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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 February 26, 2020February 27, 2020

“Goals are the road maps that guide you to your destination. Cultivate the habit of setting clearly-defined written goals; they are the road maps that guide you to your destination.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/stop-wishing-for-recovery-instead-set-goals/></div>

Stop Wishing for Recovery – Instead, Set Goals

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

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>

Recovery: How Are You Learning the Lessons?

Recovery: It's Overcoming Barriers and Obstacles Marilyn L. Davis From Addict 2 Advocate

Posted on December 21, 2019December 22, 2019

You do not have to have all the answers to your problems. 23 million people are in recovery and can tell you how to overcome the barriers and obstacles. rest of us. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-is-overcoming-barriers-and-obstacles/></div>

Recovery Is Overcoming Barriers and Obstacles

Stop Balking at the Changes marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on December 7, 2019December 22, 2020

It is when we cannot see that changes are going to make our life better or that we will feel better because of the modification, we often balk, resist, or create obstacles to change. We give into fears, discuss how difficult it is to change, and create excuses so we don't have to change.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/stop-balking-at-the-changes/></div>

Stop Balking at the Changes

Posted on July 13, 2019July 14, 2019

By: Marilyn L. Davis “I’ve come to believe that in everyone’s […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/is-it-time-for-your-undeniable-moment-of-change/></div>

Is It Time for Your Undeniable Moment of Change?

Stigma, NIMBY, and When to Quit Being Anonymous marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on April 20, 2019February 24, 2021

I always find it amazing that we choose to be anonymous in our recovery when our actions in our use were so public. ~Marilyn Davis, speech celebrating 20 years at HALT Club, 2008<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/stigma-nimby-and-when-to-quit-being-anonymous/></div>

Stigma, NIMBY, and When to Quit Being Anonymous

Cast the First Stone From Addict 2 Advocate

Posted on July 10, 2017July 16, 2017

When I was younger, I always thought there was this better version of me that I was waiting to grow into. That may very well be true, but thinking of a heaven in the future can make a hell out of the present. Speaking of damnation, I’ve had a deep and vicious fear of hell all throughout my life. One that waited, hungry for me at the end of this life.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/cast-the-first-stone/></div>

Cast the First Stone

Posted on July 8, 2016July 20, 2017

We don't know their stories. We always have to be aware that for some, their childhood experiences before active addiction, have had negative impacts on their recovery. These experiences can range from trauma, mental disorders, and even negative messages conveyed by loved ones and family members.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/under-the-surface-the-untold-stories/></div>

Under the Surface: The Untold Stories

Posted on March 10, 2016January 11, 2018

While we would like an immediate end to the struggles, fights, and heartache of addiction, healing for the individual and the family is a process. Part of the process of healing for the family is finding support from people in a similar situation. Joining any family components offered at a treatment facility, or attending family support groups affiliated with 12 Step programs, faith-based groups, or codependency groups will help a family member heal<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/addict-in-my-family-what-to-do-now/></div>

Category: changing your attitudes about recovery

Positive Affirmations: Touch the Heart – Change the Mind

Changes Give Us Hope for a Better Future

Recovery: How Are You Learning the Lessons?

Recovery Is Overcoming Barriers and Obstacles

Stop Balking at the Changes

Is It Time for Your Undeniable Moment of Change?

Stigma, NIMBY, and When to Quit Being Anonymous

Cast the First Stone

Under the Surface: The Untold Stories

Addict in My Family, What To Do Now?

Finding North: A Journey from Addict to Advocate

Memories into Memoir: The Mindsets and Mechanics Workbook

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