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Category: @mdavisattiers early recovery lessons

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 27, 2018October 26, 2018  

My name is Andrea. My clean date is 3/29/10.   Early Rejections […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/thursday-truths-andrea-c/></div>
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Thursday Truths: Andrea C.

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.

Recovery: Help Me Unload This Emotional Baggage

Posted on April 1, 2018July 8, 2018  

    By: C. W. Stratton   The Baggage We Bring to Recovery […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-helps-us-unload-the-emotional-baggage/></div>
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Recovery Helps Us Unload the Emotional Baggage

from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis participation treatment

Posted on February 11, 2018April 17, 2018  

By: Marilyn L Davis   Participation: Start with Your Counselor “I found […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-started-with-participation-in-treatment/></div>
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Recovery Started with Participation in Treatment

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

from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis

Posted on January 4, 2018February 1, 2018  

By: C. W. Stratton   “Self-deception is the surest way to self-destruction.  […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-overcoming-the-whirlpool-of-self-deception/></div>
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Recovery: Overcoming the Whirlpool of Self-Deception

from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis

Posted on November 9, 2017November 9, 2017  

"Any time you assist or allow another person to continue in their unproductive/unhealthy/addictive behavior, whether actively, or passively, you are enabling." ~Stanley Binion<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recognizing-and-breaking-the-cycle-of-codependency-and-addiction/></div>
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Recognizing and Breaking the Cycle of Codependency and Addiction

family from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis

Posted on August 17, 2017August 17, 2017  

 “But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as, if not more than, blood.” ― Martina Boone, Compulsion        <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-choosing-spiritual-family/></div>
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Recovery: Choosing My Spiritual Family 

from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis

Posted on August 3, 2017  

The difference is once you get past that first one, you have acquired the skills to do so, as well as the confidence that you can do it again. Any wall you will face in the future will feel a lot smaller, and a lot less in<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-life-happens-side-wall/></div>
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Recovery: Life Happens on the Other Side of the Wall

from addict 2 advocate

Posted on February 12, 2017September 10, 2017  

  By: Joni Ogle, LCSW, CSAT “Allow yourself to be an anchor […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/6-reasons-why-participating-in-support-groups-is-beneficial/></div>
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6 Reasons Why Participating in Support Groups is Beneficial

from addict 2 advocate

Posted on August 14, 2016July 20, 2017  

" An apple tree is just like a person. In order to thrive, it needs companionship that's similar to it in some ways, but quite different than others." ~ Jeffrey Stepakoff, The Orchard<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-options-one-size-does-not-fit-all/></div>
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Recovery Options: One Size Does Not Fit All

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Finding North: A Journey from Addict to Advocate

My memoir, Finding North: A Journey from Addict to Advocate is for sale on Amazon. Both Kindle and paperback.

A chance encounter with Gray Hawk, a 74-year old Native American with 34 years in recovery started my journey.

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  • 1 Aaron Lebold
    • Recovery: Life Happens on the Other Side of the Wall
    • Recovery is Changing Those Habitual Thoughts
  • 1 Christine Campbell
    • Recovery: Choosing My Spiritual Family 
    • We’re Women in Recovery: Why Are We Still Labeled Whores?
    • OLD SCHOOL AA
  • 1 Craig Stratton
    • Recovery: Overcoming the Whirlpool of Self-Deception
    • It’s A Feeling; It Will Pass
    • The Master Juggler
    • Powerless or Effortless?
    • The Script We Carry With Us
  • 1 Donnie Huffman
    • Recovery: What Happened to the New?
    • Cast the First Stone
    • Recovery: Moving from Darkness and Despair to Drastic Change
    • Recovery Transformations: Finding Character from the Character Defects
    • From Addiction to Recovery: Negative to Positive
  • 1 marilynldavis
    • Thursday Truths: We’re All a Success
    • Thursday Truths: Repairing Relationships
    • Finding the Right Path in Recovery
    • Are You Interested in Change or Just Shopping for Answers?
    • Finding North: A Journey from Addict to Advocate is Published
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