addictive thinking

One of THOSE Days…Getting Through Tough Days In Recovery

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So, you know THOSE type of days. Everything that could go wrong does go wrong down to the tiny things like driving away from the drive through to realize that they gave you a flavored iced coffee instead of the coffee flavored iced coffee that you wanted and needed…desperately. So on a day when all [...]

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Accept The Things I Cannot Change

I was thinking about the part of the serenity prayer that says “grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change”. Now, I’m not going to try and fool you into thinking that I go to NA/AA meetings all the time by talking the talk. But, I do want to point out that [...]

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How Watching TV Taught Me To Delay Instant Gratification

This is going to sound bizarre but I realized that watching TV has taught me how to delay instant gratification. In a world where everything is available NOW, it’s no wonder that we grow to expect things right now. That includes our gratification. What I realized this morning while I was thinking about my absolute [...]

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Being Present: The Importance Of Staying In The Moment

If you are familiar with addiction recovery, you know that living life one day at a time is a major part of a successful recovery. I’m here to say that in order to be happy, healthy, and have a little peace of mind in life you need to not only live one day at a [...]

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Addictive Thinking: People Watching Is Your Mind Projecting

Have you ever caught yourself judging people that you are seeing for the first time, say in a crowd. While you are people watching you are actually projecting yourself, good or bad, onto others. When you have doubts about yourself or things that you don’t like about yourself…you see the same in others. This is [...]

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My Ability to Share My Feelings is Dwindling

I’m sitting here thinking: what happened to the girl that would sit in a room full of strangers and talk about her problems and inner thoughts? Even as uncomfortable as it would feel sometimes, I would be completely honest about what was going on inside of me with strangers. So why am I finding it [...]

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Addictive Thinking: Instant Gratification

In Addiction Recovery we must learn to get rid of the addictive thinking which tells us that instant gratification is the only kind of gratification we want or need. Have you ever heard of the saying “Time takes time”?

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Fortune Teller or Fellow Recovering Addict?

You know how you file each blog post under a category? Well I was going to post something and thought that I would make a category named “personal”. Ooh, a personal category. That’s where I could put all the stories about my life. Wait a minute…isn’t this whole site about my life? It’s personal really. [...]

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Gotta Stay Honest

I have a tendency to want tell people what they want to hear. Not only will I just tell someone what they want to hear but I’ll go so far as to cover up my true feelings in order to feel the way someone else wants me to feel. What the hell is that? I [...]

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That Old Addictive Thinking

You know the saying “Don’t judge your insides based on someone else’s outside”? Basically meaning don’t get down on yourself because you don’t measure up to what you PERCEIVE someone else’s life to be based on appearances. Why do I find myself doing that?

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