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Category Archives: Addiction
Under-Earning As An Addiction
One day this past week, I listened five times to talk #8 from Underearners Anonymous. Every time I listened, I felt like I shed a layer of defensiveness and denial. Pam: My sponsor reminds me that we’re either channeling our … Continue reading
Under-Earning Thinking
I just spotted some of my under-earning thinking. As I was reaching into my pocket for my keys, I found myself thinking, “Wouldn’t it be cool if they weren’t there so I would have to knock on the door and … Continue reading
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The Disease Of Underearning
Lecture 68 with Geoff from CA: When I came into Underearners Anonymous, all I knew was that I didn’t have any money and I didn’t feel comfortable asking for money. I learned that underearning is a disease that goes back … Continue reading
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Underearners Anonymous
I listened to some of its programs online and heard these gems: * If I fear down deep that I am a horrible person, then of course I will keep sabotaging myself. I won’t allow myself to be successful because … Continue reading
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The Erotic Haze
A good essay on cybersex addiction: What Sara didn’t understand was that no mortal human being could ever live up to the “erotic haze”—the dopamine-enhanced, highly aroused state that the sex addict enters into when he was acting out that … Continue reading
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How To Find The Right Rehab
Here is one of the questions on paperwork hospital routinely hand out to those seeking recovery from addiction: * Does the treatment program also address sexual orientation and physical disabilities as well as provide age, gender and culturally appropriate services?
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Addiction Reflects Emotional Dependency
By Dr. Rosemary Brown with Laura MacKay: It is emotional dependency, the cause—not such symptoms as alcoholism or overeating or workaholism—that I have been treating in private practice and as a sponsor, with good results, for three decades. My method … Continue reading
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As long as I have known me, I am either depressed or excited about some new way I’ve found of hacking life.
Kiki Baxter writes for The Fix: How to Live Your Vision and Not Drown in Debt How are you with your money? How is your earning? Do you love what you do? Are you living your vision? I started going … Continue reading
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Underearners Anonymous
* The word “can’t” is to the underearner what alcohol is to the alcoholic. * Vision is something that you are not doing that you want to do. * Shadow vision is coming close to what we want to do … Continue reading
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Wisdom From Underearners Anonymous
* The quality of your mental health depends upon your ability to level with yourself. * If underearning is about hiding, prosperity is about sustained authentic visibility. * What we anticipate, we get. * Underearning equals compulsive hiding. * Set … Continue reading
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