Be Your Advocate
Learn to Accept the Experience of Addiction as a Path to Uncover Your Potential
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How can I claim and cultivate the ultimate meaning from my addiction? Helping you find the answers to that question is the purpose of this book. This book’s intention is to be both a call and a guide. It is a call to come home to a deeper self that your addiction has been mistakenly and unsuccessfully clawing to find. This book is also a guide to familiarize you with information that you have likely been missing along your path. These steps can facilitate an awakening which can result from being intentionally present in the process of evolving away from the tumult of addictive behavior. I believe that you can learn how to engineer yourself in order to uncover a best path forward as a product of your addiction. Through this work, I hope you’ll be able to see that the ultimate issue underlying your addictive behaviors has always been your relationship to how you think and to how you feel, which has been shadowing how you have been able to conceptualize your life. With time, energy, and practice, all of those aspects can keep getting better and better.
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While in the midst of addictive behaviors, it can be easy to define ourselves by the worst things we’ve done. When moving away from addictive behaviors, it can be almost seductive to tell ourselves how unworthy and defective we are because of all the people we have hurt, including ourselves. The good news is that we have the power to decide who we are and what will become of our lives—not in spite of what we’ve been through, but because of what we’ve been through. We get to choose how to value all parts of our stories. As a teacher and guide, Dr. Adam Schilling relies on his professional experience as a coach of positive psychology, relationships, and addiction treatment to invite those battling addiction to use their experiences as a doorway to understanding the inherent goodness that lives within. As he presents various approaches to interacting with aspects of the mind and body, Dr. Schilling offers information and tools, specifically related to the voices in one’s own head, to cultivate a sense of awareness, acceptance, and even appreciation for the powerful process of uncovering what can be as opposed to recovering what was. By learning these skills, identifying negative factors driving addictive behaviors, and thinking and feeling through intentional lenses, new positive personal story lines can be developed and optimistic futures can be brightly forged. Through sharing practical wisdom, real-life stories, and positive perspectives, Be Your Advocate is an invitation to this well-lit path.
About the Author
Dr. Adam Schilling holds a doctoral degree in higher education and social change, a master’s degree in marital and family therapy, and a bachelor’s degree in psychology. He has also completed training and certification courses in both sex addiction and positive psychology. Dr. Schilling is in private practice as a coach in positive psychology, relationships, and addiction treatment.