LIFE AND RECOVERY: THEY ARE BALANCING ACTS
Ben Rose looks at life and remembers that life wasn’t always one extreme or the other, even in his addiction.
Category: Living fully each day
Recovery: An Adventure or Ordeal? It’s All in the Attitude
“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
Are We Living our Recovery?
My realization of the value of life was not an epiphany, striking me with profound insight and wisdom on living and dying; more of a learning experience from seeing how many lives ended quickly from addiction, yet how extended many were by recovery.
Addiction Distorts – Recovery Transforms
How convenient and dishonest to say that all the harmful things I did to people were in my use. Then I could blame my behaviors, attitudes and actions on a substance, not the shadow aspects of myself or my character defects. Although my use distorted my thinking, behaviors, and attitudes, it was the shadow aspects or myself and my character defects that fueled my actions as much as my use.
Stigma, NIMBY, and When to Quit Being Anonymous
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