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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?

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 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

Posted on March 25, 2021

By: Marilyn L. Davis I’ve Been Guilty of Shopping for Answers, […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/are-you-interested-in-change-or-just-shopping-for-answers/></div>

Are You Interested in Change or Just Shopping for Answers?

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

COVID Isn't Helping: Overdoses Increasing marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on July 25, 2020

While the isolation may help us avoid COVID19, it puts us at a higher risk of relapse, and with a relapse, there's always the chance of an overdose.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/covid-isnt-helping-overdoses-increasing/></div>

COVID Isn’t Helping: Overdoses Increasing

Posted on June 22, 2020June 22, 2020

By: Deb Palmer “We design our lives through the power […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/choosing-sobriety/></div>

Choosing Sobriety

Are You More Afraid of Staying the Same or Changing? marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on October 23, 2019September 3, 2021

For most of us, we're afraid when we think about changing the patterns of our lives, whether it's giving up drugs or alcohol, or changing the way we think, feel, and act. After all, we have done or been something for so long that those actions, behaviors, thoughts, and feelings are mechanical or habituated. These predictable actions are the norm, and when we leave the comfort zone, we get anxious. <div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/are-you-more-afraid-of-staying-the-same-or-changing/></div>

Are You More Afraid of Staying the Same or Changing?

Recovery is Removing the Armor of Addiction marilyn l davis from addict 2 advocate

Posted on September 18, 2019September 7, 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-is-removing-the-armor-of-addiction/></div>

Recovery is Removing the Armor of Addiction

Posted on July 3, 2019September 19, 2021

Where do you want to go? You now have so many choices and that's the joy of recovery - leaving behind the familiar for the unknown.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-leaving-the-familiar-for-the-unknown/></div>