Addiction as Emotion Management
As you learn new techniques to manage your emotions, you will no longer need to avoid emotional and physical pain through addiction.
As you learn new techniques to manage your emotions, you will no longer need to avoid emotional and physical pain through addiction.
We all dissociate or lose contact with our bodies at times. How to notice and what to do about it.
How to quiet those painful repeating trains of thought and see what is behind them.
The positive aspects of denial, and a writing exercise to reduce some of its frustrations.
You may have already noticed that arguing with your Inner Critic only leads to louder criticism, possibly about how self-critical you are.
Resistance carries the gift of information from our deeper selves.