I knew that to get my self-esteem back on an even keel, I would have to view qualities within and not focus on what was lacking on the outside. How did I do this?
My Home-bound Recovery During COVID-19: Purging and Using Podcasts
Whether you’re home because of COVID, work restrictions, furloughs, or layoffs, don’t let your recovery suffer.
Seek out an online meeting.
Connect with recovery-oriented people on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, or other social media
Write a guest post for From Addict 2 Advocate
Cherish loved ones
Facetime your recovery friends
Read meditation books
Read recovery literature
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Inside Voice: Insane or Intuition?
Most of us do not talk about the voices in our heads, yet we all have them. Sometimes they are the everyday thoughts that we have turned into the sounds, which sound like the person who initially told them, as in the critical or negative voice.
In my head, I have a Mouse voice that squeaks with fear each time I undertake a new beginning, usually followed by the Big Girl voice that encourages the Mouse to take action even when Mouse is afraid.
There is also what I call my Librarian Voice, which keeps a record of outcomes.
Then there is the Guiding Voice.
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Changing You: A Full-time Job
It was at that point that I knew that change was a lifelong job; that it would create fears, uncover aspects of myself that generated and caused embarrassment, but that I would only benefit from my recovery if I went beyond not using to healing the underlying motives that produced negative outcomes in my life.
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Seven Deadly Sins, Arishadvarga, Character Defects, and Kleshas: Self-Defeating by Any Other Name
The more I read, the more similarities that I found between three of the world’s major religions: Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism, with what I believe to be the fundamentals of recovery. All of these reinforce the essential responsibility to change the character defects within us and to stop those thoughts, actions, and behaviors that are harmful to us and to others.
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Dealing with Guilt in Your Recovery
Guilt motivates some people to change; they feel bad about their behaviors and they want these feelings to stop, so they change, and make amends.
Shame, however, often paralyzes people. Their distorted opinion of themselves leads them to believe that no one could forgive them for their actions; they think they are so worthless and undeserving of absolution that they often do not try to make amends.
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Choosing Sobriety
By: Deb Palmer “We design our lives through the power of choices.”― Golden Flower ____ Choosing Our Fate Runs in the Family When my children were little, I offered choices like clean your room or scrub toilets, get along or spend the day pulling weeds. “You choose,” I’d say with a smile. Choices […]
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Do I Have to Work on my Recovery, Today?
The success of your recovery depends on maintaining vigilance or awareness. You’ve worked hard to give up drugs and alcohol; that’s the getting into recovery. If we don’t work on our recovery every day, we run the risk of becoming complacent, and that’s a dangerous place to be. Are you safe-guarding your recovery today with routines?
