Addiction is not the result of character flaws, personality disorders, lack of will power or a spiritual disease.

The Child Within has to exit the crazy world of the mad hatters tea party, the perpetual cycle of escape into dissociation to forget early trauma.

Scientific research now tells us that the roots of addiction reside in neurotransmitters in the brain and balancing these neurotransmitters will lead to successful recovery. It is not the result of character flaws, personality disorders, lack of will power or a spiritual disease. The disruption of the brain happens in childhood and the balance/recovery has to be restored from this starting point.

Addictions/Behavioural dysfunction (acting out) history has to be retraced back into childhood and the original software faults closely examined within a childhood viewpoint.The Stages is the only study group that takes this viewpoint and hence is the only method of understanding the roots of dysfunction in a practical setting.

Befriending the child as an equal with a child's understanding of dysfunction ( it doesn't have one,) becomes a starting point of our course work how we get to this point within the study, is experiential for us in winning the trust and beginning to excising the fear/terror of the adult/child at any age into a gentle healing process.