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Addiction and Consequences: The Knowing and the Doing
Everyone's bottom is different, but I've found it often comes when the motivation for avoidance is no longer more compelling than the consequences of continuing with the compulsion or addiction.
created:2/8/2010 | views: 146
Using Your Senses to Save: A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste (Part III)
This is the third in a series of articles on "A crisis is a terrible thing to waste." Use your senses to help make use of this economic downturn and help stop overshopping.
created:2/8/2010 | views: 123
Do You Know How Alcohol Use Progresses From Pleasurable to Addictive? (The Dopamine Story)
When a person moves from the use of alcohol to abuse and to addiction, changes occur in the brain. Learn what to expect and what you can do about it.
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What Are the Levels of Risk with Problem Drinking?
All alcoholism is not the same. There are different degrees of alcoholism, and different stages of alcoholism. Where do you fit in the alcoholic spectrum?
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The Challenges of Self-Identification and Addiction
At its core, addiction of any sort is about making some behavior—any behavior, and sometimes not even a demonstrably destructive behavior—the centerpiece of one's life.
created:2/1/2010 | views: 137
A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to Waste: How the Recession Can Help Overshoppers
Amidst the violent buffeting of today's economic ill wind, some good can come to overshoppers. As the nation's financial crisis deepens, all of us, whether problem shoppers or not, are driven to reexamine what we buy.
created:2/2/2010 | views: 84
Health Care Reform for Overshoppers: Self Respect, the Third Leg of the Self Supporting Stool (Part III)
In recent postings, we’ve explored two important legs of a three-legged stool that supports stopping overshopping, self-kindness and self-care.
created:2/7/2010 | views: 83
Hooked Again! Breaking the Cycle of Relationship Addiction
This articles explores why adults get trapped in toxic relationships that are self-defeating and how to break the pattern.
created:2/8/2010 | views: 284
Do You Know These Warning Signs of Problem Drinking
Do you know the warning signs of alcoholism or problem drinking?
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Why Making "Rules" You Can’t Enforce and Trying to Tell Someone How to Control Drinking Don't Work
Your preference about a loved one's habitual drinking can turn into an expectation and eventually an unenforceable rule. This leads to increased inner conflict in your own head, as well as external conflict between you and the drinker.
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