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Positive Affirmations: Touch the Heart - Change the Mind

Posted on July 3, 2020November 11, 2020  

“Affirmations are our mental vitamins, providing the supplementary positive thoughts we need to balance the barrage of negative events and thoughts we experience daily.”― Tia Walker, The Inspired Caregiver: Finding Joy While Caring for Those You Love    <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/positive-affirmations-touch-the-heart-change-the-mind/></div>
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Positive Affirmations: Touch the Heart – Change the Mind

from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis

Posted on June 16, 2020December 2, 2020  

The success of your recovery depends on maintaining vigilance or awareness. You've worked hard to give up drugs and alcohol; that's the getting into recovery. If we don't work on our recovery every day, we run the risk of becoming complacent, and that's a dangerous place to be. Are you safe-guarding your recovery today with routines? <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/do-i-have-to-work-on-my-recovery-today/></div>
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Do I Have to Work on my Recovery, Today?

Posted on May 13, 2020May 14, 2020  

While we'll get multiple reasons from people we ask, the usual excuses for returning to active addiction seems to fit into the following five excuses.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/why-do-some-people-return-to-active-addiction/></div>
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Why Do Some People Return to Active Addiction?

Safeguarding our Recovery in the Uncertain Times of the Corona Virus marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on March 23, 2020May 8, 2020  

The level of stress we face is unparalleled in my lifetime, and I'm 72, so I have lived through uncertain times before. But I know that nothing has prepared me for the Corona Virus.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/safeguarding-our-recovery-in-the-uncertain-times-of-covid19/></div>
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Safeguarding our Recovery in the Uncertain Times of Covid19

rise and shine or rise and whine from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis

Posted on March 9, 2020March 10, 2020  

Changing the way we think takes time. Recovery allows us to learn new skills, attitudes, and actions, but it also gives us time to unlearn the self-defeating patterns of negative thinking. When we begin the day on a positive note, it makes the day and our recovery shine. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/rise-and-whine-or-rise-and-shine/></div>
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Rise and Whine or Rise and Shine?

from addict 2 advocate

Posted on February 26, 2020February 27, 2020  

“Goals are the road maps that guide you to your destination. Cultivate the habit of setting clearly-defined written goals; they are the road maps that guide you to your destination.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/stop-wishing-for-recovery-instead-set-goals/></div>
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Stop Wishing for Recovery – Instead, Set Goals

Posted on July 6, 2019February 6, 2020  

Families develop a blind eye about the elephant in the room, and pretend that something so obvious as the neglect, abuse, or dysfunction do not exist. Recovering from these issues is as important as recovering from addiction. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/we-are-all-recovering-from-something/></div>
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We Are All Recovering From Something

from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis transforming distorting

Posted on June 9, 2019June 10, 2019  

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-is-distorting-recovery-is-transforming/></div>
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Addiction is Distorting, Recovery is Transforming

from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis

Posted on May 29, 2019December 21, 2020  

“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-filling-the-void-or-numbing-the-too-full/></div>
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Addiction: Filling the Void or Numbing the Too Full?

moon from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis recovery and the moon both have phases

Posted on May 7, 2019May 8, 2019  

  By: Marilyn L. Davis   Moon, Life, and Recovery Phases    […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-and-the-moon-both-have-phases/></div>
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Recovery and the Moon Both Have Phases

Posted on March 20, 2019March 20, 2019  

The hundredth monkey theory gives me me hope! What if I (or you) were the equivalent of “the hundredth monkey” so to speak? I know I am not because, if I were, every woman in the world would be in Twelve-Step recovery, washing their respective “potatoes.”<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-are-you-the-hundredth-monkey/></div>
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Recovery: Are You the Hundredth Monkey?

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>
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KEPT and SWEPT

from addict 2 advocate noelle sterne marilyn davis divoe order

Posted on March 29, 2018March 29, 2018  

By:  Noelle Sterne  I’ve Wasted Too Much Time ___   “It is […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/choose-divine-order-over-self-recrimination/></div>
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CHOOSE DIVINE ORDER OVER SELF-RECRIMINATION

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

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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