Home Addiction Games of the Inner Child Addiction games are habitual patterns of behavior that feed the three hungers of the Inner Child. If you have ever spent time taking care of a child you know that they can be a handful. There are three basic things a child does...
Home Addiction Denial Causes Problems Addiction denial causes problems! Father Joseph Martin, a well-known lecturer on alcoholism, said it best — “What causes a problem, is a problem.” I like that because it’s straightforward, simple, and...
Home Stages of Change and Recovery Wheel Identifying the stages of change and learning how to move through them reminds us that change is the only thing we can really count on to stay the same? Even the rate of it is steady – always speeding up! We humans...
Home Relapse, Resolve, and Regrets Denial assists in this process we call relapse. Addiction is a very powerful and complex process that takes place in the primal part of the brain. When this process is active it will very often override the thinking brain and push...
Home Post Acute Withdrawal Syndrome Post-Acute Withdrawal Syndrome is a condition that occurs after the acute phase of withdrawal from the addiction of choice. Acute withdrawal has to do with the physiological or physical reactions that can occur when a person stops...