Blogs About Addiction
Greg McKeown is a leadership expert, champion the lifestyle of essentialism, and New York Times Bestselling Author. I had the privilege of speaking to Greg last year. We discussed many topics including living in the moment, self-observation, and the hidden dangers of...
I was first introduced to mindfulness whilst in the depths of a 15-year heroin detox. After being tortured by anxiety for most of my life, the thoughts of focusing on the present moment scared the life out of me. “Feel the sensations of your breath going in and out of...
Listen to an interview with the author about this article on the Better Humans Podcast. For the past five years, I’ve been obsessed with language and self-talk, and how they relate to emotion. This obsession grew out of the realization that self-talk and anxiety drove...
Ever since I was a child, I was consumed by anxiety and tormented by my mind. As I got older, my anxiety got worse, and so did my urge to escape it. I began using drugs when I was 14 years old, and by the time I was 20, I was a heroin addict. I spent the next 15 years...
Life may have given you scars, but you don’t have to live with the trauma I was only five weeks old when my mother realised that there was something seriously wrong. I wouldn’t stop vomiting, but it was the relentless nature of my crying that really troubled her. She...
An experiential account from an addict turned neuroscientist Sitting down the back of the bus, I’m both excited and afraid. Am I going to die from a heroin overdose? Or am I going to have the best night of my life? I was the one who insisted we should try heroin, so I...
Now they’re helping me to cope with Covid-19. Anxiety comes in many flavours, but they all involve uncertainty. That’s where anxiety lives: In our thoughts about an unknown future. I spent most of my life mindlessly obsessing about the future. I was consumed by...