Constance “Ahuva Batya” Scharff, PhD is an internationally recognized speaker and author on the topics of addiction and trauma recovery, the psychological impacts of climate change, and women’s mental health. She is the founder of and principal investigator for the Institute for Complementary and Indigenous Mental Health Research. Dr. Scharff is a passionate advocate for decolonizing mental healthcare and incorporating indigenous practices and ontologies into healthcare services, as well as radical social transformation to lessen the impacts of climate change. Dr. Scharff is a recent recipient of St. Lawrence University's Sol Feinstone Humanitarian Award, honoring her service to and advocacy for those suffering from mental illness, trauma, and addiction. She’s also a member of The Explorers Club, an homage to her efforts to improve mental health and wellbeing in communities worldwide. Her most recent research project, a year-long, seven nation exploration of “everyday bravery” is titled, "A Year of Living Bravely," and will be available as a book in 2026.

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Rock to Recovery: Music as a Catalyst for Human Transformation, Dr. Constance Scharff

The Path to God’s Promise, Ahuva Batya Scharff

Ending Addiction for Good, Dr. Constance Scharff

Somatic Therapy

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupéry, Richard Howard (Translator)

The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

Dante’s Inferno, Dante Alighieri, Gustave Doré (Illustrator), Henry Francis Cary (Translator)

Medea, Euripides, Rex Warner (Translator)

Hamlet, William Shakespeare

Luke Skywalker, Star Wars

Now, Voyager, (1942) Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Gladys Cooper

Meeting God at Midnight, Ahuva Batya Scharff

The Red Tent, TV Mini-series (2014)

The Matrix, (1999), Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving

Margaret Atwood, Author, Maddaddam Trilogy

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Gabor Maté, MD

Story-Power guest, Dave Dahl Ep. 1, (7/22/2020 Ep. 27 (7/21/2021)

Heath Ledger, Actor