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Recovery is Better When We're Open-Minded http://fromaddict2advocate.com marilyn l davis

Posted on December 30, 2021

Those six weeks of treatment in 1988 opened my mind to the possibility of long-term recovery. I felt ready to embrace both losers and winners and be open-minded to what all of them had to say. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-is-better-when-were-open-minded/></div>

Recovery is Better When We’re Open-Minded

Posted on November 22, 2021

It doesn't matter what your rock bottom was; some are high, and some are low. That's the nature of bottoms; they are not predictable. But whatever your bottom was, there's someone out there who has a similar story and just needs to know how to get up and succeed. That's where your story comes in. If you don't write it, that person doesn't know that someone else survived and thrived. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/how-your-recovery-message-makes-a-difference/></div>

How Your Recovery Message Makes a Difference

Posted on November 20, 2021November 21, 2021

I Gave Up Drugs, Why Can't I Function? I got into recovery and wasn't functioning well, because I did not realize how much damage I had done to my body and brain.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-beyond-up-down-functioning-and-existing/></div>

Recovery: Beyond Up, Down, Functioning, and Existing

Are You Judging the Newcomer? craig stratton marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on October 1, 2021October 2, 2021

As we fight our addictions and try to remove stigma, we must remove judgment within the walls of the sacred places that we meet to heal.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/are-you-judging-the-newcomer/></div>

Are You Judging the Newcomer?

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

Posted on August 14, 2021November 27, 2021

Recovery is more than 'not using.' What changes did you have to make even after your stopped using? How did you overcome your ambivalence? How can you encourage someone today?<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/why-are-we-reluctant-to-change/></div>

Why Are We Reluctant to Change?

Thursday Truths: Authenticity in our Recovery marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on April 23, 2021October 10, 2021

By: Marilyn L. Davis What is Authentic? <a class="read-more" href="https://fromaddict2advocate.com/authenticity-in-our-recovery/">Read more</a><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/authenticity-in-our-recovery/></div>

Authenticity in our Recovery

Posted on April 1, 2021November 10, 2021

Relationships could be like the Kintsukuroi, where gold is used to repair damaged pottery and is considered more valuable with its brokenness but that doesn't always happen in families. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-is-repairing-each-relationship/></div>

Recovery is Repairing Each Relationship

Desperate? That's Motivation for Change marilynldavis marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on December 20, 2020

Being desperate can make us do crazy things, but it can also motivate us to change.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/desperate-thats-motivation-for-change/></div>

Desperate? That’s Motivation for Change

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 February 4, 2020March 2, 2021

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>

Recovery: You Just Need the Tenacity of a Tulip

17 Spiritual Principles That Changed My Life marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on January 13, 2020January 12, 2022

In one of my first lectures in treatment, I kept hearing about the spiritual principles that I needed to incorporate into my recovery. For the principles listing on the sign-up sheet, I falsely assumed that I'd go to a dimly lit room, with incense wafting and cloistered monks reading from musty, dusty tomes. I hoped that they would enlighten me and give me ancient wisdom on how to change. Instead, I learned from recovering people like myself in recovery support meetings. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/17-spiritual-principles-that-will-change-your-life/></div>

17 Spiritual Principles That Will Change Your Life

Posted on December 28, 2019

If you find yourself in the cycle of only identifying the problem and complaining about it or commenting on it, ask yourself if you truly have both the desire to change something and are willing to make the effort to change the problem. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/how-to-accomplish-changes-in-your-recovery/></div>

How to Accomplish Changes in Your Recovery

stressed blue shirt from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis

Posted on December 22, 2019December 23, 2019

“Stress level: extreme. It's like she was a jar with the lid screwed on too tight, and inside the jar were pickles, angry pickles, and they were fermenting, and about to explode.”<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/im-stressed-in-my-recovery-what-do-i-do/></div>

Category: @MDavisatTIERS making changes in our recovery

Recovery is Better When We’re Open-Minded

How Your Recovery Message Makes a Difference

Recovery: Beyond Up, Down, Functioning, and Existing

Are You Judging the Newcomer?

Noticed Negative Patterns of Behavior? Then Make Changes

Why Are We Reluctant to Change?

Authenticity in our Recovery

Recovery is Repairing Each Relationship

Desperate? That’s Motivation for Change

Are You Thinking Too Much in Your Recovery?

Recovery: You Just Need the Tenacity of a Tulip

17 Spiritual Principles That Will Change Your Life

How to Accomplish Changes in Your Recovery

I’m Stressed in my Recovery, What Do I Do?

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