If Complexity Healed Addiction, We’d Be Winning by Now
If complexity healed addiction, we’d be winning by now, but all we have is thicker manuals, longer protocols – and the same old relapse rates.
We’ve had more interventions.
– More modalities.
– More certifications.
– More trauma-informed frameworks.
And yet… relapse rates remain almost exactly where they were 20 years ago. According to research, 40–60% of people relapse within the first 6 months of treatment.
By year 5, most programs consider you ‘recovered’ if you’ve simply avoided returning to use.
Not thriving.
Not embodied.
Not free.
The absurdity?…
We keep adding complexity to explain why healing isn’t happening….
I mean take a common sense moment for a second….
We blame ‘treatment resistance’
We build ‘relapse prevention models’
We create longer intake forms and finer diagnostic codes
But we never stop to ask:
Because complexity sells…
It keeps people coming back, and It hides the fact that we just don’t know how to just be with a person in pain.
Human suffering doesn’t need a protocol…
It needs presence.
And presence doesn’t come from your training.
It comes from your healing.
So if outcomes haven’t changed, despite the rise in training, theory, and evidence-based everything…
Maybe it’s not lack of tools
Of stillness
Of not knowing
Of being human
:
Have you ever added more technique when what was really needed… was less of you ‘doing’, and more of you being?