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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 March 2, 2020March 3, 2020

“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.” ― Katherine Mansfield<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-an-adventure-or-ordeal-its-all-in-the-attitude/></div>

Recovery: An Adventure or Ordeal? It’s All in the Attitude

Posted on January 19, 2020September 2, 2021

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>

Recovery: Your Answers are Within

from addict 2 advocate Recovery: Pass the Answers on and Use Them marilyn l davis

Posted on January 17, 2020December 26, 2021

Another benefit from passing on good recovery advice is that you free up space in your brain to learn the lessons you need at this time, plus you get to feel useful, helpful, and caring - and those are generally not the qualities we had in our addiction. So, today, where can you pass it on? Look for opportunities to share and care.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-just-pass-the-answers-on/></div>

Recovery: Just Pass the Answers On

Recovery is Like a Puzzle: Learn to Examine the Pieces marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on January 15, 2020August 6, 2021

When you learn to separate the various pieces of the puzzle, they become manageable pieces - to change, keep, or modify. This makes any overwhelming problem puzzle easier to solve. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-is-like-a-puzzle-learn-to-examine-the-pieces/></div>

Recovery is Like a Puzzle: Learn to Examine the Pieces

Posted on December 24, 2019August 20, 2021

Many people have tried to recover and hit yet another lower bottom because they keep trying unsuccessful methods. If this has happened to you, then this bottom can be the last if you do things differently. I've always thought that the quote from Israelmore Ayivor speaks to all the ways we've tried to overcome our addiction on our own, and haven't been successful. “You need to GIVE UP on methods that always give you wrong results. No matter how committed you are with a wrong formula, it always gives a wrong answer. Give up!” <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/hitting-bottom-high-ones-low-ones-and-choosing-one/></div>

Hitting Bottom: High Ones, Low Ones, and Choosing One

Posted on September 21, 2019November 20, 2021

Start your day by isolating your negative emotions and the fears beneath them. Next, create a calming statement and test how you feel about the situation after you write your calming statement. Do this for 30 days and see if you don't see a difference in how you regulate your fears. Here are some examples to get you started.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/how-fear-activates-our-negative-emotions/></div>

How Fear Activates Our Negative Emotions

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, 2019October 29, 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 December 28, 2017February 2, 2021

When we approach repeating life lessons as an opportunity to act better and improve our relationships, we appreciate "it" happening again, which gives us the opportunity to act differently. So, just as Phil learned his lessons, in recovery, we can learn ours and act differently.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-groundhog-day-and-life/></div>

Recovery, Groundhog Day, and Life

Posted on August 21, 2017August 21, 2017

By: Catherine Townsend-Lyon “It’s hard to walk away from a winning <a class="read-more" href="https://fromaddict2advocate.com/gambling-addiction-real/">Read more</a><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/gambling-addiction-real/></div>