Addiction - or rather cycles of seeking relief from pain. Until recently was a big reoccurring theme in my life. A topic that holds so much misunderstanding. Naturally we think of addict in the alley behaviour but addiction has many faces - by definition anything that holds us in a cycle of behaviour that we find temporary relief in and therefore crave but suffer negative consequences and can’t give up despite those consequences is an addiction. Something that begins in pain and ends in pain.
Surely our approach as a society toward addiction is coming from the wrong place. If we want to understand addiction we must first look at the root, at the pain that caused the person to seek the cycle in the first place. Heal the pain, heal the addiction.
Is there a way out of this ?  This is a question we’ve all thought at some stage of our lives.
The answer is a very clear yes. We can know differently.
How? I don't claim any authority or speak like I have all the answers. But I do know some tools that have helped shift my experience.
Let's work to understand it together.
Podcast References:

A very interesting and profound insight into addiction with Dr Gabor Mate -  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66cYcSak6nE

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