Quite simply, a trigger is a person, place, thought or event that can set into motion a response. You have heard the tried and true phrase “if it were easy everyone would be doing it.” The same thing is true when applied to today’s blog.
The Recovery Guy Blog
Finding What Works
There are so many factors… Not only are the variables different with an addiction or negative behavior, but is also associated with what triggers it. We must learn a positive response that we would want to apply that recovery solution to need to recover.
Sharing the message of hope
How do we find hope in what might appear to be hopeless? As with every coin there is another side. It is my obligation to others and myself to always flip the coin to the other side and extract every bit of hope from something that appears hopeless.
Building A Positive Self-Image
As I often say, “we didn’t get broken overnight and we don’t get fixed overnight” Becoming well is a process and building a positive self-image is a necessary component. Life’s journey has many moving parts as various times throughout.
Daily Deposits
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Quality Movement Part 2
Without taking action everything else we would want to do is only a thought, prayer or a wish. We must take action to accomplish any of our personal and interpersonal goals. We must act if we’re going to become more productive in our life moving forward. The bible says, “faith without works is dead.”
The Quality Movement
It is within this definition of quality that encouraged me to look deeper into this “Quality Movement”. As I searched a deeper into Mr. Deming’s work I found that there were 14 points that he recommended with respect to management.
Keeping Things in Order
One of the aspects that is common to most all people of recovery is that we would live a chaotic life that was mostly directed by how we felt. There was never a reason to the rhyme. We were emotionally responsive and very rarely did we have on intellectual or practical approach to our daily living. Many things we would do because it was a degree of normalcy in our life, but for the most part we would go through life flying by the seed of our pants.
Supporting Recovery while Social Distancing
Anytime I’m caught up in the challenges of my life the I find it so helpful and RE refreshing to assist someone else. I like their next suggestion, which is to serve others.
Getting Out Of Self
I’d get a feeling of grandiosity or “who were you to tell me”. I need to step out of self long enough to admit that I don’t know anything about my addiction or recovery as a practice. Everything I knew and did got me to the position I am in. Which for me was helplessly and hopelessly addicted to alcohol and other substances.
The Coronavirus and The Relapse Connection
This reaction could very possibly cause a person to relapse. One of the elements that they discuss regarding this virus and the social distancing it has founded is that “social support and active involvement in the program of recovery both play a huge role”.