Sample Pages of Addictions and Cravings
Sample Pages of Addictions and Cravings
ABALONE (As food)
“Ultimate urban hermit.” They backed off from their severely engulfing and dangerously dysfunctional family very early and very intensely. They wanted absolutely nothing to do with them.
They then proceeded to observe the human parade go by, and though they became rather wise at one level as a result, they also became quite bitter and distrusting. They therefore have sealed themselves off from society in a self-contained system situation.
ACACIAS (Flower)
“Out there.” They have a tendency to be other-worldly and spiritually fixated, to be something of a high-flying idealist, and to engage in an ungrounded insistence on perfection. It is the resultant of being over-sheltered and over-indulged in a “keep them around the old homestead” parenting pattern.
“ACCEPTANCE-ADDICT”
“Please love me!” They are in effect approval-enslaved and disapproval-devastated, as they do a “serve themselves on a platter” -- “do whatever it takes to get them into the inner circle or into your inner sanctum” pattern. They have a serious self-acceptance problem that drives this process. It came about from a rather severe “Not good enough!” parenting pattern.
ACCOUSTIC GUITAR
“Foundation-providing.” They are the grounding on which things are built and who provides the vehicle for things to happen. They are a “back-ground support service” person who is doing it in the co-dependent, self-effacing manner learned in their dysfunctional family.
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“Playful love-making.” They are something of a hopeless romantic who turns everything into a sentimental, erotic and/or exuberant event. The trouble is that in effect this is all they ever do. They are “perennial child” who wants to be “Zorba the Greek,” but who functionally refuses to grow up. They are the product of over-indulgent, under-requiring and possessive parents.
“ACHIEVE-AHOLIC”
“Going for the top.” They have a rather pronounced propensity to be a recognition-addict and an accomplishment-mad striver who seeks to be the best . They are engaged in a frantic attempt to bolster their self-worth, in reaction to a negating family who grudgingly acknowledged their possible right to self-respect only when they produced the near-impossible.
CHOCOLATE
“Connection-seeking.” They are seeking sensuality and desire, along with contact with their spiritual intuition and psychic capabilities. They are manifesting the effects of maternal deprivation by seeking “mother's bitter-sweet milk.”
It is a self-sustaining intrauterine rejection reaction. Their mother just wasn't in any position to be there for them at the emotional body level during gestation and even beyond. They are love-seeking, affection-starved and longing to belong. They are prone to seek untrustworthy sources of intensity as “near-fit” maternal substitutes.
They feel oppressed by life's circumstances or they repress some key piece of their sensual nature or they feel under the thumb of an authoritarian person, system or situation.
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MILK CHOCOLATE
“Grief-relief.” They are feeling the pain of maternal rejection and emotional deprivation.
BITTERSWEET CHOCOLATE; DARK CHOCOLATE
“Biting the bullet.” They feel that bottom line they don't deserve nurturance and support, so they settle for the kind of mixed feeling, ambivalent “support sources” they grew so used to.
WHITE CHOCOLATE
“Suppressed sadness.” They have the underlying feeling that they don't deserve nurturance, so they do a “settle-for substitute” thing in which they will accept only partial need-meeting as their only source of succorance.
