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Posted on September 30, 2021

By: Marilyn L. Davis Why Amethyst? The Greeks believed in […]<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/33rd-recovery-anniversay-im-wearing-amethyst/></div>

33rd Recovery Anniversay – I’m Wearing Amethyst

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

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

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

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

Finding North: A Journey from Addict to Advocate is Published marilyn l davis fromaddict2advocate.com

Posted on January 28, 2021January 28, 2021

Just as I became an advocate for women and recovery, I sincerely hope Finding North: A Journey from Addict to Advocate inspires others.<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/finding-north-a-journey-from-addict-to-advocate-is-published/></div>

Finding North: A Journey from Addict to Advocate is Published

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>

Are You Thinking Too Much in Your Recovery?

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, 2020August 27, 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

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

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

Posted on March 2, 2020March 3, 2020

“Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.” ― Katherine Mansfield<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" class="sharethis-inline-share-buttons" data-url=https://fromaddict2advocate.com/recovery-an-adventure-or-ordeal-its-all-in-the-attitude/></div>

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33rd Recovery Anniversay – I’m Wearing Amethyst

Attitude and Gratitude: The Heart of Recovery

Oops! There Goes Another Opportunity

Thursday Truths: A Life History Helps Us Heal

Thursday Truths: Repairing Relationships

Finding North: A Journey from Addict to Advocate is Published

Are You Thinking Too Much in Your Recovery?

You Can Not Buy Self-Esteem

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

Changing You: A Full-time Job

COVID Isn’t Helping: Overdoses Increasing

Choosing Sobriety

Recovery: An Adventure or Ordeal? It’s All in the Attitude

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