About STUART MORSE

It was my personal experience with alcohol that drove me to write The Science and Spirituality of Addiction. Through its grey-area use, I managed my evening feelings of disquiet for years. I could not identify those feelings, assign them a name or discern their cause, and it was this lack of understanding that powered my foray into phenomenological research (the exploration of internal felt-sense states).

Using Gabor Maté's principle of compassionate inquiry, I explored these feelings and the unmet needs that prompted them, a process that ultimately resolved them. This was done in concert with my spiritual practice as meditator and believer. To me, spirituality embraces more than mere worship. Spirit describes the consciousness we all share as humans regardless of our religious affiliations or lack thereof. We are all spiritual beings.

Through this work I hope to draw on my research, life experience and coaching skills to bring transformation to the lives of others.

Master of Science in Computer Science

University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Specializing in Artificial Intelligence and the World Wide Web.

Recovery Coach Essentials

Still Here Recovery Coach Training, White Rock, BC, Canada.

Member, Recovery Coaches Canada

A national organization supporting standards and community for recovery coaching in Canada.

Biography

Stuart Morse is a recovery coach and the author of The Science and Spirituality of Addiction. He founded Emergent Horizons to support people in the grey area of substance use, where habits are contained enough to escape crisis but are quietly straining health, relationships, or self-trust. His work brings together neuroscience, psychology, and lived experience, informed by a 37-year career in software engineering and its systems-level view of how change actually happens.