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Addiction, Friends and Families: Adriana Popescu and Dawson Church in Conversation
17/09/2026 | 46 mins.Adriana Popescu, PhD, is Chief Clinical Officer at Avery Lane recovery center in Novato, California, and the author of EFT for Addiction. As well as working directly with clients, she provides coaching and mentorship for the Avery Lane clinicians and leadership team. In her practice as a psychologist, she has treated a wide range of issues including anxiety, depression, trauma, chronic pain and grief. Research into Avery Lane’s results has shown that Adriana’s energy psychology methods produce much larger reductions in symptoms and relapse than traditional treatment programs.
Here she and Dawson discuss:
Energy Psychology
Addiction as a family disease
Why it is essential to include significant loved ones in the treatment plan
The misperception that the client is the person with the problem
Start with information about how families are a system
Case history of the clients who drank together
The difference between healthy support and enabling
The neuroscience of stress and recovery
Recognizing the slippery slope that leads to relapse
How grief and trauma can often trigger old ways of coping
How to produce sustained lifetime success at the end of treatment
Find Adriana at: https://www.adrianapopescu.org/
Purchase EFT for Addiction at: https://www.amazon.com/EFT-Addiction-Adriana-Popescu-PhD/dp/1604153164/
Connect with Dawson at: http://dawsongift.com/
To purchase Dawson the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Genie in Your Genes:
https://www.amazon.com/Genie-Your-Genes-Epigenetic-Consciousness/dp/1604153202/
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #emotionalhealing #genieinyourgenes #trauma #addiction #eftforaddiction #energypsychology- Donna Bach is a naturopath, herbalist and chiropractor. She has been working with the Mind Mirror EEG system for years, evaluating the changes to the brain as people enter healing and transcendent states. One of her scientific studies showed dramatic changes in immunity, blood pressure, pain, and cortisol after a week of energy healing. It has been cited by some 300 other researchers.
Here she and Dawson discuss:
How to lift ourselves up to a high vibrational frequency
Donna's background
Living in an entangled universe
Love and compassion
Listening intently and energetically with grounding
Why brain waves change in real time when a person receives energy work
EFT - tapping on acupuncture points
Why pain, heart, gut issues all improve when stress decreases
What a remote Zoom session looks like
Reach out to Donna at: https://naturalhealthcarecoach.com/
Connect with host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To purchase Dawson the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Genie in Your Genes:
https://www.amazon.com/Genie-Your-Genes-Epigenetic-Consciousness/dp/1604153202/
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #genieinyourgenes #energypsychotherapy #neuroscience #epigenetics #healing #energy #naturopath #tapping - Ruthie Smith is a psychotherapist, musician, and meditation teacher. In her work, she explores the emerging field of energy psychotherapy, blending traditional talk therapy with practical energy-based techniques to help release trauma, fear, shame, and deeply ingrained emotional patterns. Drawing on insights from neuroscience, epigenetics, biology, quantum physics, and consciousness research, her work shows how healing the body-mind-energy system can foster emotional resilience, personal transformation, and expanded states of awareness in a rapidly changing world. She is the author of the acclaimed book Energy, Soul-Connecting and Awakening Consciousness: Psychotherapy in a New Paradigm.
Here she and Dawson discuss:
Ruthie's background
Chanting and the power of vibrational frequency healing
The Heart Sutra
Energy psychotherapy
Integrating psychotherapy and spirituality
Trauma healing
A new level of consciousness
Humankind moving toward a more egalitarian world
Tapping and chakra clearing to heal your triggers
Meditation to drop from a busy mind into a peaceful heart
Opening to high vibrational living
Awareness as our greatest tool
Focusing on gratitude, joy, peace
Ruthie's Transforming Trauma and other trainings can be found at: https://energypsychotherapytraining.co.uk/
Her book, "Energy, Soul-Connecting and Awakening Consciousness: Psychotherapy in a New Paradigm" can be purchased at: https://www.karnacbooks.com/product/energy-soul-connecting-and-awakening-consciousness-psychotherapy-in-a-new-paradigm/97034/
Connect with host Dr. Dawson Church at: http://dawsongift.com/
To purchase Dawson the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Genie in Your Genes:
https://www.amazon.com/Genie-Your-Genes-Epigenetic-Consciousness/dp/1604153202/
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #genieinyourgenes #energypsychotherapy #neuroscience #epigenetics - RamDev Dale Borglum is the author of How to Live So You Can Die Without Fear and the executive director of The Living/Dying Project. A pioneering figure in the conscious dying movement, he has spent decades helping individuals face death — and life — with greater awareness and has collaborated with leaders in the field including Ram Dass, Stephen Levine, and Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Drawing on his background as a mathematician, meditation teacher, lover of God, and devoted practitioner of both Eastern and Western healing traditions, Borglum offers a uniquely practical and accessible map to the healing path.
Here he and Dawson discuss:
Why it’s hard to feel safe where the world isn’t supportive
When we focus on what we’re afraid of and not what fear feels like in the body
Exercise 1: What do I fear, and where to I feel it in my body
Meditation
The Tantric Three-Step
Step 1: Can I feel it in my heart
Step 2: Is compassion keeping your heart open when there’s suffering
Step 3: It’s all part of life; pleasant and unpleasant
The fundamental spiritual practice: to identify with who and what we really are
Exercise: Feel warm, connected, compassionate, spacious heart?
Fact: Everyone is afraid
Why the world needs more people of compassion
For more information on The Living/Dying Project:
https://livingdying.org/
Connect with Dawson at: http://dawsongift.com/
To purchase Dawson the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Genie in Your Genes:
https://www.amazon.com/Genie-Your-Genes-Epigenetic-Consciousness/dp/1604153202/
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #genieinyourgenes #energypsychology #death #grief #diewithoutfear #livingdyingproject - Adriana Popescu, PhD, is Chief Clinical Officer at Avery Lane recovery center in Novato, California, and the author of EFT for Addiction. As well as working directly with clients, she provides coaching and mentorship for the Avery Lane clinicians and leadership team. In her practice as a psychologist, she has treated a wide range of issues including anxiety, depression, trauma, chronic pain, and grief. Research into Avery Lane’s results has shown that Adriana’s energy psychology methods produce much larger reductions in symptoms and relapse than traditional treatment programs.
Here she and Dawson discuss:
Adriana's background
Discovering EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques)
Using The Prochaska Stages of Change Model to determine readiness to change
The importance of numerical assessment of symptoms
Partnering with Vista Research to collect data using standardized instruments
Assessments of patients in addiction treatment programs
The fight flight freeze response
The limitations of traditional talk therapy
How tapping calms the nervous system
The way EFT can reach the brain through the connective tissue and calms the amygdala
How to apply tapping with someone in the throes of an addiction craving
Tapping on being willing and open to change
Tapping on specific cravings with addiction treatment
Find Adriana at: https://www.adrianapopescu.org/
And to purchase EFT for Addiction: https://www.amazon.com/EFT-Addiction-Adriana-Popescu-PhD/dp/1604153164/
Connect with Dawson at: http://dawsongift.com/
To purchase Dawson the 20th Anniversary Edition of The Genie in Your Genes:
https://www.amazon.com/Genie-Your-Genes-Epigenetic-Consciousness/dp/1604153202/
#mindtomatter #blissbrain #spiritualintelligence #eft #meditation #highenergyhealth #emotionalhealing #genieinyourgenes #trauma #addiction #eftforaddiction #energypsychology
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