Getting it, keeping it, growing it. Recovery is the most amazing thing ever- but it doesn’t “just happen” or even “just keep happening”.
For most recovering folks, establishing sobriety included a conscious, deliberate commitment to healthy involvement with others in recovery, accepting guidance and support instead of relying solely on one's own resources.
I must take responsibility for the ways I acted and the things I did. Then, I must ask if there is anything I can do to make these mistakes right.
Read MoreNow we carry 24 hour access to crap in our pockets, via the phone. And rather than a couple irritating broadcasters, we have access to millions.
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There will be times where you catch yourself lying either in your head or to somebody– fix it, there is major growth there when you do.
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There’s not much point in pretending that all those years of dousing the brain with toxins hasn’t left its mark.
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For most of us, personal risk management boils down to inserting a process of logical reasoning between the desire and the action.
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It’s difficult to gab or text with your friends or play Candy Crush while you’re struggling to assume the yoga position.
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Rebuilding trust is no easy feat but if you have a friend or family member willing to let you crash on the couch, you will have to do just that temporarily.
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As control erodes, the drinker redoubles efforts to regain it. Some resort to “white-knuckle” abstinence, giving up alcohol for a while, just to prove to themselves or someone else that they can.
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“All my friends drink,” someone says. There’s a reason for that.
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…provoking is behavior that encourages a return to use.
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If there’s one drug we’re all reluctant to give up, it’s our prejudices.
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If addiction really is a brain disorder based in complex adaptations to a substance, then who’s to say those adaptations won’t occur with a different drug?
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