Assessing The Threats To Your Recovery
Wondering how vulnerable you are in your recovery? Then assess the threats to your recovery today. You’ll be glad – and safer once you do.
Wondering how vulnerable you are in your recovery? Then assess the threats to your recovery today. You’ll be glad – and safer once you do.
By: Ben Rose “Free your mind, and your ass will follow” – Funkadelic Stinking Thinking Gets You Closer to a Relapse Addictive thinking is a potential sign of relapse. While this isn’t a new concept for those in recovery, we must remember it. Changing addictive thinking and stinking thinking means replacing distorted and…
By: Marilyn L. Davis “Relapse doesn’t have to be part of recovery any more than return has to be part of cancer.”― Toni Sorenson Who and What to Avoid Counselors, therapists, sponsors, and supportive friends, all caution about avoiding people, places, and situations that prompt us to think about using. While these…
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.
By: C. W. Stratton Returning to Active Addiction is a Relapse “When you can stop you don’t want to, and when you want to stop, you can’t…”― Luke Davies, Candy Before engaging in the conversation about relapse, we must have a clear understanding of addiction, which is compulsive engagement in using substances despite its adverse consequences. Relapse…