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What Are You Really Looking For?

One of the most important questions in recovery is also one of the simplest: What am I actually looking for right...
James Leitch
September 21, 2026
You May Not Need a Career Pivot—You May Need a Career Portfolio image

You May Not Need a Career Pivot—You May Need a Career Portfolio

  People often come to career counselling believing they need to answer one enormous question: What should I do...
James Leitch
September 7, 2026
Becoming Who You Are: Kierkegaard, Jung, and the Journey Toward the Self image

Becoming Who You Are: Kierkegaard, Jung, and the Journey Toward the Self

  Søren Kierkegaard and Carl Jung are two of my favourite authors. Although they wrote in different centuries and...
James Leitch
September 7, 2026
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
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