Addictions & Recovery
Addiction is often fueled as a way to manage profound experiences and emotions. It often serves as a mask and a way to get some space from what’s going on.
Connecting can be difficult and we are not just talking about it with others. We are also talking about connecting with our painful experiences, missed opportunities, and moments where we have fallen short.
Addiction can be labelled as a problem, as ‘there is something wrong with you,’ as an avoidance, or as an excuse. However, how helpful is this?
What if addiction was seen as a desire to connect yet an uncertainty on how to do it? Or as a wish to feel heard for what is truly going on, yet a feeling buried by the experience of people constantly turning away or not understanding? Or as a way to quiet or cover up difficult experiences that are just too much to make sense?
If addiction meant this, then what we are really talking about is how you have found a way to manage suffering. Though there are biological aspects to addiction, therapy can be helpful to find a way to reconnect to life and be okay with ourselves, our choices, experiences, mess ups, and short falls.
We see addiction as a need to be met where you are at, as you are and working from there.