Full Circle Healing

01/18/2026

12/12/2025

Paul O’Brien from Parhways Radio interviewed me about my book with Master Mantak Chia, The Tao of Addiction and Recovery. If you want to see the interview, the link is provided below:

Doug Hilton is the author of the new book, The Tao of Addiction and Recovery: Chi Kung Practices for Restoring the Energy Flow in Mind and Body. Doug has bee...

11/11/2025

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10/29/2025

My second book with Master Mantak Chia will be available for purchase November 11, 2025.

Explore addiction through Taoist wisdom, trauma theory, and modern psychology to find balance, healing, and recovery through yin-yang harmony.

04/06/2025

Are you doing something wrong if you see a certain counsellor for a while and then decide to see someone else?

Probably not. Just like friends or jobs, they don’t all last forever. In the case of counsellors, each of them will offer what they have learned. No single counsellor knows everything. It is common for a client to get what they can from a certain counsellor and then meet with a new one to learn more or get another perspective. Any counsellor should know that that is normal and healthy and should not stand in your way of you getting your needs met.

However, if you are changing counsellors frequently, maybe you should stop and check your intentions. Are you trying to learn more or are you just looking for a counsellor that will agree with your point of view?

04/05/2025

Is it okay to see more than one counsellor at the same time?

The reason to be cautious about seeing more than one counsellor at the same time is that you might receive conflicting messages from the counsellors. Then you might end up being more confused than when you started.

Sometimes it is appropriate, or even desirable, to have more than one counsellor. For example, if you start with an individual counsellor but realize that you want to explore relationship issues later on, you probably will want a different counsellor for the couples work. You don’t want your partner to feel like you have an unfair advantage in the couples session because you knew the counsellor before your partner did.

It is even appropriate to have two individual counsellors under some circumstances. For example, if one of your counsellors works with EMDR or TER then you can often have a fairly clean separation between what the two counsellors are doing for you and what topics you are addressing with each of them.

04/04/2025

How much do you need to share about yourself with the counsellor right away in order for the therapy to be successful?

When you first start seeing a counsellor it may be difficult to trust the person enough to tell her or him about all of your private history or challenges. That’s natural. Being in counselling is a vulnerable situation. It takes time to feel confident that your counsellor will not judge or misjudge you. It is okay to share at the rate that works for you.

However, be aware that keeping secrets is different than maintaining privacy until you have deemed the situation to be safe enough for you. Keeping secrets defeats the purpose of counselling. How can you get the help you need if you don’t tell the counsellor what the real problems are or how bad they have become?

04/03/2025

Master Mantak Chia and I have written a second book together. It is called The Tao of Addiction and Recovery. It describes the benefits of integrating Taoism and Taoist Chi Kung into residential treatment programs. The book will be available to the public November 11, 2025. It is available for pre-order now. Click on the links below to pre-order it.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Tao-of-Addiction-and-Recovery/Mantak-Chia/9798888502815

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https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-tao-of-addiction-and-recovery-mantak-chia/1146821539?ean=9798888502815

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A Taoist guide to recovering from addiction• Systematically explains the nature and development of addictions, the process of recovery, and how the...