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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 time…you need to begin being present. Learn to stay in the moment. Read the rest of this entry »
It’s so funny that when everything is going smoothly that I strain my brain for something to write about and usually come up short.
It makes perfect sense, I write to express my feelings and problems. When my feelings are copacetic and there aren’t any major problems what am I supposed to say?
I guess I could say that last year around this time I was still in very early recovery. I never dreamed that I could feel the peace of mind that I do at this very moment. Not without drugs anyway.
But here I am. Happy, healthy, easy going, responsible, goofy and for the first time since I can remember…excited about life.
That’s about it for today.
The post I recently did about learning to accept the things I cannot change got me thinking about a negative behavior that I was riddled with in active addiction…not facing problems head on.
The behavior of avoiding problematic situations is something that is very common with addicts. See, the key to successfully living in denial about all of your problems is to numb yourself into oblivion until you don’t think about them anymore. Simple right?
So what happens when you are no longer numbing away your problems with drugs or alcohol? Well, unless you want to continue living a miserable life that is completely based on denial and a disconnection from your soul you need to master the art of facing problems head on in recovery. Read the rest of this entry »
I had another one of those great Sundays. The kind of Sunday when it’s rainy out and you spend the day putting around the house doing this and that. You get to the little tasks that you’ve been too busy to get to.
You know, the kind that really recharges your batteries and make you able to tackle Monday morning.
See, it used to be that Sunday was my day for dying on the couch. I would have mixed alcohol with Oxy’s on Saturday night and my body would be recovering from being poisoned. It usually guaranteed a wasted Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »
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 there are a lot of things that I took away from my time in NA/AA that I find useful in my everyday life.
One of the things that I feel that I’ve struggled with has been the whole accepting the things I cannot change. Rationally I know the importance of this acceptance but I have struggled to take that rational thought and put it to use in my life.
That was until I heard myself telling my son “you do what you can, the very best that you can, and that is all you can do”. Boom! How simple. But could it truly be that simple to accept the things I cannot change?
Just as our server problems had taken this site down for a few days, it took down The Suboxone Help Spot. I just wanted to write a quick little post and let anyone who is interested know that The Suboxone Help Spot is back up and running.
I wanted to apologize to the current members of the site. I realize that a lot of you use the Suboxone Help Spot as your main source of support and without warning it was not available to you.
I am doing everything in my power to make sure that this same scenario never happens again. Thank you so much for your patience and understanding.
After reading a post over at TDA about Lame PSA’s Blamed For Drug Use, I got to thinking about how we tell young people about the dangers of addiction.
The answer…we don’t really do that at all. We tell them that if they use too many drugs they will lose their personality. We tell them not to drink and drive. We tell them that Oxycontin ruined our lives.
We even go so far as to tell them that if they smoke pot while babysitting the child will drown in the pool (seriously, have you seen this one?).
What we don’t do is explain the true reasons why for some people drinking and drugging becomes an addiction that can take over their entire life and sometimes lead them so far down that they never come back up.
But how do you explain the dangers and warning signs of addiction to young people? Read the rest of this entry »
You know what is weird? In a professional sense I welcome change. I’m open to procedure changes and I stay positive and try to keep others positive. Why then, in my personal life do I sometimes get so sad about change?
This topic has come up in my head tonight because I was reading a post by The Junkie’s Wife called Zombie Love which was talking about her missing some of the way things used to be. Me, already being down tonight (as seen in this The Write Thought Post called Feelings Suck Sometimes) was brought to tears over this post.
Sometimes I just get a little overwhelmed when I think about how much in my life has changed. I don’t give into thinking about this often because it usually ends up with me feeling sad but tonight…it has gotten the best of me.
I figured the healthiest thing for me to do would be to write about this. Lucky you…you get to read about it. Read the rest of this entry »
For anyone who has entered into addiction recovery, one thing becomes clear…support is needed in order for you to be successful in your addiction recovery.
“You alone can do it, but you cannot do it alone” - O. Hobart Mowrer
But what makes support such an important component to a successful recovery? And what is the meaning of support when it’s pertaining to addiction recovery? Read the rest of this entry »
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For anyone who keeps up with any of my sites you may have noticed lately…they were not there. What started out as our server being hacked, has ended up with us being down and out for DAYS.
I have been without my sites and without email and it has really shown me that my blog and my online associations are really a huge part of my recovery.
This whole thing came at a time when I was questioning what my blog meant to me. I felt that I had nothing worth reading spilling out of this brain of mine.
My server has been down and I have been going absolutely crazy with ideas for posts. Funny how these things work out right?
For now I will leave you with the news that I am slowly recovering from a server meltdown. I have been down but not out.
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