Holistic Healing for Addiction

Preface

Addiction is perhaps the great equalizer we would wish away had we the ability; the disease afflicts all without regards to race, gender, ethnicity, or socio-economic status. In many cases, the disease comes espoused with mental illnesses and underlying traumas left unaddressed for a testament of years. As someone who has struggled with many of the precursors of addiction (depression, low self-esteem, and unfortunate life experiences leading to the brambles of self-harm), I found myself on the precipice of remaining absolutely mad- should I have continued to be drawn by the intimate insanity inside without hope of release, save the bits of skin I would melt away. Yet I did find a way out, and in a non-traditional means: holistic healing.

Embracing holistic healing is less farfetched than it may have been a decade ago. I want to show you how embracing an alternative means of treatment, before, during, and after addiction recovery will help speed your path to sobriety, and enliven your spirit to experience life for all of the colors deadened by the dredges of addiction.

This book is the manifestation of knowledge nearly ten yeas accrued from personal study and how these measures lend themselves to treating the underlying causes of addiction, self-harm, and mental unrest. Many cognitive afflictions share similar symptoms and psychological expression (i.e.: depression). While it is true traditional therapy is necessary to treat chronic and budding substance use disorders, there are spiritual tactics which you may employ from home, speeding the recovery process, and allowing you to redefine who it is you want to be in this life.

Addiction cannot define you if you do not allow it. That is the premise of this book. In your hands (or more likely, on your screen) you hold the key to unlocking your life into the reality you wish it to be. Addiction cannot keep you prisoner if you relinquish its hold on you; addressing the anxieties welled up inside of you is key to freeing yourself to experience life for all the beauties it is meant to be.

If you are someone suffering from addiction, self-harm, or mental illness, this book is for you. It will show you how to employ holistic healing in your everyday life to achieve the aspirations you have always dreamed of, and how to live your life in peace, harmony, and guide you to the beginning steps of fulfilling self-actualization.

If you are a loved one of someone else who is struggling from addiction, this book is for you. Although it is beyond the scope of this book to define the intrinsic nature of addiction, this text will arm you with actionable solutions you can begin working with your loved ones to overcome the disease of addiction from the inside out. Maybe you have tried therapy, or other means of reaching your loved one without success; this book is the bridge between traditional medical wellness and the venerable healing arts of Eastern medicine.

Holistic healing cannot usurp the place of rehabilitation treatment. Yet what it can do is induce change, open oneself to the possibility and willingness to go to treatment, and keep one on the path of recovery once finally traversing rehabilitation. Holistic healing is more than a routine ritual, it is a perennial state of being which will unfetter your creative, intellectual, and inherent potential stifled by addiction.

You are the culmination of your choices, not the reflection of self-perceived failures. Addiction is not a choice- but there are means that will return you as the forbearer of your fate. This book will help you do that, from the inside out.

In comparison to other books on addiction recovery, this book takes an approach to mindful thinking, and addressing not "addiction," but the causes of addiction. It is well known addiction is a means of self-medicating feelings of depression, anxiety, and inward ills. This book will help you silence and resolve the inner demons fomenting addiction.

Do not mistake this as a magic formula to fell the disease of addiction outright, but a roadmap that if you commit yourself to, will ultimately bring you the happiness of shedding your psychological and emotional pain, allowing you to pursue the passions you have always dreamed of.

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