Tag: addiction
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evening mindfulness XIII
Sometimes it is the addiction itself that brings the woman to consciousness. More often a crisis arises in a relationship that forces her to differentiate the opposites, and in recognizing the two sides she sees that the woman who should be at the center is not there. In flying from Floe to Flame, from Flame […]
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The Art of Recovery III
“We must not give up. It takes so much time to heal because we are not just healing our own wounds – we are healing the worlds wounds, too. We think we are alone with our “stuff“, but we aren’t. With every clearing of our emotional debris, With every foray into a healthier way of […]
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The Art of Recovery
“Say goodbye to who you were, embrace who you are, and look forward to who you will be.” – David Henderson, M.D.
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The Art of Recovery III
At the core of every addiction is an emptiness based in abject fear. The addict dreads and abhors the present moment; she bends feverishly only toward the next time, the moment when her brain, infused with her drug of choice, will briefly experience itself as liberated from the burden of the past and the fear […]