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Posted on December 7, 2021December 8, 2021

By: Marilyn L. Davis “Relapse doesn’t have to be part <a class="read-more" href="https://fromaddict2advocate.com/relapse-thinking-8-risky-attitudes/">Read more</a><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/relapse-thinking-8-risky-attitudes/></div>

Relapse Thinking: 8 Risky Attitudes

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 August 30, 2021August 31, 2021

By: Marilyn L. Davis ____ Isolated Incidents or a Pattern of Behaviors? <a class="read-more" href="https://fromaddict2advocate.com/noticed-negative-patterns-of-behavior-then-make-changes/">Read more</a><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, 2021January 15, 2022

“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 18, 2020September 2, 2021

If you find yourself in the cycle of only identifying the problem, ask yourself, do I have the want and the willingness to change something? But continuing to just ponder the problem, leads to frustration, tension and guilt. In the case of addiction, not changing can and does lead to harsher outcomes. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/want-to-change-then-theres-work-to-do/></div>

Want to Change? Then There’s Work to Do!

from addict 2 advocate You Can Not Buy Self-Esteem marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on December 1, 2020December 2, 2021

I knew that to get my self-esteem back on an even keel, I would have to view qualities within and not focus on what was lacking on the outside. How did I do this? <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/you-can-not-buy-self-esteem/></div>

You Can Not Buy Self-Esteem

inside voices: insane or intuition from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis

Posted on November 12, 2020November 6, 2021

The Guiding Voice is outside of my mind, yet within - separate from my hearing, but not a thought. I would urge you to be quiet of mind, to reflect and pay attention to your Guiding Voice, because it wants to be helpful." <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 October 16, 2020August 27, 2021

It was at that point that I knew that change was a lifelong job; that it would create fears, uncover aspects of myself that generated and caused embarrassment, but that I would only benefit from my recovery if I went beyond not using to healing the underlying motives that produced negative outcomes in my life. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/changing-you-a-full-time-job/></div>

Changing You: A Full-time Job

Posted on June 23, 2020November 17, 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/addiction-to-recovery-nowhere-to-somewhere/></div>

Addiction to Recovery: Nowhere to Somewhere

Posted on June 16, 2020December 6, 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?

from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis Is Today the Day I Die? Then Have I Lived?

Posted on March 1, 2020March 2, 2020

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. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/are-we-living-our-recovery/></div>

Are We Living our Recovery?

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, 2020January 13, 2022

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/how-urgent-is-your-need-for-change/></div>

How Urgent Is Your Need for Change?

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>

Category: Marilyn L. Davis

Relapse Thinking: 8 Risky Attitudes

8 Recovery Excuses and What They Really Mean

Noticed Negative Patterns of Behavior? Then Make Changes

Positive Affirmations: Change the Mind, Change the Perception

Want to Change? Then There’s Work to Do!

You Can Not Buy Self-Esteem

Inside Voice: Insane or Intuition?

Changing You: A Full-time Job

Addiction to Recovery: Nowhere to Somewhere

Are We Living our Recovery?

How Urgent Is Your Need for Change?

Become an ACTOR: Attitude Changes Transform our Recovery

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