When we feel unworthy, we suffer in life, and often times addiction results

How does one get to a place where they totally love and and accept themselves, unconditionally? That is the 10 zillion dollar question. If we could just get a 12 pack in 6 weeks, we would clearly be able to garner the love and admiration that we as human beings crave, and deserve.

Would we over eat, drink too much alcohol, spend money we don't have to buy things to impress people we don't know, or abuse drugs to get high if we felt ok in our own skin...probably not.

Many people have been seriously abused and neglected in childhood, and walk around with feelings of deep shame and unresolved trauma. This shame is often times the reason for addiction, we need something to feel better, and that behavior can take many forms. Some of the most spiritually broken people I have known and met, have the most money, and access to anything the world can offer to feel better. That is probably the most tragic, when one can have whatever they want, and nothing, absolutely nothing will really satisfy.

When we do not feel worthy or right, we and are driven to fix that, sometimes to the point of ending our own lives. However, if we do want to live a life that is relatively satisfying and happy, the pain can be the motivation to change and doing really good things in the world.

Most human beings do not change anything until it becomes painful enough. And some of us have very high thresh holds and tolerance to pain. Also, we need to honor and respect that every one has their own journey to travel while here, on this earth. If all the recovered alcoholics and addicts had not traveled their own roads of misery, and then salvation in sobriety, they would not have the stories of hope to now share and inspire others.

Charlie Sheen has his own journey to travel, however he deems fit. Our society loves to tear people apart when they are suffering, and it is comical to watch the so called "experts" make their assessments about him, when they are only trying to "self promote" (the latest addiction) in the process.

In any event, there is New Life in Recovery, only if that is what one wants, and only you will know that for yourself. The Buddha's final revelation was that he could see the beauty in all of life, the pain and the joy, and just experience it, that therein is the perfection.