Dear Michael:

You make a lot of sense in your post, lots of understanding, motivation and promise.

The addictions, though, these habits, the attachment to them is strong, isn’t it. There is the bad feelings you don’t want to feel and the automatic ways you react, the automatic reaching out to the solutions of past, now habits. These habits bypass the Values neuropathways of the brain.

They are about Pain-> withdraw from pain. The earliest instinct in the evolution of animals.

How are you going to deal with those heavy-duty habits, aka addictions?

anita