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Choose Your Difficulty

I recently had a conversation with a patient about how hard recovery is– facing challenges, embracing honesty– there’s a whole suite of difficulties involved. And

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How to Be Miserable

Turn a world map upside down, and the almost automatic sense of understanding that we have about the globe feels less intuitive. We have to

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Embrace Wonder

I recently started seeing a new patient for addiction. This man has been through an incredible amount in his life, and substance abuse has been

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The Love of Money

Think about the people who have moved humanity forward over the past 200 years—the individuals who made a meaningful, lasting contribution to the world. Who

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