Tag: Letting go
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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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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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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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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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Why Jamie Lee Curtis’s Views On Addiction Will Make You A Better Person.
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.
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Relapse Prevention Strategies Simply Do Not Work For Chronic Relapsers
The colossal delusion of relapse prevention techniques.
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If You Constantly Chronically Relapse, You Are Indeed Truly Powerless
It Isn’t You That’s Deciding To Relapse. Question: which one of these addicts is truly powerless? A) Somebody that goes to any lengths to stay sober and clean yet still finds themselves relapsing? B) Somebody that goes to any lengths to use and act out in their addiction despite all the awful, painful consequences? A or…
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Why The Book Of Alcoholics Anonymous Is Probably The Most Powerful Spiritual Book Ever Written
A Gift To Humanity Not Just Addicts
Darren James 