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Recovery comes from hope or the belief that recovery is possible. This is essential for building motivation and the ongoing desire to make any kind of progress.
This addiction leads us to all kinds of choices regarding food. We become partial to certain tastes.
It appears the majority of people in a recovery program right now are not there because they chose to address the addiction via a structured program. They are in a program because...
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My belief is that delaying gratification is not the most effective way to address addictions. In fact, the reason it feels so unnatural to delay gratification...
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For recovery to be successful, it must be active. It begins with preparation, and not with a halfhearted attempt to comply with the wishes of others in your life.
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What ever the addiction is, whether to a substance or a behavior, the addiction comes first, before family, friends, children, work, health, God, values, etc. Everything in life takes a back seat.
Our egos are fragile when we spend so much time focused on them. Instead of our ego, focusing on our character would be a much more healthy and helpful strategy.
I've often wondered, what are people really saying when they say let's keep it real. I'd like to offer some ideas regarding how to really keep things real.
Particularly during the early months of recovery, many of us crave and almost become obsessed with sugar. Why? Is it simply a hunger that hits when we get tired. Can we actually get addicted to sugar?
Difficulties that are still less painful than the symptoms of the addicted life.
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Almost everything about us has to have time to get used to the new person we are becoming or to remember the wonderful person we were before the addiction changed us.
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The best thing to do is share those thoughts and feelings with some folks that are good for us to be around.
There is a difference in being happy with our circumstances and being happy with ourselves. True positive self-esteem is not developed from the outside in. It is developed from the inside out.
There are many paths to recovery and each path offers a peace that passes any kind of understanding.
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