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Excuses I Hear In Therapy

7 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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Amber Hollingsworth (speaker) criticizes common excuses people give for keeping addictive substances in their homes and urges radical honesty about the substance’s harms. She explains that completing “step one” (becoming truly honest about what the substance does for and to the person and others) leads to taking concrete steps to remove the substance from one’s life so recovery is possible.

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I mean, I can't tell you how many times I hear people make excuses for if they're addicted to a substance for keeping that substance, like, in their house. Come on, now, you know that's a bunch of bs. Stop. Eventually you might be able to be around whatever that thing is and it not bother you. That's a real thing. Because if you've done step one properly and you've gotten really honest with yourself about what this substance is doing for you, to you and to the other people, then you're gonna get very serious about removing it from your life. Because you're gonna be honest with the magnitude of the problem, and you're going to make whatever changes you need to make in order to make that possible.