{"id":25,"date":"2009-05-26T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T17:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog2\/?p=4"},"modified":"2009-05-26T17:36:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T17:36:00","slug":"laughter-therapy-for-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/2009\/05\/laughter-therapy-for-addiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Laughter Therapy for Addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, &#8216;laughologist&#8217; Albert Nerenberg has been receiving a great deal of attention for his documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/laughology.info\/Laughology\/Laughology.html\"><span style=\"FONT-STYLE: italic\">Laughology<\/span><\/a>, premiering earlier this month at Toronto&#8217;s HotDocs.<\/p>\n<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sobriety.ca\/\">Heritage Home<\/a>, we have been lucky enough to work with Albert regularly with our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sobriety.ca\/laughter-therapy-article.htm\">laughter therapy sessions<\/a>. Although perhaps a more experimental and non-traditional form of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sobriety.ca\/treatment_approaches.htm\">addiction therapy<\/a>, all of our clients who have tried it have found it a beneficial component of their treatment.<\/p>\n<p>In our experience, a laughter therapy session brings the client out of their shell, allowing them to interact on a new level, and helps them find the light once again.<\/p>\n<p>Discover the power of laughter:<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"360\" width=\"580\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KUH_eBVhkV0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;border=1\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KUH_eBVhkV0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0x2b405b&amp;color2=0x6b8ab6&amp;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"580\" height=\"360\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Please share with us your thoughts and experiences with laughter in your own recovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, &#8216;laughologist&#8217; Albert Nerenberg has been receiving a great deal of attention for his documentary Laughology, premiering earlier this month at Toronto&#8217;s HotDocs. At Heritage Home, we have been lucky enough to work with Albert regularly with our laughter therapy sessions. Although perhaps a more experimental and non-traditional form of addiction therapy, all of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laughter-therapy","category-treatment","category-treatment-approaches"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sobriety.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}