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Ashley Taïeb — author · speaker · founder

Everything they taught you about addiction is missing a piece.

Redefining what humans are capable of. One life at a time.

Where to begin→

The proof, on air and on set — from television to the podcasts that matter

M6
TEDx
France 5
RTL
RMC
BFM Business
ELLE
Psychologies
La Tribune
Le HuffPost
B SMART
France Bleu

A selection — the full wall lives on the Press page.

Are you…

01/04Manifesto

I speak about addiction like no one else. Here's why.

Addiction is my expertise. Lived from the inside, gone all the way through — then worked, for more than seven years, at the heart of situations the standard systems no longer know how to hold.

My field, though, is wider: human transformation. The architecture of transformative experiences. The systemic challenge of every place where human beings suffer.

And here is what this path taught me: the real subject was never the behavior. The real subject is the version of ourselves for whom that behavior made sense.

From there, all of my work: making addiction obsolete. One life at a time.

Ashley Taïeb — 2026

“Let's stop trying to define addiction. Let's start discovering it again.”

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The map — for minds that think in patterns

Explained endlessly. Never understood.

Addiction explained isolated words — none of them hold together Addiction understood everything holds — this is where I work willpower craving blame the substance morality one's history meaning the body shame bonds desire pleasure the times the whole life from the individual to the collective the individual those around them the organization society

Hover the nodes — each dimension is bound to the others. It's this whole map that the work engages, from the individual to society.

02/04The Ashley Taïeb ecosystem

Here are the three houses.

03/04The way of seeing

Change the reading, change the real.

You can't find the solution to a problem from the state of consciousness that created it. The line is Einstein's. I don't test it — I know it. I watch it play out again and again.

Looking for the way out from inside the storm, with the same readings — willpower, craving, blame — recreates the last six months. Endlessly.

The first step, the one that saves the most time, is another reading. Not just any: a reading that makes sense to you.

Then we work the whole life the urge plays out in. As that life grows wider, many symptoms quiet down.

“Thank you. Not just a polite thank-you, a real thank-you with glitter in it.

Girl, in two hours on the phone with you, I got further than in three months of therapy […].

I cried… You have the ability to open windows where I saw walls…

Anyway, just thank you…”

Someone I worked with — a message, translated from French
See where I speak from→
04/04Where to begin

Three ways in.

I take on very few people for ongoing support. That is exactly why advice stays within reach.

Thirty minutes for one specific situation. Ninety minutes for a full working session. And, for those who go further, time together in person and the months that extend it.

Each one stands on its own. Ongoing support is only offered after a flash consultation — never before.

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The simplest

Advice Wednesdays

Thirty minutes by video call, one situation at a time. For you, or for someone you love. No paperwork, no commitment.

€70 · 30 minutes · on Wednesdays

Book on Sapiow→

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The working session

The flash consultation

Ninety minutes one-on-one, where we lay out your situation as it is, with no need to dress it up — and where we look together at what can actually shift.

€180 · 1h30 · video call or phone

See available times→

It stands on its own — it can be the only one.

Going further

Ongoing support

Time together in person, at your home, and the months that extend it; complete support at a distance; or THE MANDATE.

After a flash consultation.

See the formats→

Families and couples together: the frame is built around the actual configuration.

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