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Addiction-The Oldest Trick In The Book🍎

9 Jun 2023 · 1 min

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Amber Hollingsworth uses the Adam and Eve apple story as a metaphor for addiction recovery: people are portrayed as having access to everything desirable except one forbidden item (the 'apple'), and the serpent's whispering thoughts create insecurity and lead to poor choices. She frames addiction as the modern repetition of that oldest trick — being tempted to take the one prohibited thing despite having much else.

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Recovery. Oldest trick in the book. Yes. The oldest trick in the book is in Adam and Eve and the apple. We all know the story, right? God created the earth, and then he put Adam on it, and then he gave him a partner named Eve, and he gave him access to literally everything they could possibly want. He said, you can have anything and everything out here, but you can't eat from this apple tree right here. Then along comes the serpent and whispers in the ear and says, well, that's not fair. Why can't you eat the apple? So, of course, they take a bite of the apple, and then the serpent fills their head with all this knowledge. But it ain't good knowledge. A bunch of thoughts designed to make you feel insecure, to make you look at what you don't have instead of what you do have. And it's these thoughts lead you to making more bad choices, which is exactly the same as addiction recovery. You're basically saying you can literally have everything else. You can have your health, you can have your money, you can have your finances, you can have your mental health, you can have family, community, everything. But you can't have this one thing.