June 21st, 2019
At its center, the addicted life is one of reaction. It is a life where it is very easy to fall into the role of victim—scripted, automatic, and helpless to the myriad injustices . . .
June 14th, 2019
It is very difficult to make the transition from addiction to recovery. Often this transition represents a cataclysmic shift taking place during a time of deep. . .
June 7th, 2019
Addictions are difficult to rid ourselves of. This means that they must be important. If they didn’t serve an important purpose, we wouldn’t end up so dependent and. . .
May 31st, 2019
A life built around active addiction is hard work. But it doesn’t start that way. The path into addiction establishes itself automatically as it’s built around a process of. . .
May 24th, 2019
Addictions represent an established pattern. Of course they aren’t simple benign patterns, they are patterns that have become deeply established through a combination of. . .
May 17th, 2019
There is much discussion within the addiction sphere about the role of the brain. For some, it sufficiently explains the mechanics of dependency and addiction. For others, it represents. . .
May 10th, 2019
Our addictions enslave us. The discomfort stemming from our addictions is multifaceted, but much of it is derived from the suffocating rigidity that it creates. Although our addictions. . .
May 3rd, 2019
Reality is more a subjective projection of the mind unique to each person than it is an objective experience produced by the material world. This is the only reason that addictions work. . .
April 26th, 2019
In so many ways, our addictions stand as an antidote for boredom. Whether it’s the time spent pursuing them, or the emotional state they create, our addictions allow us. . .
April 19th, 2019
If addiction is a form of control over our emotional experience of life, then recovery must be about learning to let go. Our addictions seem to promise. . .