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Peg O'Connor Ph.dPsychology Today |
There will always be challenges even with the best recovery.
Feeling empty makes it much harder to care for anything or feel any joy.
The ability to place a bet—any time and any place—courts ruin for some people.
Changing friendship dynamics can be difficult but necessary.
We risk losing even more when grief overwhelms us.
Personal Perspective: Loss teaches us how to love and grieve.
Suffering destroys our ability to make meaning and value.
Why we become wedded to roles that inaccurately define and constrain us.
Surrendering can sound like punishment rather than freedom.
Patterns are the designs and instructions for our lives.
Doubting yourself too much becomes habitual.
It’s hard to avoid obstacles that we ourselves create in addiction recovery.
Always pleasing others comes at a great expense.
Some people use emotions to shake down others to advance their agendas.
Many identify as being addicted to romantic relationships, but is that possible?
The algorithm of TikTok vacuums up information with every view and swipe.