We Are All Addicts: The Soul's Guide to Kicking Your Compulsions

by Carder Stout, PhD

Overview

Spirituality is a powerful thing, but just how powerful? Can connecting with one's soul help kick addictive behaviors?

Expert therapist Dr. Carder Stout believes that the soul's authentic voice has the ability to heal addictive cycles and completely remove them from the psyche. The soul is pure consciousness untethered from human experience, and Dr. Stout has maintained sobriety for seventeen years by utilizing this untapped resource. In turn, he has successfully treated numerous clients for addiction and other mental health conditions using the same technique. It is with this expertise, he breaks down his theory of "We Are All Addicts" in a compellingly readable guide.

We Are All Addicts: The Soul’s Guide to Kicking Your Compulsions presents a spiritual approach to ridding the mind of the complex problems created by addiction. These solutions to obsessive thinking and compulsive behaviors are unconventional, and have previously been shared exclusively with his patients in therapy. . . until now. Through exercises, meditations, visualizations and writing, Dr. Stout will demonstrate how to connect deeply to your soul. Readers will not only gain an understanding of the addiction holding them back, but how to overcome it through self-honesty and self-love.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781632281388
Publisher:	Viva Editions
Publication date:	01/10/2023
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	200
File size:	516 KB

About the Author

Dr. Carder Stout is an LA-based psychologist and author of the memoir Lost in Ghost Town, (HCI, Simon & Schuster) which Rolling Stone Magazine praised as “Upsettingly Beautiful." His private practice includes patients that are Oscar, Emmy, Tony and Grammy winners. He also works with at least one Pro Bono client from an underprivileged community each month.

In the past few years he has published several articles on Goop, and has been featured in Rolling Stone Magazine, US Weekly, The Daily Mail, The Evening Standard, Washingtonian Magazine, Eden Magazine, The Purist Magazine, on ABC News, Spectrum News 1, Fox News, MSNBC, Beyond TV, Larry King and Good Day LA. He is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and has written for Alanis Morissette on her health and wellness site Alanis.com.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Soul 1

Chapter 2 Addiction Is an Archetype 15

Chapter 3 A New Understanding of Addiction 31

Chapter 4 Vanity and Fame 45

Chapter 5 Annoyance, Frustration, and Resentment 59

Chapter 6 Alcohol and Drugs 73

Chapter 7 Not So Smartphones 89

Chapter 8 Sex, Love, and Porn 103

Chapter 9 Eating and Not Eating 119

Chapter 10 Work and Success 133

Chapter 11 Exaggeration and Lies 145

Chapter 12 The Future and the Past 159

Afterword: Keeping in Touch: Soul Edition 173

Acknowledgements 175

Editorial Reviews

For anyone who has ever wanted to explore their own addictive patterns, thoughts, or behaviors, or even just wants a deeper soul connection, this book is definitely worth the read.

The Hollywood Times

Dr. Carder Stout’s latest writing adventure is a wonderful journey of recovery. This amazing book opens the reader's mind and offers a pathway to the healing soul. A book that will help any professional in the behavioral health field as well as anyone struggling with obsessive thoughts and compulsive actions.

Dr. Ted Wiard Ed.D

We Are All Addicts is both stunning and practical. Stout makes a compelling, inspired, clear and anthemic plea for the power of the soul. All that we have ever needed, is inside of us. This book will awaken your soul, and give you the power to overcome your compulsions and addictions. But even more, it will liberate you from ego, and grant you the courage to live your life from the eternal, potent and omnipresent place of soul.

Will McCormack

Exceptionally well written, organized and presented, We Are All Addicts: The Soul's Guide to Kicking Your Compulsions is both a practical and a spiritual self-help guide to liberating oneself from destructive and addictive patterns. . . An excellent guide emphasizing the importance of being honest with oneself and loving oneself, We Are All Addicts is highly recommended.

Midwest Book Review

These solutions to obsessive thinking and compulsive behaviors are unconventional, and previously have been shared exclusively with his patients in therapy...until now. Through exercises, meditations, visualizations and writing, Dr. Stout will demonstrate how to connect deeply to your soul. Readers will not only gain an understanding of the addiction holding them back, but how to overcome it through self-honesty and self-love.

Bookreporter

Dr. Carder Stout presents readers with a helpful, informative, and inspiring guidebook that everybody can learn something from.

BookTrib

We’re All Addicts is an excellent handbook for self-repair and soul upkeep. Written by a kind, empathetic guide who has been to the peaks and valleys himself.

Thomas Lennon

Dr. Carder Stout artfully deconstructs the meaning of addiction with the use of his own personal story, academic background in psychology, experiences with his patients, and thought provoking questions and exercises for the reader who may have never considered themselves an addict.

Sarah Brokaw

Jungian psychologist and addiction expert Carder Stout, PhD, sees clients struggling with dependence on alcohol and drugs, sure. But also: dependence on connection, vanity, resentment, love, overthinking. In his new book, We Are All Addicts, Stout posits that any fixation that disconnects you from your innate humanity can be considered addiction.

Goop.com

Dr. Carder Stout challenges our perceptions of addiction in this vivid, powerful and timely book. I highly recommend it.

Carole Radziwill

The toxic guilt, crippling embarrassment, and vicious cycle of shame surrounding food addiction? Carder Stout gets it. It’s like he can see me at three in the morning when I’m standing in front of the fridge (ravenous for what – to feel better about myself?). Thank you for writing We Are All Addicts. The advice about healing from within is spot on.

Stephanie Laska