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Category Archives: Addiction
Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
Stanford psychiatrist Anna Lembke writes in this 2021 book: * We’re all running from pain. Some of us take pills. Some of us couch surf while binge-watching Netflix. Some of us read romance novels. We’ll do almost anything to distract … Continue reading
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The God Idea
I like to spend Sunday mornings journaling on the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous. I read the Big Book with HerbK’s three questions in mind: * Why am I doing this work? * Why am I doing this work now? … Continue reading
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Last Friday Night (9-18-22)
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Insecure Attachment and Early Relational Trauma
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Ordinary World (4-7-22)
It’s 5:56 pm. I’m on my 2406 step of the day according to my iPhone. It’s 90 degrees. I’m listening to the Audible recording of the 25th anniversary edition of The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. Passover … Continue reading
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
From this 2019 book by two New York Times reporters: During Bob [Weinstein]’s divorce from his first wife in the early ’90s, he began to drink himself to sleep every night, he told Megan. Only with the help of Alcoholics … Continue reading
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The Daily Laws: 366 Meditations on Power, Seduction, Mastery, Strategy, and Human Nature
Here’s an excerpt from this Robert Greene book: * Those misfortunates among us who have been brought down by circumstances beyond their control deserve all the help and sympathy we can give them. But there are others who are not … Continue reading
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Feelings, recovery and the Alexander Technique (12-5-21)
Cross-dressing in my sister’s clothes while mine are in the wash:
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Translating Inspiration Into Perspiration
Because I’ve often lacked normal levels of human connection, I’ve often had an above average need for meaning and inspiration. This intense yearning has often led me in absurd directions, but even when I went in a good place, the … Continue reading
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