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Posted on December 31, 2019January 1, 2020  

When we first get into recovery, time takes on a different aspect – there is either too much or not enough. We may become aware of how much time we wasted in our addiction, and desperately try to make up for all the mistakes of the past in one day. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/2020-new-year-new-priorities-in-recovery/></div>
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2020 – New Year – New Priorities in Recovery

Posted on December 30, 2019December 31, 2019  

As a person in long-term recovery, I made many resolutions to stop drinking and using drugs, most of which were while I was high, couldn't pay a bill, or I had a hangover. That resolution lasted as long as I felt bad, or about 24 hours, but with a plan, I accomplished those resolutions. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/replace-the-resolutions-with-goals/></div>
Read More If Resolutions Don’t Work, What Does?

If Resolutions Don’t Work, What Does?

Cravings: When Our Body and Mind Derail Our Recovery marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on December 28, 2019April 13, 2021  

  By: Marilyn L. Davis —- When Our Body and Mind Rebels […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/cravings-when-our-body-and-mind-derail-our-recovery/></div>
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Cravings: When Our Body and Mind Derail Our Recovery

Posted on December 28, 2019  

If you find yourself in the cycle of only identifying the problem and complaining about it or commenting on it, ask yourself if you truly have both the desire to change something and are willing to make the effort to change the problem. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/how-to-accomplish-changes-in-your-recovery/></div>
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How to Accomplish Changes in Your Recovery

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Posted on December 26, 2019April 12, 2021  

These messages can have a harmful or harmful effect on you as an adult. When you still believe these old messages, you give them power over you. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/do-you-reject-or-reinforce-the-negative-messages/></div>
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Do You Reject or Reinforce the Negative Messages?

from addict 2 advocate

Posted on December 24, 2019December 8, 2020  

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>
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Hitting Bottom: High Ones, Low Ones, and Choosing One

stressed blue shirt from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis

Posted on December 22, 2019December 23, 2019  

“Stress level: extreme. It's like she was a jar with the lid screwed on too tight, and inside the jar were pickles, angry pickles, and they were fermenting, and about to explode.”<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/im-stressed-in-my-recovery-what-do-i-do/></div>
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I’m Stressed in my Recovery, What Do I Do?

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>
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Recovery Is Overcoming Barriers and Obstacles

from addict 2 advocate

Posted on December 18, 2019December 19, 2019  

And so it is.  I will go through the grief process, but I will take consolation in the hearth fire of others, and know that there will be a new day, a tomorrow. Each of us has a way of reaching out and touching another through our words, a gentle reminder of worth, or encouragement when things are difficult.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/warmed-by-the-hearth-fire-dealing-with-grief-in-recovery/></div>
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Warmed By the Hearth Fire: Dealing with Grief in Recovery

from addict 2 advocate Recovery Fears: Still Sitting on the Fence? marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate marilynldavis fromaddict2advocate.com

Posted on December 15, 2019December 17, 2020  

You can decide which side of the fence you will land on because sitting on the fence in the case of addiction vs. recovery is risky. Maybe it's time to decide which side you want to be on - your addiction or your recovery– staying the same or overcoming your fear and changing? <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-fears-still-sitting-on-the-fence/></div>
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Recovery Fears: Still Sitting on the Fence?

recovery is removing the masks

Posted on December 14, 2019February 20, 2020  

Addiction forces us to wear a false image. We smile, when every fiber of our being is screaming in pain. We posture as friendly, when all we want to do is get our dope and leave. We pretend that we have it all together when we take our children to school or football. We show fake emotions because we are so embarrassed and frightened by our authentic ones. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-is-removing-the-masks/></div>
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Recovery is Removing the Masks

Posted on December 13, 2019December 14, 2019  

"When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there's a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we're going to see things through to the finish or quit." Joyce Meyer<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recommitting-to-recovery-moving-beyond-the-plateaus/></div>
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Recommitting to Recovery: Moving Beyond the Plateaus

Posted on December 11, 2019March 26, 2020  

 By: Marilyn L. Davis   Sponsors and Accountability Partners Answer the Call […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/someone-needs-you-have-you-answered-the-call/></div>
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Someone Needs You. Have You Answered the Call?

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>
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Stop Balking at the Changes

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