Addiction Triggers came unbidden, unwarned, unwanted: and suddenly bam!

Addiction Triggers came unbidden, unwarned, unwanted: and suddenly bam! we are triggered. Before conscious thought had chance to intervene, our body engaged in a fight-flight-freeze response. Back comes the terror, the powerlessness, the rage: the visceral memory of childhood trauma. It is terrifying to endure, but eventually we learn that triggers are not a sign, as we so desperately feared, that we are mad. Triggers are merely signposts to what has yet to be integrated in our memory and experience. They are a conditioned response meant to help us, to keep us safe, to avoid something that caused me harm in the past.



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. #childwithin#10stages