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Life Works Free Lecture Series

Life Works holds a series of free lectures throughout the year. The lectures are aimed at providing a greater insight and awareness into the many facets of behavioural health and addictions. Life Works does not just focus on the issues such as alcohol dependence, drug addiction, eating disorders, sex and love addiction, codependence or gambling. Instead we supplement these areas with lectures that broaden attendee's knowledge and awareness on each topic.

The lectures are free and held at Kensington central library. We encourage any who are interested to attend and inform anyone else who they feel would benefit listening to our professional speakers.

This is one of the many services Life Works offers our recovery community to remain Dedicated to Recovery.

There is a high incidence of addiction amongst adoptees

This lecture will draw on the clinical experience and information from the fields of Attachment Theory and Traumatology, to explore the particular difficulties in recovery for adoptees and those with early life cycle trauma.

The hypothesis is that the adoption wound is particularly powerful and enduring because it is a pre-verbal trauma that is stored in implicit memory systems rather than in explicit memory. The effects of adoption can also be passed down through generations, making people affected vulnerable around issues of belonging and abandonment.

For the addicted adoptee, the hunger for attachment to a person, mood altering chemical or compulsive behaviour requires particular explanation, consideration and treatment. Paul proposes that it may be helpful to think about these clients as suffering from co-occurring disorders of both addiction and post traumatic stress disorder.

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