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September 17, 2020 – Dr. Jamie Marich (she/they) began her career as a humanitarian aid worker in Bosnia-Hercegovina from 2000-2003, primarily teaching English and music while freelancing with other projects. Jamie travels internationally teaching on topics related to trauma, EMDR therapy, expressive arts, mindfulness, and yoga, while maintaining a private practice in her home base of Warren, OH. Jamie is the author of seven books on trauma recovery and healing, with many more projects in the works.
Marich is the founder of the Institute for Creative Mindfulness. Her bibliography currently includes: EMDR Made Simple (2011), Trauma and the Twelve Steps (2012), Creative Mindfulness (2013), and Trauma Made Simple (2014), Dancing Mindfulness: A Creative Path to Healing and Transformation (2015), and EMDR Therapy & Mindfulness for Trauma Focused Care (2018, with Dr. Stephen Dansiger), and Process Not Perfection: Expressive Arts Solutions for Trauma Recovery (2019). She has also written guest chapters and contributions for several other published collections. North Atlantic Books is publishing a second and expanded edition of Trauma and the 12 Steps, due for release in the Summer of 2020.
Q. If you are in recovery, what was your Drug of Choice? And when did you stop using?
A. Alcohol and pills (opiates) brought me to recovery, yet I also identify food and maladaptive attachments in relationships/love addiction as also being problem areas for me
Q. Do you think addiction is an illness, disease, a choice or a wicked twist of fate?
A. I do believe addiction can be viewed as a disease or an illness, IF we conceptualize it as one that primary forms in response to unhealed trauma. Of course there are exceptions out there, yet unhealed trauma seems to be the rule.
Q. Do you log on to ZOOM 12-step meetings? How often? Do you share?
A. Yes! My home group meets on Zoom once a week and I also take part in two non-12 Step holistic recovery meetings each week on Zoom. Yes, I share when I feel I can add something to it.
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