Addictions and Trauma Recovery: Healing the Body, Mind & Spirit

by Dusty J. Miller, Laurie Guidry

Dusty Miller's treatment model for addiction and self-injury, outlined in the best-selling Women Who Hurt Themselves , has been expanded in this new work to include the physical and spiritual impact of trauma. The Addictions and Trauma Recovery Integration Model (ATRIUM) presented here provides a blend of psychoeducation, process, and expressive activities, all of which are structured to address key issues linked to the experience of both trauma and addiction. The mind-body-spirit approach offers interventions to address these three dimensions of recovery in an integrated program of healing and empowerment.

This how-to manual introduces new ways of thinking about self-care, self-soothing, and self-expression. It provides a practical and empathic approach to the dysregulated mind-body experience of people with addictions who struggle with the impact of trauma. The recovery model described here may be used in conjunction with 12-step or other addiction treatment programs, as a supplement to trauma-focused psychotherapy, or as an independent model for healing. Each treatment component includes clearly articulated, illustrated explanations and interventions to be used collaboratively by professionals and consumers in groups or individual treatment. Handouts allow consumers to work on coping skills between sessions.

240 pages, Paperback

First published July 25, 2001

About the author

Dusty Miller’s passion as an activist, and her life-long addiction to fiction compelled her to write the adventures of Alice Ott, Raging Granny and cyber sleuth.Danger in the Air takes the reader on a fast-paced adventure from the quiet villages of Western New England into the epicenter of biological warfare, the high security labs at Ft. Detrick, Maryland. Alice Ott, with the help of a small band of concerned senior citizens, exposes a lethal cover-up. Alice successfully eludes dangerous covert operatives in her quest to reveal the origins of the infamous anthrax letters. Along the way, she reunites with her long-lost French lover and co-conspirator, Gerard, and proves that age is a state of mind.

Before starting her current life as a mystery writer, Dr. Dusty Miller spent many years as a psychotherapist and trauma expert, teaching nationally and internationally. She is the author of numerous articles and books about the impact of childhood trauma in the adult lives of survivors. Her most popular book, Women Who Hurt Themselves (1994; reprinted in 2005 as a 10th Anniversary edition) has been a national and international success. She has appeared on popular television talks shows and has been interviewed nationally and internationally.

Miller is already hard at work on a the sequel to Danger in the Air, another political mystery featuring 80 year old sleuth Alice Ott and the Raging Grannies.Burning Questions involves Alice in the investigation of a poison-spewing nuclear plant, exposing Government corruption and covert alliances. She expands her investigative team to include three young adventurers from the Occupy Movement.

Dusty Miller is a member of the Raging Grannies, and lives on a small lake in Western Massachusetts with her wife and two cats.

Reviews

[Tim Browne]

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