Addiction & Emotion Volume 2

Escape takes many forms, but the level of severity is arbitrary if the intention to escape is totally blocking your interest in finding your own profound meaning in life. Instead of finding your own profound, you double down on your acting out, trying to "milk" the profane as a substitute. The addicted person really needs to stop needing to escape. In this book, Dr. Michael Lukens advocates for escapists of all shapes and sizes to find a way to say YES to the painful parts of their own reality, which is what makes transformational recovery possible. A full and permanent recovery happens organically for the individual as the side effect of not trying to escape escapism, but in dealing forthrightly with the emotional truth and doing the work to heal one's wounds.

This volume is intended to be used as a self-improvement manual and is practically applicable across a spectrum of escapist tendencies. You don't have to be an "addict" to find value in Dr. Lukens' insights. Those individuals who are interested in the philosophy of how emotions and addiction correlate are encouraged to read the first volume as well.