Behavioral Addiction Counseling

On occasion, I’ve heard someone say they have an addictive personality. I’m not quite sure what was meant by that. I assume that person feels like they can’t control their behavior. Historically, what you were addicted to was seen as the cause of the addiction. For example, the cause of an addiction to opioids was…

Social media sites are not your friend. They want to hook you and they want you to stay hooked. They use every psychological trick they can to make you think you have control when you really don’t. Our “always on” culture is toxic. We are hyper-focused on doing instead of being. We feed into the…