Breaking Down Bad Beliefs In Addiction Recovery

The beliefs that I’m talking about breaking down in addiction recovery have to do with what you believe to be true about yourself. This occurred to me while being on an airplane recently. There was a time that I believed that I was terrified of flying and that I needed to take a tranquilizer (or [...]

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Have You Ever Relapsed?

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It is my belief, and the belief of alcoholics anonymous and narcotics anonymous that being in recovery means abstinence from all mood altering substances. With that explained…have you ever relapsed?

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Relapse Prevention: You Can Change Your Friends But What About Family?

Every person in addiction recovery has changed their socializing situations in order to avoid the dreaded relapse. We are told that certain people and certain situations can be triggers. What do we do when some of our triggers are also family members?

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Examining Yourself In Addiction Recovery

There was a time, even in early addiction recovery when self examination was a very scary thing for me. I avoided it, I ran from it, I feared it. As my addiction recovery has chugged along, I have found it easier and easier to take a good look at myself. Not only is it easier, [...]

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HALT Hungry Angry Lonely Tired Even After All This Time

Those of us in recovery have gotten used to the acronym H.A.L.T which translates to hungry, angry, lonely, tired. But have we gotten too used to it? By paying attention to these four areas of our being we are making sure that are very basic needs are being met. When we make sure that our [...]

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I’ve Been Tagged For A Recovery Meme

I was tagged by Discovering Recovering to participate in a recovery meme and I couldn’t be more pleased about it. I think it fits in really great with the fast approaching Thanksgiving. The rules are simple: Link to the person’s blog who tagged you Post these rules on your blog List seven things you’re grateful [...]

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My New Addiction: Yahoo Answers

Well it’s official, I now have a new addiction…Yahoo Answers. Have you guys checked this out yet? I spend about an hour each day answering mental health questions for strangers. What am I doing?

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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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Attending Narcotics Anonymous Meetings?

The answer to that is no. I have not been going to any Narcotics Anonymous meetings. I know, I know…it’s bad. I have been successfully talking myself out it. I can be very persuasive when I want to be. So where does this leave me?

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Twenty-four Hours A Day

I already explained a little bit in my story that after I was released from my in-patient stay in a lock down psychiatric ward to detox, I attended an out-patient program. The out-patient program taught me one of the fundamentals of addiction recovery…stay in the day.

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