In The Last Addiction author Sharon Hersh explores why we are prone to make one thing in our lives more central than it should be and how we can break free of our compulsions. This is not a book of "self-help" answers or "how-to" steps. It is a book about realizing that we need more than ourselves to be saved. Today's Moody Radio program, Midday Connection, spoke with Sharon Hersh about why we love 'things' too much and what we might label as addictions.
Hersh spoke of addictions as being hard to define. In compulsive behavior, we want change from the consequences. But in the very transformation I want, I might have success for awhile, but find myself in the struggle with the awful feeling of helplessness. The up & down, forward & backward, hills & valleys.
"I can't do this. I can't set my self free.
I must be set free. The gig's up. I need help."
Self help is not enough. All of us look for something to fill in the empty spaces. Would you agree that many of us could identify a particular part of our lives we might hide? If so, then we're vulnerable to addiction.I must be set free. The gig's up. I need help."
"No one would choose the realities of an addiction. But over time, it becomes a 'wound.' Once an addiction ensnares us, we are then 'wounded' by it. Along the way we have made choices. Some were good and some foolish. No one starts out stating, '...I hope one day I wake up and my life is out of control...'
She briefly mentioned the thought, 'addictions are wounds.'
Any thoughts?
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