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Continue reading →: Do we have to Hit Rock Bottom to Recover?
Originally posted on The Alcoholics Guide to Alcoholism: There has been much recent debate about whether a person has to hit rock bottom in under to surrender and start recovering, whether one has to go to the bitter end before surrendering to the recover process. My own experience shows that…
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Continue reading →: Nearly Everything Hari thinks He Knows About Addiction is Wrong!
Originally posted on Inside The Alcoholic Brain: The Rat Park of Vietnam and Beyond ? The videos below have been doing the facebook and twitter rounds, often accompanied by this Ted talk by Johann Hari ? ? Essentially these videos suggest addiction is caused solely by environment. The idea that…
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Continue reading →: Brain Sculpting
Did not do any EMDR yesterday as I was too exhausted still, a week after the previous session! My wife was like this too, so very very tired until the day before the next session, the following week, so she was averaging one day in seven when she wasn’t…
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Filling in the Hole In the Soul
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Continue reading →: Filling in the Hole In the SoulThe Light at the End of the Tunnel is You! Just got back from EMDR therapy and thought I would write this right away as I will be very tired over the next few days. A fundamental difference between PTSD and Complex PTSD is that Complex PTSD also addresses…
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Continue reading →: Trying to Find the Horror
In most traumatic events there is an accompanying feeling of terrified helplessness. Whether it’s a soldier looking on helplessly as his fellow soldier gets killed or a fireman seeing person burn in a fire, just out of reach or someone looking on as a loved one tries to kill…
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Continue reading →: Almost Time?
Tomorrow I am set for my next EMDR session. The one thing I haven’t mentioned about EMDR and I should really for any of you lovely people considering this excellent treatment and that is that the treatment is very exhausting. I spent three days on an adrenaline high followed by…
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Continue reading →: There is A Solution! To Complex Trauma
There is A Solution – To Complex Trauma I suffered from my own active alcoholism for over twenty years and found a solution to my alcoholism via the rooms of Alcoholics Anonymous and their 12 step program of recovery. A program of recovery I still, for a large extent, follow today.…
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Continue reading →: Self Compassion Eases the Distress at the Heart of Addiction
Originally posted on Inside The Alcoholic Brain: I can change my brain and behaviour via neuroplasticity by behaving differently towards myself! Here we look at one study on self compassion in relation to those who have alcohol use disorders. It will be a first in a series of blogs about…
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Continue reading →: A Safe Place To Visit
Just finished my third EMDR terapy session and thought I would write now otherwise I probably will not get around to it. I find I am so exhausted the next day that it is difficult to blog. I am finding that I have a lot of therapeutic benefit already from…
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