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My professional focus is the creation and development of Diction Resolution Therapy (DRT) — a therapeutic model that restores agency, coherence, and executive function by healing the deep linguistic structures that shape human behaviour. Over decades of practice, I have seen that addiction and other entrenched patterns do not arise from weakness or moral failure, but from a disruption in the psyche’s inner circuitry. DRT was built to repair this circuitry.

At the heart of DRT is a recognition that every person carries two primary forces within their behavioural governance: malediction, the inner opposition that rises in crisis, and benediction, the inner blessing that calls a person toward truth. Traditional clinical systems tend to split these forces apart — medicating one, idealising the other — and in doing so often drift toward toxic positivity or spiritual bypassing, offering surface reassurance rather than deep integration.

This fragmentation reflects a deeper blindness. As Tom Chetwynd observes in The Dictionary of Symbols, the intellectual orthodoxy despises the paradox — it cannot tolerate the tension of opposites and therefore cannot work with them. What it cannot tolerate, it splits. What it splits, it then tries to treat. And what it treats without integration remains unhealed.

DRT takes a different path.

It marries the opposites.

DRT repairs then helps to deliver a personal conscience as a unique bridge between feelings and emotions, over which Universal Consciousness then individuates as The Human, being a person.

By bringing malediction and benediction into contact — the cathode and anode of the psyche — DRT reconnects the full circuit of change. This allows transformation to occur in real time, not as a coping strategy but as a lived reorganisation of a person’s inner governance. The approach places the missing dots back into the yin–yang symbol, restoring the spark of light in darkness and the seed of shadow in light, ensuring that healing is neither sentimental nor punitive, but whole.

In re-pairing the opposites that orthodox models split apart, DRT restores the very condition those systems secretly require in order to heal. When these forces rejoin, the deeper paradox at the heart of human development reawakens — the same paradox honoured in the Sufi tradition as Jam, the sacred union of seeming contradictions. In this return, the psyche regains its natural capacity to turn and re-turn, creating the cyclic movement through which true change becomes possible.

DRT also reframes the word “addiction” itself as a moment within a broader problem-solving pathway:

prediction → malediction → addiction → contradiction → benediction → valediction.

When these stages are understood as parts of one arc, the sense of stuckness dissolves; the person can move again.

My work, therefore, is an interdiction —

a precise and necessary interruption that restores the broken circuit, reunites the divided powers within the self, and reactivates the will. It is the intervention that allows the whole pathway to resolve, so the person can step out of repetition and into renewal.

My practice draws together clinical experience, linguistic analysis, symbolic understanding, and the lived realities of recovery. It appears in my writings, including the ongoing development of The Holy Con, and in my public reflections at lifeisreturning.com. Across settings — residential rehabilitation, one-to-one practice, teaching, and organisational consultation — my aim is always the same: to help individuals and collective systems resolve what has been stuck, reconnect what has been divided, and step back into the full voltage of their own becoming with the Grace of God.

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