what if you just stayed with that part of you that is lonely? What if you didn’t have a drink to numb her feelings or eat so much food that there was no room for her to be there? I suspect what would happen is that you would get to know her, turn your attention to her, spend time with her, and soon neither one of you would feel lonely or have a nee

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Addiction is in all of us. This argument has come to matter a great deal to me. The reason I care about it is that when I truly felt this notion in my bones, reading accounts of addiction and recovery from across history, it was profoundly reassuring and comforting. As I write at more length in the book, I developed a sense of fellowship with all t... See more