Addiction is not complicated
Dr. Harry Henshaw
Enhanced Healing Counseling provides therapy for drug addiction, alcohol dependency. substance use and mental health issues like depression, anxiety, stress, trauma and low self-esteem. Call 305-498-3442 today!
The belief that addiction is complicated
Many people in society and the treatment industry believe addiction is complicated and challenging to comprehend fully. Many also think the complex understanding of drug and alcohol addiction makes it difficult to convert our current knowledge of substance abuse into an effective and efficient treatment program or intervention. I believe that part of our failure to help addicts and alcoholics effectively is to be found in our reasoning about the matter, in our belief that addiction is complicated.
With our faith in the necessity of complication, we fail in our efforts to know about and effectively treat those suffering from addictive disorders. Believing that something is so complicated is more about our not knowing than the subject we are referring to. I think that the issue of addiction is very simple to understand and that once it is adequately understood, a clear path to change and transformation will be revealed to us, that from this understanding, we will finally be able to provide powerfully effective treatment modalities for those suffering from substance abuse disorders.
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Understanding addiction is simple.
Understanding and treating addicts and alcoholics is not complicated but relatively simple. What if the cause and the solution of substance abuse problems were to be found within the same place, in the individual's mind, his thinking process, and within the individual's thoughts and beliefs, especially with those thoughts and beliefs about the individual's value and worth as a human being? Our obsessive focus on drugs and alcohol and our confidence in a physiological disease model of addiction has distracted us from looking in the appropriate place to understand this problem correctly.
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Dr. Wayne Dyer once stated that even though he dropped the keys to his car inside his house where there was no light, after becoming frustrated with not immediately finding them, he thought it would be easier to look for them outside where there was some light. Dr. Dyer's point in his story was that we tend to look outside ourselves for the problem and its solution when both are only to be found inside of us where they genuinely exist. When we look in the correct place, we will understand that addiction and dependency on drugs and alcohol are very simple and that what is required to transform is simply a change in our thinking, thoughts, and beliefs.
Dr. Harry Henshaw
Enhanced Healing Counseling