Breaking Cycles of Abuse and Addiction 4/16/2013 4:55:19 AM
My commitment to ratcheting up discussions on information and personal experiences people have about how dysfunctional patterns of behavior that underlie abuse and addiction can be suspended. All subjects discussed here are brought to light in my book, Call Me Victoria: Life Poems and Stories from Trial to Triumph, posted here. Just a day after the Boston Marathon bombing, it is phenomenally important now that we ratchet up not only sharing what we know about fostering non-violent living, but applying it, and teaching it to our children, with conviction. At the core of nearly every critical challenge our culture has now, is the drive for feeling safety, stability and the sense of belonging to something. Fundamentally, it is the lack of feeling safe enough, secure enough and "a part of" enough that leads to the destructive cycles of both abusive behavior and addiction that are tearing our society and our culture apart daily.
All of this applies to issues ranging from gun control, to domestic violence, to dramatic rises in cognitive and behavioral challenges for school-age children, and political issues. It may seem hard to imagine upon first reading this, but if you take a majority of the issues that threaten our way of life today back to their origins, this is what you will find.
It is especially significant that the strongest foundation for change in turning this pervasively destructive situation in our country around begins with infancy. Certainly, restorative principles can be applied at any age, but it is by far, most effective when individuals feel, stability, safety, security and belonging from the beginning.
I will write more later: To get my full story on these dynamics and how I brought my life around to a stable foundation of feeling safe, secure and belonging, read my book found at www.callmevictoria.com
More Blogs by Vicky Bowker Jeter • Breaking Cycles of Abuse and Addiction - Tuesday, April 16, 2013 • Read the Foreword to Call Me Victoria - Tuesday, January 15, 2013
