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Posted on June 23, 2020June 5, 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/5-common-barriers-change/></div>

5 Common Barriers to Change

Posted on December 26, 2019April 12, 2021

These messages can have a harmful or harmful effect on you as an adult. When you still believe these old messages, you give them power over you. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/do-you-reject-or-reinforce-the-negative-messages/></div>

Do You Reject or Reinforce the Negative Messages?

Posted on August 9, 2019June 4, 2021

In meetings, we'll hear people talk about Stinking Thinking and know they're talking about the faulty logic or the negative thoughts. But what are some types of thinking that get us in trouble, cause us to view the world through a distorted lens, or just don't make sense when we analyze them? <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/stinkin-thinkin-and-the-negative-results/></div>

Stinkin’ Thinkin’ and the Negative Results

from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis transforming distorting

Posted on June 9, 2019July 26, 2021

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.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/addiction-distorts-recovery-transforms/></div>

Addiction Distorts – Recovery Transforms

Posted on May 29, 2019September 1, 2021

“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/addiction-are-you-filling-a-void-or-numbing-the-too-full/></div>

Addiction: Are You Filling a Void or Numbing the Too Full?

Posted on February 21, 2019February 21, 2019

By Whitney McKendree Moore “Mature adults gravitate toward new values […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/kept-and-swept/></div>

KEPT and SWEPT

Posted on December 3, 2017December 3, 2017

To make amends may take effort and gulping down some pride, mustering some courage, and taking an action we’ve been too embarrassed or uncomfortable to take. These feelings are exactly why we should act. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/make-amends/></div>

MAKE AMENDS

Posted on June 11, 2017July 16, 2017

It wasn’t that I had the delusions and hallucinations of the schizophrenic, or the manic episodes of the bipolar sufferer. I had a condition that would have me seek to put a pill bottle or a pipe in my hand like magnetism. I had a mentality that weighed incarceration and a lack of real employability as acceptable risks. The benefit of temporary sanity and calm that came from booze and dope had made all the pitfalls worth it.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/from-addiction-to-recovery-negative-to-positive/></div>