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Continue reading →: In dreams…an illness that never sleeps!
It is often said that we have an illness of addiction that never rests, when you are in a meeting it is outside doing press ups, when you awake it is at the foot of the bed waiting, “hey ready to go!” In the early weeks and months (years) of…
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Continue reading →: Do we have to Hit Rock Bottom to Recover?My own experience shows that we have to concede to our inner selves that we are alcoholic and that we need help from others.
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Continue reading →: Shame and Addiction
In the next few weeks we will be looking at Shame and Addiction – shame leads to the self pity and depression that can drive drinking and relapse – nicely summed up here in this quote from The Little Prince. “- Why are you drinking? – the little prince asked.…
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Continue reading →: Filling the Empty Self
In the first part of this two part blog – we looked at how addicts in recovery move from a more negative (perhaps chronically negative) self schema to a more positive recovering self schema and how this now sense of self and the new interrelatedness with others which develops in…
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Continue reading →: Reconstructing the Hole in the Soul – part 1
In this two part blog I will look at how positive (as opposed to negative) views of self (self schema) lie at the heart of successful recovery and how negative self schema keep addicts in active addiction. I cite this study for much of these blogs (1)… “Psycho-social and environmental…
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Continue reading →: Recovering the Real Self
It is often said that alcoholics and addict fear nothing more than rejection. Little did I know this is based on a maladaptive self schema many addicts carry, even in recovery. It has always been an “achilles heel” of mine and I often thought people were rejecting me when they…
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Continue reading →: Recovering from Stigma
New post on The Alcoholics Guide to Alcoholism Recovering from Stigma by alcoholicsguide Our last blog “Addicts continue to Face Widespread Stigma”looked at the stigma towards addicts that still prevails in much of society. As addiction can often seem to be fuelled at times by negative emotions such as guilt…
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Continue reading →: Addicts Continue to Face Widespread Stigma
Addiction seen as a moral failing!? I came across this article from a few months ago which shows we as a collective have not come very far in understanding addiction and that society continues to stigmatize those suffering from addiction. It makes depressing reading considering the advances in neuroscientific evidence…
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