Addiction & Recovery Research Institute

Lectures

What’s wrong with my Brain?

The lecture following discusses the challenges in seeking solutions to our emotional issues in the field of Psychiatry and Pharmacology. Discussions surrounding how we normalize our emotions and minimize how we feel. Why we value substances and behaviors more than...

Culture of Recovery

The lecture following talks about the need for human connection and how we get enmeshed in the culture of addiction, (White, 1996) and how we replace that with the peer group we find in a 12-Step program.

12-Step Overview

Father Martin discusses the 12-Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.

Listening to Shame

The lecture following discusses the difference between guilt and shame and why we cannot grow through shame. Ideas are explored about how shame and guilt are manifested. Only people of values have guilt. You cannot break values you do not have, and therefore cannot...