A Purpose-Driven Recovery: Setting Up Clients for Success in Sobriety
Presented by
Dreya Blume, LCSWUltimately, you’ll leave with a recovery roadmap to share with clients. Where that roadmap leads, a client is in the direction of the best version of themselves and a life worth living. This training is interactive and experiential.
Overview
6 CEs Recorded: Summer, 2024
If a client was spending all their time and energy focused on their addiction(s before getting sober, where does that leave them in recovery? What will they be focusing on now? If their identity was wrapped up in their addiction, then who are they as they begin their recovery journey? Indeed, many clients feel at a loss early in their recovery as they seek to understand and embrace this new version of themselves.
At the same time that a client starts to address the root of their addiction, they must also rebuild their identity. Reinvent themselves. Find new meaning and purpose in their lives. For that is what will keep them sober. In this training, you will learn the ingredients that make up successful recovery from addictive and compulsive behavior. We will explore how clients can redefine who they are–now that they are sober. We can also assist clients in remembering who they once were, before the traumas, before the addiction started. We can empower them to look beneath the adaptive self to connect with their authentic essence.
We will discuss the nature of change, the importance of mindfulness, how to access authentic values, how to recognize and replace limiting beliefs with empowering ones, how to cultivate self-compassion, how to manage cravings, the role of spirituality in recovery, the importance of emotional intelligence, and more.
Ultimately, you’ll leave with a recovery roadmap to share with clients. Where that roadmap leads, a client is in the direction of the best version of themselves and a life worth living. This training will be interactive and experiential; please have a notebook or app open to take notes.
**Objectives: **
Identify the stages of change and their relation to recovery from addictions.
Become familiar with the connection between meaning, purpose, and recovery.
Discuss ways to assist clients in connecting with core values.
Practice interventions such as mindfulness and self-compassion.
Explore the role of spirituality in recovery.
Identify ways for clients to recognize and replace limiting beliefs that negatively impact their recovery.
About the Presenter
Dreya Blume (she/her) is a licensed clinical social worker, psychotherapist, author, and educator. Dreya began working in the mental health field in 2004 in southwest Virginia, where she spent almost two decades serving the local transgender community as a gender therapist. She recently moved to Durham, NC, where she focuses on offering continuing education training to therapists and coaching for private practice clinicians who want to expand their business uniquely. Dreya loves to write and is the author of several books, including, “The Tarot Activity Book: A Collection of Creative and Therapeutic Ideas for the Cards,” “Journaling the Tarot,” “Everyone Has a Story: Using the Hero’s Journey and Narrative Therapy to Reframe the Struggle of Mental Illness,” and “Tarot for Transformation: Using the Major Arcana to Discover Your Best Self and Create a Life Worth Living.” All of Dreya’s books (under her former name, Andy Matzner) are available here: https://dreyablume.com/books. Dreya is also passionate about teaching. Before becoming a mental health clinician, she spent many years teaching English as a Second Language in places such as Japan, Australia, Thailand, and Hawaii. Once in Virginia, Dreya worked as an adjunct professor for almost twenty years at Hollins University, teaching gender studies and sociology in their Master of Liberal Studies program. In addition, she spent twelve years teaching future social workers in the human services program at Virginia Western Community College. Learn more about Dreya on her website: https://dreyablume.com/.