The Missing Piece in Addiction Recovery

TL;DR:

Audrey Hope describes a revolutionary approach to addiction recovery that focuses on energy and personal power rather than traditional diagnostic labels. She explains how healing happens when people understand that suffering comes not from what others do to us, but from how we abandon ourselves in response – and how retrieving that lost energy can lead to rapid transformation.

About Audrey Hope:

Audrey Hope pioneers what she calls the “new paradigm” for addiction healing – an energy-based approach that transcends traditional diagnostic categories and treatment protocols. Rather than accepting limiting labels and boxes that the medical model often imposes, Audrey focuses on the energetic dynamics underlying addiction and trauma. Her revolutionary perspective shifts the healing focus from external circumstances to internal power dynamics.

Through her extensive work with addicts and trauma survivors, Audrey has identified a crucial missing piece in conventional treatment: the concept of soul retrieval and energy reclamation. She recognizes that most suffering stems not from the traumatic events themselves, but from the self-abandonment that occurs in response to those events. Her approach empowers clients to reclaim the personal power and life force energy they gave away during difficult experiences. This energetic healing method often produces breakthrough results that surprise even long-term addicts who have tried multiple treatment approaches without lasting success.

Video Transcript:

One of the new paradigms for healing addiction is to go to the energy level, which I think is a missing piece in healing. So if someone gets diagnosed, they get into a box. I hate that. I like to put in the energy perspective, which is where you gave your power away and who took it, because the problem that we have is we suffer from what other people do to us. So when you teach people it’s not what other people do to us, it’s what we do to ourselves because of it – that is the root of healing. Because we can help that abandonment of self. The abandonment of self, it’s an energy thing. We have to have a soul retrieval and take back the energy from where we lost it. So it’s not even about the trauma, it’s about where we lost ourselves because of the trauma. And when that piece is given to someone and they take back the light that they gave away, the energy that they gave away to the trauma, they also heal very quickly. And it absolutely blows the mind of an addict or a person suffering from trauma that, “Wow, I really gave my power away, and I’m going to take it back.”

Key Insights:

This video presents a paradigm-shifting perspective on addiction and trauma recovery. Audrey’s approach moves beyond symptom management to address the energetic core of suffering. The distinction she makes between what happens to us versus what we do to ourselves in response is fundamental – it shifts clients from victim consciousness to empowered healing.
The concept of “soul retrieval” addresses something conventional therapy often misses: the fragments of ourselves we leave behind during traumatic experiences. When people give their power away – whether to abusers, traumatic events, or substances – they lose vital life force energy that needs to be consciously reclaimed.

Audrey’s observation that “it’s not even about the trauma, it’s about where we lost ourselves because of the trauma” reframes the entire healing journey. This perspective helps clients understand that their current suffering isn’t necessarily proportional to what happened, but rather reflects how much of themselves they abandoned in the process.

Reflection Questions:

• Where in your life have you given your power away to people, circumstances, or substances?
• What would it feel like to consciously retrieve the energy you’ve lost to past traumas?
• How might viewing yourself as someone who can reclaim their power change your relationship to healing?

Related Topics:

This video explores energy healing for addiction, soul retrieval techniques, moving beyond victim consciousness, personal power reclamation, and the difference between trauma-focused and empowerment-based healing approaches.