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Integrating Martial Arts Principles in Mental Health and Addiction Recovery
Eric Fisher holds black belts in Kenpo and Wado-Ryu and 13 years of trauma-counselling experience. His book The Martial Art of Recovery fuses the two: self-mastery practices for subduing addiction.
Martial arts and recovery share more than discipline: both are about meeting an opponent that keeps coming back, learning your own reactions under pressure, and training responses until they hold when it counts. Eric — an expert in accelerated resolution therapy — has built a therapeutic practice on that overlap.
We explore how ART works for trauma, why the dojo mindset (respect, repetition, rank as earned progress) maps so well onto recovery, and the self-mastery practices from his book that anyone can use — addicted or not — for mental wellness. A distinctive lens on a hard subject.
In this episode
- The martial-arts / recovery overlap
- Accelerated resolution therapy, explained
- Training responses that hold under pressure
- The dojo mindset applied to mental health
- Self-mastery practices for anyone
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