Dr. Judi Hollis - Transferring Addictions and Obsessions - Meeting 222

Dr. Judi Hollis has been an addiction pioneer since 1969 when under Mayor Lindsay’s Addiction Services Agency, she helped develop the first therapeutic communities in New York City. Using her countless books, workbooks, recorded lectures, and pamphlets she has been a tireless campaigner on national and local TV and radio broadcasts training professionals and aiding families throughout the world. A chair is being named in her honor at the Keck School of Medicine offering scholarships and a yearly symposium to study family therapy and a twelve step approach to treating all addictions. Although a gifted and artful professional, she emphasizes that her most vital strength comes from her continuing membership in three 12-step fellowships.
 Her talk today focuses on the issue of “cross addiction,” or “transferring obsessions,” and multiple use disorders. If we’ve surrendered to needing help with one part of our self-destructive lifestyles, why is it so difficult to ask for further help if needed? We’ll explore some of the resistances to further surrender and “contempt prior to investigation.” We’ll look at why the final addiction is always the most difficult. What essential ingredient of recovery are we avoiding? Can we see the need for more help not as a sentence, but as an opportunity?

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Resources from this meeting:
Judi Hollis Contact - email judihollis@aol.com
Overeaters Anonymous
Al-Anon
Alcoholics Anonymous
OA Bridge
Books by Judi Hollis

Outro music is "Truth and Reconciliation" written and performed by James Carrington and used with full permission of James Carrington.  To learn more about this music and performer, please visit https://www.jamescarrington.net/ and https://m.facebook.com/jamescarringtonmusic