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To me, addiction is layered, complex, and difficult to understand. Those layers and difficulties provide obstacles to treating those afflicted with the disease. Plus, in looking at family and friends within the addict’s circle, the challenges grow exponentially. However, in… Continue Reading →
I’ve always wondered if a flower sees another flower and then laments something about itself, based on the other flower. I wonder if an orange flower wishes it were a purple flower; or if a flower with a bunch of… Continue Reading →
Jose Marti was a revolutionary who was ahead of his time. He said: “The prideful villager thinks his hometown contains the whole world and as long as he can stay on as mayor or humiliate the rival who stole his… Continue Reading →
Two things that have grown out of our capitalistic economic system are: 1) powerlessness; and, 2) family struggles. According to Zinn (2005), the powerlessness of the worker class leads to pent up frustrations that can then lead to anger problems… Continue Reading →
Trees have been used to describe families for as long as there’s been families and trees. Just last night, someone, after asking how people at a function were related, took a deep breath and said, “Family trees can be so… Continue Reading →
While I know that there are few situations in life that are either on or off, that knowledge doesn’t prevent me from wishing there was a big magic switch with which we could change a person’s behavior by flipping it. … Continue Reading →
I believe with all that I am that the need to create is woven into humanity’s DNA. We are born with a drive to express ourselves in an effort to leave our mark, however small, on this planet. Life has… Continue Reading →
There’s these yellow flowers that populate large swaths of land and turn vacant fields into carpets of yellow. I run past no less than three (3) of these yellow fields within a short two (2) mile stretch. But, though their… Continue Reading →
For me, addiction is a multi-layered disease in accordance with the American Society of Addiction Medicine’s definition, “Addiction is a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry. Dysfunction in these circuits leads to characteristic biological, psychological,… Continue Reading →
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