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Category Archives: Addiction
Dopesick (TV Series) 11-10-21
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Principles Over Personalities (8-6-21)
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I Want Excitement
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Earn What You Deserve: How to Stop Underearning & Start Thriving (6-27-21)
00:00 Earn What You Deserve: How to Stop Underearning & Start Thriving, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=140174 01:00 Unmanageability indicates you might have an addiction 02:00 How Luke realized he was an underearner 05:30 How Richard realized he was an underearner 06:00 Debtors Anonymous, … Continue reading
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Earn What You Deserve: How to Stop Underearning & Start Thriving
Publishers Weekly wrote in 1994: “The author of How to Get Out of Debt, Stay Out of Debt and Live Prosperously here tackles the problems of another fiscally troubled group, those who are earning only enough to meet their needs. … Continue reading
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Middlemarch and Underearning II (4-11-21)
00:00 The need for an exciting life 10:00 Religion and happiness 1:00:00 What makes a marriage work? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlemarch
Who Will Live
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Your 12-step work does not usually have legal privilege
Your 4th step can be subpoenaed. Someone who hears your fifth step can be subpoenaed to testify about it and can’t claim privilege. A therapist or member of the clergy will usually have privilege (meaning, what you tell them can’t … Continue reading
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Eroticized Rage & The Massage Parlor Killer (3-17-21)
00:00 Police investigate suspect’s motive in Atlanta-area killings, https://apnews.com/article/georgia-massage-parlor-shootings-leave-8-dead-f3841a8e0215d3ab3d1f23d489b7af81 05:00 Perversion: The Erotic Form Of Hatred, https://lukeford.net/blog/?p=130652 19:30 Eroticized RAGE- how to deal with it, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW4XscDZH6A 22:30 Eroticized Rage, Sex Addiction, Love Addiction & The 12 Steps To Recovery, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPzqjdPmH4w … Continue reading
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The Halfway House
Author Steven Pressfield tells author Tim Ferriss about his time working in a halfway house for people released from mental asylums: “They weren’t crazy at all. They were the smart people who had seen through the bullshit and because of … Continue reading
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