Alternatives to Addiction and Shame
Monday October 28, 2024- 12-2pm
As I have learned from my own teachers, shame lives in family systems not as an individual entity, but rather as a part of the collective ecosystem. Shame may exist without addiction, but addiction is usually accompanied by shame.
According to Family Constellations expert Suzi Tucker, addiction is a resource. (An unhealthy resource, but a resource nonetheless.) It is often cultivated to cope with shame, grief, or a whole host of equally difficult circumstances. Like shame, addiction lives in family systems not in isolation, but permeates multiple spheres.
In this workshop we’ll explore the relationship between addiction and shame. We’ll look at addiction as a resource for both individuals and family systems, and identify more generative alternative resources that come from deeper in the ancestry as well as from the present moment.
REGISTER FOR THE ALTERNATIVES TO ADDICTION AND SHAME WORKSHOP
