addiction recovery

How Do You Make Yourself Feel Better

Since we are trying to avoid the use of mood altering substances as our first defense against negative feelings, it leaves us with the question “How do you make yourself feel better?”. You know what I mean right? Those times in life when you feel lost, vulnerable, worthless, sad, hopeless…and all those other crappy feelings [...]

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The Importance of Support in Addiction Recovery

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 [...]

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Merry Christmas

Just like most of us, my actively addicted self does not share much in common with my living clean self. It usually takes special occasions like the nearly here Christmas for me to realize just how much of a positive change there has been in myself. My “birthday” or “anniversary” whichever you would like to [...]

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Addiction Recovery: Accept The Things I Cannot Change

There are certain things in life that we cannot change, no matter how badly it is we want to be able to. Just like the Serenity Prayer states, we hope for the serenity to accept the things we can not change. I usually look at addiction from an addicts point of view, what with being [...]

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What Winners Do Is Proud To Introduce The Suboxone Help Spot

It is with great pleasure that I announce the creation of The Suboxone Help Spot. This Suboxone support forum was created with the intention of providing a place for anyone associated with Suboxone to find the information and the support that they need. So who is “anyone associated with Suboxone”? This would include active addicts [...]

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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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Lifestyle Changes In Addiction Recovery: How I Went From Queen of The Jams To Suzie Homemaker

It seems that I have turned into Suzie Homemaker in the little over a year period of my addiction recovery. This change did not come without huge resistance on my part. Going from Queen of the Jams (a jam = an oxycontin pill) to Suzie Homemaker was not a smooth transformation. Obviously there were lifestyle [...]

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Addiction Recovery: What Are You Thankful For?

Thanksgiving is fast approaching so I began thinking about what this holiday means to me. It seems this year has brought me a completely different view of Thanksgiving due to the fact that I’m in addiction recovery. I was trying to think of what my Thanksgiving was like last year but to be honest, I [...]

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