Andrew Bevan - Voluntary Mentor
Grief and Addiction
In 1969, Elizabeth Kübler-Ross described the five stages of grief. In my experience, these also characterise aspects of confronting...
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Andrew Bevan - Voluntary Mentor
- Oct 18
- 5 min
The Quest for Peace
All of us, presumably, would like to be at peace. Most alcoholics and drug users are restless. They can’t sit still. They’re not...
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Andrew Bevan - Voluntary Mentor
- Aug 16
- 4 min
The Existence of a Brotherhood
In an earlier blog, we briefly commented on how Special Forces (SF) use meditation techniques as part of training and preparation (see...
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Andrew Bevan - Voluntary Mentor
- Jun 14
- 4 min
Suffering and the Search for Meaning
Suffering is part of what it is to be human. The “art of living” (Discourses of Epictetus, 1.15.3) is in large part how we cope with...
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Andrew Bevan - Voluntary Mentor
- Apr 5
- 4 min
Choose Life
We hear the cry of many, and perhaps we have done it ourselves on occasion – “what is the point of it all?” We do it when we are sick,...
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Andrew Bevan - Voluntary Mentor
- Feb 5
- 4 min
Inordinate Desire and Excessive Appetite
Alcoholics can’t stop at just the one drink. Whatever the good intentions, one drink is followed by another until oblivion is reached. It...
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Andrew Bevan - Voluntary Mentor
- Sep 3, 2021
- 4 min
Meditation and Addiction Recovery
In an earlier blog from last year, called Be Still – Mindfulness in Lockdown, we talked about how lockdown was an opportunity to stop...
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Andrew Bevan - Voluntary Mentor
- Jun 2, 2021
- 4 min
Motivation, Discipline and Reward
Alcoholics and drug users find it tough to stick to a treatment programme. Motivation comes and goes. Discipline is something different....
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- Jul 6, 2020
- 4 min
The Brain and Addiction - Part III
Do we have three brains? Now we know that in the early century XX neuroscientists were able to understand the roots of some of Jon’s...
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- Jun 1, 2020
- 4 min
The Brain and Addiction - Part II
Reptilians Among Us Late in the morning in April 1899 Christfried was crossing the cobbled central square of Erlangen, in Bayern. His...
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- May 25, 2020
- 4 min
The Brain and Addiction - Part I
I want to vs I have to You know what you have to do, but you can’t help doing the opposite. How many times have you been there? Don’t...
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- Nov 8, 2019
- 5 min
Exploring the Mechanism of Maintenance Therapy
Understanding Opioids Over the past few decades, much has been revealed about opioid dependence that has shaped our comprehension of...
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