Breaking Free: Your Recovery. Your Way.
Health & Fitness:Alternative Health
In this episode, we talk to Robert Ashford about his work as a recovery scientist, the varying definitions of recovery, his recovery community organization, and the impact of the way we share our stories.
Robert’s biography:
Robert Ashford is a recovery scientist focused on substance use, recovery communities, recovery support services and institutions, integrated behavioral health systems, linguistic patterns, and technological interventions for behavioral health disorders. Mr. Ashford holds a Bachelor of Social Work with minors in Addiction Studies and Psychology from the University of North Texas, and a Master of Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice (SP2). Currently, Robert is pursuing his PhD in Health Policy at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. Robert has also completed fellowships with the Treatment Research Institute and is currently a graduate research assistant at the Center on the Continuum of Care in Addictions at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the Substance Use Disorders Institute at the University of the Sciences. Robert has been the recipient of many prestigious awards, most notably NADAAC’s Young Emerging Leader Award (2014), and the University of Pennsylvania Provost’s Citation for Excellence in Service (2017). He is also the founding editor for the Journal of Recovery Science, a national recovery planning partner for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), a grant reviewer for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and an appointee to the Philadelphia Mayor’s Task Force to Combat the Opioid Epidemic.
Resources:
The Journal of Recovery Science
Unity Recovery
Article: The Deserving and Undeserving Paradox
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032 Self-Expectation
031 Self-Forgiveness
030 Shame
029 Latinx Culture & Mental Health with Irina Gonzalez
028 Trauma Aware Recovery
027 Body Attunement
026 Healing Trauma with Dr. Jamie Marich
025 Setting Boundaries in Recovery
024 Adverse Childhood Experiences with Lynn Matti
023 Food and Body Boundaries
022 Body Obsession with Shannon Whaley
021 Why We Should Stop Comparing Our Bodies To Others’
020 Sugar Addiction
019 Intuitive Eating In Practice
018 What Is Intuitive Eating?
017 Why Diets Don't Work
016 Diet Culture
015 The problem with “Clean”
014 Shaming Language
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