I am a strong, grounded man, some see me as a Author, Public Speaker, Healer, Guide, Educator and Certified Clinical Hypnosis Practitioner based in Stellenbosch, South Africa.
How to Survive Our Addiction Before It Kills Us What if the addiction is not the real problem, but an attempt to solve a problem we don’t know how to face? We have spent years looking at addiction from the wrong direction. We see the alcohol. We see the drugs. We see the gambling, the …
The Opposite of Addiction Is Connection Addiction is not always about what we are addicted to. Sometimes, it is about what we are missing. We often look at addiction and ask: Why can’t they just stop? Why do they keep doing this to themselves? Why do they choose the substance, the behaviour, the screen, the …
When You Ask God to Take the Addiction Away There are many conversations that happen during the journey of addiction. Some happen with ourselves. Some happen with the people we love. And some happen quietly, privately, in the presence of God. One of the most common prayers of someone struggling with addiction is: “God, please …
Addiction is not the problem. Addiction is often the symptom of a much deeper problem. It is the visible behaviour that tells us something is happening underneath. Something hurts. Something is missing. Something has not been healed. Something has become too difficult to face. And the person has discovered a way to escape it. Look …
The opposite of love is fear. And perhaps nowhere do we see this more clearly than in addiction. Addiction is a strange and painful thing that can happen when we experience deep pain inside ourselves and become terrified of that pain. We don’t know what to do with it. We don’t know how to process …
Addiction is what pain looks like when pain has nowhere else to go. Behind many addictions is a story that has never been properly heard. A person doesn’t always reach for alcohol, drugs, pornography, gambling, food, work, relationships, or another compulsive behaviour because they simply want to destroy their life. Often, they are reaching for …
The Way We Treat Addiction Is Astonishingly Broken The way we treat addiction is, quite frankly, astonishingly broken. We have spent decades developing systems designed to stop people from using substances, gambling, drinking, overeating, compulsively engaging with technology, or repeating destructive behaviours. And yet, despite all our knowledge, research, treatment centres, rehabilitation programmes, medications, twelve-step …