While not a treatment for addiction, per se, Fight or Flight Therapy can be very effective in supporting recovery.

If you haven't been there, it's hard to imagine the stress on someone battling addiction. Especially in substance abuse, all the physiological, psychological and relational factors can be overwhelming.

Addiction, at the very minimum, is a stress to someone's system. In the world of substance abuse, it's all too often a threat to their very survival. Then, in the effort to recover, removal of the addictive agent itself, presents its own new challenge to their system.

It's easy to see how the fight-or-flight response, our basic survival mechanism, plays a key role throughout.

Could it be that many of struggles of recovery have less to do with the addiction itself, and more to do with a nervous system being stuck in fight-or-flight?

Here's how Fight or Flight Therapy helped this person struggling in her recovery: