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Positive Affirmations: Touch the Heart - Change the Mind

Posted on May 22, 2021June 23, 2021

“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-change-the-mind-change-the-perception/></div>

Positive Affirmations: Change the Mind, Change the Perception

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>

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>

Safeguarding our Recovery in the Uncertain Times of Covid19

17 Spiritual Principles That Changed My Life marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on January 13, 2020March 26, 2021

In one of my first lectures in treatment, I kept hearing about the spiritual principles that I needed to incorporate into my recovery. For the principles listing on the sign-up sheet, I falsely assumed that I'd go to a dimly lit room, with incense wafting and cloistered monks reading from musty, dusty tomes. I hoped that they would enlighten me and give me ancient wisdom on how to change. Instead, I learned from recovering people like myself in recovery support meetings. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/17-spiritual-principles-that-changed-my-life/></div>

17 Spiritual Principles That Changed My Life

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

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?

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

Posted on May 7, 2019September 14, 2021

By: Marilyn L. Davis ___ Recovery Phases and the Moon […]<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>

Recovery and the Moon Both Have Phases

My Life’s Diamond from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis

Posted on September 16, 2018September 16, 2018

By: T. Rose “Facets, Matthew. Each facet catches the light in […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/my-lifes-diamond/></div>

My Life’s Diamond

Posted on September 6, 2018October 26, 2018

Treating David's addiction as a primary diagnosis was not the way forward for him. Stopping the use was relatively easy compared to finding the underlying issue on why he did what he did.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/thursday-truths-david-g/></div>

Thursday Truths: David G.

Posted on July 14, 2018July 14, 2018

By: Tricia Moceo “I felt empty and sad for years, and for […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/addiction-and-recovery-then-and-now/></div>

Addiction and Recovery: Then and Now

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Posted on July 3, 2018July 3, 2018

By: Bill Weiss Addiction – Always a Dead End Road ____ […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/addiction-is-the-problem-not-the-recovery-road/></div>