About Dave Porter

The pain and trauma that I have experienced in my life has helped me gain an appreciation for my addictions. When I was 2 years old, my younger brother passed away, and when I was 20 years old my mother died tragically in a car accident.

I had only so much capacity to hold the pain and challenges of losing my brother and my mother. In both cases, I was still young and my brain was developing. All this pain/challenge/trauma was too much for me to handle, so I turned to alcohol to help me soothe the pain I was going through and to help me cope with the challenges it brought up.

I drank for many years. The alcohol was my support system and helped me at a really tough time in my life. Fortunately, I found yoga and that helped me find a way to work with my pain and suffering more with more conscious awareness. It helped me connect back into my body so that I could widen the window of tolerance for the pain I was going through, and receive the wisdom in my pain. Read More >