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    Finding Substance
    Jason McCarty
    • Jan 10, 2014
    • 3 min

    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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    The Annoying thing About Change
    Jason McCarty
    • Nov 21, 2013
    • 2 min

    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 28, 2012
    • 4 min

    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 7, 2011
    • 5 min

    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, 2011
    • 2 min

    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, 2011
    • 2 min

    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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    Shame and Modern Thought
    Jason McCarty
    • Jun 6, 2011
    • 5 min

    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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    Feeling Stuck
    Jason McCarty
    • May 16, 2011
    • 3 min

    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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    You Have to Change to Change
    Jason McCarty
    • May 9, 2011
    • 2 min

    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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    Destroying Old Patterns
    Jason McCarty
    • Apr 24, 2011
    • 1 min

    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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    Addiction is Good For You
    Jason McCarty
    • Apr 19, 2011
    • 4 min

    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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    Addiction and Potential
    Jason McCarty
    • Jan 18, 2011
    • 3 min

    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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    Addiction in Relationships
    Jason McCarty
    • Nov 20, 2010
    • 5 min

    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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    We’re All Addicts
    Jason McCarty
    • Aug 31, 2010
    • 5 min

    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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    Boundaries with Addictive Behaviors
    Jason McCarty
    • Jul 21, 2010
    • 3 min

    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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    Harm Reduction
    Jason McCarty
    • Jul 13, 2010
    • 4 min

    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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    How to See Relapse Positively
    Jason McCarty
    • Jun 26, 2010
    • 3 min

    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, 2010
    • 2 min

    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, 2010
    • 4 min

    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, 2010
    • 4 min

    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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