Addiction and Trauma
“A Personal Growth Experience with
the Therapeutic Spiral Model”
Martha Peirce, M.S.Ed. of PennRose Associates will
host Dr. Kate Hudgins and the TSM Team for a residential workshop
WHEN:
Thursday, January 30, 2014 at 6:30pm to Sunday February 2, 2014 at 2:00pm
WHERE:
Hamilton, Ontario
In today’s world of stress, pressure, and trauma, it is a rare person who has reached adulthood and not
suffered a personal, community, or cultural trauma. When this happens, we all turn to our defenses to deal with
feelings that cannot be expressed at the time and often they progress into addiction. Co-dependency, addictions
to food, alcohol, drugs, or other process addictions such as gambling, overwork, and shopping are all defenses
against these feelings of anger, grief, loneliness, shame, and terror. This workshop gives people with abstinence
the opportunity to begin, or progress their treatment of the underlying stress and trauma that maintains their
obsessions and compulsions toward addictive substances and processes.
Using the Therapeutic Spiral Model aligned with the 12 Steps, we will create a safe group for you to
gently explore underlying traumas and feelings that are related to your addictions in order to not only stay
abstinent but to learn how to truly live in recovery and beyond.
In this workshop, you will learn how to:
· build strengths and resiliency to make your life better
· honour your defences and then find new healthy coping skills for stress
· face the underlying traumas that feed eating disorders and addictions safely and without being
triggered
· fully move into thriving in self-care, self-esteem, relationships, and work
Kate Hudgins, Ph.D., TEP is an American Trainer, Educator, and Practitioner of Psychodrama,
Sociometry, and Group Psychotherapy with a PhD in Clinical Psychology. She is an international expert on
trauma and addiction for the past 25 years and recently published her 5th book "Healing World Trauma with the
Therapeutic Spiral Model: Stories from the Frontlines" with chapters on both eating disorders and addictions
and how TSM has helped people prevent relapses, maintain abstinence, and go beyond recovery into thriving
with themselves and their families. She worked in Barrie and Ottawa for over 10 years with Dr. George
McDermott and with the Men's Project training staff on how to help make the connection between recovery and
trauma. She is excited to be returning to lovely Canada once again.
Workshop Tuition: $465.00+$60.00HST=$525.00, Lodging and meals: $237.54+$30.88 HST=$268.42 (single)
or $225.66+$29.34=$255.00 (double). You are welcome to bring healthy snacks. A refrigerator and microwave
are available in the common area. Please reserve your spot today by sending a $125.00 deposit (cheque or
m.o/Canadian funds.) payable to PennRose Associates at 96 Main St. N., Box 1141, Hagersville, ON, N0A
1H0. Balanced owed is due no later than December 26, 2013. There will be NO refund of deposit if
cancellation is less than one month prior to the workshop. For more information, call 905-768-3149 or email
dog.lady@shaw.ca.