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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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