October 2009

Epiphanies: Slowly Building Up Life Skills In Addiction Recovery

So I’ve talked, almost a sickening amount, about how active addiction keeps us from developing life skills. But what I really haven’t discussed is how being in addiction recovery makes building up life skills possible. There I am driving down the road. I should be concentrating on, oh I don’t know… driving. But I’m not. [...]

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How Is Addiction Recovery Like Baseball?

When you think of addiction recovery you usually don’t associate this with baseball BUT after reading the following quote I think you will agree that in our addiction recovery and in our spiritual lives we should be striving to be more like the game of baseball. “Baseball teaches us, or has taught most of us, [...]

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Have You Ever Heard Of A Second-Round Addiction?

You probably have heard of a second-round addiction you just don’t know it by that name. Basically a second round-addiction is a substitute addiction that you pick up once you are in recovery. How do you avoid second-round addictions and how do you know if you already have one?

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Happy Mothers Day

My mother was so supportive of me when I finally told my family I had a substance abuse problem. Since it is Mothers Day I thought it was fitting to talk about what role a supportive mother can have in addiction recovery.

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Cymbalta Online Petition: Make Cymbalta Withdrawl Symptoms Known

I just wanted to give a quick thanks to those of you that have already signed the online Cymbalta petition that I created. I have just reached a second page of signatures (it’s only 52 people but a 2nd page none the less).

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Tag Your It – Favorite Five Meme

I was recently tagged by bottlecappie over at Diary Of A Quitter to participate in the Favorite Five meme. Let me just say that I get nervous when I get tagged for things like this. I appreciate it, I really do, but I start to get nervous about who I’m going to tag. Do I [...]

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As For Patience… I Have None

From time to time we all struggle right? So what am I struggling with at the moment? Patience. Actually a lack of patience better describes it. There are times when I go along feeling pretty centered. Unshakable even. Right now? Not so much. I’m flying off the handle more often than I would like. So [...]

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Addiction Recovery Realted Movie: Things We Lost In The Fire

You may or may not have realized that I love to delve into all things related to addiction recovery. Usually this is in the form of reading but thanks to the upcoming release of the movie Things We Lost In The Fire starring Benicio Del Toro and Halle Berry I can get my fill while [...]

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