“Having over 30 years of personal, continuous recovery and working in the field of healing traumatic stress and addictive behaviors such as substance abuse, disordered eating, codependency, etc., I know first hand the struggle and suffering of feeling out of control, hopeless, and in despair as well as the path and process of recovery that leads to discovering an integrated whole self. This is why I am passionate about helping people gently face, feel, and heal through a holistic individualized approach that includes mindfulness-based interventions, integrative somatic processing, self-compassion, and more; so they can connect with their own authenticity, find community, and truly thrive. ”
MINDFULNESS AND RECOVERY
Laurie is a mindfulness-based interventionist and integrative holistic practitioner who specializes in healing trauma through somatic-centered healing, trauma-informed compassion training, and neurobiological psychoeducation. In addition to her private practice, she facilitates mindfulness and resilience building workshops, classes, intensives, and programs for recovery from addictive behaviors, disorders, compulsivities, and unprocessed trauma throughout Los Angeles and nationwide.
Courses Taught by Laurie:
Awakening Authenticity:
Discover your whole authentic self Discover how to gently embrace parts of yourself that you have disowned. Learn how to turn towards yourself like a good friend and how to tune into your innate wisdom by experiencing the sense of clarity and freedom that already exists inside. Participants will learn how to reconnect with themselves through investigative writing, compassionate inquiry, and somatic based processing that stabilize the nervous system and activates the recovery/receptive response. They will apply mindfulness and compassion through embodied and experiential practices. Along with cultivating positive neuroplasticity that can rewire the brain and transform negative self image and disempowering behaviors into a healthier perspective and habits that empower. This can be offered as a workshop, day long, or 4 week class series.
Finding Yourself:
Find freedom from addictive behaviors by finding yourself Feel unsatisfied, bored, stressed, frustrated, isolated? Tired of the same behaviors creating the same results? In this trauma informed course, you will explore how to disentangle from your unconscious mind loops with addictive behaviors, cultivate a curiosity and compassion to help navigate cravings, learn to manage emotions and find balance, get unhooked from destructive patterns, build an inner alli to balance out the the harsh inner-critic, and discover what truly makes you happy and soothes your stress and suffering.
Mindfulness Self Compassion (MSC) 8 Week Course
Created by Dr. Kristin Neff & Dr. Christopher Germer, this course teaches the basics of mindfulness and how Self-compassion is a courageous mental attitude that stands up to harm—the harm that we inflict on ourselves every day by overworking, overeating, overanalyzing, and overreacting. With mindful self-compassion, we’re better able to recognize when we’re under stress and face what’s happening in our lives (mindfulness) and to take a kinder and more sustainable approach to life’s challenges with cultivating emotional strength and resilience. Laurie is a trained MSC teacher.
Suggested Resources:
The Craving Mind by Judson A. Brewer
In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addition by Gabor Mate
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine
MINDFULNESS & RECOVERY
Weekly Support Group (TBA)
Recovering from addictive behaviors is a process that involves replacing old harmful patterns with new healthy ones. But first, we have to become aware of our patterns, when we get triggered, and discover what need is actually underneath the craving, and meet it in a way that can be truly satisfied. Recovery is a practice and we are not meant to do it alone. Learning to pause, manage emotions and cravings, feel more connected, and see the bigger picture is where Mindfulness is key!
Laurie holds a safe space for people to come together, share honestly, feel connected, and offers practical skills to help heal the core layers of addiction, alcoholism, codependency, and other compulsive behaviors through self-acceptance, self-compassion, and self-discovery.
Benefits of a Mindfulness practice:
Can manage anxiety, depression, and stress more effectively
Become able to live in the present moment, versus stuck in the past or projecting into the future
Become less judgmental and critical of self and others
Able to experience unpleasant thoughts and feelings without reacting to them
Reduces craving and the tendency to reach for something in order to feel better
Experience more calm and peacefulness in daily living
Develop greater self-awareness, self-acceptance, and self-compassion
In order to go far, we have to start where we are!
Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention (MBRP)
Laurie is a trained MBRP Facilitator through the UCSD Center for Mindfulness and has over 20 years of experience working with people dealing with addictive behaviors.
The primary goals of mindfulness-based relapse prevention are:
1. Cultivate awareness of individual triggers and habitual reactions. Learn how to create a space/pause in what seems like an automatic process.
2. Change your relationship with discomfort. Learn to recognize difficult emotional and physical experiences and respond to them skillfully and effectively.
3. Develop a compassionate and nonjudgmental approach towards yourself and your experiences.
4. Create a lifestyle that supports both mindfulness practice and recovery.
Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.mindfulrp.com/
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