Addiction is not a choice. It is a response to human suffering. Addiction is an attempt to escape suffering. What people need in response to addiction is not judgement, and not simply symptom control. They need to be helped to heal from their trauma. The more hurt that people are the more that they need […]
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Its been said that if you don’t know where you’re going then you will end up someplace else…
Homicidal thoughts of anger turned inward is depression and often associated with thoughts of self harm and self loathing…
Many of us have grown up in homes that have been less than ideal and many of us have suffered greatly as children even though our parents or guardians were doing the best that they could…
Greater love has no man than he who lays down his life for his neighbor…
A few years ago I had the opportunity to do an internship at a house that was there to support alcoholics who were more or less at the end of the road and I became friends with these people and so I would just like to tell you a little bit about that story…
The genesis of all addiction and codependency is shame and trauma…
Marshall McLuhan was a great admirer of the artists and spent a great deal of time with them…
You were born with wings, learn to use them and fly!
Leonard Cohen said “Act like you want to be and soon you will be the way you act”.