Comments on: Keeping Yourself Balanced in Addiction Recovery http://www.whatwinnersdo.com/keeping-yourself-balanced-in-addiction-recovery/ Stories, Struggles And Success of A Recovering Addict Trying to Do What Winners Do Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:53:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Addiction: The Difficulties With Definitions | Addiction Recovery Basics http://www.whatwinnersdo.com/keeping-yourself-balanced-in-addiction-recovery/comment-page-1/#comment-5677 Addiction: The Difficulties With Definitions | Addiction Recovery Basics Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:02:13 +0000 http://www.whatwinnersdo.com/?p=248#comment-5677 [...] Keeping Yourself Balanced in Addiction Recovery - If history has taught us anything (the history of Erin that is) it is that I love to spout off addiction recovery sayings. Now, what saying would I annoyingly come up with if this situation was someone else’s? … [...] [...] Keeping Yourself Balanced in Addiction Recovery – If history has taught us anything (the history of Erin that is) it is that I love to spout off addiction recovery sayings. Now, what saying would I annoyingly come up with if this situation was someone else’s? … [...]

]]> By: kayakotto http://www.whatwinnersdo.com/keeping-yourself-balanced-in-addiction-recovery/comment-page-1/#comment-5625 kayakotto Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:21:26 +0000 http://www.whatwinnersdo.com/?p=248#comment-5625 I agree with the concept of routine and discipline in maintaining addiction recovery. Another simple solution is simply taking a walk and observing the world around me, and extroverting from the internal world that I am so fond of living in at times. Simply using the discipline of looking at trees, birds, cars, boats, (Whatever is out there) and avoiding looking inside my head is very therapuetic and balancing, at least for me. I agree with the concept of routine and discipline in maintaining addiction recovery. Another simple solution is simply taking a walk and observing the world around me, and extroverting from the internal world that I am so fond of living in at times. Simply using the discipline of looking at trees, birds, cars, boats, (Whatever is out there) and avoiding looking inside my head is very therapuetic and balancing, at least for me.

]]> By: Raj http://www.whatwinnersdo.com/keeping-yourself-balanced-in-addiction-recovery/comment-page-1/#comment-5623 Raj Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:54:38 +0000 http://www.whatwinnersdo.com/?p=248#comment-5623 hey btw I saw your body art gallery and I'd say all of them are great, my fav is Scary Skeleton Face Painting ;-) hey, do keep us posted on how your business is doing ... hey btw I saw your body art gallery and I’d say all of them are great, my fav is Scary Skeleton Face Painting ;-) hey, do keep us posted on how your business is doing …

]]> By: Raj http://www.whatwinnersdo.com/keeping-yourself-balanced-in-addiction-recovery/comment-page-1/#comment-5621 Raj Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:41:35 +0000 http://www.whatwinnersdo.com/?p=248#comment-5621 Hi Erin, you need to remind yourself <i>this too shall pass; be here now; Easy does it… but do it. </i> LOL :-) Hi Erin,
you need to remind yourself

this too shall pass; be here now; Easy does it… but do it. LOL :-)

]]> By: Bill Urell http://www.whatwinnersdo.com/keeping-yourself-balanced-in-addiction-recovery/comment-page-1/#comment-5620 Bill Urell Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:37:53 +0000 http://www.whatwinnersdo.com/?p=248#comment-5620 Your post hit home with me, I have had similar thoughts and feelings, I think but just termed a little differently. I often get that 'all or nothing' drive about projects and even people. Somehow, for me it is tangled up with either that lust for immediate and overwhelming gratification coupled with poor impulse control. Add a dash of 'I want what I want, when I want it' and there's the recipe for my addictive thoughts getting control. I, too, work your solution of routine. Routine and discipline are two tools that help me curb my impulses and stay grounded in reality these days. Am I perfect at it?, Heck no, progress, not perfection. Your post hit home with me, I have had similar thoughts and feelings, I think but just termed a little differently. I often get that ‘all or nothing’ drive about projects and even people.

Somehow, for me it is tangled up with either that lust for immediate and overwhelming gratification coupled with poor impulse control. Add a dash of ‘I want what I want, when I want it’ and there’s the recipe for my addictive thoughts getting control.

I, too, work your solution of routine. Routine and discipline are two tools that help me curb my impulses and stay grounded in reality these days. Am I perfect at it?, Heck no, progress, not perfection.

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