Tag: drug addiction
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Poem About Addiction to Drugs Alcohol and Recovery
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Starting Today – A Poem About Relapse If resisting was an easy task,who would be a slave?Who would part with a piece of themselvesfor the chance at an early grave?Willpower alone is enough to put you in hellbut it’s not enough to pull you out.You’ll never have a chance at getting welluntil you accept living…
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Going All-In For Recovery
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One of the most detrimental things an addict / alcoholic can do to hinder their recovery is to believe the world’s view that their problem is an external one – that if only they’d quit drinking or drugging they’d be restored, good as new. This couldn’t be further from the truth. The belief that alcohol /…
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Staying Sober During the Holidays
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With the holidays coming up, I thought I might offer some suggestions on how to make it through without drinking or using – at least the things that I will be doing to keep myself focused. For whatever the reason, I think Christmas is always the hardest holiday to stay sober. Many of us are…
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Accepting the Invitation of Sobriety
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Often times, the chains that are holding us back from moving forward are not fears or worries about the future, but fears of letting go of the past. We may not like the person we are and where we’ve been, but we’re comfortable with that person – we recognize their face in the mirror. Sobriety actually…
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The War on Addiction
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Breaking any addiction is hard work. There’s always a period when your body and mind fight back, and you doubt your reasoning for quitting in the first place. I think this is where most people fail. They convince themselves they don’t actually want to quit and go back to the safety of their addiction, listening…
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A.A. Step 2 – The Hope for Recovery
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There’s no point in addressing a problem if you don’t have a solution. But before you even dive into the solution, there’s a force that drives you there- hope. Hope is the fuel to the fire of recovery. The second you lose hope, the solution doesn’t matter anymore because “it’ll never work for me”, “I…
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What Harry Potter Can Teach Us About Addiction
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For the past three weeks, my mind and I have been at each other’s throats, and I’m quite sure I’m going to have to fucking kill it before it’s all said and done…Three weeks ago I quit my love affair with nicotine, and it’s been one hell of a ride. Not only do you feel…
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