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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

Thursday Truths: A Life History Helps Us Heal marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on April 15, 2021October 27, 2021

By: Marilyn L. Davis Mine was a Light and Dark <a class="read-more" href="https://fromaddict2advocate.com/a-life-history-4th-step-helps-us-heal/">Read more</a><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/a-life-history-4th-step-helps-us-heal/></div>

A Life History 4th Step Helps Us Heal

My Home-bound Recovery During COVID-19: Purging and Using Podcasts

Posted on November 17, 2020February 11, 2021

Whether you're home because of COVID, work restrictions, furloughs, or layoffs, don't let your recovery suffer. Seek out an online meeting. Connect with recovery-oriented people on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, or other social media Write a guest post for From Addict 2 Advocate Cherish loved ones Facetime your recovery friends Read meditation books Read recovery literature<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/my-home-bound-recovery-during-covid-19-purging-and-using-podcasts/></div>

My Home-bound Recovery During COVID-19: Purging and Using Podcasts

Posted on December 2, 2019December 3, 2019

At that moment, I truly valued and appreciate this job. It wasn't prestigious, glamorous, or a job that anyone would covet, but it was my job. And it was a job that let me leave the campus at 10:30 every day, eat a quick mid-morning snack, and make a noon recovery support meeting. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/early-recovery-jobs-lowered-expectations-and-heightened-rewards/></div>

Early Recovery Jobs: Lowered Expectations and Heightened Rewards

Posted on July 8, 2019April 19, 2021

People in my recovery support meetings said I had to look at myself, when that was the last thing I wanted to do. I disliked what I saw in a mirror, let alone go within to discover that I was like the Picture of Dorian Gray, presenting favorably to the world, but full of self-serving, self-centered, unhealthy characteristics, and a perception of evil inside. It was difficult to face, that much like Dorian, I had sold my soul to my addiction. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/what-does-it-mean-to-look-at-yourself-in-recovery/></div>

What Does It Mean to ‘Look at Yourself’ in Recovery?

Recovery: Help Me Unload This Emotional Baggage

Posted on April 1, 2018September 13, 2021

By: C. W. Stratton The Emotional Baggage We Bring to <a class="read-more" href="https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-helps-us-unload-the-emotional-baggage/">Read more</a><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>

Recovery Helps Us Unload the Emotional Baggage

Posted on August 1, 2017August 1, 2017

As a female, I have been called by and answered to, many labels and descriptors. Some have vanished from our politically correct vocabulary as well they should have; others, however, have cropped up and taken their place, only to be disparaged enough that they are now uttered by the truly brave or truly ignorant.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/were-women-in-recovery-why-are-we-still-labeled-whores/></div>