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Posted on December 18, 2020December 19, 2020  

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/how-would-your-life-improve-if-you-changed/></div>
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How Would Your Life Improve If You Changed?

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

Posted on December 1, 2020December 2, 2020  

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>
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You Can Not Buy Self-Esteem

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Posted on November 12, 2020November 12, 2020  

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>
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Inside Voice: Insane or Intuition?

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Posted on October 16, 2020October 17, 2020  

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>
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Changing You: A Full-time Job

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 23, 2020November 13, 2020  

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>
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5 Common Barriers to Change

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Posted on June 16, 2020December 2, 2020  

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>
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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>
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Are We Living our Recovery?

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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>
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Stop Wishing for Recovery – Instead, Set Goals

from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis

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

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>
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Become an ACTOR: Attitude Changes Transform our Recovery

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Posted on February 4, 2020February 5, 2020  

I do not take lightly when the Universe demonstrates a lesson for me, and at that moment, I saw how tenacious that tulip sprout was. That longing, if you will, to grow, to fight for survival and thrive. To blossom and show itself in all its splendor and beauty.  <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-you-just-need-the-tenacity-of-a-tulip/></div>
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Recovery: You Just Need the Tenacity of a Tulip

from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis

Posted on January 19, 2020January 20, 2020  

We're all rather like the nesting dolls; we're layered and complex. But if we look within, we will find all the qualities and answers necessary to overcome adversity, problems, and difficulties. We just have to keep looking for them. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-your-answers-are-within/></div>
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Recovery: Your Answers are Within

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>
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Changes Give Us Hope for a Better Future

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