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Category: What’s right with me

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 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?

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>
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Thursday Truths: David G.

Posted on August 30, 2018May 15, 2020  

As an old spiritual says, “nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen.” I suspect though that most addicts know. My problems in life were not unique, I just had more of them than most. And, my problems were compounded from an early age. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/thursday-truths-ben-r/></div>
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Thursday Truths: Ben R.

family from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis

Posted on August 17, 2017August 17, 2017  

 “But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as, if not more than, blood.” ― Martina Boone, Compulsion        <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-choosing-spiritual-family/></div>
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Recovery: Choosing My Spiritual Family 

from addict 2 advocate

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>
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We’re Women in Recovery: Why Are We Still Labeled Whores?

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.

Categories

  • 1 Aaron Lebold
    • Recovery: Life Happens on the Other Side of the Wall
    • Recovery is Changing Those Habitual Thoughts
  • 1 Christine Campbell
    • Recovery: Choosing My Spiritual Family 
    • We’re Women in Recovery: Why Are We Still Labeled Whores?
    • OLD SCHOOL AA
  • 1 Craig Stratton
    • Recovery: Overcoming the Whirlpool of Self-Deception
    • It’s A Feeling; It Will Pass
    • The Master Juggler
    • Powerless or Effortless?
    • The Script We Carry With Us
  • 1 Donnie Huffman
    • Recovery: What Happened to the New?
    • Cast the First Stone
    • Recovery: Moving from Darkness and Despair to Drastic Change
    • Recovery Transformations: Finding Character from the Character Defects
    • From Addiction to Recovery: Negative to Positive
  • 1 marilynldavis
    • Finding North: A Journey from Addict to Advocate is Published
    •  Desperate? That’s Motivation for Change
    • How Would Your Life Improve If You Changed?
    • Are You Thinking Too Much in Your Recovery?
    • You Can Not Buy Self-Esteem
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