Until just a few years ago, I really struggled over what I should believe about addiction—Is addiction a CHOICE as our religious community says? Or is it mainly a psychological DISEASE as most in the scientific community says?

I oscillated from one extreme to the other throughout my life, believing it was a choice as a child, when I was raised in a religious household but as I became a pharmacist I became cynical to that idea and started to see it from the other extreme.

Moreover, throughout those same years I struggled with my own compulsive behaviors which left me feeling shameful, behaviors that I wanted to conquer but just couldn’t seem to stop. This made me more cynical and even more sure that the idea that what I learned in childhood was wrong, and that I should stop feeling so ashamed for things that were outside of my control.

But, over the last few years I have found incredible insights about human behavior that have completely transformed my understanding of addiction, cynicism and God which has allowed a dramatic change in my life.

And I want nothing more than to share what I have learned with others. That addiction in most cases acts as a disease, but if understood, can totally become a choice. But, we don’t have the choice until we evolve our understanding of that behavior.

I think it is imperative that us, especially us parents—trying to teach our children how to manage their own appetites, learn the WHOLE truth about compulsive behaviors, because almost all of us have grown up with beliefs about addiction that are not true. Much of these beliefs are OUT-DATED and these beliefs lead to loads of frustration and stress— which only adds fuel to the compulsive fire.

We get burned on both sides because understanding addiction from this out-dated and limited perspective is a lot like trying to understand the solar system but coming from the perspective that the earth is flat and the center of the universe. Yes, a lot will make sense from a limited perspective but most of the math and logic just do not add up.

Therefore, I want to share the most groundbreaking things I have learned about addiction, so that it limits frustration for you and your family but I also want to do it in a way that is super simple.

Way too often us in the scientific community just muddy already complicated issues by medical jargon and getting too entranced with minute details which leaves us with many unanswered questions and overwhelm.

Therefore, I have simplified the process of addiction into just a few simple to understand principles and analogies that make it so easy to understand that a child can comprehend it.

Lastly, the people I mainly want to serve are NOT the ones suffering with major addictions, for they need professional help. But the people I want to serve are PARENTS who are struggling to find answers about how help their kids manage social media, video games, pornography and high calorie foods. Because this is something that hits so close to home for me.

I want to bring parents together with the purpose of raising up an addiction resilient generation. Because unless we as parents really comprehend what is going on in their brains how in the heck are we going to teach them?

But, once we evolve our understanding then we create great change in our lives and in the ones around us.

Because We Are Good Enough, We Are Strong Enough, We Are Worthy of the Ride!