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from addict 2 advocate You Can Not Buy Self-Esteem marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on December 1, 2020December 2, 2020

I knew that to get my self-esteem back on an even keel, I would have to view qualities within and not focus on what was lacking on the outside. How did I do this? <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/you-can-not-buy-self-esteem/></div>

You Can Not Buy Self-Esteem

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 October 16, 2020April 16, 2021

It was at that point that I knew that change was a lifelong job; that it would create fears, uncover aspects of myself that generated and caused embarrassment, but that I would only benefit from my recovery if I went beyond not using to healing the underlying motives that produced negative outcomes in my life. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/changing-you-a-full-time-job/></div>

Changing You: A Full-time Job

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

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>

Rise and Whine or Rise and Shine?

Changes Give Us Hope for a Better Future marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on January 18, 2020May 5, 2020

For many addicts and alcoholics coming to terms with the puzzle of addiction – knowing they need to change and doing the complete opposite is frustrating and scary. However, the good news is that the barriers and objections are within you and that means you have the ability to change them. It's just a matter of isolating them, examining them and then changing what doesn't work or fit anymore.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/changes-give-us-hope-for-a-better-future/></div>

Changes Give Us Hope for a Better Future

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

from addict 2 advocate dormant bloom marilyn l davis

Posted on January 12, 2020January 13, 2020

While those are only five ways to keep an addiction dormant, the most important one for me, is don't pick up the substance that made the addiction burst into bloom in the first place. I'd like you to add to the fives ways to keep an addiction dormant. Just leave a comment, thanks. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/addiction-dormant-or-bursting-into-full-bloom/></div>

Addiction: Dormant or Bursting into Full Bloom?

Recovery: How Are You Learning the Lessons? marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on January 10, 2020January 12, 2020

When we're challenged with a lesson in our recovery, if we approach them from the perspective of "here's a problem area or issue, and I've got an opportunity to learn from others", it seems less harsh or traumatic. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-how-are-you-learning-the-lessons/></div>

Recovery: How Are You Learning the Lessons?

Recovery: It's Overcoming Barriers and Obstacles Marilyn L. Davis From Addict 2 Advocate

Posted on December 21, 2019December 22, 2019

You do not have to have all the answers to your problems. 23 million people are in recovery and can tell you how to overcome the barriers and obstacles. rest of us. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-is-overcoming-barriers-and-obstacles/></div>

Recovery Is Overcoming Barriers and Obstacles

Stop Balking at the Changes marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on December 7, 2019December 22, 2020

It is when we cannot see that changes are going to make our life better or that we will feel better because of the modification, we often balk, resist, or create obstacles to change. We give into fears, discuss how difficult it is to change, and create excuses so we don't have to change.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/stop-balking-at-the-changes/></div>

Stop Balking at the Changes

Posted on November 19, 2019November 20, 2019

“I think that the best kind of change, is the change that comes from the inside and begins its way out until it emerges on the outside; a change that is born underneath then continues and spreads until it has reached the surface. That's a true change. A powerful change. And I have found that while we are emerging, changing into something glorious; it is actually us becoming who we really are.― C. JoyBell C.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-remodeling-from-the-inside-out/></div>

Recovery: Remodeling from the Inside Out

Posted on September 18, 2019July 18, 2021

I could not dissipate those feelings and was alone in my armor with them. It was an insidious trap. However, most of us who are semi-delusional from our use, do not understand that while we think we're protecting ourselves, we are also preventing ourselves from receiving help. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-vulnerable-without-our-armor/></div>

Recovery: Vulnerable without our Armor

Posted on September 5, 2019November 28, 2020

“It's about making a list of all the people you've harmed, either emotionally, physically or financially, and going back and making amends. That's a spiritual lifestyle. It's not a fluffy ethereal concept.” ― Anthony Kiedis, lead singer, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and author of Scar Tissue But that's the cycle of addiction. Rather than be trapped in the loop of addiction, travel that road again and see what you missed on the first trip.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/return-journey-making-amends-on-the-spiritual-highway/></div>

Category: writing and recovery heal the heart

You Can Not Buy Self-Esteem

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

Changing You: A Full-time Job

Changes Give Us Hope for a Better Future

17 Spiritual Principles That Changed My Life

Addiction: Dormant or Bursting into Full Bloom?

Recovery: How Are You Learning the Lessons?

Recovery Is Overcoming Barriers and Obstacles

Stop Balking at the Changes

Recovery: Remodeling from the Inside Out

Recovery: Vulnerable without our Armor

Return Journey – Making Amends on the Spiritual Highway

Finding North: A Journey from Addict to Advocate

Memories into Memoir: The Mindsets and Mechanics Workbook

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