What Does Healing Your Addiction Look Like?

It’s not what you expect.

Photo by Colton Sturgeon on Unsplash

I have a surprise for you.

Transforming your addiction will look downright dull from the outside.

Inside, you’re more alive than you’ve ever been.

Let me explain.

This is what it looks like when you move out of your addiction.

Zambezi raft versus a Nile Cruise

When you’re addicted, you jump from one dopamine hit to the next.

You live for the next shot of … (fill in the blank).

You’re rafting down the Zambezi. If you have never visited Mozambique, that’s one of the world’s most dangerous rivers to raft. You love the thrill of getting propelled out of the raft. You struggle to stay above the water; in quiet water, you swim to the raft, and the instructor will pull you in again. You already hear the next waterfall in the distance. You have ample time to breathe, relax and enjoy the view. You make yourself ready for the next rush.

I just described the life of an addict.

Rafting on the Zambezi River

You get out of the…