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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, 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 27, 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 6, 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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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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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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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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Jason McCarty
- Apr 23, 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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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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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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Jason McCarty
- Nov 19, 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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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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Jason McCarty
- Jul 20, 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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Jason McCarty
- Jul 12, 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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Jason McCarty
- Jun 25, 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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