Table of Contents
The Substitute explores addiction, recovery, family pain, emotional wounds, healing, and faith through a deeper question that often remains hidden beneath the struggle: What is the addiction substituting for?
- Introduction: My Journey Through Addiction Without Being the Addict
- Chapter 1: What If Addiction Is Not the Problem?
- Chapter 2: The Substance and the Substitute
- Chapter 3: What Are We Really Trying to Escape?
- Chapter 4: The Hidden Search for Peace
- Chapter 5: Anxiety, ADHD, Trauma, and Misunderstood Struggles
- Chapter 6: When the Wrong Medication Becomes the Right Solution
- Chapter 7: The Family Member's Pain
- Chapter 8: What Al-Anon Taught Me About Letting Go
- Chapter 9: The Many Faces of Addiction
- Chapter 10: What Every Addiction Has in Common
- Chapter 11: The Vacancy Beneath the Behavior
- Chapter 12: Healing the Need Instead of Fighting the Symptom
- Chapter 13: Jesus and the Deepest Hunger of the Human Heart
- Conclusion: Freedom Beyond the Substitute
About This Journey
This book follows a path from addiction and recovery into the deeper questions of emotional pain, mental health, family healing, unmet needs, and spiritual longing. Each chapter builds upon the previous chapter, creating a journey toward understanding what may exist beneath the substitute and where genuine freedom can be found.