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The Many Layers Of Addiction : Why It's Such A Complex Problem | The Hopeaholics Podcast

TJ Woodward, an author, and a Spiritual Teacher, discusses addiction, recovery, and conscious healing in a podcast. He delves into his personal experience of closing his heart at the age of seven and how it led him to develop addiction issues. Woodward highlights the multi-layered nature of the addiction problem, the marketing of drugs, political traumas, and COVID, among other factors that drive people to addiction. So, instead of blaming the drug itself, he emphasizes understanding the underlying causes of addiction and tackling them.

Woodward’s Conscious Recovery concept sits on the understanding that everybody comes into the world as a whole and perfect person, but it is societal programming that makes them feel unworthy, not good enough, or unsafe. He thus advocates for healing the individual and their traumas instead of treating the addiction. In addition, he believes that true healing is possible by tapping into the inner essence of an individual and returning to their original wholeness.

Highlights
🌪️Fentanyl is incredibly potent and deadly, and its effects are akin to playing Russian roulette.
🌷Painful experiences are the fertilizer of our life that offer an opportunity for growth and change.
🎼Classical music, conscious speaking, and positivity can nurture a child and influence their growth and development.
🌌Conscious Recovery emphasizes the need to focus on healing the individual’s traumas rather than treating the addiction.
💞 Confronting and addressing the underlying cause of addiction may help remedy the addiction problem rather than solely blaming drugs as the cause.