Nick StumboExecutive Director driving healing from sexual brokenness

How The Matrix Of Addiction Helps You Know Where You're Headed

1 Jun 2024

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This content was created by Nick Stumbo. This content was uploaded by Nick Stumbo. This is a YouTube video titled "How The Matrix Of Addiction Helps You Know Where You're Headed" containing a monologue or talk focused on recognizing patterns of relapse and edging behaviors related to addiction. The speaker discusses tools to identify secrecy and isolation as indicators of potential relapse, aiming to help viewers become more aware and put guardrails in place for recovery. The content is educational and self-help oriented, created in June 2024.

And we have a tool in our resources called the matrix of Addiction that helps us look at where does the pattern of relapse or maybe even the direction that you're facing. Are you headed toward relapse or toward restoration? It helps you identify that and so that you can start putting guardrails around the front end. And so I think that that's such an important piece to becoming aware of these edging behaviors and maybe where they are in our pattern. If you feel that pull toward isolation, toward keeping secrets, toward not being honest, I think that's a good indicator that this behavior might be edgin. If you're on your phone or on Twitter and your spouse walks in the room and you feel you kind of turn to where you're hiding your screen from your spouse or from someone else, okay, that's a good indicator. Secrecy. Is there something that you either feel guilty about or shame about that you're wanting to keep to yourself? If we can start to identify some of those areas or maybe activities that we do that we hold that secrecy or feel that pull toward it, that's also, I think, a good indicator that we're edging.