Addiction: Not Being Present in Your Own Life - Ep 714

Dr. Reedy talks about the definition of addiction. A chronic pattern to avoid being present in your own life. He talks about the many faces of addiction, beyond alcohol and other substances. He explains how codependency is an addiction to controlling people, places, and things outside of oneself in order to manage internal states of anxiety, fear and insecurity. He explains that addiction is a spiritual bypass. It is a vertical thirst for a connection to the transcendent, the divine, or God. But without the development of the self, this thirst can lead to a life of imbalance and excess. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Addiction: Not Being Present in Your Own Life - Ep 714 is an episode from Evoke Therapy Programs by Finding You: An Evoke Therapy Podcast.

This episode is 1:05:20 long.

This episode was published on Mar 26, 2026.

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