The Addiction Battle: Three Tools to End It Now

Is every day a challenge as you wage your personal battle against addiction? If you’ve fallen into the addiction trap, you are not alone. It is estimated that one out of ten Americans is struggling with addiction.
Author Timothy Wulff, M.S.W., is an addiction therapist who has spent more than a decade successfully treating individuals addicted to drugs and alcohol. To identify the source of addiction, Wulff focuses on beliefs about one’s self that develop early in life and that eventually obscure the strong and positive true self, increasing susceptibility to addiction.
In The Addiction Battle, Wulff will help you discover where your greatest strengths are buried and teach you how to use their hidden power to overcome addiction. Wulff will teach you how to redefine the terms anger, selfishness, and troublemaking, and make them key tools in shaping your actions from a new healthy perspective:

• • Anger—It’s a powerful emotion that can be used constructively to protect yourself.
• • Selfishness—Healthy selfishness is good self-care. Without it, addiction continues.
• • Troublemaking—the opposite of pleasing others, troublemaking helps you stand up for your own feelings, needs, and desires.

Learning to use these tools, which are already part of you, will enable you to reclaim these inner strengths. Through the book’s practical and sensitive pages, Wulff gives you a way to begin your life anew and triumph over addiction.

Timothy J. Wulff, L.M.S.W., A.C.S.W., is a licensed clinical social worker. He is a therapist in private practice with Comprehensive Psychological Services in East Lansing, Michigan. He specializes in treating addiction, mood disorders, and emotional trauma. Wulff graduated with a bachelor of science degree from Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Michigan. He received a master’s degree in social work from Michigan State University in East Lansing. Wulff has been studying the neurochemical, emotional, familial, and social impact of addiction for more than a decade. Much of his work is focused on helping clients gain a deeper understanding of why they become stuck in an addictive cycle. He has completed training in “eye movement desensitization reprocessing” (EMDR) therapy that helps clients heal from intense trauma. He has also written and illustrated a children’s book, Scruffed, to help children with self-acceptance. Wulff resides in Grand Ledge, Michigan, with his wife Kara and two children, Grayson and Gabriella. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family, exercise, music, and art; he is also an avid sports fan.