Over time, greater amounts of the drug or acting out behaviours are needed to reach the same numbing out for our child within.

Over time, greater amounts of the drug or acting out behaviours are needed to reach the same numbing out for our child within. Thus our addictions takes hold, the child within become worse not better and lives become unmanageable for all concerned. In this manner we may develop insidious multiple addictions. Gruesome twosomes like food and alcohol or sex and drugs or gambling and alcohol, are all potent combinations that make it difficult to recognise what the primary addiction or issue is, or exactly how to treat it. After all, we have to eat, right? However, there are ways of eating that trigger spikes in blood sugar levels that in turn trigger cravings. And because drinking also affects blood sugar and lowers inhibitions, gorging on sugary and fatty foods becomes easier and more mindless. Though we may not appear to be eating or drinking to unmanageable excess, we are able to manipulate our own body chemistry and maintain addictive levels of feel-good body chemicals by a combination of drinking alcohol and using food to get a dopamine high. This manipulation of our own body chemicals can also be achieved through maintaining adrenaline highs. Adrenaline can be as addictive to the brain as heroin, activities like constant rushing, overworking, high-risk behaviours or frenetic exercise can all create spikes in adrenaline. In all of these cases, behaviour can come to mirror 
that of an addict and thinking, feeling, and behaviour become unmanageable.

The Ten Stages is a studied recovery course. It is a source of reconnection a method of unlearning and a reintroduction to our child within which leads us back to our one true intuitive voice.We start to learn and come out of our protective dysfunctional shell and reclaim our lives.

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