Emil’s team believes there is such potential in every person. For over two decades we have been helping and saving the lives of people suffering from their addiction, and we always come to the same conclusion after every resident we meet, humans have no limits, and there is absolutely no limit to one’s potential. When we stop asking what we expect from life, but rather understand that life expects something from us, we understand the meaning of ‘us’ on a deeper level, we’re open to explore our personal development.
“He who has a ‘why’ to live for, can bear almost any ‘how’.”
Many people trapped in the cycle of addiction perceive a lack of meaning in themselves and their surrounding world. It’s not a matter of once having meaning and then losing it. Instead, most individuals grappling with addiction have rarely experienced sufficient meaning in their lives to begin with. Restoring meaning often seems illogical to them. This is why many modern therapeutic approaches have limited positive effects on addicts—they aim to restore something that was never there in the first place.
What’s remarkable about logotherapy is its belief, that who you were or are, does not dictate the person you’ll become, change is possible at any moment. It’s surprisingly simple: as humans we often identify ourselves too closely with our thoughts, values, and actions, confined by limiting beliefs. In logotherapy, we learn to release these attachments, realizing our boundless potential and transcending the confines of our minds. This transformative shift in belief dismantles our self-imposed limitations, making the journey to recovery more accessible. By shedding the belief that we’re condemned to this problem for life, we embrace the strength within us. It’s so simple actually, the tendency to think that we are our thoughts, that we are our values, actions, feelings, we are trapped by our limited beliefs. In logotherapy we learn how to let go of this attachment, to believe we have no bounds and are far more powerful than we let ourselves think. That change in our belief system kills our limited self, giving us a chance to escape the prison of our minds. Then, when we realize the immense strength we hold inside of us, starting the path to recovery is a lot easier, as we let go of the limited belief that we are sentenced to this problem (the addiction) for life.
