Drugs and Alcohol - Second-Order Feelings - Changing Attitudes In Recovery

Experience the concepts and tools presented in the audio CD: “A Developmental View Of Addictions” It will give you an overview of how to approach your sobriety and recovery differently. It will help you understand the emotional causes of addiction.

Experience the concepts and tools presented in the audio CD: Exploring “New Program” A Blueprint For Recovery. It will give you an overview of how to integrate Twelve-Step and New Program wisdom into a path of sobriety and recovery.

Experience the concepts and tools presented in the audio CD: “Understand The Wounded Child Within” It will give you a deeper appreciation of how to recognize and begin healing wounded parts of yourself. This will help learn to supervise the two-year-old at the heart of your addiction.

Experience developing your own inner coach with the book: “Who’s REALLY Driving Your Bus?” It will take you through the step by step process of how to build your own personal inner coach to support your journey into sobriety and recovery.

Experience developing the tools and skills needed to build healthy esteem and learn to parent the wounded parts of yourself with the book: “Changing Attitudes In Recovery – A Handbook On Esteem” It will show you how to begin building healthy self-esteem. It will also show you how to begin a loving, parenting relationship with the wounded kids inside.

Second-Order Feelings

We have feelings about what we are feeling. These Second-Order feelings are more intense than the original emotions and can cause significant perceptual filters. We can start by feeling a little sad about something, then we can begin to feel afraid of the sad feeling because of prior experiences with depression, then we can feel angry about feeling sad and afraid because we see these as weakness, then we can feel overwhelmed by all these powerful feelings. This process can build on itself without any conscious awareness, creating even more confusion. Fear of “losing it” or anticipating being overwhelmed is a key element of anxiety and panic disorders.