Transforming Addictions

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Addiction Relief and Repair

Welcome to the page you selected because you long for more balance in your journey. Perhaps you’re reading this because you or someone you love has experienced the despair that comes with not being able to travel the road of your choice. As you run your eyes over this page, you’re already making the turn toward a more joyful stretch of the journey.

What lies in our power to do,
lies in our power not to do.
– Aristotle

Science and our own experience in the school of hard knocks teach us that addictions are complex. We sometimes feel that we were just destined to endure them! You may suffer from a substance use addiction to alcohol, tobacco, prescription drugs, or other mind-altering chemicals. Or you may be plagued with processes in your life that bring similar swings of euphoria and misery such as gambling, sex, food, shopping, hoarding, internet dependence, or others. My training and experience with addictions allows me to tell you with confidence that there is hope and help and a happy outcome available for you when you take the step that you are taking right now in your journey.

Together, in the therapeutic setting, we are able to address underlying conditions such as anxiety, depression, lack of self-esteem, or past trauma (whether or not it is known to you). Through bodywork and sensitivity to the nervous system, we can repair the places that throw you into chaos and imbalance. By heeding instead the call for healing, by resolving shame or neglect, we move on together with compassion for how hard the road has been in the past and how bright it may be in the future. We create and locate new resources. We discover the hidden power of the nervous system and the spirit that allows your body to build its own balance and the mind to be at peace.
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The drug addict is today’s scapegoat…. Much of our culture is geared toward enticing us away from ourselves, into externally directed activity, into diverting the mind from ennui and distress. The hard-core addict surrenders her pretense about that. Her life is all about escape. The rest of us can, with varying success, maintain our charade, but to do so, we banish her to the margins of society. - Dr Gabor Maté
The drug addict is today’s scapegoat…. Much of our culture is geared toward enticing us away from ourselves, into externally directed activity, into diverting the mind from ennui and distress. The hard-core addict surrenders her pretense about that. Her life is all about escape. The rest of us can, with varying success, maintain our charade, but to do so, we banish her to the margins of society.
– Dr Gabor Maté

The moment we accept the place where we may seem helpless, it can cease to be the deepest truth about us… The process is painstaking, and for it to proceed we need great compassion for ourselves--exactly the way we are. And we allow the Universe to be exactly the way it is. Through this process we find that we are no longer pitting ourselves against things. We’re opening to life--first by opening ourselves, and then gradually expanding outward. - Ram Dass
The moment we accept the place where we may seem helpless, it can cease to be the deepest truth about us… The process is painstaking, and for it to proceed we need great compassion for ourselves–exactly the way we are. And we allow the Universe to be exactly the way it is. Through this process we find that we are no longer pitting ourselves against things. We’re opening to life–first by opening ourselves, and then gradually expanding outward.
– Ram Dass

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Although the road is never ending, take a step and keep walking, do not look fearfully into the distance…. On this path let the heart be your guide, for the body is hesitant and full of fear. - Rumi
Although the road is never ending, take a step and keep walking, do not look fearfully into the distance…. On this path let the heart be your guide, for the body is hesitant and full of fear.
– Rumi

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Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There’s a crack in everything, That’s how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There’s a crack in everything,
That’s how the light gets in.
– Leonard Cohen

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Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think...there are no little things. - Bruce Barton
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think…there are no little things.
– Bruce Barton

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