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Reply to "Trauma presentation for addicts"

I've addressed this subject on several occasions with our felony offender recovery population.  I'll show the 25 minute version of "Healing Neen" on YouTube as her story ties together ACEs, addiction and crime and how they relate to one another.  If I have more than one hour, I talk about brain development (in a simple and easy to understand fashion) and how mindfulness practices can move you from an agitated place in your mind to a more relaxed.  I usually bring mindfulness coloring pages and ask them to color in quiet.  One day a lady said she wasn't sure she could color as she felt a panic attack coming on.  I told her she was welcome to be excused from class to meet with the mental health counselor but before she did would she mind to give coloring a try.  After about 45 minutes she told the whole class, "I feel so peaceful now, if I'd have known about coloring - I might never have tried drugs!"  This program now offers trauma-yoga for it's clients  

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