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Category Archives: Addictions

Help with recovery from addictions – substance abuse, including alcohol abuse, drug addiction, food addiction, as well as healing from sexual addiction and addiction to love, power and control.

Addictive behavior comes from the intent to avoid pain. When we have not learned healthy ways of managing pain, it is likely we will turn to one or more addictions in the hopes of avoiding feeling our pain. The problem is that the addictive behavior, such as eating a muffin or having a beer, works for only a short time, and then the addictive behavior itself becomes a cause of pain.

Addiction to Getting Others To Change

Are you focusing on getting your partner to change to avoid a painful choice that you might need to make? If you find yourself often focused on healing others or hoping you can get others to change, it is likely that you don’t think of this as an addiction. I define an addiction as anything...

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Addiction To Getting Things Done

Discover when getting things done is healthy, and when it is unhealthy and obsessive. There are many addictive ways that most of us have learned to avoid our painful feelings, and focusing on getting things done is often one of these ways. It’s not that there is anything wrong with getting things done. Most of...

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Letting Go Of A Sugar Addiction

Have you tried unsuccessfully to heal a sugar addiction? Here’s how! Are you sugar addicted? You are not alone! I used to be intensely sugar addicted. I craved it all the time, and it seems like the more I ate, the more I wanted it. The fact that it made me feel terrible – first...

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Addicted to Porn?

Are you addicted to porn and not feeling good about it? Discover the likely underlying cause and what to do about it. I received the following question when I was conducting a webinar on sexual addiction: “I have had a pornography addiction since I was a teenager. I am now in my mid 30′s. For...

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How do you Make Others Responsible for Your Painful Feelings?

We have all learned many ways of trying to avoid or get rid of our painful feelings. Many of these ways are fairly obvious: addictions to substances and activities, staying in your mind rather than in your body, or judging yourself. Another major way we avoid or try to get rid of our painful feelings...

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