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How Do You Make Yourself Feel Better 2008-03-05 16:09:08 Since we are trying to avoid the use of mood altering substances as our first defense against negative feelings, it leaves us with the question “How do you make yourself feel better?”.
You know what I mean right? Those times in life when you feel lost, vulnerable, worthless, sad, hopeless…and all those other crappy feelings that [...] Read more:Yourself
Addiction Recovery: Sickness or Backsliding? 2008-02-29 17:47:40 In active addiction, part of my avoidance tactics included taking something like a small nagging headache and turning it into a reason to miss work, lay in bed all day and pretty much take a vacation from life.
Since those minor aches and pains show up more and more in active addiction…I spent a lot of [...] Read more:Recovery
, Sickness
How Is Addiction Recovery Like Baseball? 2008-02-22 11:56:50 When you think of addiction recovery you usually don’t associate this with baseball BUT after reading the following quote I think you will agree that in our addiction recovery and in our spiritual lives we should be striving to be more like the game of baseball.
“Baseball teaches us, or has taught most of us, how [...] Read more:Recovery
Happy Valentine’s Day 2008-02-14 14:50:28 Valentine’s Day is a day made for love.
Take a moment today and think about all of the people in your life that you love.
It doesn’t matter if they are here or passed…take a moment and think about them today.
Happy
Valentine’s Day to all those that I love…including myself.
Random PostsIdentifying The Addiction Area Of The Brain [...] Read more:Valentine
Amy Winehouse At The Grammys 2008-02-11 09:54:37 Amy Winehouse
performed at the Grammys
via satellite from London last night in her first televised performance since entering into rehab last month.
“Yes I’ve been black but when I come back you’ll know, know, know”. I guess those Amy Winehouse
lyrics from her song Rehab still ring true…even if she did end up saying [...]
Addiction Recovery…Struggling Not To Struggle? 2008-02-02 07:22:24 Just like life it’s self, addiction recovery is filled with times of struggle and times of uncertainty. But also like like it’s self, it is made up of way more than that. For every bad time there is a good time.
For me, this is one of those times when I’m not struggling in my addiction [...] Read more:Recovery
Amy Winehouse In Rehab…Again 2008-01-26 09:36:50 Let me start out by saying that I am a huge fan of Amy Winehouse
’s music. I absolutely love her style and feel that in the world of today’s music, it is very unique.
What is not unique is Amy Winehouse
’s addiction problems. She has been on a downward spiral for a long time which [...] Read more:Rehab
, Again
What Winners Do Is Proud To Introduce The Suboxone Help Spot 2008-01-23 08:08:15 It is with great pleasure that I announce the creation of The Suboxone Help Spot. This Suboxone support forum was created with the intention of providing a place for anyone associated with Suboxone to find the information and the support that they need.
So who is “anyone associated with Suboxone”? This would include active addicts who [...] Read more:Winners
, Proud
Spirituality In Addiction Recovery: This Little Light Of Mine…I’m Going To Let It Shine 2008-01-21 11:30:18 Well if you’ve been paying attention at all to my ramblings you know that I have not really found religion in my addiction recovery. I have however grown a greater sense of spirituality in my addiction recovery.
For me, this spirituality is sometimes intertwined with a belief in god and other times…not so much. But [...] Read more:Recovery
, Spirituality
, Going
, Shine
One of THOSE Days…Getting Through Tough Days In Recovery 2008-03-11 20:44:02 So, you know THOSE type of days. Everything that could go wrong does go wrong down to the tiny things like driving away from the drive through to realize that they gave you a flavored iced coffee instead of the coffee flavored iced coffee that you wanted and needed…desperately.
So on a day when all those [...] Read more:Tough
, Recovery
Fortune Teller or Fellow Recovering Addict? 2008-03-15 08:32:57 You know how you file each blog post under a category? Well I was going to post something and thought that I would make a category named “personal”.
Ooh, a personal category. That’s where I could put all the stories about my life. Wait a minute…isn’t this whole site about my life? It’s personal really. Wouldn’t [...] Read more:Fortune
, Teller
I’m Back…What? You Didn’t Notice I Was Gone? 2008-03-20 16:42:46 I got back from New York last night after a three day business/pleasure trip. I feel completely wiped out. Sure, it could be because I spent about 5 hours total on trains yesterday or it could be that I ate completely crappy the entire time I was there.
Whatever the reason is…I’m taking today to get [...]
Happy Easter…If You’re Into That Sort Of Thing 2008-03-22 10:04:07 Religion is a topic that I absolutely do not discuss with strangers. I find that one side is always trying to convert the other side into thinking their way. It makes me feel uncomfortable.
With that said…I wanted to wish a HappyEaster
to any of you out there that celebrate the holiday. This goes to [...] Read more:Thing
, Happy Easter
Just Don’t Do It Doesn’t Work…How Do We Tell Young People About The Dangers Of Addiction? 2008-03-29 09:19:47 After reading a post over at TDA about Lame PSA’s Blamed For Drug Use, I got to thinking about how we tell young people about the dangers of addiction.
The answer…we don’t really do that at all. We tell them that if they use too many drugs they will lose their personality. We tell them not [...]
Change Is Inevitable 2008-03-28 19:33:39 You know what is weird? In a professional sense I welcome change. I’m open to procedure changes and I stay positive and try to keep others positive. Why then, in my personal life do I sometimes get so sad about change?
This topic has come up in my head tonight because I was reading a post [...] Read more:Change
, Inevitable
The Importance of Support in Addiction Recovery 2008-03-28 12:57:36 For anyone who has entered into addiction recovery, one thing becomes clear…support is needed in order for you to be successful in your addiction recovery.
“You alone can do it, but you cannot do it alone” - O. Hobart Mowrer
But what makes support such an important component to a successful recovery? And what is the meaning [...] Read more:Support
, Recovery
Slowly Recovering…From A Server Meltdown 2008-03-28 09:02:18 For anyone who keeps up with any of my sites you may have noticed lately…they were not there. What started out as our server being hacked, has ended up with us being down and out for DAYS.
I have been without my sites and without email and it has really shown me that my blog and [...] Read more:Slowly
, Meltdown
The Suboxone Help Spot Is Back 2008-04-01 13:50:34 Just as our server problems had taken this site down for a few days, it took down The Suboxone Help Spot. I just wanted to write a quick little post and let anyone who is interested know that The Suboxone Help Spot is back up and running.
I wanted to apologize to the current members of [...]
Accept The Things I Cannot Change 2008-04-02 13:14:03 I was thinking about the part of the serenity prayer that says “grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change”.
Now, I’m not going to try and fool you into thinking that I go to NA/AA meetings all the time by talking the talk.
But, I do want to point out that there are [...] Read more:Accept
, Change
Happy Sunday…What A Difference No Hangover Makes 2008-04-06 17:38:16 I had another one of those great Sunday
s. The kind of Sunday when it’s rainy out and you spend the day putting around the house doing this and that. You get to the little tasks that you’ve been too busy to get to.
You know, the kind that really recharges your batteries and make you able [...] Read more:Happy
Facing Problems Head On In Recovery 2008-04-09 14:49:37 The post I recently did about learning to accept the things I cannot change got me thinking about a negative behavior that I was riddled with in active addiction…not facing problems head on.
The behavior of avoiding problematic situations is something that is very common with addicts. See, the key to successfully living in denial about [...] Read more:Facing
, Recovery
Peace Of Mind Gives Me…Nothing To Write About 2008-04-16 17:31:59 It’s so funny that when everything is going smoothly that I strain my brain for something to write about and usually come up short.
It makes perfect sense, I write to express my feelings and problems. When my feelings are copacetic and there aren’t any major problems what am I supposed to say?
I guess I could [...] Read more:Write
, Peace
, Nothing
Being Present: The Importance Of Staying In The Moment 2008-04-18 10:17:49 If you are familiar with addiction recovery, you know that living life one day at a time is a major part of a successful recovery.
I’m here to say that in order to be happy, healthy, and have a little peace of mind in life you need to not only live one day at a time…you [...] Read more:Present
, Moment
Making Postive Changes In Addiction Recovery 2008-04-21 10:05:23 Anyone who has gone through very early recovery can tell you that at first everything seems like it will just fall into place. You have stopped your physical addiction and have been working on your mental addiction. You are walking around in your pink cloud and life is good. And then…
Well, and then you realize [...] Read more:Recovery
When Drugs And Alcohol Are Your Top Priority…There’s Not Room For Much Else 2008-04-25 13:37:19 It’s never nice to think about but when you are an addict your top priority, and sometimes your only priority, is drugs. Finding them, affording them, doing them, feeling their effects, coming down off them…finding them again.
Once you are no longer in active addiction you’re able to take a clear look at what the important [...] Read more:Drugs
, Alcohol
Mine Enemy Grows Older - No Containment 2008-05-03 11:34:34 I was inspired by Bottlecappie at Diary of a Quitter to participate in Mine Enemy
Grows Older which is a collaborative poetry project run by Rick Mobbs.
I have never in my life written poetry but I do love art. Since the whole concept of this project is to look at an image prompt, which is [...]
Easy Does It But Do It: You Can’t Wait Around For Everything To Just Happen 2008-05-03 08:06:04 In recovery there is a great saying “Easy Does It But Do It”. I always understood what this saying meant but I never really applied it to my life.
I was living under the assumption that things always have a way of working themselves out. Which is true… if you do your part.
Since we work [...] Read more:Everything
The Second Road 2008-05-05 06:00:07 I just registered for a membership on a site called The Second
Road. I’ll give you the description of the site in The Second Road’s own words “We are a free non-profit online community BY and FOR people in recovery from addictions of all kinds. We welcome people of ALL stages of recovery using ANY [...]
Epiphanies: Slowly Building Up Life Skills In Addiction Recovery 2008-05-04 08:28:26 So I’ve talked, almost a sickening amount, about how active addiction keeps us from developing life skills. But what I really haven’t discussed is how being in addiction recovery makes building up life skills possible.
There I am driving down the road. I should be concentrating on, oh I don’t know… driving. But I’m not. I’m [...] Read more:Slowly
, Building
, Skills
, Recovery
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