May 2023 Workshop

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Exploring our Beliefs of Trauma and Addiction
Past, Present and Future

Thursday, May 25, 2023, 1:30 pm – 3 pm

Presenter: Roseann Cervelli MS, LCADC, CCS, CPS of Central Jersey Family Health Consortium

May is National Trauma Awareness Month. For decades, we have sought to understand and help those suffering from addiction and trauma. Sometimes we succeeded and sometimes we failed.

Today, we are approaching new therapeutic thresholds for helping those who suffer from these diagnoses.

This presentation is a heartfelt invitation to substance use and mental health providers, therapists, counselors, medical professionals, teachers, and providers of human services to:

Update and deepen our definitions of Addiction and Trauma
Explore our personal and clinical paradigms about the complex nature of Addiction and Trauma and their many levels of expression in those affected
Delve into early childhood trauma and its life-long impact on the development of a healthy, emotionally regulated nervous system
Reflect upon the effectiveness/ineffectiveness of past and present-day recovery treatment modalities and practices
Discuss potential future therapies for health and healing of Addiction and Trauma

“For me, no matter what the addiction is, it is an attempt to reduce emotional pain. So, the mantra I keep repeating is not, “why the addiction,” but “why the pain?” In order to heal the addiction, we must look at the underlying trauma.” –Gabor Mate

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Workshop Presenter

Roseann Cervelli MS, LCADC, CCS, CPS
rcervelli@cjfhc.org

Formerly an elementary school teacher of third and fourth grades, Roseann has been involved in the field of addictions for approximately 34 years. She holds an LCADC, CPS and CCS in addition to a Masters in Special Education. She has worked in both inpatient residential as well as outpatient treatment settings, with a special focus on the needs of women, children and their families who have been affected by alcohol and other substance use disorders.

For the past 5 years, Roseann has been teaching, researching and taking classes on Mindful Self- Compassion- developed by Kristen Neff, Chris Germer and many other contributing teachers and researchers.
In 2019, she participated in a week long class at Omega Institute on teaching the Mindful Self-Compassion Course, and in 2020, participated in a nine month certification program entitled, “Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy.”

This work has become her passion, as she saw how essential to our basic human needs the practice of Mindful Self- Compassion and Compassion for Others is. It serves as a comforting and empowering antidote to the many diverse physical, emotional, mental, and traumatic wounds our human family suffers from.

Trauma Specialist Gabor Mate has said, “When we start the journey of being Compassionate with ourselves, not only does it change ourselves, it changes our communities and our society. By being compassionate to ourselves, we can then be even more compassionate to those we love, to our family members, friends and dear ones, to our community, to all the world.

Kristen Neff once said, “ Compassion holds pain with love…” We have all heard that everyone has a story…May I add to that, everyone has a story that deserves to be listened to with Love and Compassion.

Workshop Recording

Resources & Additional Content

Exploring our Beliefs of Trauma and Addiction Past, Present and Future

Exploring our Beliefs of Trauma and Addiction
Past, Present and Future