addictive thinking

Breaking Up with My Addiction

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Sponsors tell you that writing things down helps, to journal the fight against addiction, having a record, getting things off your chest;  this is another twist to doing that and I must say I like it. Actor Colin Farrell has said that he has given up cigarettes but here is the interesting part: he wrote [...]

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In Addiction Recovery, What Do The Winners Do?

Do you consider yourself one of the winners? I received this question via email from someone that is just entering into addiction recovery. This person is seeking the experience from others as an aid to their own recovery. Going by the name of my site, What Winners Do, one might get the impression that I [...]

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Accountability In Addiction Recovery

Ultimately in order for someone to have success in addiction recovery they need to have a sense of accountability towards themselves. With that said, it’s also beneficial to feel accountability towards someone/something outside of yourself. In very early recovery just being accountable to ourselves doesn’t always work out very well. We are usually still plagued [...]

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Loneliness In Addiction Recovery

Think about all of the isolating that we did in active addiction. Is it any wonder that a lot of us experience a sense of loneliness in addiction recovery? Because in addiction you have distanced yourself from a lot of the positive people in your life and have instead chosen to surround yourself with people [...]

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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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