Tag: addiction
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Rigorous Honesty: The First Step of Real Recovery
PART 1 Hello everyone, thank you for having me. And thank you for being here because you didn’t have to show up. I get that some of you have some stuff hanging over your head. But still, nobody hogtied and dragged you in here and cuffed you to that chair, and that’s huge in my…
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Recovery is what kept me addicted: don’t get stuck in recovery
Addiction recovery programs, such as 12-Step and Health Realization, helped me stay sober in early recovery. They introduced me to some key concepts for growth—I’m not knocking-it. But sobriety does not mean I am recovered. These programs are designed for recovery, but is that even the end game? “Recovery is defined as a return to…
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The Trauma We Don’t Name in Addiction Recovery
This article is not intended to minimize anyone’s trauma, but to discuss a hidden trauma nobody talks about. In my experience, talk therapy was part of early recovery, and while I was attending these sessions the goal was to dig until you hit the coffin of a dead past, open it, and exchange fists with…
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The Alcoholic Allergy Explained
I don’t know if any of you have experienced this, but the first thing about my Alcoholism that boggled my mind in early recovery was that I could recover, get my health back, get my life going good again, and then I would test the waters and drank like a Normy (just a couple), and…
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