Soulbriety: Soul Centered Healing From Addiction and Trauma

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Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners.  For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

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Speaker

Elisa Hallerman, JD, PhD Related seminars and products

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Elisa Hallerman, JD, PhD
On her fifth anniversary of sobriety, Elisa Hallerman still awoke with a hurting heart. This is not right. I am not happy. Sobriety was supposed to fix her, right? Isn’t that what sobriety is all about? Hallerman quickly realized that though she had freed her addiction to substances, she had not freed her soul. After years of trauma and substance abuse, she had only covered up the wounds, rather than truly healing them from within. This led to the development of Soulbriety, a recovery plan for overcoming addiction and trauma.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Elisa Hallerman is the founder of Recovery Management Agency. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Elisa Hallerman is a member of the NY Bar Association and the Institute for Functional Medicine. She is an author and will begin to receive royalties in December of 2022.

 

Objectives

1. Analyze the phenomenology of “soul” as it’s commonly experienced and been defined in the psychological sciences.
2. Demonstrate the use of active imagination in addiction treatment and recovery.
3. Demonstrate story-telling and meaning making in addiction treatment and recovery.

Outline

• Exploring the phenomenological experience of soul in addiction recovery
• Addiction as a crisis of meaning with existential implications
• Three aspects of working with the language of the soul that amplify treatment
• Active imagination practices
• Story-telling and meaning making practices

Target Audience

• Addiction Counselors
• Counselors
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Physicians
• Psychologists
• Social Workers
• Other Mental Health Professions