Addiction
Addiction and Creativity
‘We like to think we live in daylight, but half the world is always dark; and fantasy, like poetry, speaks the language of the night.’ Ursula K. Le Guin. A Long History Drugs and alcohol Read more…
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12 Step Recovery
I love the 12 Step fellowships as a free, ongoing, daily, peer-led resource that can help you to recover and remain well. Where appropriate I often encourage my clients to check them out and see Read more…
Addiction
Women in Recovery – Six Misconceptions
Addiction is sometimes known as an equal opportunities illness, cutting across age, socio economic position, gender and race, though much empirical evidence to connects both substance and process addictions to pre-existing risk factors and contextual Read more…
Addiction
Gender and Addiction Q and A
Despite the fact that much empirical evidence to connects addictions to pre-existing risk factors addiction is sometimes known as an equal opportunities illness, cutting across age, socio economic position, gender, and race. But the experience Read more…
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Social Media Addiction and Millennials
The Consequences of Addiction. When we refer to addiction, we are usually talking about substance addiction, but our understanding of addiction has broadened to encompass all sorts of process addictions like gambling and eating Read more…
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An Introduction to Process Addiction.
This is a discussion of behavioural problems that may be defined as ‘process addictions’ which consist of persistent engagement with a particular behaviour despite increasing negative consequences despite the fact no mind altering substance is involved. I hope that I will show Read more…
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An Agnostic Look at The 12 Step Recovery Programme
What is The 12 Step Recovery Programme? The 12 Steps How Is It Useful?– What is The 12 Step Recovery Programme? The 12 step recovery programme was first created as the foundation of Read more…