Recovering From Addictions
How Can I Help You Recover From Your Addictive Relationship?
- Make these relationships more understandable so that they are less painful and shameful to address them as correctable problems.
- Gain control over the forces that have left you feeling out of control of yourselves and helplessly at the mercy of the painful consequences of your impulsive actions.
- Develop a practical and effective plan for you to recover.
- Provide you a holding environment of acceptance, safety, trust and support to reduce your fears of trying to make positive changes when you are ready.
- Enhance and complement any recovery activities you are already pursuing.
Relevant Articles
You Don’t Lose Weight on a Diet of Emotional DeprivationThis article discusses how disordered eating has become a norm in society. Disordered eating may become an adaptive yet, rigid and automatic growth stunting reaction to perceived threats. These threats are future projections of past attempts to depend on others to be protected and nurtured. I will offer a clinical example to illustrate my ideas, and how psychotherapy can restore new choice points in meeting these needs safely, so that disordered eating becomes a thing of the past.
Tangos of Debt Accumulation: What Are They All Worth?This articles looks at addiction as a dance of collusion. It stresses how over spending can be symptomatic of difficulties regulating emotions, regulating self esteem, and vulnerabilities to feeling indebted to others we depend on.
Anatomy Of An Addictive Behavior: Not For Men OnlyThis article illustrates how the compulsion to repeat history can be played out when needs are sexualized and a self-defeating, addictive relationship is formed.
Don’t Tell Me to Stop Training!This article discusses how aerobic exercise, by nature healthy in many ways, when over done can be damaging both physically and emotionally.
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