Children often are traumatized in the midst of others' addictions. This week I had the distinct honor of interview Jackie Flynn. Jackie is a rockstar child therapist who practices in Florida and often uses mindfulness herself in helping kids to create an emotionally safe space when coping with trauma and divorce (both issues which can arise from addiction). We talk about the ways that we can help children cope and about some of Jackie's upcoming and free trainings on these issues.

Yes we are addicts.  But that's not all we are.  We are also amazing, miraculous creations with some very definite value.  In this episode we define those miraculous qualities our creator endowed us with and begin to redefine who we are based on these inherent qualities to begin turning away from the negatives of living in the addiction and into the positives of living in our recovery.  Honoring our true selves and stepping fully into our recovery and future.

This week we focus on learning to sit with the fear and pain that can create triggers and anxiety and simply face it with courage.  We talk about the real meaning of courage in trauma and addictions and learning to pull those scary places from inside of us, sit with them and learn from them.  Taking the power out of our scary monsters so that we can move forward past the fear and anxiety.  A mindfulness exercise to help with this skill is included this week as well.