sometimes the road does get rocky and we have to keep ourselves in the best emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical shape to withstand any challenge that this life brings us. If the challenge does come we will be prepared by staying in a positive so we can handle the negative.
In our active addiction and prior to our commitment to recovery, we lived according to outside – in. We were externally controlled to have an internal reaction or response.
We need a systematic approach that we can work daily. This plan is not only needed to take it back, but to keep it once we
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.
When we begin to realize that we are part of a much greater awareness, some of our personal challenges seem smaller.
Mechanism is a process, technique, or system for achieving a result
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.
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.
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?”
A necessary shift for everyone in recovery is to go from negative bondage to a positive affirmation. This transition takes a consistent concerted effort to achieve. Most people stop before they succeed. It will likely be the most rewarding challenge we ever embark on.
One of the most challenging things we ever do is look inside ourselves to uncover/unmask the truth. The more critical the need to look.
As John Maxwell says “If there is Hope in the future there is power in the present.” We want to hope to help elevate us to greater things.