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Reading the Same Books Many Decades Later: When Literature Changes Because You Have image

Reading the Same Books Many Decades Later: When Literature Changes Because You Have

Over the past while, I have been returning to a number of novels that I first encountered many decades ago. Lord of...
James Leitch
August 31, 2026
When a Career No Longer Fits: Finding the Right Next Chapter image

When a Career No Longer Fits: Finding the Right Next Chapter

  There comes a point in some careers when the question is no longer: “How do I find another job?” The deeper...
James Leitch
August 31, 2026
When a Partner Is Right—and When They’re Not: Rebuilding Reality After Addiction image

When a Partner Is Right—and When They’re Not: Rebuilding Reality After Addiction

  One of the more complicated dynamics I have observed in working with addiction and relationships is that partners...
James Leitch
August 31, 2026
First-Order vs. Second-Order Change: Why Stopping the Behaviour Is Not the Same as Recovery image

First-Order vs. Second-Order Change: Why Stopping the Behaviour Is Not the Same as Recovery

  One of the most important ideas Patrick Carnes explores in Facing the Shadow is the difference between...
James Leitch
August 31, 2026
What Changes When We Stop Feeding the Addiction? image

What Changes When We Stop Feeding the Addiction?

  Recovery from sexual compulsivity is often described in terms of what a person stops doing: pornography, affairs,...
James Leitch
August 21, 2026
When Your Career Is Part of Who You Are: The Hidden Grief of Job Loss image

When Your Career Is Part of Who You Are: The Hidden Grief of Job Loss

For many people, losing a job is not simply about losing employment. It can mean losing a piece of yourself. This...
James Leitch
August 13, 2026
When Recovery Reveals a Deeper Problem: Addiction, Enmeshment, Shame, and the Struggle to Become Yourself image

When Recovery Reveals a Deeper Problem: Addiction, Enmeshment, Shame, and the Struggle to Become Yourself

  When someone enters therapy for pornography or sexual addiction, the obvious goal is recovery from the addictive...
James Leitch
August 13, 2026
Oedipal Complex 2: Putting Out the Fire: Addiction, Male Connection, and the Work of Recovery image

Oedipal Complex 2: Putting Out the Fire: Addiction, Male Connection, and the Work of Recovery

In my work with men struggling with addiction, I have often found that the addictive behaviour itself is only part...
James Leitch
August 12, 2026
The Oedipal Complex 1: When a Son Becomes His Mother’s Partner image

The Oedipal Complex 1: When a Son Becomes His Mother’s Partner

One of Freud’s most enduring—and controversial—contributions to psychology was the Oedipus complex, named after the...
James Leitch
August 12, 2026
It's Never Too Late to Become Who You Were Meant to Be image

It's Never Too Late to Become Who You Were Meant to Be

One of the most common things I hear from clients is, "I wish I had figured this out years ago." Sometimes it's a...
James Leitch
August 4, 2026
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