Urge Surfing & How It Helped Me Kick Several Bad Habits

Childhood trauma, the link between addiction, & urge surfing.

Lea O
Curious
Published in
6 min readJan 4, 2021

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Photo by Mathew MacQuarrie on Unsplash

I can’t remember exactly when I convinced myself mid-pandemic that I could have only one and that the disgusting taste + smell would overpower those old habit pathways. It doesn’t matter when it only matters that I did. Stupidly standing there in a long line at a gas…

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Lea O
Curious

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