🔥 Do you turn to attention or validation from others when you need that quick dopamine hit?
🔥 Do you use food or emotional eating as a way to soothe or feel better?
🔥 Do you scroll when you feel bad—even though you know it leaves you feeling worse?
If you nodded yes to any of these, you’re not alone. These patterns aren’t about weakness or willpower—they’re about the fires we feed.
This isn’t your average talk on addiction. We’re going deeper.
Into intensity. Into cravings. Into why you’re not broken—you’ve just been feeding the wrong fire.
Most of us know the “whack-a-mole” problem: someone gets treatment for alcohol but no one addresses the food addiction. Or they work on other addictions , but the patterns in love and technology never get touched. That’s because it was never just about the alcohol, the food, or the phone. It’s the intensity itself—the rush, the relief, the fire—that keeps pulling us back.
I look at everything through a recovery lens—because in one way or another, we are all addicted to something. When we slow down and look at the rhythm of our lives, we can start to untangle the deeper story. The goal isn’t to extinguish desire, but to choose which fire to feed.
