{"product_id":"the-sweet-poison-keavan-keavan-obraely-9798290400716","title":"The Sweet Poison: Why We Love What Destroys Us: A Psychoanalytic Exploration of Our Addictions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou quit this morning. You meant it. By tonight, your hand is already moving.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf that one sentence found something true in you, keep reading - this book was written for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe are taught to see addiction as a war: a weak will against a bad habit, fought with discipline and lost with shame. \u003cb\u003eThe Sweet Poison\u003c\/b\u003e begins somewhere quieter, and far more unsettling. What if the thing slowly destroying you was, at first, the only thing that knew how to \u003cb\u003esave\u003c\/b\u003e you?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlending a century of depth psychology with the newest neuroscience of the brain's reward system, Keavan O'Braely looks past the behavior to the wound beneath it - and changes the question you've been asking yourself. Not \u003ci\u003e\"why can't I stop?\"\u003c\/i\u003e but \u003ci\u003e\"what is the pain I am trying so hard not to feel?\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a lecture, and not a list of rules. It reads like the conversation a perceptive clinician might have with you, late in the evening - once the performances are over and the real question can finally be spoken.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside, you will understand: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy your brain keeps craving what it no longer even enjoys - and what dopamine is \u003ci\u003eactually\u003c\/i\u003e doing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow the wounds of early life quietly write the script your addiction performs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe hidden inner \"void\" that compulsion is built to fill - and how to sit with it without flinching\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy we sabotage the very things we love most - and how to stop\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe invisible family patterns you may be repeating without ever having chosen them\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA compassionate path from insight to lasting change - including a practical \u003cb\u003e90-day plan\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA full chapter for those who \u003cb\u003elove\u003c\/b\u003e someone caught in addiction, and don't know how to help\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor anyone bound to a substance, a screen, a person, or a habit they swore off last night - and for everyone who loves them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe opposite of addiction is not sobriety. It is connection. And it begins with understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTurn the first page.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Keavan Keavan O'Braely\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798290400716\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 174\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Keavan Keavan O'Braely","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997013192959,"sku":"9798290400716","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-sweet-poison-keavan-keavan-obraely-9798290400716","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}