roots

Roots

trauma

Trauma

addiction

Addiction

forgiveness

Forgiveness

confidence

Confidence

awakening

Awakening

service

Service

chaos

Chaos

fear

Fear

expectations

Expectations

truth

Truth

love-and-balance

Love and Balance

women-and-peace

Women and Peace

<div id="attachment_5825" style="width: 510px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-5825" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-5825 size-full" src="https://wp.learn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/5-2.jpg" alt width="500" height="750" srcset="https://wp.learn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/5-2.jpg 500w, https://wp.learn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/5-2-200x300.jpg 200w" sizes="(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px">&#8220;Me as a teenager thinking that heroin was the answer.&#8221;</div> Addiction is mostly about running away from feelings. Some of the most sensitive people become addicts. So we need to learn how to sit with sensations like craving and restlessness, rather than trying to quell those feelings with drugs, alcohol, or whatever the addiction may be. When you’re looking for a fix, you’re agitated and tight. You might feel like a pressure cooker with no way to let off steam. When we suffer in this way, we often use crutches like food, exercise, shopping, and sex to feel better. Addiction is when the...