12-Steps to Spirituality by Overcoming Addictions w/Druid, Adrian Rooke

<p>Welcome to another podcast episode of Merkaba Chakras. I’m your host, Von Galt. Today, we discuss addiction, drug, and alcohol counseling and healing from a spiritual approach with Adrian Rooke. Aside from using the Narcotic Anonymous and Alcoholic Anonymous 12-step techniques to address addiction, he also offers clients various healing arts such as Reiki energy healing, Bards, Ovates, and Druids. Adrian, welcome to Merkaba Chakras!</p> <p><br></p> <p>To watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/mJDzv9rGa0c&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>Questions:</p> <p>1. Before we dig into your work. Can you tell us your story about how you got into this work?</p> <p>2. As an Addiction &amp; Behaviorist Specialist, is there a common childhood trauma that you keep seeing with many of your clients?</p> <p>3. There are “normies” and “addicts”. Now, I just came from a NA ladies retreat, which we do every year for 21 years now. The positive trend I notice is the attendees are young, which means that many are getting help earlier than before. Some of my best childhood friends are addicts, but I ended up a normie. Why are some people more suspect of becoming addicts than others who have a stop-loss?</p> <p>4. What kinds of coping skills can you suggest to people learning to deal with their life traumas and struggles without relapsing back into their addictions?</p> <p>5. You’re also a Family Therapist who teaches families how to cope with their own lives while the addict in their family works the 12-steps towards recovery. There is a common trait in that a lot of families enable the addict by constantly bailing them out, paying for everything, and endless tears of sorrow for the pain of seeing their loved one go through addiction. What results is that many addicts do not hit bottom. Many addicts also die, because of their addiction. What can you tell families in this situation? How can they let go of their addicted family member, so that he/she can complete their journey to hitting the bottom and start the process of recovery wit