Episode 33: Addiction, Mindfulness, & Our Interior Environments with Dr. Rebecca Williams, Author & Psychologist

Aligned Expressions

In this Episode, Dr. Rebecca Williams joins us to talk about mindfulness exercises for those who are recovering from addiction including working with those who are suffering from addiction and impacts on interior environments, clutter, hoarding, etc.

Dr. Williams is an award-winning author, psychologist, and wellness expert specializing in healthy recovery from mental illness, addiction, and life’s challenges. She is the author of The Mindfulness Workbook for Addiction .For the past 25 years, her work has focused on building resilience and embracing emotional well-being. She has been a program director at the VA San Diego Healthcare System and an associate clinical professor at The University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. A life-long yoga enthusiast, Rebecca has also been a yoga teacher. She combines the ancient wisdom of yoga and mindfulness with compassionate recovery from addiction in her books.

A life-long yoga enthusiast, Rebecca trained as a yoga instructor in Raja Yoga. “I have always believed deeply in the mind-body connection, once you know this connection it’s easy to return to it when things feel out of balance”she says. She was able to combine the ancient teachings of yoga and mindfulness with the power of emotional recovery from substance abuse in her two books.

Topics:

-The Mindfulness Workbook for Addiction

-Rebecca’s personal and professional background in psychology, addiction, recovery and addiction.

-What inspired Rebecca to write a book on addiction recovery and mindfulness

-How addiction contributes to hoarding, clutter in your interior environment and how mindfulness can help you work through it

-How mindfulness exercises can work with any addiction.

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