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Posted on September 24, 2021September 25, 2021

But why do people use? In each of the three categories there's a common denominator - feelings and emotions. You know, those things that we do our best to guard and to avoid discussing. The way we deal with them often dictates how our day will be and how we respond or react to different situations. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/feeling-will-pass/></div>

It’s A Feeling; It Will Pass

Posted on September 16, 2021September 17, 2021

By: Marilyn L. Davis Changing our Attitudes “Could […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/attitude-and-gratitude-the-heart-of-recovery/></div>

Attitude and Gratitude: The Heart of Recovery

Posted on August 30, 2021August 31, 2021

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/noticed-negative-patterns-of-behavior-then-make-changes/></div>

Noticed Negative Patterns of Behavior? Then Make Changes

Positive Affirmations: Touch the Heart - Change the Mind

Posted on May 22, 2021June 23, 2021

“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-change-the-mind-change-the-perception/></div>

Positive Affirmations: Change the Mind, Change the Perception

Posted on June 23, 2020October 7, 2021

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 16, 2020August 9, 2021

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? <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/do-i-have-to-work-on-my-recovery-today/></div>

Do I Have to Work on my Recovery, Today?

Posted on March 2, 2020March 3, 2020

“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.” ― Katherine Mansfield<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-an-adventure-or-ordeal-its-all-in-the-attitude/></div>

Recovery: An Adventure or Ordeal? It’s All in the Attitude

Posted on February 14, 2020February 15, 2020

The reality is that change is going to feel painful, unfamiliar, uncomfortable, and uncertain. Too often people focus only on their pain, what they will have to go through to change, without reflecting on the pain that their actions have caused loved ones and friends. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-who-youll-be-tomorrow-depends-on-changes-today/></div>

Recovery: Who You’ll Be Tomorrow Depends on Changes Today

Posted on February 9, 2020December 18, 2020

When we intentionally act as if, and become an actor, we often experience different results. in our recovery. Worth it! <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/become-an-actor-attitude-changes-transform-our-recovery/></div>

Become an ACTOR: Attitude Changes Transform our Recovery

Changes Give Us Hope for a Better Future marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on January 18, 2020May 5, 2020

For many addicts and alcoholics coming to terms with the puzzle of addiction – knowing they need to change and doing the complete opposite is frustrating and scary. However, the good news is that the barriers and objections are within you and that means you have the ability to change them. It's just a matter of isolating them, examining them and then changing what doesn't work or fit anymore.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/changes-give-us-hope-for-a-better-future/></div>

Changes Give Us Hope for a Better Future

Posted on January 17, 2020December 2, 2020

Another benefit from passing on good recovery advice is that you free up space in your brain to learn the lessons you need at this time, plus you get to feel useful, helpful, and caring - and those are generally not the qualities we had in our addiction. So, today, where can you pass it on? Look for opportunities to share and care.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/got-some-good-recovery-advice-then-pass-it-on/></div>

Got Some Good Recovery Advice? Then Pass It On

17 Spiritual Principles That Changed My Life marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on January 13, 2020March 26, 2021

In one of my first lectures in treatment, I kept hearing about the spiritual principles that I needed to incorporate into my recovery. For the principles listing on the sign-up sheet, I falsely assumed that I'd go to a dimly lit room, with incense wafting and cloistered monks reading from musty, dusty tomes. I hoped that they would enlighten me and give me ancient wisdom on how to change. Instead, I learned from recovering people like myself in recovery support meetings. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/17-spiritual-principles-that-changed-my-life/></div>

17 Spiritual Principles That Changed My Life

from addict 2 advocate dormant bloom marilyn l davis

Posted on January 12, 2020January 13, 2020

While those are only five ways to keep an addiction dormant, the most important one for me, is don't pick up the substance that made the addiction burst into bloom in the first place. I'd like you to add to the fives ways to keep an addiction dormant. Just leave a comment, thanks. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/addiction-dormant-or-bursting-into-full-bloom/></div>

Addiction: Dormant or Bursting into Full Bloom?

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>

Category: attitude and commitment in recovery

It’s A Feeling; It Will Pass

Attitude and Gratitude: The Heart of Recovery

Noticed Negative Patterns of Behavior? Then Make Changes

Positive Affirmations: Change the Mind, Change the Perception

5 Common Barriers to Change

Recovery: An Adventure or Ordeal? It’s All in the Attitude

Recovery: Who You’ll Be Tomorrow Depends on Changes Today

Become an ACTOR: Attitude Changes Transform our Recovery

Changes Give Us Hope for a Better Future

Got Some Good Recovery Advice? Then Pass It On

17 Spiritual Principles That Changed My Life

Addiction: Dormant or Bursting into Full Bloom?

Recovery: How Are You Learning the Lessons?

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