Recovery 2.0

Through more than 20 years of recovery from addiction, noted yoga teacher Tommy Rosen learned a lot about what works and what doesn’t work in recovery. From his explorations on the yoga mat and in 12-Step rooms, he found a path to sustainable recover

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No medicine can be considered truly healing if its effects do not automatically render it obsolete in a reasonable amount of time.

— Tommy Rosen, amazon.com

Addiction dis-ease mindfulness Medicine Pills

Nine years later, when I got to rehab, all drugs and alcohol were removed from my life. Guess what was waiting for me: my core issues, my condition, my dis-ease. Nine years of self-medication had not, in fact, cured me. Masked by my 'medicine' my issues had been patiently biding their time until the…

— Tommy Rosen, amazon.com

Addiction dis-ease mindfulness

It is not fully accurate to say that my problem was with drugs. Yes, I took a lot of drugs and hurt myself quite badly doing so. Yet for a long time at the beginning of my using, drugs (marijuana in particular) were a solution to a problem that had been there for some time.

— Tommy Rosen, amazon.com

Addiction dis-ease Drug Abuse Marijuana

People speak about drug addiction and alcoholism as the specific problem a person has. 'He's an alcoholic. He cannot control his drinking.' 'She is a heroin addict. She's dependent on drugs.' Yet the underlying condition of dis-ease is there first and then the behavior begins in order to address it.

— Tommy Rosen, amazon.com

Addiction dis-ease mindfulness

Here's the self-defeating reasoning behind procrastination: 'I'm not going to do what I need to do. Instead I am going to try to distract myself from dreadful feelings, which are now growing inside me because I'm not doing what I need to do.' When you stop and put procrastination into words, you rea…

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Addiction procrastination How to be a writer

Driving while purposely taking your eyes off the road is absolutely insane. You are moving at a high speed in a metal contraption filled with combustible liquid, and you deliberately avert your eyes from the road in order to respond to a text message? Wow! That text message must hold a lot of promis…

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Addiction Technology The Digital Age

Many people cannot remember the last time they went to the bathroom without bringing their cell phones with them. It seems like they are going to be missing something if they just sit on the toilet without a cell phone.

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Addiction Technology The Digital Age Quote of the Moment

My designation as a person in recovery from addiction has given me endless gifts, not the least of which is a clear-cut pathway to an exceptional life. It has been like hitting the jackpot, though it certainly didn't seem like it at the beginning.

— Tommy Rosen, amazon.com

Addiction For when things seem hard Quote of the Moment

My definition of addiction: any behavior you continue to do despite the fact that it brings negative consequences into your life.

— Tommy Rosen, amazon.com

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