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Posted on September 16, 2021September 17, 2021

By: Marilyn L. Davis Changing our Attitudes “Could […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/attitude-and-gratitude-the-heart-of-recovery/></div>

Attitude and Gratitude: The Heart of Recovery

Posted on August 30, 2021August 31, 2021

By: Marilyn L. Davis ____ Isolated Incidents or a Pattern of Behaviors? […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/noticed-negative-patterns-of-behavior-then-make-changes/></div>

Noticed Negative Patterns of Behavior? Then Make Changes

Posted on August 14, 2021August 15, 2021

Recovery is more than 'not using.' What changes did you have to make even after your stopped using? How did you overcome your ambivalence? How can you encourage someone today?<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/why-are-we-reluctant-to-change/></div>

Why Are We Reluctant to Change?

Oops! There Goes Another Opportunity marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on July 15, 2021July 16, 2021

So, if there's all these doors to success, why do we miss so many opportunities? Missed Opportunities are the times we fail to capitalize on the activity, occasion, situation or circumstances that would better our lives or ourselves. Each of us has missed opportunities or not taken advantage of an opportunity often due to self-defeating behaviors, including our fears.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/oops-there-goes-another-opportunity/></div>

Oops! There Goes Another Opportunity

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

Thursday Truths: Improving Our Recovery marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on April 29, 2021September 12, 2021

By: Marilyn L. Davis One Day at a Time We Improve […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/7-things-to-do-to-improve-yourself-and-your-recovery/></div>

7 Things to Do to Improve Yourself and Your Recovery

Thursday Truths: Authenticity in our Recovery marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on April 23, 2021

By: Marilyn L. Davis How Are We Authentic? “To […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/thursday-truths-authenticity-in-our-recovery/></div>

Thursday Truths: Authenticity in our Recovery

Thursday Truths: A Life History Helps Us Heal marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on April 15, 2021April 15, 2021

By: Marilyn L. Davis Mine was a Light and Dark Life […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/thursday-truths-a-life-history-helps-us-heal/></div>

Thursday Truths: A Life History Helps Us Heal

Thursday Truths: We're All a Success marilyn l davis from addict to advocate

Posted on April 8, 2021

By: Marilyn L. Davis Measure Your Success from Various […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/thursday-truths-were-all-a-success/></div>

Thursday Truths: We’re All a Success

Posted on April 1, 2021April 4, 2021

Relationships could be like the Kintsukuroi, where gold is used to repair damaged pottery and is considered more valuable with its brokenness but that doesn't always happen in families. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/thursday-truths-repairing-relationships/></div>

Thursday Truths: Repairing Relationships

Posted on March 27, 2021

By: Marilyn L. Davis When the Path is Dangerous […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/finding-the-right-path-in-recovery/></div>

Finding the Right Path in Recovery

Desperate? That's Motivation for Change marilynldavis marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on December 20, 2020

Being desperate can make us do crazy things, but it can also motivate us to change.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/desperate-thats-motivation-for-change/></div>

Desperate? That’s Motivation for Change

Posted on December 18, 2020September 2, 2021

If you find yourself in the cycle of only identifying the problem, ask yourself, do I have the want and the willingness to change something? But continuing to just ponder the problem, leads to frustration, tension and guilt. In the case of addiction, not changing can and does lead to harsher outcomes. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/want-to-change-then-theres-work-to-do/></div>

Want to Change? Then There’s Work to Do!

Posted on December 12, 2020December 13, 2020

We judge ourselves harshly remembering all the bad choices we made in our addiction and then get trapped in our thinking and don't make a decision because we're afraid we'll make another bad choice.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/are-you-thinking-too-much-in-your-recovery/></div>

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Attitude and Gratitude: The Heart of Recovery

Noticed Negative Patterns of Behavior? Then Make Changes

Why Are We Reluctant to Change?

Oops! There Goes Another Opportunity

Positive Affirmations: Change the Mind, Change the Perception

7 Things to Do to Improve Yourself and Your Recovery

Thursday Truths: Authenticity in our Recovery

Thursday Truths: A Life History Helps Us Heal

Thursday Truths: We’re All a Success

Thursday Truths: Repairing Relationships

Finding the Right Path in Recovery

Desperate? That’s Motivation for Change

Want to Change? Then There’s Work to Do!

Are You Thinking Too Much in Your Recovery?

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