Mindfulism--Looking at Relapses

"We are what we repeatedly do. Therefore excellence is not an act but a habit." Will Durant Today, I really, really, really wanted to shop. I'd been buzzing along for weeks, doing well, not even really missing it and then, BAM! I should have seen it coming, but I didn't. Suddenly I wanted to shop and it's all I wanted to do. Nothing really changed, same old busy, stressful life, and yet out of the bleu I was craving a shopping binge so badly, I didn't think I could refuse. There is a point in every attempt to change our habits or curb our addictions when will power runs out and we find ourselves staring down the barrel of a relapse. ...