Category: Recovery Approaches
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3 Remarkable Changes That Occur When You’re Truly Ready to Overcome Addiction
These three remarkable changes of letting go of control, coming clean and living in genuine faith bring a new attitude and life experience, which can be summed up in this question:
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The Most Misunderstood Recovery Slogan of Them All: One Day at A Time
The phrase ‘one day at a time’ is popular in 12-step recovery programs, but its true meaning can be misunderstood. It’s meant to focus on daily spiritual growth, not just staying sober. Relying on willpower alone may not lead to lasting change. Embracing each day with openness and purpose is the key to thriving in…
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How to Embrace Abstinence and Love the Recovered Life
Addicts that are pining after something that is literally destroying everything is not an option. Their very lives are at stake! Instead of escaping reality when reality is all any of us have, addicts have to first ask themselves what they’re avoiding and not dealing with in their own lives. In other words, what are…
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David Bowie Knew the Truth About Addiction
In 1999, music legend David Bowie gave a mind-blowing interview to former BBC Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman. Bowie’s progressive, postmodern, pluralistic view of the world was a tour de force to Paxman’s questions, almost prophetic-like in that he correctly predicted the impact of the internet on society and life. But his message on addiction and…
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How to Escape Constant Cravings In Recovery
Addiction involves craving and obsession, but chronic relapsers experience a different, dangerous obsession leading to memory lapses and delusional thinking. Traditional methods focusing on sobriety often fail. Instead, taking practical, proactive measures to limit relapse opportunities and cultivating a present, selfless mindset can effectively tackle cravings and obsessions, promoting personal growth.
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Real Faith Is What Chronic Relapsers Need To Recover
I knew the answer I’d been looking for was to go to a higher level of consciousness around the relapse question, which meant surpassing reason and reaching for faith. But how do you have faith? A living, practical, working faith? The kind of faith you could place your life on as mine was rapidly heading…
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When Eric Clapton and Al Pacino Made This One Simple Change Addiction Became a Thing of The Past
Clapton and Pacino, now clean and sober for multiple decades, are a far cry from their former selves. During the heady height of their careers in the 1970s, they were both so consumed with addiction that they could barely focus on their professional work.
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The Deadly Addiction Trap That Gets Addicts Every Time
Addiction is like a slippery slope that starts gently but eventually descends into a vertical drop that ends in a bottomless dark pit. However, there’s something sinister about this slippery slope. It’s also strangely sticky; you can’t get off it once you’re on it.
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A Highly Unusual Approach To The Addiction Problem
Why do we relapse? Why do we go back after all the promises, solemn oaths and daily hours of work to stay sober? It’s not that we can’t stop once we start (that’s old news; after all, that’s what qualifies us as addicts).
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The Biggest Spiritual Mistake Addicts Make In Recovery
Addicts praying to stay sober are committing the number one cardinal sin in recovery.
Darren James 