
Stephen King, a registered clinical counsellor from British Columbia, introduces addiction, anxiety, depression, and trauma with energy psychology, PTSD, and authenticity insights for practical healthy lifestyle shifts.
Explore how stress-hardy individuals thrive under adversity by embracing the three cs: challenge, commitment, and control, cultivating resilience, meaning, and adaptive explanatory styles.
Discover how healthy reframing transforms fear of failure into constructive feedback and fuels growth, reframing limiting beliefs into empowering statements for states like anxiety, exhaustion, and loneliness.
Identify the inner advocate versus adversary to transform self-talk and reduce self-sabotage. Compare family belief systems with personal beliefs to move toward authentic meaning, purpose, and disciplined action.
Explore how dependence and addiction relate to fear, phobias, and anxiety through stress responses and the autonomic nervous system, with energy medicine and reframing to resolve trauma and PTSD.
This lecture links addiction, trauma, and healing with Rumplestiltskin grace and enlightenment, showing how naming diagnoses, internal dialogue, and compassionate intent foster control, serenity, and meaningful growth.
Explore how negative core beliefs drive self-sabotage and health outcomes by examining the subconscious mind, placebo effects, and emotional freedom technique to replace limiting patterns.
Compare the family belief system with the personal belief system to reveal how inherited ego-centric beliefs fuel self-sabotage, and move toward authenticity through honesty, open-mindedness, and purposeful choices.
Learn how attitude shapes life experience, cultivate gratitude, and become the causative agent of your responses to overcome self-sabotage, embrace personal responsibility, and reframe thinking.
Identify energy packets as disturbances that trigger anxiety and cravings for drinks or drugs, learn how repression builds an energy reservoir, and discover ways to release them to overcome self-sabotage.
Record and confront your memories with a chronological template trauma list to identify early traumas, validate your truth, and rebuild a foundation through reframing, forgiveness, and self-compassion.
Use inner dialogue to ground clients in the here and now, fostering self-awareness, mindfulness, and courageous action before trauma work. Therapists guide relaxation, acknowledge surviving parts, and affirm adult self.
Clear template memories with a two-finger tapping technique on the bridge of the nose and the beginning of the eyebrows, dissipating frozen traumatic images and restoring healthy homeostasis.
Practice tat pose with three-spot tapping to clear traumatic memories, tapping around the ears, at the eyebrows, and under the eyes to dissolve imagery and reduce anxiety.
Explore how supersensitive or empathic individuals absorb family of origin guilt and shame, leading to addiction, anxiety, and rigid black-and-white worldviews.
Release negative feelings through an ear-based tapping acupressure technique that supports whole brain integration and helps identify, visualize, and release emotions with gamma relaxation and the wet noodle exercise.
Learn collarbone breathing to address neurological disorganization in trauma care, using tapping-based four-step technique from thought field therapy and emotional freedom technique to improve coordination, balance, and decision making.
Identify extra recovery considerations beyond therapies, including nutritional deficits (B-complex vitamins, minerals), food allergies (corn, wheat, dairy), thyroid issues, hypoglycemia, candida overgrowth, adrenal fatigue, and sugar and caffeine effects.
Explore seasonal affective disorder (sad) and practical relief strategies, including full spectrum lights, energy work, and emotional freedom technique. Consider patch flower remedies, B-12, vitamin D, and sun exposure.
Explore pyroluria as a potential underlying cause of lifelong anxiety and depression, tied to vitamin B6 and zinc deficiencies, observable signs, and a simple urine test and natural supplement approaches.
Engage with an animal metaphor exercise to observe your patterns, beliefs, and recurring relationship dynamics, guiding you toward true choice.
Align your daily energy tune-up to open energy flow and support healing with adrenal massage, collarbone breathing, bone breathing, and emotional freedom technique tapping.
Explore existential questions through 150 prompts from the book, guiding your self fidelity and courage, and becoming the architect of your own existence by clarifying beliefs, purpose, and action steps.
Learn how forgiveness means letting go and voluntary cancellation of a debt, moving from victim to victor and reclaiming physical, mental, and spiritual integrity through grace.
Cultivate a permanent attitude of gratitude to reframe experiences, move from victimhood to responsibility, and shape life through conscious thoughts, feelings, and responses.
Explore tapas as a mindful restraint that acknowledges urges without acting, transmuting energy into fresh, spontaneous action while breaking habitual patterns to support healing from addiction, anxiety, and trauma.
Clean post-traumatic stress and addiction, reclaim the inner self, and embrace a present, authentic self through tapping, gratitude, and self-guardianship.
Explore tools to heal trauma, clear self-sabotage, and move toward the palace of possibilities by embracing the present, practicing tapping, and cultivating self-guardianship.
The newly-formed Canadian Alcohol Use Disorder Society has produced this video, which features the course instructor.
Live a life that matters emphasizes building and giving, not owning, and values integrity, compassion, courage, love, sacrifice, and the memories of those you touched more than wealth.
This course is designed for anyone, lay-person or professional, who wishes to understand more about the many issues and possibilities related to addiction, anxiety, depression and trauma. It is a primer on these subjects - but it also offers an in-depth understanding of the subjects as well as options and process possibilities. please do not forget to get the download of the book that is located in the final chapter 'Things Have Changed'. It is a compilation of the many aspects of addiction, obsession, compulsion, fears, phobias and anxieties and hopefully provides both insight, awareness and understanding of the nature and origins of same, as well as possible means by which the underlying issues can be identified and potentially resolved. It is hoped that by working through this course, a lay person or clinician will recognize the need to collapse any stigma they may hold on to and develop a broader understanding of the bio/psycho/social/spiritual aspects of recovery. Looking at the latest research, please bear in mind the possible use of medication to assist in recovery from substance addiction and I would urge you to check out the work of Dr. Jeff Harries and the Canadian Alcohol Use Disorder (CAUD) website. If you or a client is having to deal with trauma (PTSD), then I would recommend utilizing my course 'Cleaning and Clearing PTSD', which is also on the Udemy platform or go to the Detachment Technique website - Please note that the book 'Notes & Quotes on the Issue of Addiction' is now included in this course and can be downloaded from the final chapter 'Things Have Changed' or you may got to the Detachment Technique website, look under extras and then E-Books and scroll down.