Drugs don’t make people powerless but powerless people become addicts. When you have no power you look to “things”/ways to get that power. If you can’t/don’t get it from yourself, you will try to get it elsewhere.
Whatever thing you “use” (drugs, food, shopping, sex, etc.) you will never get “enough.” You can use and use and use and you will never get power because “things” are not the power Source. In fact, you will lose power because you are giving it away to a false God. God/Infinite Intelligence is the Source.
You can never get enough of what you don’t want. If I want love but I look to food to fill me up, I cannot eat enough to get full. No amount of food will give me the love I want so I just eat and eat and eat but I never get full because food isn’t what I’m hungry for to begin with.
This is not about religion. Some people turn their power over to religion and religious leaders and get into the same troubles of any other powerless addict. This is about claiming YOUR power, the power you were born with. If you are compulsive with food, drugs, shopping or anything else you must stop looking outside yourself for the answer and stand in your power if you ever hope to be completely free.
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Step Five From Sabotage to Success is to Stop Settling and Start Living. Some of us have learned that who we really are is “not good enough” or that being true to ourselves is “selfish.” Others put their own need for approval over their personal needs as a way to “fit in.” Sometimes we get stuck in patterns and belief systems that are limited by or based on our past experience. 
