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Aug 16, 20238 min read

“The Myth of Normal” Review Part One: New Understanding of Addictions, Traumas, and Illness, by Re

Summary: Reading Gabor Mate’s recent book, “The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, & Healing in a Toxic Culture” is like having my own...

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2forrecovery

Aug 16, 20236 min read

"The Myth of Normal" Review Part 2: A New Normal With A New Addiction Focus, by Re

Mate reminds us that as beings we want to be in stable caring mutual environments, not aggressive hostile ones. Of course, the latter is...

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2forrecovery

Jul 4, 20236 min read

Digging Up Relics From The Oldest Ground Of My Addiction

Secrecy and separateness are two of my main proto-addictions, my Ur-addictions, those earliest of tendencies that, like childhood...

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2forrecovery

Apr 4, 20234 min read

Bibliotherapy, pt. 5: The Screwtape Letters: Sin, Addiction, and Recovery

In 1942, novelist, literature professor, and lay theologian C.S. Lewis wrote a religious satirical novel, The Screwtape Letters, about...

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2forrecovery

Apr 3, 20235 min read

Bibliotherapy, pt. 4: Wisdom of the Enneagram, by Re

The Enneagram is a psychological (some would add spiritual) tool which I first encountered in the 1990s when beginning my seminary and...

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2forrecovery

Mar 2, 20233 min read

The Ick Factor: Disgust, Shame, Prevention and Recovery by Re

Disgust, it has been stated, is seen as disgusting. We turn away from what disgusts us, and so we tend to want to turn away from what...

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2forrecovery

Mar 2, 20237 min read

The brief overview from Re

We often say in recovery groups that all our stories are unique to us and all our stories are the same. Mine then, too, as explored...

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2forrecovery

Mar 1, 20234 min read

Bibliotherapy, Part One: Reading and Recovery by Re

Simply put, bibliotherapy is engaging in reading to find healing. Much of it focuses on certain kinds of readings. Perhaps works of...

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2forrecovery

Mar 1, 20239 min read

Stop Digging The Hole In Your Relationship Too: Top 5 Beginning Tips ForThe Betrayer by Re

So you have been discovered or have disclosed your acting out and double life and are faced now with the consequences in a relationship....

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2forrecovery

Feb 25, 20233 min read

"The hacking of my American Mind" Part One by Re

Robert Lustig’s book, “The Hacking of the American Mind: The Science Behind the Corporate Takeover of our Bodies and Brains” was one of...

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2forrecovery

Feb 25, 20237 min read

The Hacking of My American Mind, Part 2: Deeper into Biology and Behavior, Addiction/Compulsion

Reading Lustig, after Mate’s book, (see book reviews under "more") helped me to see more clearly the biological enemy I was facing, even...

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