Healing the Pain Behind Addiction : Insights and Strategies | Everyday Questions For Everyday Life

How do we view addiction as a society?Do we look down upon the addicted because they are reckless and irresponsible? But their behavior is often the tip of the iceberg. The major reason behind their addiction is often deep rooted with some kind of trauma and pain.Medical Science defines addiction as a disease but we need a more multi-dimensional approach to understand the reasons behind addiction. Often addiction is a response to physical and emotional pain. Addiction can be any form including substances, food, shopping and even being obsessed with a person. It is anything that makes the suffering and pain go away even for a few minutes.For addicts, it is never the trauma event that disbalances their brain but often their feelings about the event. Also, society offers judgment which fuels the trauma. It\'s essential to understand that a social approach is needed because the opposite of addiction is connection. “Addiction isn’t the problem, it’s the feelings behind it”- Ritu Malhotra. In this episode your host, Ritu Malhotra shares the reasons behind addiction and how countries like Portugal took the right steps as a society to help heal addiction and decrease substance abuse by 50%.Meet your host: Blending Psychology with SpiritualityRitu Malhotra firmly believes in blending Science with Spiritualism to bring in faster and more permanent transformations. Applying Biofeedback, Muscle-testing, and Kinesiology- with Spiritual wisdom, she helps her clients stem out deep-rooted issues at the cellular level to reprogram them to holistic well-being. To know more about Ritu and her work visit https://ritumalhotra.com/ See what her clients say: https://ritumalhotra.com/testimonials/ **The Cellular Alchemist is produced and managed by DFYP**