soulwalk in sobriety

SouWalk In Sobriety Program is a uniquely comprehensive addiction recovery and relapse prevention program.  Integrating education, experiential hypnotherapeutic, and somatic practices, SWS provides mental, emotional, and spiritual tools needed for lifelong recovery.   

All addictions, whether substances such as drugs, alcohol, and food . . . or behavioral, for example, gambling, relational, and codependency, serve to anesthetize negative emotions, inherently causing detrimental emotional 

self-neglect and disconnection from self, others, and life.   

During the recovery process, suppressed negative emotions are uncovered and 

re-emerge.  SWS's Program provides specific instruction, guiding one to manage those re-emerging negative emotions, intercepting the emotional stressors that precede addiction relapse.   SWS implements emotionally restorative therapeutics consisting of experiential, pragmatic, educational, and cognitive modalities.  Each component of the program contributes synergistically to generate emotional resilience and equanimity, transforming the emotional climate for those navigating new and continued recovery.  

EQUANIMITY:  MENTAL CALMNESS, COMPOSURE AND EVENNESS OF TEMPER, ESPECIALLY IN A DIFFICULT SITUATION.

While effectively helping to regulate mood and emotion, self-destructive thought patterns and internal responses to stress are transformed.    Neuroplasticity of the brain enables NEW thought patterns to solidify over time and consequently, the program initially done cognitively, on purpose, develops into an automatic psychological response.   

The foundational component of the SWS Program is the Cognitive Self-Questioning Practice (CSQ).  CSQ's primary focus teaches one to build a relationship with self, based upon emotional availability.  This relationship replaces the one the addict has with the addiction and the addiction behaviors.  

PROGRAM BENEFITS AND GOALS

• Integrate CSQ Practice daily 
• Repetition of the CSQ Practice creates new neuro-pathways strengthening the internal process of cultivating  emotional comfort, resolution, and emotional  self-reliance 
• Bridge a solid relationship with self thereby assimilating emotional autonomy 
• Mood and emotion regulation while transforming thought patterns to improve stress response    
• Rapidly shift mood within 1-3 minutes    
• Learn to combat cravings   
• Intercept emotional triggers leading to relapse    
• Feelings 101 - identify, have, hold, contain, and release
• Incrementally transform negative self-beliefs to positive (releasing shame) 
• Increase mindfulness / enhance presence of self  / meditation
• Release the addict-identity and replace it with authentic-self  
• Emotional autonomy 
• Incrementally shift from "false-self" to "true-self" 
• Increase motivation for sober lifestyle 
• Learn the three stages of relapse 
• Learn tools for lifelong recovery 
• Understand PAWS (Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome)