Tag: addiction
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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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Why Jamie Lee Curtis’s Views on Addiction Will Make You a Better Person.
Life lessons, secrets and rock-solid faith. Oscar-winner Jamie Lee Curtis has had a distinguished career in the entertainment industry. Actor, producer and author, she has succeeded in all her endeavours. But her single most significant accomplishment isn’t her work. It’s overcoming a ten-year secret addiction to opiates and alcohol. If it weren’t for a Brazilian…
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Still Living a Double Life in Addiction? Read This
Why secrets and lies keep you stuck in relapse. My first sponsor in recovery knew I was in serious trouble. A cocaine and sex and love addict who could barely stay clean a week, blowing tens of thousands each time I relapsed — the writing was on the wall for me. ‘Just come clean with everyone and surrender,’…
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Sober Celebrities That Fell Into The Sex And Love Trap
From drink and drugs to sex and love. The entertainment industry, with its never-ending carousel of beautiful men and women and adoring love-struck fans, makes it a breeding ground for sex and love addiction. It’s why many recently recovered celebrities find themselves just as helpless and powerless to sex and love as they were with…
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The Most Glamorised Addiction of Them All: Sex And Love
Sex and love addiction is rampant in today’s modern world. Due to the normalisation of hardcore pornography, hook-up apps and sex work through the rise of only fans and other platforms, sex and love addiction has become endemic in society. In fact, full-blown sex and love addicts are applauded in modern culture as ‘living the…
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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…
Darren James 