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Recovery: How Are You Learning the Lessons? marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on January 10, 2020January 12, 2020  

When we're challenged with a lesson in our recovery, if we approach them from the perspective of "here's a problem area or issue, and I've got an opportunity to learn from others", it seems less harsh or traumatic. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-how-are-you-learning-the-lessons/></div>
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Recovery: How Are You Learning the Lessons?

from addict 2 advocate

Posted on January 1, 2020January 2, 2020  

By: Marilyn L. Davis __ Isolated Incidents or a Pattern of Behaviors?  […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-is-changing-the-pattern-of-behaviors/></div>
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Recovery Is Changing The Pattern of Behaviors

Cravings: When Our Body and Mind Derail Our Recovery marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on December 28, 2019April 13, 2021  

  By: Marilyn L. Davis —- When Our Body and Mind Rebels […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/cravings-when-our-body-and-mind-derail-our-recovery/></div>
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Cravings: When Our Body and Mind Derail Our Recovery

Oops! There Goes Another Opportunity marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on November 30, 2019December 1, 2019  

So, if there's all these doors to success, why do we miss so many opportunities? Missed Opportunities are the times we fail to capitalize on the activity, occasion, situation or circumstances that would better our lives or ourselves. Each of us has missed opportunities or not taken advantage of an opportunity often due to self-defeating behaviors, including our fears.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/oops-there-goes-another-opportunity/></div>
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Oops! There Goes Another Opportunity

from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis

Posted on June 14, 2019June 15, 2019  

By: Marilyn L. Davis   “If you have discovered a truth, tell […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/slogans-catchword-contribution/></div>
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Slogans: Catchword or Contribution?

from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis noelle sterne

Posted on February 4, 2018February 27, 2018  

The psychiatrist and Course in Miracles teacher Jerry Jampolsky in Goodbye to Guilt calls forgiveness “the ultimate challenge” (p. 149). We cling to hurts, slights, insults, betrayals, wrongs, anger, resentments, annoyances—and on and on, through months, years, decades, and, before we blink, a lifetime. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/six-principles-for-forgiving/></div>
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SIX PRINCIPLES FOR FORGIVING

Posted on December 3, 2017December 3, 2017  

To make amends may take effort and gulping down some pride, mustering some courage, and taking an action we’ve been too embarrassed or uncomfortable to take. These feelings are exactly why we should act. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/make-amends/></div>
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MAKE AMENDS

from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis

Posted on August 3, 2017  

The difference is once you get past that first one, you have acquired the skills to do so, as well as the confidence that you can do it again. Any wall you will face in the future will feel a lot smaller, and a lot less in<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-life-happens-side-wall/></div>
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Recovery: Life Happens on the Other Side of the Wall

Finding North: A Journey from Addict to Advocate

My memoir, Finding North: A Journey from Addict to Advocate is for sale on Amazon. Both Kindle and paperback.

A chance encounter with Gray Hawk, a 74-year old Native American with 34 years in recovery started my journey.

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