting The Polyvagal Theory and How Safety Impacts Addiction Recovery - Part I
Surviving Opioids - Beyond an Epidemic
36 minutes
4 years ago
Interpreting The Polyvagal Theory and How Safety Impacts Addiction Recovery - Part I
In this first of 2-part series, I discuss Dr. Stephen Porges' Polyvagal Theory and how it relates to addiction recovery: If we are feeling safe, our entire internal physiology shifts away from stress and towards calmness, and where there is calmness, healing can happen. With a constantly dysregulated internal environment, healing won't happen. And even if someone manages to white knuckle some consecutive abstinence time, if their body doesn’t eventually shift over into a state of safet...
Surviving Opioids - Beyond an Epidemic
There’s stigma around people with addictions, there’s more stigma around women with addictions, and there’s maybe none more stigmatized than pregnant women with addictions. Today’s episode is all about pregnant women with opioid use disorders and some of the considerations for that particular group. One thing that is a huge liability for an addicted mom raising a child is the nonstop gossip and judgement that they have to deal with it. Culturally no one is as judged as an an addicted mother...
