Family Addictus - Wie, Joe van
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Addiction isn't a moral failing. It's an adaptation. In Family Addictus, Joe Van Wie, co-founder of Fellowship House treatment center, reveals how addiction is the brain's logical response to trauma, disconnection, and a culture that has forgotten how to sit with discomfort. Drawing from neuroscience, attachment theory, and years of clinical experience, Van Wie traces addiction back to its true origins: the first 1,000 days of life, where misattunement and early trauma create the conditions for substances to feel like missing pieces finally arriving. He explores how our brains develop coping…mehr

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Addiction isn't a moral failing. It's an adaptation. In Family Addictus, Joe Van Wie, co-founder of Fellowship House treatment center, reveals how addiction is the brain's logical response to trauma, disconnection, and a culture that has forgotten how to sit with discomfort. Drawing from neuroscience, attachment theory, and years of clinical experience, Van Wie traces addiction back to its true origins: the first 1,000 days of life, where misattunement and early trauma create the conditions for substances to feel like missing pieces finally arriving. He explores how our brains develop coping strategies that can evolve into addiction when life becomes overwhelming. Van Wie explores how addiction spreads through family systems like inherited code, how modern culture's emphasis on productivity over presence creates perfect conditions for disconnection, and why traditional approaches often miss the deeper story. He examines the neurochemical feedback loops between dopamine, cortisol, and survival-mode thinking that make substances feel like solutions rather than problems. Recovery requires more than abstinence. Van Wie introduces the Twelve CORES framework developed at Fellowship House, which addresses the complete rewiring of a life: education, career, arts, family, friendship, health, adventure, altruism, agency, ethos, expertise, and individuality. These become invitations to rebuild identity, purpose, and belonging from the ground up. Recovery means returning to connection with our bodies, our families, our communities, and ourselves. It means learning to pause between stimulus and response, reclaiming the frontal lobe from survival mode, and remembering that healing happens in relationship, not isolation. The book explores how the prefrontal cortex can override the midbrain's emergency responses, how attachment patterns formed in infancy shape our capacity for trust and regulation, and how culture programs our brains like software. Van Wie shows how recovery becomes a kind of spiritual awakening, a remembering of who we are beneath the defenses and coping strategies. Written for anyone touched by addiction, Family Addictus offers a new lens for understanding one of our most misunderstood conditions. We are human beings who adapted to survive and are now ready to wake up.
Autorenporträt
Joe Van Wie is a father, husband, filmmaker, speaker, and recovery advocate who brings both lived experience and clinical insight to his work in the addiction field. As co-founder and CEO of Fellowship House in Scranton, Pennsylvania, he has developed a comprehensive treatment program that serves individuals navigating substance use disorder through an innovative approach combining neuroscience, trauma-informed care, and family systems work.A person in long-term recovery himself, Van Wie understands addiction from the inside out. Before entering recovery, he spent over a decade in political strategy, advertising, and film production. His award-winning feature film, Forged, and his nationally recognized podcast AllBetter.fm reflect his passion for storytelling and creating spaces where difficult truths can be shared.Van Wie holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from SUNY and has completed executive education in Artificial Intelligence and Leadership at MIT. He is currently completing his Master of Science in Social Work at Columbia University, where he continues exploring trauma, recovery, and systems change through both narrative and clinical lenses.As a writer and speaker, Van Wie's voice blends street-level insight with scholarly curiosity. He believes recovery is about participation rather than perfection, and that healing begins when we stop asking "What's wrong with you?" and start asking "What happened to you, and who's walking with you now?"Through Fellowship House, Van Wie has pioneered the Twelve CORES framework, which addresses not just sobriety but the complete rebuilding of identity, purpose, and belonging. The program integrates education, career development, creative expression, family repair, friendship building, health restoration, adventure, service, personal agency, ethical living, clinical expertise, and individual authenticity.Van Wie's approach to recovery extends beyond traditional treatment models. He views addiction as an adaptation to trauma and disconnection rather than a moral failing, and recovery as a form of spiritual awakening that happens through relationship and community.