
SHOW 5 : Awareness, Refuge, and Recovery
Guests: Lisa Dale Miller & Stephanie Tate
Air Date: September 30, 2010
Lisa Dale Miller, MFT is a mindfulness-based psychotherapist in Los Gatos, CA, specializing in the treatment of depression, anxiety, addiction, relationship distress, and emotion dysregulation. Lisa is a presenter at conferences on the clinical applications of mindfulness and is on the faculty of eMindful.com. She teaches MBSR, MBCT, MBRP (Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention for addiction recovery). Lisa has been a yogic and Buddhist meditation practitioner for more than 30 years. She holds an M.A. in Counseling Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara. Her masters thesis, Uncertainty, Nothingness, Beingness revisioned depression through the lenses of philosophy of quantum physics, Existential psychology, and Buddhist philososphy/psychology.
LisaDaleMiller.com
Lisa's blog: mindfulpsyche.blogspot.com
Stephanie Tate studied with Noah Levine and lectures with Noah and Kevin Griffin of the mindful recovery movement, throughout California and beyond. She is the guiding teacher for San Jose Dharma Punx, which includes a weekly Dharma and Recovery Group. In addition to Dharma Punx, Stephanie's work includes teaching mindfulness to incarcerated youth and Mind Body Stress Reduction in Medical and Corporate settings. She is also working on a Buddhist 12-step workbook. It is scheduled to be published with New Harbinger Publications in 2011. The goal of this workbook is to help build the bridges between the traditional 12-step model and Buddhist practice to enhance recovery from all forms of addiction.
sanjosedharmapunx.comThere are a great number of resources from books to podcasts of teachers from the Buddhist Recovery Network on the websitebuddhistrecovery.org
Some of the books & teachings that have inspired my guests today are:
- "Dharma Punx" by Noah Levine
Kevin Griffin is the author of One Breath at a Time: Buddhism and the Twelve Steps and Burning Desire: Dharma God and the Path of Recovery. A longtime Buddhist practitioner and 12 Step participant, he is a leader in the mindful recovery movement and one of the founders of the Buddhist Recovery Network. Kevin teaches internationally in Buddhist centers, treatment centers, professional conferences, and academic settings. Kevin's next retreat is at Vajrapani in Boulder Creek. Oct. 20 - 24th.
www.kevingriffin.net
Noah Levine, author of Dharma Punx and Against The Stream, is a Buddhist teacher, author and counselor. He is trained to teach by Jack Kornfield of Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, CA. He teaches meditation classes, workshops and retreats nationally as well as leading groups in juvenile halls and prisons. Noah holds a masters degree in counseling psychology from CIIS. He has studied with many prominent teachers in both the Theravadan and Mahayanan Buddhist traditions.
NoahLevine.com
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