Encounter with Dr. Ken: Recent Episodes
Dr. Ken Buckle
Mental and spiritual health information for recovery from mental illness, addictions, unhealthy attachments, and other afflictions...presented in a manner that stays faithful to the 2000 year old tradition, values and teachings of the Catholic Church.
This episode addresses the issue of trauma and recovery. We consider the official definition of trauma and how it may be involved in our afflictions. There was a problem with the recording and Trauma was cut short and then HALT connected to it. Sorry for the technical glitches. We are not very skilled in the making of podcasts and videos.
This issue focuses on acceptance in recovery and for our spiritual and psychological growth.
This episode examines the benefits and importance of the person in recovery reaching out to others who are still suffering.
This episode examines the importance of daily silence prayer and meditation and recovery.
This episode deals with the common occurrence of our progress and healing and recovery but the difficulties of facing family members and friends around us who are not in recovery.
This episode address is the common experience of feeling stigma and shame and even attaching it to our sense of self, our identity as a label. This episode helps us to see how to break out of the cycle of stigma and shame that keeps us marginalized and separated from our brothers and sisters.
This session examines codependency issues which are common in recovery from mental illness, addictions and unhealthy attachments of all types.
This episode covers the possibility of slips, falls, and relapses in the recovery process.
This episode addresses the common experience of harm to others by our addictions, mental illness, character defects, anger, fears, selfishness, et cetera.
This episode in the series on recovery focuses on the importance of growing in humility through the recovery process.
This episode examines the importance of considering and identifying fears and resentments in the recovery process.
This episode addresses the common occurrence of multiple issues in recovery from mental illness, addiction, and other afflictions.
This episode addresses isolation in the midst of addictions and afflictions and how the power of social support facilitates recovery.
This episode discusses some of the common obstacles particularly early in recovery, and some of the remedies for these obstacles.
Those struggling with compulsive sexual behavior have often found that they are not able to break free of it on their own. This presentation outlines how a person might get started in sexual recovery.