Tag: life
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Rigorous Honesty: Finding Truth Beyond the Noise
Part 3 The method I use the most starts with Stopping. I used to, and most do, avoid this strategy because the circus in our mind will tell us that if we stop participating in all ideas and prophecies and memory, and imagination, that they will attack harder. Which is false when we realize almost…
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Rigorous Honesty: Standing in Truth in a World of Lies
Part 2 I’m going to tell you something nobody else will; and it is not to scare you, or deter you, or overwhelm, it’s to prepare you. In here we work on being Honest with ourselves so that we can go out there and deal with all the lies of the world. And this requires…
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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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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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