By Steps to Recovery on November 30, 2012 Are you playing the victim? Are you blaming others for your situation or making excuses for why things aren’t going the way you want them to? Sometimes it’s easy to fall into the victim role, especially in recovery. It’s so hard to own our stuff! But when we…
By Steps to Recovery on November 29, 2012 Who are you in recovery? How do you define yourself? Do you live in the past, allowing the choices you made in your addiction to stake claim on your life now, in your sobriety? Or do you look to the choices you have made in recovery, do you…
By Steps to Recovery on November 28, 2012 Risky behaviors in recovery are a great formula for relapse. It is easy, sometimes, for the clean addict to believe only the drugs were the problem. We quickly forget the power of our disease and only remember certain symptoms. After some time in recovery an attitude of “I got…
By Steps to Recovery on November 28, 2012 How do you talk to your family about your addiction? Have you decided it’s time to speak up about your drug and/or alcohol use? That’s a huge step on the path of recovery, and a very difficult thing to do. I found it was hard for me…
By Steps to Recovery on November 27, 2012 When alcohol or drugs have been the top priority in your life for any length of time, it may be really hard to look beyond your addiction and find some small piece of your real self to grab onto. Some little bit of the truest you that can remind…
By Steps to Recovery on November 26, 2012 I spent many, many, many years of my life working really hard doing whatever I could to drown out my feelings of inadequacy and not being whole, to feel like I was plugging the hole in my soul. Drugs, relationships, sometimes I used alcohol, social networking and the internet, even…
By Steps to Recovery on November 25, 2012 It happens to me sometimes, even though I love recovery. I’ll be doing my thing throughout the day and thoughts of getting high will enter my mind. Running after a very active toddler all day, finding time to get my work done, caring for a home and…
By Steps to Recovery on November 23, 2012 I have to say, man, it really feels good to wake up after a holiday not feeling like crap. Or, for me, to wake up any day not feeling bad. When I was in my addiction I used everyday, so every time I slept I always woke up feeling…
By Steps to Recovery on November 22, 2012 – Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Thanksgiving is upon us, and everyone in recovery knows just how difficult staying sober can be during the holidays. So many feelings come up, many recovering addicts are far from their families and loved ones and are incapable, for one reason or another, of…
By Steps to Recovery on November 21, 2012 Are you thinking rehab might be a good idea for you? It’s a scary thing to think about, but if you are having these thoughts it’s a good indication that rehab is the right move for you. Do you feel like drugs and/or alcohol are consuming you…