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I get asked all the time – Why should I use your approach to healing my addictive behavior? From my perspective I think better questions might be – What is different about how APP approaches healing addiction? How can APP get me different results? I lead APP, an addiction healing program that is shamanic in…
Read More Shamanic Approach to Healing Addiction, Addictive Personality Paradigm, APPToday as I prepare to feast on our Thanksgiving holiday, I find myself feeling quietly reflective and a bit pensive. I am still healing from the ‘disease of separation’. This disease of separation is my addiction to a multitude of substances and behaviors. These knee jerk patterns of behavior kept me separate from many things, I am…
Read More Season of GratitudeIf we all agree that addiction is having alcohol, food or illicit substances in control of our lives, how do we know what working toward sobriety is? Sobriety in some recovery modalities is being abstinent with our substance or behavior of choice. In this healing paradigm sobriety is far more encompassing. Sobriety is not only…
Read More What is sobriety?Did you ever wonder why you or someone you know has an addiction? How can someone so smart, cute or rich have an addiction? Many of us that are in recovery or are ready to tackle sobriety really want to understand how we developed this issue. Is it genetic? Are we sick or flawed? The…
Read More Worthiness, or lack of it, keys addictionAncient Wisdom Unlocks the Understanding of Addiction Addiction is not new, but at this time, it seems that addiction is everywhere and in the news constantly. We all know someone that has an addiction or we have struggled personally with addiction. We must find a way to heal these addictions to substances and to addictive…
Read More The Medicine Wheel connects addiction & our understandingThe Addictive Personality Paradigm is different than another other program you’ve heard about. Watch the video below to learn more.
Read More The Core Beliefs that Trigger AddictionThe day you STOP is the day the work begins. Reshaping your life is a process of continuous improvement and attention to the small matters that bring a difference every day. Many times when we are ready to get sober, we focus on putting down the substance for the last time or changing our behavioral patterns.…
Read More Why ‘White Knuckling it’ doesn’t help when you want to stop being addictedWhat is Will? How does Will aid in our sobriety and sabotage our healing? The form of all addiction is the dis-empowerment from Spirit The key question here is: What resources do I have? We must look inside our self and see what we have and what nature has to offer. Great Spirit is ever…
Read More Will – in all its facesEveryone has made it 90 days. That is reason to celebrate in and of itself. Everyone uses whatever means they can to be and remain sober. The first 90 days we use our cunning, our guile and our will. Our will is the part of us that empowers us to create a bottom line and…
Read More 90+ days and countingWell here it is… After Thanksgiving and bearing down on Hanukkah and Christmas. More opportunities to be challenged, social and remain sober. As newly sober folks the more opportunities we have to stand in our strength and test our new bottom lines. Family and friends gift us with many opportunities to flex our sober muscles. …
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