



In every life there are times of stress, anxiety, worry, fear and challenge. Sometimes those challenges come rooted deep in our past, where shame, guilt or trauma have impacted on our lives in ways we may not fully understand.



As we mature and become successful these inner issues remain, but we become experts at pushing them aside, burying them deep in the memory or perhaps even trying to negate them with the use of drugs, alcohol, food or other types of addictive and destructive behaviours.



We put on a positive face and tell ourselves all will be fine, though at some level - even if we are not sure why - we still sense those negative feelings. We begin to lose confidence in ourselves; stress increases, relationships deteriorate and we discover that we have become addicted to the very things we previously turned to for comfort.