Josh TrentIdentity Transformation Architect and award winning Host of the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast—a decade-strong show with over 750 episodes and 15M downloads.

#addiction is a disconnection from self… #healingjourney #mentalhealth #addictionrecovery

12 Oct 2023 · 1 min

Watch on YouTube

0:58

A short YouTube talk (by Josh Trent) framing addiction not as the core problem but as an attempt to solve a deeper wound: trauma-created disconnection from one’s authentic, vulnerable self. The speaker explains that repeated trauma builds layers of disconnection, producing a longing to reconnect to a felt sense of safety and belonging. People attempt to mimic that home/safety state via food, sex, drugs, and other behaviors, producing artificially induced feelings that lack the sustaining "centerpiece" of authentic self-connection.

Chapters

Addiction is not the problem. Addiction is your attempt to solve a problem. That's that disconnection from self that happens from trauma. Because you want to disconnect from that most vulnerable part of you, which is the most authentic part that can be hurt, because you feel everything in that. So you disconnect. And the more that you're traumatized, you create these layers of disconnection and you go farther and farther away from it. And in that disconnection, you long for that reconnection to fundamental self, which has all of these feel good feelings. And so you want to feel safe. And so you're in the opposite of that. You're in stress hormone mode. So then you try to manipulate your physiology to mimic that state that is home. It's familiarity, it's your existential core. It's the part that we're talking about, we're trying to get to. It's who you really are, it's nature, it's life, it's all those things. And you're trying to mimic that. Food, sex, drugs, et cetera. And you realize that you can, you can just dope yourself up into a mode to where you kind of get the. A little bit of the feeling, the artificially induced, like in stage feeling, but without the centerpiece that sustains it. So it's like it's fake.