The Infinite Recovery Project: The Intelligence of Addiction

What if addiction is not the problem, but the solution to a problem that has never been understood?

For decades, addiction has been explained through disease, diagnosis and willpower. Yet millions continue to struggle despite treatment, recovery programmes and the determination to change.

Drawing on more than 30 years of lived recovery and over two decades as a psychotherapist, Jason Shiers presents a radically different perspective. Rather than viewing addiction as a pathology, he explores it as an intelligent adaptation to overwhelming experiences that could not be processed in any other way.

This trauma-integrated approach reveals how compulsive behaviours develop as attempts to regulate pain, disconnection and emotional distress. Instead of asking, “How do I stop?”, it asks a more important question: “What is this behaviour trying to do for me?”

Combining psychology, neuroscience, attachment theory and deep self-inquiry, The Infinite Recovery Project offers a compassionate and practical understanding of addiction that challenges conventional thinking while opening the door to genuine healing.

This book is for anyone affected by addiction, whether personally, professionally or through someone they love.

Recovery is not about becoming someone new. It is about remembering who you were before survival became your identity.