addiction & anxiety

Spiritual Bypassing: Detour or Pathway?

Spiritual Bypassing: Detour or Pathway?

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Spiritual bypassing is not inherently harmful, it is a natural survival mechanism of the mind, but it becomes dangerous when it enables toxic behavior, and profoundly useful when it represses...

Spiritual Bypassing: Detour or Pathway?

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Spiritual bypassing is not inherently harmful, it is a natural survival mechanism of the mind, but it becomes dangerous when it enables toxic behavior, and profoundly useful when it represses...

What is Meditation?

What is Meditation?

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I reflect on my early experiences with meditation, starting at age 15 in twelve-step recovery, where I was guided by a sponsor who had limited knowledge of meditation. Through trial...

What is Meditation?

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I reflect on my early experiences with meditation, starting at age 15 in twelve-step recovery, where I was guided by a sponsor who had limited knowledge of meditation. Through trial...

The New Drug in Your Pocket: Screen Addiction for Grown-Ups

The New Drug in Your Pocket: Screen Addiction f...

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Screen addiction has become a global, borderless epidemic, engineered by design to exploit our brain’s reward systems and keep us endlessly engaged, often at the cost of our sleep, relationships,...

The New Drug in Your Pocket: Screen Addiction f...

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Screen addiction has become a global, borderless epidemic, engineered by design to exploit our brain’s reward systems and keep us endlessly engaged, often at the cost of our sleep, relationships,...

Write Every Day, Make Lists for a Lifetime

Write Every Day, Make Lists for a Lifetime

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Writing every day is one of the most powerful recovery tools, offering structure to the addicted mind and helping to create focus and relaxation. Through the practice of list-making, we...

Write Every Day, Make Lists for a Lifetime

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Writing every day is one of the most powerful recovery tools, offering structure to the addicted mind and helping to create focus and relaxation. Through the practice of list-making, we...

Breathe, Move, Heal

Breathe, Move, Heal

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Excerpt from Volume III of the Series "Addiction": This section explores how yoga, breathwork, and mindful movement serve as powerful tools for addiction recovery, emotional regulation, and nervous system healing,...

Breathe, Move, Heal

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Excerpt from Volume III of the Series "Addiction": This section explores how yoga, breathwork, and mindful movement serve as powerful tools for addiction recovery, emotional regulation, and nervous system healing,...

The Breath, the Body, and the Beginning of Real Practice

The Breath, the Body, and the Beginning of Real...

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This journal entry is a compassionate invitation to begin or recommit to daily breath-based meditation as a way to regulate chronic anxiety, rewire the nervous system, and slowly reconnect with...

The Breath, the Body, and the Beginning of Real...

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This journal entry is a compassionate invitation to begin or recommit to daily breath-based meditation as a way to regulate chronic anxiety, rewire the nervous system, and slowly reconnect with...