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Finding North: A Journey from Addict to Advocate is Published marilyn l davis fromaddict2advocate.com

Posted on January 28, 2021January 28, 2021

Just as I became an advocate for women and recovery, I sincerely hope Finding North: A Journey from Addict to Advocate inspires others.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/finding-north-a-journey-from-addict-to-advocate-is-published/></div>

Finding North: A Journey from Addict to Advocate is Published

Desperate? That's Motivation for Change marilynldavis marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on December 20, 2020

Being desperate can make us do crazy things, but it can also motivate us to change.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/desperate-thats-motivation-for-change/></div>

Desperate? That’s Motivation for Change

Posted on December 18, 2020December 19, 2020

If you find yourself in the cycle of only identifying the problem, ask yourself, do I have the want and the willingness to change something? But continuing to just ponder the problem, leads to frustration, tension and guilt. In the case of addiction, not changing can and does lead to harsher outcomes. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/how-would-your-life-improve-if-you-changed/></div>

How Would Your Life Improve If You Changed?

Posted on December 12, 2020December 13, 2020

We judge ourselves harshly remembering all the bad choices we made in our addiction and then get trapped in our thinking and don't make a decision because we're afraid we'll make another bad choice.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/are-you-thinking-too-much-in-your-recovery/></div>

Are You Thinking Too Much in Your Recovery?

from addict 2 advocate You Can Not Buy Self-Esteem marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on December 1, 2020December 2, 2020

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? <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/you-can-not-buy-self-esteem/></div>

You Can Not Buy Self-Esteem

My Home-bound Recovery During COVID-19: Purging and Using Podcasts

Posted on November 17, 2020February 11, 2021

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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/my-home-bound-recovery-during-covid-19-purging-and-using-podcasts/></div>

My Home-bound Recovery During COVID-19: Purging and Using Podcasts

Posted on November 12, 2020November 12, 2020

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. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/inside-voice-insane-or-intuition/></div>

Inside Voice: Insane or Intuition?

Posted on October 16, 2020October 17, 2020

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. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/changing-you-a-full-time-job/></div>

Changing You: A Full-time Job

Posted on October 14, 2020

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.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/seven-deadly-sins-arishadvarga-character-defects-and-kleshas-self-defeating-by-any-other-name/></div>

Seven Deadly Sins, Arishadvarga, Character Defects, and Kleshas: Self-Defeating by Any Other Name

COVID Isn't Helping: Overdoses Increasing marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on July 25, 2020

While the isolation may help us avoid COVID19, it puts us at a higher risk of relapse, and with a relapse, there's always the chance of an overdose.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/covid-isnt-helping-overdoses-increasing/></div>

COVID Isn’t Helping: Overdoses Increasing

Positive Affirmations: Touch the Heart - Change the Mind

Posted on July 3, 2020November 11, 2020

“Affirmations are our mental vitamins, providing the supplementary positive thoughts we need to balance the barrage of negative events and thoughts we experience daily.”― Tia Walker, The Inspired Caregiver: Finding Joy While Caring for Those You Love <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/positive-affirmations-touch-the-heart-change-the-mind/></div>

Positive Affirmations: Touch the Heart – Change the Mind

Posted on June 30, 2020July 1, 2020

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.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/dealing-with-guilt-in-your-recovery/></div>

Dealing with Guilt in Your Recovery

Posted on June 23, 2020November 13, 2020

Our barriers are self-imposed for the most part. That's both good and bad news. Good because it's an attitude within us, and therefore, we can change it. However, that's the downside, too as most of us don't like to feel uncomfortable in our life choices<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/5-common-barriers-change/></div>

5 Common Barriers to Change

Posted on June 22, 2020June 22, 2020

By: Deb Palmer “We design our lives through the power […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/choosing-sobriety/></div>

Author: marilynldavis

Finding North: A Journey from Addict to Advocate is Published

Desperate? That’s Motivation for Change

How Would Your Life Improve If You Changed?

Are You Thinking Too Much in Your Recovery?

You Can Not Buy Self-Esteem

My Home-bound Recovery During COVID-19: Purging and Using Podcasts

Inside Voice: Insane or Intuition?

Changing You: A Full-time Job

Seven Deadly Sins, Arishadvarga, Character Defects, and Kleshas: Self-Defeating by Any Other Name

COVID Isn’t Helping: Overdoses Increasing

Positive Affirmations: Touch the Heart – Change the Mind

Dealing with Guilt in Your Recovery

5 Common Barriers to Change

Choosing Sobriety

Finding North: A Journey from Addict to Advocate

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