Stress, Anxiety, Nerves…Trade in Your Worries For Confidence & Courage Whether what you worry about marriage problems, money problems, relationship tensions, kids, health, work, or yet another negative situation that seems to be steaming your way, worrying and the anxiety that worries engender are a physically unpleasant, stressful, and unproductive use of your energies. This article explores alternatives[…]
Category Archives: Willing Ways Articles
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We Tend to Oversimplify Concepts Such as Powerlessness & Willpower By now, the research is clear: Addiction is a chronic brain disease, not a matter of willpower. This means that, contrary to old stereotypes, people who become addicted to drugs or alcohol are not weak, immoral, or tragically flawed. David Sack, M.D., is board certified in Psychiatry, AddictionPsychiatry, and Addiction Medicine. Dr. Sack currently[…]
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We Tend to Oversimplify Concepts Such as Powerlessness & Willpower By now, the research is clear: Addiction is a chronic brain disease, not a matter of willpower. This means that, contrary to old stereotypes, people who become addicted to drugs or alcohol are not weak, immoral, or tragically flawed. David Sack, M.D.,is board certified in Psychiatry, AddictionPsychiatry, and Addiction Medicine. Dr. Sack currently serves[…]
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Pathology is Often The Missing Piece When Looking at The Domestic Violence Just as not all victims are the same, not all perpetrators of harm are the same either. There is a temptation to ‘lump’ them all together–making ‘who’ they are that makes them abuse others the same as other abusers and what they ‘do’[…]
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Everyone is an Individual, Until Addiction Squeezes us Into Its Narrow Neck I’ve recently started interviewing people who responded to my request for addictionbiographies—formy next book. These people offered to share the stories of their lives as addicts. Most have recovered. Some are still in process. Here I want to tell you what I’m starting to learn[…]
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Smokers’ Biology Affects Their Chances of Quitting With or Without Medication Here at A3, we’re big supporters of scientific progress in addiction treatment. It may be true that addicts need to want recovery in order to truly turn their lives around, but the choice is hardly ever that simple. If we can tip the balance in favor of[…]
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Strawberries & Cream, Bipolar Teens & Weed: Which is The Winning Combo Teenagers push the limits. It’s developmentally programmed. As school-aged children, we tend to do as we are told. Then, with the development of new powers, cognition, sexuality, and abstract thinking, we begin to see the flaws in the society around us. We doubt what our Mom or Dad tells us, thinking that we know better.[…]
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High Levels of Dopamine Take The Freedom Out of Free Choicea Nobody chooses to be addicted. But as people become increasingly hooked, they may increasingly choose to take the pill or the drink, to gamble or to purge, and that’s the thing we need to examine. What is the role of choice in the onset of an addiction?[…]
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The Trip Down Liars Lane There was a time when I thought I was going to write a book called How Ordinary People Become Extraordinary Liars. It never happened. I did, though, write what was going to be the introductory chapter. With the recent revelation that Jonah Lehrer had put words into the mouth of Bob Dylan and[…]
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Help From The Unconscious After more than thirty—five years of working with my own and other people’s dreams, I am convinced that all dreams come in the service of health and wholeness. Even the worst recurring nightmares come to help the dreamer move forward more consciously in the direction of his/her health and wholeness. If a dream is remembered at all,[…]