Thanks for sharing!!!!!!!!!!! I feel we're just at the beginning of a conceptual revolution as regards addiction and still need to bring a lot of threads together. I completely agree about meditation, I read some fantastic books on the topic, namely Dan Siegel's Mindsight and also Rewire your Brain by John Arden and have since been trying to cultivate a meditation practice. I'm a total scatter brain multi-tasker so I think it helps. I also get what you mean about emotions, although could you possibly recommend some reads on Body Wisdom that your therapist might have put your way? I find it very hard to connect with and release deep emotions. I have on my to read list the body keeps the score, I suspect it will have some good insights. I couldn't afford a therapist so I tried to study psychotherapy by myself and incorporate as many techniques as I could on my own, ayahuasca as a co-therapist truly is great, but even more powerful when you are able to direction it via other therapy techniques (it's not called "work" for nuthin').
It feels like buried trauma and addiction penetrate so much of society, I would love for there to be a wide spread change in attitude towards it. Ultimately it feels like a natural response to modernity, hyper-technology, consumerism, nature disconnection, and violence and stress under capitalism, and there ain't no pill for that!