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Art of Addiction

Art of Addiction
1 hr Self-Guided Community Discussion
Reframe the journey of addiction as the beautiful, soulful path that it is
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About Art of Addiction

Course Curriculum

A Different Perspective on Addiction

A Path of Liberation
The Fallacy that Craving is Bad
The Calling of the Non Rational
Admission

Addiction Awakens The Force Called Genius

Addiction Teaches the Same Thing as Spiritual Teachings
A Feminine Spirituality
The Difference Between Heaven and Hell
The True Potential Of The Addictive Path

About the Instructors

Rachel Cherwitz

Rachel Cherwitz

Rachel Cherwitz is an 18-year erotic practitioner who deeply loves the underbelly aspect of life. Whether it’s walking with people in addiction or trauma, Rachel reminds people that everything they think is wrong with them is everything that is actually right about them. She is a lover of all things wild: wildlife, wild animals, the unhoused, the incarcerated, addicts, and women. She believes in rewilding humanity. Rachel holds a bachelor's and master's degree in addiction counseling, is a Licensed Advanced Drug and Alcohol Counselor, and is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional. She loves to walk where angels fear to tread and accompany people through these terrains.
Courtney Walker

Courtney Walker

Courtney Walker is a writer and creative currently working on a book and daily broadcast about Black culture and the Erotic. She is a co-founding member and director of BlackBox. As a passionate advocate for the whole Black culture to remember and reclaim its inherent power, she speaks to the beauty and strength within the Black community, drawing inspiration from its rich history and complex narratives. She is also helping to launch the global movement of Women Over Dinner, aiming to bring greater connection amongst women to acknowledge and embrace their inestimable power.

What’s Included in Art of Addiction

New Concepts

These ideas have a way of flipping everything you thought you knew on its head, confirming what you may have sensed but is hard to define with words.

Videos

Every module includes videos to give you another perspective on the learnings and see someone’s unique perspective on the subject matter.

Integration Exercises

Integration exercises help you bring the lessons into your own life and make them yours. The exercises take things out of the conceptual realm and more directly into your body and your life.

Eros Sutras and Other Readings

Each lesson has a reading from The Eros Sutras or other writings. The readings are the anchor in the course, both elegant and educational.

Ways to Engage

Question What You Learn

Try things out; test them. Don't take our word for it—research it for yourself to discover the validity. The wrestle itself is how you really get inside the material.

Keep a Journal

The things that stand out for you are a guidance of their own. We encourage you to take notes throughout your entire experience. Write down your questions, your observations, passages that catch your eye, realizations, and arguments. In working with Erotic material, your intuition will come alive and begin speaking to you. Taking notes and capturing what stands out for you is how you create a map for yourself of what your soul wants you to know, and of what you are remembering.

Try the Meditations & Exercises

These are designed to offer you a direct experience of the content, which might otherwise feel abstract. That being said, if a meditation or an exercise doesn't make sense to you, you can skip it until later, or try it and modify it. You can always approach the course at your own pace in your own way, and you do not have to be an expert or have any experience of meditation to get value from it.

Reviews

3 Ratings • 3 Reviews

Recent Reviews

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Kate W.
about 2 years

I have been personally affected by addiction and experienced it with those closest to me, so I went into this module, hoping to learn something new other than the old rhetoric of the addict as ‘the problem’ in the family. The material was so refreshing, a completely different take. Total absence of blame and shame. It left me feeling hopeful and revitalised. I particularly loved the reimagining of the addict as a highly creative, resourceful person. Really loving, compassionate facilitation. Highly recommend. Look forward to module two.

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Lissa A.
about 2 years

Not only do I work in the field of addiction medicine but I also consider myself a person in recovery. This program helped me unravel some places I was still beating myself up and making myself wrong for my previous actions and choices. Coming from a 12 step model of recovery, the Art of Addiction program propelled me one step further into my healing, add more humor, joy, and forgiveness to myself and others. There’s a lighter feeling to my being and for sure way more self forgiveness, love, and acceptance. It’s refreshing to be with a group of students who are willing to share probably some of the deepest and darkest parts of ourselves in a space that feels so safe warm and inviting. Even when I wasn't sharing but just actively listening, the connectedness of the group and teacher was deeply healing just being in the room. Highly recommend you take this program if you’d like a different perspective on addiction.

Lucy E.
over 1 year

The Eros platform is literally food for my soul. I always leave any program I listen to feeling nourished, grateful, turned on and expanded. Looking at the world through an Eros inspired philosophy is paradigms shifting. For me personally, The Art of Addiction program has giving me a whole new perspective on addiction. which has allowed me to look at my addictions and at myself in a completly different way. A way that opens up space for approval, inquiry and, oddly enough, excitement for my journey through, what I can now see as, the gift of my addiction. I no longer feel trapped by my addictions. I feel like I am being liberated because of them.