Creating Change
On this edition of Creating Change, Doug talks with Dr. Constance Scharff, Addiction Research Consultant for Cliffside Malibu Addiction Treatment Center. Dr. Scharff offers tips and discusses science-based principles for helping people overcome addictions. Dr. Scharff will also share insights from her new book co-authored by Richard Taite titled, Ending Addiction for Good: The Groundbreaking, Holistic, Evidence-Based Way to Transform Your Life. This episode of Creating Change will help you separate fact from fiction when it comes to addiction and recovery.
Constance Scharff has a PhD in Transformative Studies, specializing in addiction recovery. She is a researcher with the Institute for Creative Transformation, the Transformative Studies and Addiction Research Consultant for the Cliffside Malibu Addiction Treatment Center. Dr. Scharff is also the world’s leading expert on using ecstatic spiritual experience to maintain long-term sobriety. The focus of her ground-breaking research is understanding addiction as an opportunity for spiritual transformation. She is a nationally renowned transformational consultant, helping addicts in recovery navigate difficult spiritual experiences and grow in positive directions from them. An author and poet, Constance currently writes on the subjects of addiction recovery, relapse prevention, ecstatic spiritual experience, personal transformation and Jewish mysticism. Her most recent works will be available in late 2012 and early 2013. These include a book on addiction co-authored by Richard Taite titled, Ending Addiction for Good: The Groundbreaking, Holistic, Evidence-Based Way to Transform Your Life (Wheatmark, 2012), a book of Jewish-themed poetry called, I Want a God with Arms (Sociosight Press, 2012), and a first-person account of radical spiritual transformation, Becoming Ahuva (Sociosight Press, 2013).
