Woman of Substances: A Journey into Addiction and Treatment
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Woman of Substances: A Journey into Addiction and Treatment
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Read: Jenny Valentish,‘Quitting my addiction was only the first step in rediscovering my identity’, the Age, May 28 2017. Secondly, she exposes how the research into problematic substance use and the treatment of addictions has been focused on males, and the implications of that. In fact, many of her qualities seem to contrast, yet they also complement one another. This is the very thing that builds her depth. The big difference between this book and other addiction memoirs I have read, is the strong gender analysis. Drawing in experts like Professor Jane Ussher from Western Sydney University, and her work on women and madness, Valentish highlights the gendered nature of our addiction knowledge and programs. Why as women would we expect them to work, if, at their outset and design, they’re based upon male experience? On their arrival in New York, Emma's secretary, Gaye, tells her she heard Emma's sons discussing a plan to force her to retire and break up her empire so the pieces can be sold. Devastated initially, Emma isn't surprised but changes her will, choosing to leave her business interests to her grandchildren instead.
They are happy to guide from the front, rather than follow from behind like sheep. 11. You think before you speak Some have been blessed with street smarts. Meanwhile, others have very high emotional intelligence.Many of the addiction memoirs I’ve read don’t reference childhood trauma… But to flip that into reverse, it’s rare for a trauma story not to involve addiction. What I’m surprised to learn is that there’s a physiological component to trauma. Biologically, a girl who experiences it in early life will undergo significant changes in her body and brain. There’s a massive rise in the stress hormone cortisol, which triggers a whole chain of reactions. …Her biological systems are set at a sensitive threshold and she doesn’t have the usual biochemistry that lets her be resilient in the face of the next trauma and the next trauma. You should never do anything which your conscience doesn’t allow you. The world has seen women as one of the most vulnerable classes because women didn’t stand for what they want and they believe. So, if you want to be a woman of substance, you need to stand for your beliefs and this can only happen when you have a clear path to walk on! Woman of Substance Quotes: A woman of real substance doesn’t shy away from the word sorry. She can hold her hands up and say “My bad”. It was fairly pedestrian abuse when set against some of the stories I’ve heard,” she writes in her new book Woman of Substances, “but it set off a catastrophic chain reaction all the same.” As we’ve just seen, a woman of substance knows that looks can be deceiving. They’re only a snapshot of someone rather than the full picture.
At first, when I wrote it, it was much more coy than that. But then I thought, ‘No, I want the reader to know exactly what it feels like, and I can do that with a sentence.’ But you only need to do that with one sentence – you don’t have to keep going on about it.” But by that point, she had probably had enough of worrying about community approval anyway. After her divorces (both by the age of just 25), she went to work as a journalist and was soon writing a newspaper column which also featured a photograph of her — something which so riled the cleric at the local mosque that he held forth to the congregation about the errant ways of Mir and “women [such as] her.”
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As she tells her story, Valentish identifies a series of shortcomings of the medical and addiction treatment industries which have failed to understand and communicate how substance abuse affects women. “I had no idea that this was the case when I started writing,” she says. “I was just going to write about the female experience [of addiction] – there was going to be no call to arms.” A Woman of Substance is a British-American three-part television drama serial, produced in 1984. It is based on the 1979 novel of the same name by Barbara Taylor Bradford. It was completely unnecessary and annoying to have the author blab on and on about how great Emma is. How she is a genius, and how she suddenly went from being described as slightly attractive to so beautiful everybody who met her just had to have her!! It was completely unrealistic and Emma grew into more and more of a fake character. We were all blessed with voices to use them- so use them! I’m a relatively quiet person and a woman of not many words who next to never will indulge in small talk chit chat. It’s just who I am. However, on the other hand, when it comes to standing up for what I believe in or voicing my opinions on things, I never fail to make use of my voice. And neither shall you! Make use of what god has given you and say what you think, say what you believe in, and argue against what you don’t.
As the author points out, over 90% of women with substance misuse have a history of trauma, though a history of trauma does not automatically mean substance misuse - and Valentish discusses protective factors versus vulnerability factors in regards to that. Whoever you are, be confident about yourself. But, how to be confident? Don’t be afraid to put forward your views, opinions, and ideas. If you don’t agree to something, say it out, don’t build the fear to be wrong. What can be the worst thing? You may get corrected by someone, which is also beneficial for you because then you get some more knowledge and the more knowledge you have, the more confident you are.
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The character of Emma is a strong one. She's a calloused, strong willed, business woman at her core. She doesn't allow anyone to take advantage of her or mistreat her, including the men in her life, which is a huge thing for a novel published in the seventies.
Failure comes in the way of success. It is the proof that you’re doing something for yourself, and that’s how you become a woman with substance. At the time of failure, you may get motivation from various movies, books or articles but it is only you who can lift yourself up. 5.Live up to your standard of living One of the other interesting things in the book was how a mother’s mental state while pregnant can imprint itself on the fetus’s ability to deal with stress later in life. A stressed-out pregnant mom is flooded with cortisol. This can lead an infant to be born with anxiety and she may grow up to self-medicate with drugs and/or alcohol (growing up could be as young as ten or twelve years old when they discover the joys of oblivion through drugs including alcohol). Journalist Jenny Valentish investigates the female experience of drugs and alcohol, using her own story to light the way. Her travels around Australia take her to treatment facilities and AA groups. Mining the expertise of leading researchers, she explores the early predictors of addiction, such as childhood trauma and temperament, and teenage impulsivity.Addiction results from a complex set of reasons including trauma as a child. Genetics plays a big role, as does learned behavior (drinking gave me solace before, so I’ll try it again). It wasn't discussed with my family; it was something I was dealing with alone, and it emerged as depression and anxiety [in my teens]. Treatment policy continues to be one-size-fits-all in many services," Valentish says, "despite the fact that the pathways that lead women into addiction, and the traumas that they will likely endure, are very gendered".
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