I often hear people say that they use psychoactive drugs like marijuana as a way of ’self-medicating’, meaning acting as one’s own doctor and prescribing medication to oneself. Drugs and alcohol can have profound effects on our cognition and emotional response to people and events. Sometimes that can limit our ability to feel our emotions. That may be helpful at times, but the way of the heart is always to feel more, not less. Feeling less is only a temporary measure, until the heart is strong enough to heal, to turn up the intensity. (more…)