Recovery from Addiction is not primarily about stopping something! In Alcoholics Anonymous stopping drinking is called a "dry drunk" In Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous stopping sex or romance is often just sexual/romantic anorexia....i.e. avoiding sex/romance is not the goal.
The Goal of recovery is to have life more abundantly....addictions prevent the abundant life. Addictions just make the abundant life unlikely if not impossible. Addictions move away from creativity, anything meaningful and intimacy with ourselves and others. Ironically, addicts think of recovery as some form of 'dieting'.... as deprivation.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
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