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Posted on September 26, 2021September 27, 2021

Replacing people, places, and things with new, recovery-oriented choices means we can expect better recovery.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/replacing-old-routines-with-the-new-people-places-and-things/></div>

Replacing Old Routines With The New: People, Places and Things

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

8 Recovery Excuses and What They Really Mean marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis

Posted on September 23, 2021September 24, 2021

Most of us give excuses when we do not want to do something, or someone questions us about why, when, or how we did or did not do something.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/8-recovery-excuses-and-what-they-really-mean/></div>

8 Recovery Excuses and What They Really Mean

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 December 12, 2020December 13, 2020

We judge ourselves harshly remembering all the bad choices we made in our addiction and then get trapped in our thinking and don't make a decision because we're afraid we'll make another bad choice.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/are-you-thinking-too-much-in-your-recovery/></div>

Are You Thinking Too Much in Your Recovery?

Posted on November 12, 2020August 11, 2021

Most of us do not talk about the voices in our heads, yet we all have them. Sometimes they are the everyday thoughts that we have turned into the sounds, which sound like the person who initially told them, as in the critical or negative voice. In my head, I have a Mouse voice that squeaks with fear each time I undertake a new beginning, usually followed by the Big Girl voice that encourages the Mouse to take action even when Mouse is afraid. There is also what I call my Librarian Voice, which keeps a record of outcomes. Then there is the Guiding Voice. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/inside-voice-insane-or-intuition/></div>

Inside Voice: Insane or Intuition?

Posted on June 30, 2020June 10, 2021

Guilt motivates some people to change; they feel bad about their behaviors and they want these feelings to stop, so they change, and make amends. Shame, however, often paralyzes people. Their distorted opinion of themselves leads them to believe that no one could forgive them for their actions; they think they are so worthless and undeserving of absolution that they often do not try to make amends.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/dealing-with-guilt-in-your-recovery/></div>

Dealing with Guilt in Your Recovery

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?

Are Associations Preventing You from Hearing the Message? marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on March 12, 2020September 15, 2021

To break down associations, identify who the person reminds you of; then make a conscious effort to not filter the message by the association or past connection. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/are-associations-preventing-you-from-hearing-the-message/></div>

Are Associations Preventing You from Hearing the Message?

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

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>

Category: early recovery lessons

Replacing Old Routines With The New: People, Places and Things

It’s A Feeling; It Will Pass

8 Recovery Excuses and What They Really Mean

Attitude and Gratitude: The Heart of Recovery

Noticed Negative Patterns of Behavior? Then Make Changes

Positive Affirmations: Change the Mind, Change the Perception

Are You Thinking Too Much in Your Recovery?

Inside Voice: Insane or Intuition?

Dealing with Guilt in Your Recovery

5 Common Barriers to Change

Are Associations Preventing You from Hearing the Message?

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

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