The Whispering Voice of Addiction

The Voice of Addiction: Understanding Its Grip and Choosing Freedom

Explore the voice of addiction, its impact on life, and how choosing recovery can help break destructive patterns to reclaim purpose, clarity, and freedom.

I am the lie. The whisper that says you can’t live without me. I’m your best friend, your only constant in a chaotic, undisciplined world. I never leave.

I wait.

You panic when I go missing, not because I left, but because you tried to hide me from yourself. You seek me when your anger spills. When impatience gnaws at you. When shame whispers that your life should’ve turned out better. You use me to silence that voice.

I’m always here. Loyal. Comforting. Deadly.

We count the minutes until were alone again. You pretend to be social, but we both know: we’re happiest when it’s just us. I promise isolation, yet convince you it’s safety.

We got this.

Go ahead. Change your clothes. Chew gum. Take a shower. Make up another excuse. Eat something. Pretend you’re okay. But it’s too late. I run in your blood. You lie for me. Break hearts for me. But not mine, because addiction has no heart.

Try another step. Write another page. Tell someone else about the hole in your soul. The one I live in. I edge God out. I dismiss your friends. I steal your dreams, because you don’t believe you deserve them anyway.

And still, you know. You know you’re capable of more. You know I want you half-dead.

Or fully.

Choose recovery. Choose a life where no breath is wasted believing you’re not enough. Where you break free, finally, from me.

-Brenda Heckes, CPRC, ACC, CPC.

“Real talk. Real healing. Real freedom.”