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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 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 June 30, 2020June 10, 2021

Guilt motivates some people to change; they feel bad about their behaviors and they want these feelings to stop, so they change, and make amends. Shame, however, often paralyzes people. Their distorted opinion of themselves leads them to believe that no one could forgive them for their actions; they think they are so worthless and undeserving of absolution that they often do not try to make amends.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/dealing-with-guilt-in-your-recovery/></div>

Dealing with Guilt in Your Recovery

Posted on March 12, 2020March 13, 2020

To break down associations, identify who the person reminds you of; then make a conscious effort to not filter the message by the association or past connection. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-associations-create-connections-or-chaos/></div>

Recovery: Associations Create Connections Or Chaos?

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

Posted on December 15, 2019June 12, 2021

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>

Recovery Fears: Still Sitting on the Fence?

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>

Recovery is Removing the Masks

Posted on December 4, 2019August 17, 2020

Children growing up with an alcoholic or addicted parent experience increased stress. They live in the shadows, never taking center stage; their parent's addiction comes first. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/absent-parenting-creative-communication-with-children/></div>

Absent Parenting: Creative Communication with Children

Posted on October 28, 2019October 29, 2019

When people have clarity, there is no question that using drugs and alcohol are self-defeating. However, when we are in the grips of our addiction, we do not see reality. Many of us require a caring intervention by others to understand just how much harm we have inflicted, the damage to our relationships, and to know that there are still people willing to help.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/because-we-cannot-see-when-addicts-need-an-intervention/></div>

Because We Cannot See: When Addicts Need an Intervention

Posted on October 26, 2019February 13, 2020

If you think about this logically, anyone that “falls in love” with you early in your recovery is getting involved with a person that you are trying to change. Therefore, you would have to stay the same to sustain the relationship, and that would be the exact opposite of what you are trying to accomplish in yo<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/if-they-love-you-now-why-change/></div>

If They Love You Now, Why Change?

Meeting Options to Improve Long-term Recovery from addict 2 advocate marilyn l davis

Posted on September 23, 2019March 15, 2020

One aspect of joining these groups and attending meetings is that if the orientation, value, and support are what you need to shore up your foundation in recovery, most have a free course or instructional format for starting a meeting in your area.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/meeting-options-to-improve-long-term-recovery/></div>

Meeting Options to Improve Long-term Recovery

Posted on August 15, 2019August 15, 2019

As a child of, a wife of, a niece of, and probably a granddaughter of an alcoholic, I developed my own case of Alcoholism. My bottle did not contain liquor; it contained Worry and an assortment of other poisonous spirits that lured me into a wild-and-crazy way of dancing through my life.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/who-is-leading-who-am-i-following/></div>

WHO IS LEADING? WHO AM I FOLLOWING?

Why Don't You Trust Me? I Didn't Use! marilyn l davis marilynldavis fromaddict2advocate http://fromaddict2advocate.com

Posted on August 9, 2019November 26, 2020

Some family and friends never extend the same amount of trust because they simply will not put themselves in a vulnerable position again. The pain our addiction caused them is too much to forget so quickly. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/why-dont-you-trust-me-i-didnt-use/></div>

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Positive Affirmations: Change the Mind, Change the Perception

Thursday Truths: Repairing Relationships

Dealing with Guilt in Your Recovery

Recovery: Associations Create Connections Or Chaos?

Changes Give Us Hope for a Better Future

17 Spiritual Principles That Changed My Life

Recovery Fears: Still Sitting on the Fence?

Recovery is Removing the Masks

Absent Parenting: Creative Communication with Children

Because We Cannot See: When Addicts Need an Intervention

If They Love You Now, Why Change?

Meeting Options to Improve Long-term Recovery

Why Don’t You Trust Me? I Didn’t Use!

Finding North: A Journey from Addict to Advocate

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