CR Guest Speaker

SAVE THE DATE

All (adults) are welcome to join us for the next event in our Guest Speaker series at Celebrate Recovery. 

Join us on Monday, March 30 for a special evening at Celebrate Recovery featuring guest speaker Alison Buchan, MSW, RSW, CSAT who will be sharing a talk called, Trauma & The Nervous System: Our Body Remembers (description below).

This event is open to all adults - you don't need to be part of the Celebrate Recovery community to attend - but if you're curious about CR, we invite you to stick around after the talk for Newcomer 101, an introductory group that runs every week. 

A freewill offering will be taken at the event.

Questions? Email jkelly@lakesidechurch.ca - we’d love to hear from you!

ABOUT THE TALK: This seminar invites you to explore how earliest attachment experiences, trauma, and addiction-related patterns shape the way your nervous system responds to stress, conflict, and relationships. Together, we will look at how trauma is held not just in memory but in the body, and how our earliest relationships create templates we carry into adult life.

Grounded in attachment theory and interpersonal neurobiology, this presentation offers a compassionate lens for understanding how our past relationship wounds can still activate today, shaping our relationships and sometimes driving coping patterns like addiction. Most importantly, you will leave with practical, accessible tools to help you move out of survival mode and build the capacity to return to calm with confidence and self-compassion.

ABOUT ALISON: Alison Buchan provides counselling support to clients, focusing on a wide range of concerns in the areas of depression, anxiety, self-injurious behaviours, grief/loss, survivors of sexual abuse and other childhood trauma, children of alcoholics/addicts, clients with chemical and sexual addictions, and other family-of-origin issues. 

In the field of social work, she has worked in a variety of settings including 12 years in the addictions and mental health program at the Credit Valley Hospital, Trillium Health Partners; participated in community development in partnership with Northern Ontario First Nations communities; and managed research projects with The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto.

You can read more about Alison here.