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Category: choices in our recovery

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>
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Positive Affirmations: Touch the Heart – Change the Mind

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>
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Choosing Sobriety

stressed blue shirt from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis

Posted on December 22, 2019December 23, 2019  

“Stress level: extreme. It's like she was a jar with the lid screwed on too tight, and inside the jar were pickles, angry pickles, and they were fermenting, and about to explode.”<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/im-stressed-in-my-recovery-what-do-i-do/></div>
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I’m Stressed in my Recovery, What Do I Do?

from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis

Posted on November 21, 2019March 31, 2021  

"I'm bored is a useless thing to say.  I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you're alive is amazing, so you don't get to say, 'I'm bored. ” ― Louis C.K.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/is-this-all-there-is-bored-in-recovery/></div>
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Is This All There Is? Bored in Recovery

Meeting Options to Improve Long-term Recovery from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis

Posted on September 23, 2019March 15, 2020  

One aspect of joining these groups and attending meetings is that if the orientation, value, and support are what you need to shore up your foundation in recovery, most have a free course or instructional format for starting a meeting in your area.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/meeting-options-to-improve-long-term-recovery/></div>
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Meeting Options to Improve Long-term Recovery

from addict 2 advocate

Posted on August 9, 2019July 15, 2020  

In meetings, we'll hear people talk about Stinking Thinking and know they're talking about the faulty logic or the negative thoughts. But what are some types of thinking that get us in trouble, cause us to view the world through a distorted lens, or just don't make sense when we analyze them? <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/stinkin-thinkin-and-the-negative-results/></div>
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Stinkin’ Thinkin’ and the Negative Results

from addict 2 advocate

Posted on August 2, 2019August 3, 2019  

Did I realize that I'd taken up arms against my children when I started using? No, I did not set out to harm them; however, that was the result.  And just as the history books record the injustices done, each of my children recollects the harm from her perspective. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/casualties-of-addiction-our-children/></div>
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Casualties of Addiction: Our Children

Posted on April 30, 2019May 1, 2019  

People who have relapsed can learn something from the experience. But, for the rest of us, those lessons are best learned from a distance. We can learn from watching what others go through when they relapse. This is a better alternative than learning first-hand.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/relapse-aspect-addiction-not-recovery/></div>
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Relapse: An Aspect of Addiction, Not Recovery

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.

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 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 November 26, 2017November 26, 2017  

Addictions often begin because we haven’t been taught coping skills to handle the trauma of life. Our addiction becomes our coping mechanism and how we deal with life.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/addiction-negative-coping/></div>
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Addiction: Is It Negative Coping?

from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis

Posted on September 4, 2017December 17, 2018  

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>
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It’s A Feeling; It Will Pass

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