Functional Medicine and Addiction Recovery with Jen Bruce

Description:  
Holistic Mental Health and Addiction Expert, Jen Bruce, joins us to explain the basics of Functional Medicine and addiction recovery. We discuss the biology-based approach to wellness, and how addiction, depression, anxiety, and chronic illness can be an opportunity and catalyst for positive change by healing the whole body. Join us for this fascinating discussion!

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Quotes:
We have to take radical responsibility for our own actions, for our own well-being, for our own happiness. Jen Bruce

In Functional Medicine, the beautiful thing with addiction, depression, anxiety, and chronic illness is these are actually opportunities and catalysts for change. Jen Bruce

Keep going, keep looking for answers, there's always a way through to the other side. It just takes dedication and a little bit of grit. Jen Bruce


Show Notes
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Jen Bruce: I work in functional medicine, and I specialize in holistic mental health trauma and addiction recovery.

Jen Bruce: I had substance use disorder with alcohol for about 15 years, and I found myself with depression, anxiety and about 13 years ago I started my healing journey.

Jen Bruce: I wasn't really happy with the results with a lot of the things that Western medicine was giving me. So I kind of set out on a journey and went around the world a few times.

Jen Bruce: Once somebody goes through something like that, you feel very called to help other people. So that's why I do the work that I do.

Jen Bruce: Functional medicine is the biology based approach to health and wellness.

Jen Bruce: We can get into the body and the entire human being and heal at the root cause so that the symptoms will go away as a side effect or as a result.

Jen Bruce: I like to help people who are recovering from different kinds of addictions.

Jen Bruce: At the root of all addiction is unhealed trauma.

Jen Bruce: Trauma is not an event like we've historically thought. And this isn't to diminish the severity of acute traumas that people experience, like at war or childhood abuse or something like that. But in fact, trauma is an experience and it can be something very subtle.

Jen Bruce: We can see in the genes people that have a predisposition to post-traumatic stress disorder, which runs along the spectrum of addiction as well.

Jen Bruce: We call this generational trauma. And, you know, the shamanic lineages, the traditional spiritual lineages have been speaking to this for thousands of years.

Jen Bruce: Children can actually be born in, you know, in stress response and trauma response. 

Jen Bruce: Most people are on a diet of food that's really not designed for human consumption. It's designed for shelf life.

Jen Bruce: We've forgotten how to sit with these uncomfortable emotions sometimes because we're kind of taught to take a pill if we don't feel happy, or to buy this thing if we don't feel happy, because this thing, you know, it's the consumer mindset and we're really being conditioned to turn away from any set of emotions that may not feel happy.

Jen Bruce: We have to take radical responsibility for our own actions, for our own well-being, for our own happiness.

Jen Bruce: Healthy relationships, healthy community and a peaceful home are going to be vital for people to heal.

Jen Bruce: I have a private practice, one on one. I also have a three month online group program called the Recovery Reset, where we go through all of the foundational lifestyle medicine.

Jen Bruce: I'm not against anything. I'm not against the pills. I'm not against alcohol. I'm for whatever works for people.

Jen Bruce: If we're regularly taking in the alcohol to soothe the anxiety, we're actually killing the little guys that are making our natural Xanax inside of our gut.

Jen Bruce: Keep going, keep looking for answers, there's always a way through to the other side. It just takes dedication and a little bit of grit.


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