• Adult Children

    Adult Children

    I had a full decade of sobriety from all that ailed me when I was in ministry during my twenties. As was the requirement to have good standing in Churchianity, sex, drugs and rock and roll were eliminated. I lived like a damn monk during the hottest years of my life, I hid myself away.

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  • Looking at Our Thoughts

    I am about to save you years of therapy with these little flashcards. They are a series of common Cognitive Distortions many people have adopted unconsciously. These distortion’s become the lenses through which we see and understand; the way we have perceived the world and our place in it. It’s like wearing glasses that skew

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  • Avoidance Addiction

    I don’t know if it’s a real thing, avoidance addiction. I only know today I realized how my long list of undone “to-dos” offered me an unwanted surge of adrenaline. They are significant and important things. Legal things. Financial things. Adult things. The adrenaline flooded my system, I felt like I was going to puke.

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  • Dopamine Deposits

    Listen, it doesn’t matter what you’re recovering from it comes down to chemicals. Whether it is because of something you’ve been putting in your body or the way your body has malfunctioned because of trauma and chaos, Dopamine, or the lack of it, is largely responsible. Dopamine acts on areas of the brain to give you

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