#57 - Dr Constance Scharff: Overcoming Overwhelm, Anxiety & Trauma

I Highly recommend you tune into this episode with Dr Constance Scharff. She discusses her life story, how she overcome child abuse, started abusing alcohol at the age of 12, and by her early 20's was drinking almost two litres of hard liquor a day. Through all of this, she not only stopped herself from ending her own life, but ended up thriving, finding her purpose and saving lives. ...Constance Scharff, Ph.D is an internationally recognized speaker and author on the topics of addiction recovery and mental health. She most recently served Rock to Recovery, a music-based addiction and trauma treatment program, as VP Business Development, and Science and Research Chair. Previously, Dr. Scharff was Senior Addiction Research Fellow and Director of Addiction Research for a luxury addiction treatment center based in Malibu, California. She is the 2019 recipient of St. Lawrence University’s Sol Feinstone Humanitarian Award, honoring her service to and advocacy for those suffering from mental illness, trauma, and addiction.Dr. Scharff’s writing centers around using complementary health and contemplative practices to improve treatment outcomes. Her latest book, Rock to Recovery: Music as a Catalyst for Human Transformation, written with Rock to Recovery founder Wes Geer, describes the impact songwriting and performance has on mental health. She is also coauthor of the Amazon.com #1 best-selling book, Ending Addiction for Good and the award-winning poetry book Meeting God at Midnight. At present, she is working on a memoir titled Becoming Beloved, about healing from trauma.She travels the world speaking, teaching and advocating for compassionate health practices that destigmatize mental health problems....You can learn more about Constance here: https://www.constancescharff.com/Thanks for listening! We would love your support so we can keep growing this show! Please sign up to nickbracks.com to receive a free chapter of my book. We would love you to subscribe, review, share and comment on the podcast to help us make a difference!The Move Your Mind book & Audiobook is now Available in stories Australia wide and online globally! You can find free chapters & order here: Move Your Mind Book or on my site: nickbracks.comYou can also sign up to our new Move Your Mind community group here: moveyourmind.me or here: Move Your Mind Community  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.