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    The Chill Factor, New Thinking for Parents of Addicts
    The Chill Factor, New Thinking for Parents of Addicts
    The Chill Factor, New Thinking for Parents of Addicts
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    The Chill Factor, New Thinking for Parents of Addicts

    By Petrina Bright

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    The Chill Factor, New Thinking for Parents of Addicts tailors a modern-day DIY addiction approach with new thinking and fresh role players.
    It embraces the gentler principles of harm reduction and explains how hardcore addicts can gain self-worth and traction for healing through incremental changes.
    Once you relax into this new way of thinking and fit yourself out with mental and emotional stamina, you'll see chunks of denial fly out the window. You're no longer going to try and prove a point, and you're certainly going to free yourself from the sense of permanent doom.
    Read about findings on the amazing plasticity of the mind and on cutting-edge, non invasive support protocols that rely on the body's auto-healing mechanisms.
    The Chill Factor, New Thinking for Parents of Addicts shines a spotlight into the big void beyond the culture of institutional rehabilitation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPetrina Bright
    Release dateMay 27, 2013
    ISBN9780620565004
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      The Chill Factor, New Thinking for Parents of Addicts - Petrina Bright

      THE CHILL FACTOR

      New Thinking for Parents of Addicts

      Published by Petrina Bright at Smashwords

      Copyright 2013 Petrina Bright

      Editor: Rachel Bey-Miller

      Cover image: Melissa Smit

      Smashwords License Note: This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment and may not be resold or given away to other people.

      Disclaimer: The author and publisher shall not be liable for loss or damage caused by the use of information contained in this book, which is not intended as a substitute for medical advice.

      * * *

      About the Author

      She is neither saint nor psychologist, and not disciplined enough to practise everything she preaches. A background in journalism has, however, left her with a bag of salt to season proposed truths as they come and go.

      Petrina has worked in the print media on newspapers and commercial publications. She has studied the subject of natural healing and has been forced to keep up with new approaches for addiction in order to cope with the tyranny of an alcohol dependant son.

      Possibly because her feet aren’t always on the ground, she often finds herself in the path of rare phenomena. She has witnessed a UFO from 40 meters away, missed the course of a blue fireball by a thumb nail and bent a fork while watching a TV show.

      These ravishing experiences forever remind her that magic is alive and that the cruel journey of addiction might just be one question short of an amazing answer.

      Petrina is the author’s pen name.

      * * *

      Table of Contents

      About the Author

      About the Addict

      A Change of Heart

      Saturation Point

      Brain Plasticity

      The Threshold

      Easing the Mind

      The Underbelly

      Gracious Thinking

      Facing Up

      A Time of No Restraint

      Non opportunities

      Wearing Stress

      Random Combustion

      The Messenger Gets Shot

      The Rock Bottom Relic

      Being Right

      Revolving Doors

      Forward Thinking

      Engagement for Healing

      Accessing Cyber Help

      Neural Traction

      Smooth Withdrawal

      Supporting Change

      Gently There

      * * *

      About the Addict

      In the end I felt that he came into this world of wonder with a hidden birthmark of sadness, begging to be healed. He would manage life by being the professional clown.

      He was an intelligent and entertaining child. A lot of his friends, and some parents too, considered him the funniest. His incisive wit and uncanny sense of timing suggested the makings of a stand up comedian. He was also adventurous and affectionate.

      At an early age my son was labelled disruptive by schoolteachers. Only one, a spunky female who treated her class to Scottish dances, coped well with his abundant energy. She crowned him as her pet and spoke of his creative and academic abilities in superlative terms.

      Mostly, educational counsellors probed his psyche and suggested Ritalin to calm his hyperactive mind. He told me he knew what they expected of him during sessions and that it irritated him. Whenever possible he made mouse droppings of the tiny white tablets around the house.

      In high school he was the naughtiest. He received the highest number of hard labour sessions that his prestigious school could hand out without them appearing ridiculous. He dug manure into the gardens of teachers who lived on the college premises, or got appointed to move stones from one inane position to another.

      Because the punishments were handed out in firm tradition and were central to a superior education, they were given and taken in good spirit. The teachers firmly held that robust perspiration in the open equalled a healthy learning experience. I bowed to that conviction.

      Principals summoned him, and then me to their offices – still in a spirit of goodwill, I thought. Then authority figures grew more forbidding. Once on a steaming summer’s day, his college principal wore the school’s official black robes and paraphernalia to banish my boy and two others from class for a week.

      He assigned them to separate rooms in a staff facility where they could do some solid self examination over and above a few scholarly assignments. My son landed in the kitchen, where he consumed hot beverages and tweaked a computer program for a teacher’s private use.

      During this week of isolation the entire school was scheduled to attend an annual event that always mightily impressed and shocked the attendees – a day of instruction on drug- and alcohol addiction as taught by hardcore ex addicts. South Africa not being shy about substance abuse, it remains a brilliant idea.

      For whatever reasons, the boys begged to go, but were banned from the event in terms of their punishment. All three encountered problems with substance abuse a few years later.

      I was very fond of the two pre adolescent friends and they spent weekends away with us. One perplexed us by reading scientific equations at breakfast and the other always impressed as a great young organiser and helper.

      A few seasons after the boys were banished from participation in the drug seminar, the budding scientist started selling party drugs at his new school in another city. His mother, who died not long afterwards from cancer, shone with gratitude when she told me how a male teacher at the school had helped turn her son’s life around.

      There was no doubt in my mind that she had been absorbing great stress. She lived to see her son be a fine role model at that institution, but missed him recently receiving top honours in advanced scientific studies at an illustrious university.

      The telling tale about living dangerously versus being addicted is that that young man still partied wildly with my son at a local university, without losing control of his life or squandering his talents.

      The other pal held his bicycle firmly

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