Tag: mental-health
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The War Behind Addiction
We didn’t just survive the drug. We didn’t just survive a lifestyle. We have endured attacks on every level. Many believe addiction is some mysterious phenomenon with no root cause besides a weak link in their DNA or a means to cope from a trauma in their life. When this theory is treated and fails…
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Recovery Belt System
Addiction fight training The first time I went to treatment I completed a ten-day stay, a spin-dry. I came out with a secondary diagnosis of mental illness, a bottle full of pills, and the instructions to take them and go to meetings. My mom asked, “Is it over, are you better now, did they fix…
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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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Beware of the Narcissist
Whether it was before, during, or after addiction, at some point you will have a narcissist in your life that you will need to deal with—maybe even a few. Chaos magic, flying monkeys, stress psychosis, inciting and feeding off of your reactions and living in your mind rent free; secret slanders, gossip, lies, financial leveraging,…
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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…