Sugar Addiction and Anger |
Sugar is one of those fundamental elements of life which we have a very strong drive to make sure that we have enough to support our basic life functions. This is easy to relate to, even if you can recall one time you’ve had the experience of feeling that your blood sugar or the available sugar feeding your brain was too low. Our drive for sugar is incredibly strong, as evidenced by the fact that there almost always seems to be “room for dessert”, even after a big meal.
The link between sugar and our ability to think is quite important to understand, particularly when we are trying to come to grips with the phenomenon of the massive increase of available sugar in our industrial age, which parallels the corresponding increase in our cognitive faculties. Nothing emerges in history by accident, whether the mechanism which brings it forward is conscious or not.
T.S. Wiley researched and wrote extensively on the link between our hormones, our sleep, and our sugar consumption within the context of our age of access to artificial light. Her book “Lights Out” explains in great detail how we have created within our physiology the illusion of “perpetual summer” which is the most stressful state we can be in. It is stressful, because in nature, summer is the time where we need to properly prepare ourselves for the winter in order to ensure our survival for another year. Between our constantly available sources of artificial light, and our limitless access to sugar, this constant stress of “perpetual summer” is behind many of the chronic illness and premature deaths of our modern life... |
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| Dear , “Arcanum” is the age of majority this month!
Do you remember being excited that you could go into any bar or restaurant in the world and be served alcohol?! I do too. The thing is that even though we’re WAY past the age of majority now, we don’t really choose to drink alcohol. For me, it messes with my glycemic index, driving my blood sugar through the roof, negatively affecting my sleep, and making me feel toxic and sluggish for a few days. So we’re celebrating twenty-one years of serving our beloved patients super sober. We’ll probably go for a hike or share supper together out somewhere in the town. Woohoo! We’re such party animals!
This month, we’re talking about addictions; specifically to sugar and alcohol. It’s been a tough two years and it has taken ninja-like skills to stay strong and autonomous in the face of so much global tyranny. We feel ya! We’re not immune to these forces either and I have found myself tempted by sugar and alcohol several times. Perhaps you’re asking yourself, ‘How could you not?’. I had to dig deeply into this gesture in me to suss out why food has always been such solace to me.
While letting go of over twenty-five pounds recently, I discovered in the layers of my historical strata, fall-out from childhood trauma. When I went to spend time with my grandmother and aunts in the summertime, they would liberally offer me ice cream, cake, pop, and lots of whatever I wanted to indulge in. This was a gesture of love on their part to try and help compensate for the fact that my mother had committed suicide a few of years prior. They loved me through sugar, as they’d never risk actually talking with me about my feelings as a result of what had happened in my life.
Can you guess the gesture that I’d default to everytime I experienced additional trauma in my life? Yup, I’d have a little ‘treat’ now and again. Guess what happened when I went solely to a meat, eggs, cheese, and fish diet? I had a lot of grief, abandonment, and fear come up for my not-so viewing pleasure.
Addictions are the desire to compulsively suppress unexcavated feelings from prior trauma(s). An individual's drug(s) of choice can be alcohol, cannabis, social media, video games, coffee, foods, pornography, shopping, etc. In recently studying Gabor Mate’s book, In The Realm Of Hungry Ghosts, he not only describes the anatomy of the addict, but illuminates his own compulsion for buying music several times a week from having been abandoned during the first year of life by his mother during the war. As a result of his addiction, he ends up abandoning his own family. Being addicted to karma bites.
By peeling the onion of our traumas, homeopathically, we lovingly lay bare the reasons for our addictions on the cutting room floor. How we find primary love, nurturing, connection, and true spiritual nourishment can take time to source. This certainly was true for me too. If you are suffering your own addictions, reading our articles this month could be the first step to knowing a greater liberty.
Love,
Ally and Jeff |
The Opposite of Addiction is Connection |
I had another brand new patient explain to me yesterday, “You know, Dr. Ally, I’ve been putting off starting treatment with you because I was afraid you’d make me give up my use of Cannabis.” I smiled at the other end of the Skype line as I looked into his eyes. I saw both his courage and his shame vying for space on his face. I thought how beautiful he is to be able to admit such a thing to me after knowing me for less than an hour. He’ll use that courage, I ruminate...
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