June 12, 2023

In our second guest blog, Dr Charlie Orton, Chief Executive of UK SMART Recovery; a UK based addiction recovery charity talks about her top three take-aways from the In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts conversation between trauma therapist Vivian McKinnon and Dr Gabor Mate. Mate is a world leading expert on childhood trauma and addiction. […]

Gary Rutherford is our guest writer for the fourth blog in our special series celebrating the work of international childhood trauma and addiction expert Gabor Mate. He was one of 60 participants attending the In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts event in conversation with trauma therapist and floatation expert, Vivian McKinnon and one of five

In this our third blog, the internationally acclaimed author and expert in childhood trauma and addiction, talks about ‘universal addiction processes that employ the same brain systems, the same emotional dynamics, the same emptiness, the same desperation to escape from pain.” He also looks at the origins of addiction in family trauma. This forms part

Welcome to the second blog on last week’s in-conversation session with world leading expert, Dr Gabor Mate on childhood trauma and addiction. For those who don’t know me, I’m Vivian McKinnon, a mum of three, owner and founder of Hydro-ease; Northern Ireland’s only dedicated floatation centre and a trauma and addiction therapist. In my work,

To those of you who know me. Hello my lovelies. To those of you who don’t. My name is Vivian McKinnon. I was once an addict. I have no shame in saying this because my past has become my educator, my mentor, my reason for being and doing better and for helping other people do