Family addiction with Georgia and Kym

<p>Introducing the Addictive World with Georgia Phillips and Kym Haynes. Two dynamic therapists with a wealth of knowledge between them and have been working with families with trauma, addiction, domestic violence, and sexual abuse.</p> <p><strong>What is addiction and how it affects marriage?</strong></p> <p>Addiction is disconnection.</p> <p>“When I'm disconnected, then I'm going to reach outside of myself and I'll have to use, that's addiction”.</p> <p>“So if I'm disconnected from myself, then I can't be there for my partner”.</p> <p>We see addiction as obviously the opposite, we need connection. And if we haven't got that, we're going to use something to get connected too.</p> <p>For example, if we're using gaming or we're using alcohol or that first smoke we feel that connection again and I'm all right and have nothing wrong with me.</p> <p>to that, we might have that void inside ourselves where we're seeking, needing, wanting something to fill that void for us, that loneliness and emptiness. And we keep chasing.</p> <p>Understanding the family system and the tools and skills to manage this is so very important to break the pattern of addiction.</p>