What is addiction? My philosophy is that addiction is a behavioral response to feel better, to avoid pain or discomfort. Our society has driven us to become less tolerant of discomfort so one part of an  addiction treatment model would be distress tolerance education. There is often a deeper wound  that  Carl Jung and William James explored, they viewed addiction as spiritual thirst for wholeness– a misguided search for spiritual connection.  Alcohol was referred to as spirits originally and was seen as a way to relax into making a spiritual connection;  kind of ironic because addiction has become something we often see when people are lacking in spiritual connection. As I write this I find myself  not completely comfortable with  word ‘spiritual’  as  it is a loaded term with varied [...]