Posts Tagged ‘shame’
Shame: The Core of Addiction and Codependency
Shame is a crippling emotion for codependents and addict | alcoholics. It is at the core of their role in the family disease of addiction, and it is what can keep them from getting the help they need to change their lives. The following is a guest post by Darlene Lancer, a Licensed Marriage and…
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The following is a guest post by Aleta Edwards, Psy.D., who has been in private practice for the past 18 years and has also performed psychological evaluations on children in foster care, conducted disability evaluations, counseled nursing home residents, and worked with active-duty military as a contract psychologist at Maxwell AFB in Alabama. She presently…
Read MoreDisease of Addiction – What New Research Is Telling Us About This Brain Disease
Disease of Addiction — one of the most difficult aspects of this whole “thing” — from substance abuse to addiction to secondhand drinking/drugging — is to understand and accept that addiction (whether it’s to drugs or alcohol) is a chronic, often relapsing brain disease. Disease of Addiction Explained Everything about our body — what we…
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