STAY SOBER MINDFULLY!
Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention (MBRP) (Coming Soon!)
Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention (MBRP) is an 8 week psycho-educational class specifically created for clients in recovery from substance use disorders and is designed to help prevent future relapse.MBRP uses empirically supported interventions from Dr. Alan Marlatt's Relapse Prevention Therapy (RPT), Jon Kabat-Zinn's Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), and Zindel Segal and colleagues’ Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT).
The MBRP curriculum integrates mindfulness meditation practices with cognitive-behavioral strategies to support clients and promote vital lifestyle modifications for a healthy life of recovery. The program teaches effective skills to reduce stress, manage urges and cravings, and cultivate compassion and acceptance.
Each of the eight MBRP classes includes mindfulness meditation and mindful movement, along with cognitive-behavioral strategies to maintain and reinforce sobriety. Participants will be expected to do daily home practice.
MBRP Participant Enrollment Procedures and Guidelines
- All prospective participants must have at least 30 days of active sobriety
- All prospective participants will complete an MBRP questionnaire* and class agreement.
- All prospective participants will have a short interview by phone with Lisa Dale Miller to discuss suitability for the MBRP class
Why use a mind/body approach for relapse prevention?
- Mind-body approaches recognize a person’s innate healing abilities
- Illness provides some people with an opportunity for personal growth and transformation
- Mindfulness meditation, yoga, and chi gong address lifestyle imbalances while deepening and strengthening overall global coping strategies
What is Relapse Prevention Therapy (RPT)?
- A cognitive-behavioral approach which assumes addictive behaviors are learned behaviors
- RPT focuses upon the following interventions
- Awareness of triggers for addictive behaviors such as urges, cravings, interpersonal conflict, social pressure, and negative emotional states
- Cognitive-behavioral skills training for successful change in thoughts, feelings, and behavior
What is Mindfulness?
- Develops a curious, non-judgmental, acceptance of whatever one is experiencing moment to moment
- Being with the moment frees us from rigid attitudes, cognitions, behaviors, and lowers reactivity
- Cultivates letting go of desired outcome to more easily tolerate pain without the need to avoid or fix it
Click here to learn more about the important educational and experiential CD Mindful Solutions for Addiction and Relapse Prevention.
Click here to listen to a radio interview with Stefanie Goldstein, Ph.D. and Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D. about Mindfulness and Addiction.
For Questions or Inquiries please contact elisha@drsgoldstein.com