This week, A-B Tech Student Services hosted a fantastic four-part lecture series called ARC 2024, focusing on various aspects of recovery and wellness. As a wellness advocate and someone in recovery, I attended each day’s presentation and wrote a blurb about each.
Beyond Slowing Down – How Neurofeedback May Empower Trauma Recovery
Based on Neurofeedback: An Aid to Recovery? from Patricia Hare, with Student Services, on Monday 3/18 , 2024.
This lecture explored the potential of this technique in supporting individuals on their recovery journey.
Harm Reduction in Western North Carolina: Building a Safer, Healthier Community
Presentation by Michael Harney and Raymond Velazquez of the Western North Carolina Aids Project (WNCAP) on the social movement of Harm Reduction, and proven strategies over decades of practice in clean free syringe access for advancing public health and uplifting the dignity and human worth of countless members of our community. Given on Tuesday 3/19, 2024.
Healing Relationships With Money: Navigating Financial Trauma Towards Recovery
Sherron Bristol, MSW, LCSWA, and Certified Financial Social Worker explores the pervasive role of financial trauma both on our wellbeing and bank account, and how we can rewrite and heal our relationship with money to make wiser decisions. Lecture on Wednesday 3/20, 2024.
From One Vice to Another: Understanding Cross Addiction in Recovery
Cross Addiction is a phenomenon many Clinicians, including Teresa Tahu, have witnessed in clients and patients where one addiction that is being recovered from is replaced with another addiction, which while it may be with something less harmful, it still acts as a barrier to healing and recovery. Thursday 3/21, 2024.
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