Tag: recovery
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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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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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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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The Great Obsession
More than intrusive thoughts. Many define the obsession of an addict as the persistent, intrusive thoughts or urges related to the use of drugs, alcohol, or other addictive behaviors. This definition was not useful to me at all. I found my practical explanation to this mysterious phenomenon by happenstance when I was talking with this…
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