Guy – Congrats on reclaiming your personal power through the courageous work of letting go of much of the underlying negativity that drove you to addictions.

You highlighted an important point: the difference between addressing the underlying causes of addiction and merely focusing on strategies to stop using.  If the things that made you reach out to numb yourself aren’t addressed and healed, you’d be driven to act out in addictive behaviours again sooner or later.

The point that people usually miss is how rewarding doing the real work is, as your story is testament of.