Category Archives: Willing Ways Articles

Are You an Achievement-Addicted Person?

Are You an Achievement-Addicted Person

What is Achievement Addiction? How Do You Know If You Have It? One of the most powerful motives that humans can possess is the drive to achieve.  Typically, we consider high achievement to be positive.  We encourage ourselves, and our children, to be high achievers.  But can we become too achievement-oriented, and cross over into[…]

Making Progress in Writing & Recovery

Making Progress in Writing and Recovery

Writers & Loved Ones Should Embrace “Progress Not Perfection” I write and I recover from a loved one’s addiction. Granted there are significant differences between the two, but several similarities. I struggle to master both. And let me tell you, it’s hard. Fran Simone is Professor Emeritus from Marshall University, South Charleston Campus, West Virginia where she[…]

6 Strategies to Communicate With Anger Addicts

6 Strategies to Communicate With Anger Addicts

How to Deal With Angry Controlling People Anger can tyrannize relationships. One woman I treated had stopped having any male friends because she was afraid of her partner’s unrelenting jealous anger. If she went to lunch, for instance, with a male colleague from work her partner would barrage her with cell phone messages during the meal. Initially, unable[…]

Cheating Yourself? I Hear the Advice, I Do What I Want

Cheating Yourself I Hear the Advice I Do What I Want

People Have to Be Met Where They Are (At All Levels) A Depressing Video I recently watched a video about the use of new technology to change health behaviours in the elderly. It should have been inspiring and uplifting. Instead, it was depressing. The unhealthy elderly man in the video, let’s call him Jim, desperately needed to[…]

What Really Happens When a Couple Splits?

What Really Happens When a Couple Splits

And Why We Tell Ourselves Just What We Need To Hear “Beth” and “Rob” were happily married. You could feel their harmony. Talking with them, you never got that awkward impression of unresolved issues trying to surface. When telling stories, they would duet smoothly, neither yanking the other this way and that. From the twinkle in their[…]

3 Ineffective Ways I Tried to Manage and Enjoy My Drug Use

3 Ineffective Ways I Tried to Manage and Enjoy My Drug Use

Alert: If You’re Trying to Manage Your Drug Use, You’re Not Enjoying it Anymore As an active addict, I was an amazing storyteller. “I don’t have a problem” was one story I liked a lot. Another related one: “It’s all under control.” A third and more specific variation: “Coke is not interfering with my life.”[…]

Alcohol in the Human Body: An Odyssey!

Alcohol in the Human Body An Odyssey

Dr. Sadaqat Ali: Unlike anything else we eat, alcohol is absorbed differently, is eliminated differently, and affects us all in a different way as well. More information on all of these issues means better decisions when it comes to drinking. We all drink water and it is important to us. We know its significance, but[…]

Are More Intelligent People More Likely to be Alcoholics?

Are More Intelligent People More Likely to be Alcoholics

Are Smarter People More Likely to Harm Themselves With Drugs & Alcohol? Dr. Kanazawa has reissued his assertion that more intelligent people binge drink and get drunk more, according to the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health).  The following data from that study relate childhood IQ to binge drinking and drunkenness: “Very dull” Add Health respondents (with childhood IQ[…]

Dealing with addicts Taking a Lethal Combination of Cocaine and Alcohol

Dealing with addicts taking a lethal combination of Cocaine and Alcohol

This article is from a video by Dr. Sadaqat Ali, titled: “Dealing with addicts taking a lethal combination of Cocaine and Alcohol” Mixing drugs have never been a good idea. People mostly mix the drugs that are opposite in nature to overcome the effects produced by one drug. Most people take a combination of cocaine and alcohol as cocaine is a stimulant[…]

Teach Your Teen About Alcohol

Teach Your Teen About Alcohol

One in Five Teens Will Get Into a Car With A Driver Who Has Been Drinking You might think high school drinking is probably harmless. But consider these numbers. In a 2015 survey of U.S. high schoolers by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 18 percent reported downing five or more drinks in a two-hour stretch—in other words,.binge drinking. Almost[…]