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UNDERSTANDING THE ADDICT IN YOUR LIFE: AWAKENING TO RECOVERY (PART 1)

Addiction is not about lack of willpower. Addicts are not bad people. There are reasons why 88 million Americans are chemically dependent or in a relationship with someone who is, and those reasons have more to do with childhood wounds and misguided coping styles, than with willpower. This seminar unravels some of the many mysteries behind why addicts behave the way they do and often end up sacrificing their lives to an addiction.

What You Will Learn:

• Why substance abusers tend to avoid today and instead live in a past that controls them and a future that frightens them.
• How people get caught up in process addictions such as working, spending, making money or gaining power.
• Is it really an addiction if you are not a daily user?
• The four signs of addiction: obsession, negative consequences, denial and a lack of control.
• How to make the connection between the traumatic events of childhood and addiction.
• How compulsive life patterns, including excessive working, relationship dependency and the perpetual child syndrome begin and eventually take over the adult's life.
• Ways that addicts try to control cycles of pain and how they attempt to get relief with objects and events.
• What happens when the people who are close to addicts get tired of being treated as objects?
• The stages of addiction and how they influence the addict's behavior
• How the addict's life breaks down and they isolate themselves from others.
• What happens to the addict when the only thing that matters is getting high from acting out.

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Contact Mark Felber and schedule this series for your group.

Office:
Human Connections Counseling Services
1131 Rockingham Drive
Suite 230
Richardson, Texas 75080

Phone: (214) 796-2323

E-mail: mark@marriagecpr.com

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