What is addiction really? Hint: it's not a disease or a choice!
Nov 24, 2021
Why what you’ve learned about addiction is BS… 💥
When we think of the word addiction in this culture, there are typically two competing theories:
1. Addicts have a disease with no cure
2. Addicts choose to be addicts
As a coach & clinical therapist we call bullsh*t on both accounts.
When we as a society cling to these theories with an unwavering grip, we witness and perpetuate endless suffering to a social and public health issue that often feels like a lost cause.
Addiction does not discriminate and it impacts the lives of people from all walks of life that in time end up losing sight of a life worth living as they are consumed by this cycle.
When we stop and are willing to take in a more objective view, one that is not is saturated in judgement and stigma, we can see that addiction is in fact an epidemic of disconnection and often merely a symptom of trauma... NOT a disease, NOT a choice.
The good news and what we've found in our work:
When you restore connection, integrate trauma and rewire your neurobiology, you can find and create healing in the darkest of places….
Addiction doesn’t need a cure. It simply needs an outlet for healing.
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