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Jason McCarty
Jan 9, 20143 min read
Finding Substance
The word substance has my attention lately. There is something both conceptually satisfying about it as well as experientially...
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Jason McCarty
Nov 21, 20132 min read
The Annoying thing About Change
I’ve written elsewhere that you have to change to change. Pretty simple, right? But yet we all struggle with this. Even the smallest and...
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Jason McCarty
Dec 27, 20124 min read
The Journey and Stimulation of My Work with the Addicted
I’m not sleeping well these days. My psycho-philosophical work with my addicted clients in treatment is too ripe a ground to explore...
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Jason McCarty
Nov 6, 20115 min read
Letting Go of Your Partner’s Addiction
Term: I’m going to use the term “addicted relationship” to mean when one person has an addiction and the other does not. Being in a...
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Jason McCarty
Aug 22, 20112 min read
Momentum
For people quitting addiction, one of the most difficult aspects is not the actual quitting, is not accepting they have a problem, it’s...
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Jason McCarty
Jun 13, 20112 min read
Four Noble Truths of Addiction
Buddhism is founded upon what Siddhartha Gautama realized were the four noble truths of human existence. I want to take those four noble...
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Jason McCarty
Jun 6, 20115 min read
Shame and Modern Thought
One could say that a huge reason people seek therapy or struggle in life is due to some aspect of shame. Shame is a sense that something...
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Jason McCarty
May 16, 20113 min read
Feeling Stuck
Last week I wrote about change and how we need to take action in order to change. Sometimes change is also in how we see the world,...
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Jason McCarty
May 9, 20112 min read
You Have to Change to Change
One of my favorite authors, Irvin Yalom, MD, is a psychotherapist who has written a book entitled Existential Psychotherapy. I’m sure I...
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Jason McCarty
Apr 23, 20111 min read
Destroying Old Patterns
In a brief addendum to my last post on Addiction is Good For you, I would like to share a quote from Rollo May (1977) in his book, The...
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Jason McCarty
Apr 19, 20114 min read
Addiction is Good For You
I’ve written before on the idea that addiction can give a person reason to look more deeply into his/her life, resolving issues, hurts,...
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Jason McCarty
Jan 18, 20113 min read
Addiction and Potential
The more I work with the phenomenon of addiction, the more fascinating it becomes as an extremely dynamic coping strategy – dynamic in...
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Jason McCarty
Nov 19, 20105 min read
Addiction in Relationships
I work with couples that are trying to mend their relationships after or during the impact of an addiction. There is a typical dance...
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Jason McCarty
Aug 31, 20105 min read
We’re All Addicts
I believe a major problem in how the general public, as well as some professionals, sees addiction is that it is too narrowly defined....
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Jason McCarty
Jul 20, 20103 min read
Boundaries with Addictive Behaviors
I’ve written a lot about having compassion toward those struggling with addiction and that we need to remove a lot of the moral...
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Jason McCarty
Jul 12, 20104 min read
Harm Reduction
Harm Reduction is a philosophy that is surrounded with a lot of controversy, confusion, and intrigue. What is it? What does it really...
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Jason McCarty
Jun 25, 20103 min read
How to See Relapse Positively
When someone struggling with addiction has a relapse it can feel like the end of the world – for both themselves and their loved ones....
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Jason McCarty
Jun 8, 20102 min read
Inner Peace
Peace is found, not through repressing experience, but through acceptance of whatever comes up. (Thomas Bien in his book Mindful...
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Jason McCarty
Jun 1, 20104 min read
Salving Deprivation
One use for addiction in a person’s life is to fill up the emptiness. We all do many things to fill the “hole” in our lives. I have...
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Jason McCarty
May 18, 20104 min read
Why Counselling?
What is counselling? What goes on in a counselling session? It is just for those with real messed up lives, right? No, not true. It is...
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