Tag: life
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GETTING THROUGH ROUGH TIMES SOBER
Sometimes early recovery can be easier than keeping your sobriety in real life. In early recovery you might be in a controlled environment, have some prescription pad help, massive supervision, and reduced access to your drug. You are provided space and time to practice getting through the day sober with lesser stressors from life’s left…
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This is My Hell
Early Recovery from Addiction : What I Would Tell Myself if I Could Go Back CHAPTER 1: I’ll Take it Shaking … and Stirred Before the sea of chaos reached my lips, I added the final ingredient. A tear from my insanity. – Yours Truly Time Period: Pre-Recovery, Still Drunk Most of the people who…
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Brutal Honesty and The Unseen World of Lies
Brutal honesty is a requirement for healing and growth. I could not heal and grow while I was still lying to myself and to other people. It not only enabled other maladaptive behaviors (beside the lies themselves), but also, my body knows when I’m lying, my spirit knows I am lying, and the practice of…
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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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Holiday Celebrations and Addiction Recovery
You don’t need to go! When it comes to the holiday season get-togethers, just be careful. If you are in Early Recovery, it is not always wise to attend these functions, but I understand the pressure is high. Maybe you missed a few of these while you were all fucked-up; maybe you just want to…
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It Feels Like My Recovery Program Isn’t Working
Has anyone ever felt like your recovery program isn’t working all that good? Like, you know it’s helping a lot, and you are following the instructions: you go to your meetings, follow the steps, meet with your sponsor or coach or whomever, but you still feel the pull. You are sober, you can stay sober…
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Drug-use is a Relationship
They say to not go where it might be present There’s this funny thing we have with relationships; our relationships are not limited to humans. We can (and do) have relationships with just about anything. We personify things we interact with because that’s what we are, a person, so we project it. Think, when people…
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The Insanity Explained
Why an addict knows better, but does it anyways. It’s insane! Why would I choose to Use again when I knew beforehand that the outcome would be bad, very bad? Doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results, is the definition often used in addiction recovery programs. It defines it, but…
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