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Thursday Truths: We're All a Success marilyn l davis from addict to advocate

Posted on April 8, 2021  

  By: Marilyn L. Davis     Measure Your Success from Various […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/thursday-truths-were-all-a-success/></div>
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Thursday Truths: We’re All a Success

 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>
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 Desperate? That’s Motivation for Change

from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis

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>
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Changing You: A Full-time Job

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

Posted on December 28, 2019December 29, 2019  

  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

from addict 2 advocate feelings marilyn l davis

Posted on July 4, 2019July 5, 2019  

Those feelings and thoughts about our life were held down rather like a jack-in-the-box - hidden away only by the mechanism of the box, or in the case of our addiction, by our use. Take away the drugs and alcohol, and the feelings come flooding back, seemingly without rhyme or reason. However, emotional memory stores all those old feelings. They are still there.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-all-the-numbed-feelings-pop-back-up/></div>
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Recovery: All the Numbed Feelings Pop Back Up

Addiction Labels: Hurtful, Embarrassing, or a Beginning? marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on January 3, 2019March 12, 2021  

Labels can hurt, embarrass, or help you start your recovery. For me, that began with saying, "I am a recovering addict." <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/addiction-labels-hurtful-embarrassing-or-a-beginning/></div>
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Addiction Labels: Hurtful, Embarrassing, or a Beginning?

Posted on December 8, 2018November 27, 2020  

I'll take a saying from the rooms, "progress, not perfection." Progress towards any task, goal, or work is something that we need to acknowledge. We've done it. Are you giving yourself credit when it's done? I certainly hope so.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-start-your-day-with-a-done-list/></div>
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Recovery: Start Your Day With A ‘Done List’

Posted on September 27, 2018October 26, 2018  

My name is Andrea. My clean date is 3/29/10.   Early Rejections […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/thursday-truths-andrea-c/></div>
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Thursday Truths: Andrea C.

Posted on September 24, 2018September 24, 2018  

By: T. Rose ____ “A fine glass vase goes from treasure to […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-going-from-battered-and-broken-to-better/></div>
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Recovery: Going from Battered and Broken to Better

Posted on September 20, 2018October 26, 2018  

Growing Up, I Never Grew Up   My name is David Delorenzo. […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/thursday-truths-dave-d/></div>
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Thursday Truths: Dave D.

Posted on September 13, 2018October 26, 2018  

By: Jess Gaggi   “Don’t you think you’re quite young?’ ‘I’m twenty-one,’ […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/thursday-truths-jess-g/></div>
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Thursday Truths: Jess G.

from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis

Posted on September 10, 2018April 8, 2020  

Ben Rose reminds us of the beginning of recovery support meetings. That was face-time; today it's screen-time. Both are supportive for our recovery. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/face-time-and-screen-time-both-support-our-recovery/></div>
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Face-time and Screen-time: Both Support our Recovery

from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis

Posted on July 14, 2018July 14, 2018  

By: Tricia Moceo   “I felt empty and sad for years, and for […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/addiction-and-recovery-then-and-now/></div>
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Addiction and Recovery: Then and Now

visualize IMAGINING A TERRIBLE OUTCOME? INSTEAD, SEND LOVE AHEAD marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate marilynldavis fromaddict2advocate

Posted on June 3, 2018June 3, 2018  

 By: Noelle Sterne      Visualize the Changes with Affirmations   “Affirmations […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/imagining-a-terrible-outcome-instead-send-love-ahead/></div>
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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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