Of course, addiction is addiction. What I am referring to is the commonality between addictions. There are more addictions than I have time and or qualifications to discuss.
Addiction is Addiction
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Posts by Robert
Robert is the Recovery Guy. Getting clean and sober on April 25, 1986 has given me the insight and practical skill set to not only stay sober, but to also re-invent myself to the person I always wanted to become. Showing others how to do this is my life goal.
Thinking of Others
When we begin to realize that we are part of a much greater awareness, some of our personal challenges seem smaller.
Episode #137 – Tuesday The Fix: When We Build It, It Will Come
Are you building your recovery or are you merely stopped drinking, using or engaging in negative behavior? Here is why this question is so important. For many years, you and lived in a negative life of despair we built. If we don’t build a new house/recovery to live in, we stand a good chance of going back to the old house.
Episode #136 – Friday The Checkup: Personal Paradigms
Why, then, ’tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison. Well, then it isn’t one to you, since nothing is really good or bad in itself—it’s all what a person thinks about it.
Episode #135 – Tuesday The Fix: Right Now
I have a motto that I have adopted along the way and it is “ sooner is better than later and more is better than less.“
Episode #134 – Friday The Checkup: We Not Me
Prior to my life changing involvement with AA, I was one of the most self-centered people on the planet. I quickly learned that taking and applying the 12 Steps of Recovery would require me to move from Me to We.
A Mechanism that Works
Mechanism is a process, technique, or system for achieving a result
Communicating The Message of Recovery
Everything we transmitted to others revolved around us getting whatever we wanted when we wanted it. We disregarded everything around us. It did not matter how important and vital a person, place or thing was, we put our drinking first.
Episode #133 – Tuesday The Fix: We Have Met the Enemy and it is Us
Overcoming shame needs to be both immediate and ongoing. It needs to be immediate becauseit will hold us hostage until it causes or death.
Episode #132 – Friday The Checkup: Forever Home
“If I ever go looking for my heart’s desire again, I won’t have to look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn’t there, I never really lost it to begin with. There’s no place like home.”
Use It or Lose It
These are some of the things I have learned to incorporate in my life. I refuse to lose what I have been given. In order for me to keep, maintain and grow them, I must use them or I will lose them.
Relationships That Work Take Work
Whatever you do today please do not sit there and say my marriage is fine and this does not apply to me. I challenge you
to put my previous suggestion to the test and ask your husband/wife “How is our marriage” or “If I could change some things what would they be?”