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Continue reading →: Maintaining emotional sobriety (and sanity) via Steps 10-12
When I have did my steps 4-7, noting the situations, the people, the institutions that have caused persistent resentments in me, then examining what parts of my self have been affected, I also, thanks to one sponsor was asked me to, put down exactly what “sins” or defects of character…
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Continue reading →: Processing the Past via the action steps, 4-12!
Processing the Past via the actions steps, 4-12! by alcoholicsguide How The Alcoholics Anonymous’ program of action helps with emotional dysregulation. When I first came into recovery I was surprised how much more time I spent embroiled in thinking about past incidents and how I had numerous murderous resentments about…
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Continue reading →: One Christmas I nearly relapsed!
One Christmas I nearly relapsed! by alcoholicsguide “One Christmas, I nearly relapsed. I did not wish to relapse, in fact I would rather put a gun to my head and blow my brains out! Nonetheless, I was indeed about to relapse. It seemed urgently inevitable. The emotional distress I had suffered…
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Continue reading →: Acceptance is the Key – Using Acceptance-Based Mindfulness to Promote Emotional Regulation
One of the leading researchers in the area of emotional regulation difficulties and the advocacy of acceptance-based Mindfulness in treatment of these emotional regulation problems is Kim Gratz. In the first in a series of blogs about how different treatments address the intrinsic emotional dysregulation at the heart of addiction…
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Continue reading →: “All truth passes through three stages…”
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” Arthur Schopenhauer.
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Continue reading →: How far have we come in understanding this emotional disorder?
A constant thread throughout our blogs so far has been an assertion that alcoholism and addiction are primarily emotional regulation and processing disorders. So we were thus very interested to find this article (1) which describes how we are not the first to view alcoholism and addiction this way. Here…
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Continue reading →: Emotional Dysregulation, recovery and relapse
Throughout our blogs thus far, we have attempted to highlight how emotional dysregulation appears to prevalent to all aspects of alcoholism and addiction from pre-morbid vulnerability to endpoint compulsive addictive behaviours. Here we highlight a few articles which have considered how prevalent is emotional dysregulation in alcoholism and addiction in early…
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