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Listening for Change

26 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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A short YouTube segment (speaker Amber Hollingsworth) about learning to detect subtle verbal and cognitive cues that indicate progress toward recovery from addiction. Amber addresses both family members and people struggling with addiction, urging listeners to notice small differences in how the problem is described and to use internal thoughts as markers of readiness.

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It's interesting because when I am in session pretty quickly after talking to someone, I can surmise how close to done we are just by listening. Not just for change talk, but they're just other things listening to the way they talk about the problem. There's just very subtle, slight differences. And I want you to start listening for them. If you're the family member and if you're watching this and you're struggling with an addiction and you're like, am I there? Am I serious? You're going to know based on, are you thinking these thoughts? You're going to know.