Webinar: From Comfortably Numb to Fully Alive: Stress, Addiction, Recovery, and the Science of Human Flourishing
- Date: December 2, 2026
- Time: 10:00 am – 11:30 am
(see when that is in your time zone)- Presenter: Dr. Bob Weathers
- CE: eligible for 1.5 CEs
- Price: free to attend live: registration required
- Registration: Register for the Webinar
Addiction is often approached through the lens of pathology, diagnosis, and symptom reduction. Yet beneath every addiction—whether involving alcohol, drugs, food, work, pornography, gambling, compulsive spending, social media, or even perfectionism—lies a profoundly human question: “How do we cope with pressure?”
This webinar offers an integrative framework for understanding addiction that is at once clinically grounded, psychologically informed, and immediately applicable in everyday practice. Rather than focusing primarily on addictive behaviors themselves, participants will explore the deeper physiological and psychological conditions that allow addiction to emerge, persist, and, ultimately, lose its grip.
Using an accessible “seesaw” model of stress and reward, Dr. Bob Weathers demonstrates how chronic activation of the body’s stress response—particularly elevated cortisol and adrenaline—naturally increases our search for quick, powerful sources of relief. From this perspective, addiction becomes understandable not simply as a failure of willpower or character, but as an increasingly costly attempt to regulate an overwhelmed nervous system.
This webinar proposes a hopeful reorientation of addiction treatment itself. Recovery is not merely about eliminating unhealthy behaviors. It is about helping individuals build lives that are increasingly calm, connected, creative, and deeply nourishing—lives in which the need to seek refuge through addiction gradually gives way to the possibility of becoming more fully alive.
Continuing Education Information
This webinar does NOT provide CEs. For more general information about CEs, go here.
However, it is eligible towards the requirements for renewing the C-ATM/CAMS.
In order to complete the C-ATM requirements, you must already have the C-ATM and complete the online exam. (Login access to NBHAP is free regardless of membership. Contact us if you don’t have a login.)
Presenter
Dr. Bob Weathers
Dr. Bob Weathers (he/him) is a highly regarded educator, recovery coach, author, and public speaker.
Over the course of his professional career, Dr. Weathers has provided tens of thousands of hours of therapeutic counseling and recovery coaching to satisfied clients. He has also committed over four decades to teaching, training, and inspiring graduate-level mental health providers at several Southern California universities.
Two of his most recent books (as Robert Weathers, Ph.D.) – addressing psychological resilience and sustained, successful recovery – are currently published with Cambridge University Press. Additionally, he has published (as Dr. Bob Weathers) two ongoing series of books on Amazon – Creative Process as Daily Practice (intended to encourage and support individual journaling and spiritual growth) and Addiction, Coping with Stress, and Recovery (offering an integration of scientific information and compassionate direction for those in addiction recovery, along with their loved ones).
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