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

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26 Jul 2023 · 1 min

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A short spoken monologue (YouTube clip) by Josh Trent defining addiction as a maladaptive relationship with external coping mechanisms used to numb an inner spiritual/emotional void. The speaker argues that therapies, medications, and external modalities may treat symptoms (cravings, arousal states) but often act as scapegoats; true resolution requires internal connection, being heard, felt, resolved and integrated.

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How would you define in a modern world what addiction truly is? My personal definition from source is an addiction is a compulsive habit or repetitive pattern that has become such because we have developed a maladaptive relationship with an external coping mechanism as a way to numb, sedate or medicate the God shaped hole inside of our soul. So we do talk therapy and psychiatric processes. We try to medicate it and numb it or explain it away, analyze it, but that's actually a scapegoat. It's covering up the real issue which is that I feel disconnected. So existentially there's something inside of me that, that's needing connection, it's needing support, it's needing coping. But it's not going to come from these external temporal therapies or modalities or substances that can help to medicate the symptom but don't deal with the actual problem. These impulses, these cravings, these arousal states that get triggered or stimulated, these are all symptoms, these are all indications or indicators that there's something deep within us that's seeking to be heard, felt, resolved, integrated.